`font8x8_basic.fnt` is a public domain font authored by Marcel Sondaar and International Business Machines (public domain VGA fonts). The `.fnt` file was extracted from https://github.com/dhepper/font8x8/blob/master/font8x8_basic.h to be used in a raw form.
`font.pal` contains the raw data for 16 palettes, to be written directly into the GBA's BG palette location.