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2. the ability to have party sizes of up to 7 or more characters

As in, having a battle party of 7+, or simply being able to have 7+ party members? With the former, I wager anything more than 6 members in battle might get things a little too crowed with the standard UI. With that latter, yeah, I'm pretty sure it's possible in Ace up. It's just that the battle party is hard-coded to be 4, and anybody beyond that goes into reserves.

No, absolutely battle parties larger than the standard 4

I am wanting to make a RPG as a love letter to old JRPGs like FF, and I'm hoping that I can do the following things and I'm looking for recommendations on which program to use.

1. the ability to down size resolutions, i.e., I want my overworld tiles and sprites to be 16x16, town tiles 16x16 and sprites to be 16x24 (like FF NES/SNES) and ideally change screen resolutions as well to more closely mirror FF NES/SNES

2. the ability to have party sizes of up to 7 or more characters

3. custom, sprite-based attacks/magic/skills (not particle) again, think FF NES/SNES

4. larger battle sprites, maybe 36x48, not sure yet

5. ability to have individual weapon sprites for battle screen, not just when attacking, but during idle animations as well

6. ability to have characters automatically level up in the times that they aren't in the party, so that when they rejoin the story/party, their level is similar to that of characters that have been grinding

7. ability to have enemy sprites on the dungeon/overworld screens, ideally a system like zelda 2 (NES) where the sprites wander around, and when you touch the battle starts, but at a minimum, bosses standing still and boss fights starting after dialogue when you interact with them

I used RPGM 2003 back in the day, and I would use it again, but I'm not sure about the party size, and I'm not happy with the square arrangement on the battle screen, I'd much rather it look like FF NES/SNES did, in a line.

Thanks in advance for your help, we're super excited to start our first RPG!!

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