First of all - I have literally no idea what I am doing.

A PC Game I have played went open souce a few years ago and I was hoping to use the font they used in the game for projects related to that game (videos and such) but as I said, no idea where to start.

I have 5 TGA Files and 4 DAT Files - is there a way to somehow create a working font file to use with Photoshop?

the files: http://www.sendspace.com/file/kxwdly
heres a screenshot of the font in action! http://s30.postimg.org/90q3kajc1/shot0000.png
also a link to the open source files about the font: https://github.com/id-Software/RTCW-MP/blob/master/src/renderer/tr_font.c

any help would be greatly appreciated!

Yo,
quite a small image for an identification, but it seems to be one of the fonts from this family : http://myfonts.us/td-i85bse

If it's an open source game, why don't you look in the code to know the name of the font used ?

I linked to the description about the font from the open source - I have no idea how to get the actual font, I think I found some glyph files (which I also linked) but they aren't the same font at all.

snippit from the open source:

// What we did was pre-render the fonts using FreeType ( which is why we leave the FreeType
// credit in the credits ) and then saved off the glyph data and then hand touched up the
// font bitmaps so they scale a bit better in GL.

yup, but I don't need indentification - I know it's not a released font :( it looks a lot like an edited version of Arial Black and is monospaced (monospaced is very important for what I need it for, if you see the linked image I basically will reproduce sections like this.)

I attempted to reproduce this by screenshotting the text in game and recreating it with some free online font production - but the quality is destroyed in the process and the outcome has not been great (also monospace isn't possible on these sites and that is like I mentioned probably the most important factor)

attempted reproduction: http://s8.postimg.org/jqp967i90/RTCW_FONT_TEST1.jpg

maybe they monospaced it, but it's Copperplate Gothic (see my link), definitely not Arial (!!!)
So the font you're trying to recreate already exists as a commercial font (except the monospace style).

very weird on an open source project.

It wasn't open source to being with, they made it open source 10 years after release.

ok thanks for the explanations.
did you check all the fonts in the Copperplate Gothic family ?
one of them is what you're looking for

I looked around, I could only really find Serif fonts - except: http://www.fonthaus.com/fonts/sweetfonts/sweet-gothic/sw10105

They are all close, but I guess this is where their small edits made the difference (and monospace, I've not found a monospace version yet)

The one you want is Image Line's FontFever26. An extended Copperplate lookalike. Fontasia also made one that is very much like your sample, the FZ Roman 14 EX.

For show: http://www.eaglefonts.com/fontfever26-regular-ttext-ttf-74751.htm

on your image you have serifs too
==> http://s8.postimg.org/jqp967i90/RTCW_FONT_TEST1.jpg

yup but I basically overlayed game screenshots onto that, and had to resize drastically - if you check this one: http://s30.postimg.org/90q3kajc1/shot0000.png its how it should look. (I know it's small :P)

yeah, and i can still see the serifs

tested that and its amazingly close, so much so that it is hard to tell the difference. Main things are the punctuation marks but my self made replica font can cover those, the characters are much more pristine here and pretty much like for like (only the M and Q have small differences).

I guess no matter what though will always have the problem of no monospace which is fairly important ;]

The original

It is the R that determines a match. Perfect or close. In your sample image, M+R, there are no punctuation marks so tell me ... how can I match against those.
If you want a match for each and every glyph the show a sample with each and every glyph. And preferably at a larger size than a shrunk atom.

@the brothel: Yellow!!

I linked an attempted recreation where I had blown up each character/punctuation mark but the quality was pretty awful as they all started from the atom like images you mention.

This is as good as I could get it in terms of how easy to see/size. The centre text is as big as it gets but can be a lot harder to see - I noticed that the apostrophe, lessthan/morethan, question mark and colon are all slightly oddshaped or misplaced. (image also gives more characters etc just from the loading section)

http://s27.postimg.org/f450idg0h/0000000039.png

After a few tests, copper plate seems the closest, but the lack of monospace urks me! :P Is there a way to make a font monospaced? I think if I could make Copperplate Bold monospaced it would take a lot to top it.

For that M+R you need a font editor. First set your widest glyph left position to zero. Then set a fixed advance width that is at least the same as the width of your widest glyph. Finish by centering the glyphs between left and right bearings.

This is the result for FontFever26-Ext. Widest glyph is the W, 1201 emm. I have changed that to 1200, nice even number. Fixed width set at 1200, moved all glyphs to center in between bearings.