"Now rm2k3 WILL ACTAULLY BE FUN TO USE."

Once I can figure out how the hell they draw ocean I'll be going fast again. The way Emptybrain wrote the system, it's like putting together a broken effen Rubix Cube with boxing gloves on. It's the worst way to do autotiles ever.

Oh yeah I forgot to mention it doesn't read the installed RTP folder, all your games must have resources you've manually added to your game. I always rename the RTP folder when I install 2003 so only my own files showed when editing the game.

I will not be supporting RTP either, you're going to have to copy them into your project so it could run on a machine with no other RPG Maker stuff installed (Hero's Realm does this). You don't need HARMONY.DLL though.

If you want, re-run the above with the RTP files copied into the games (except for .XYZ games). I will not be supporting .XYZ either until possibly in the far future- there's no reason to actually use the format and all it does is make things annoying.

Until Cherry makes it so the editor can load and display 32-bit pictures, you could have a picture for the editor, and a second file beside it with -2x at the end. (main.png and main-2x.bmp for example). It'll have the result you see in the image I uploaded.

"the one that you have up for download does not work on windows 7 ether when i try to start a new project it says that it is unable to do it"

That's probably because my program is not an editor, only the engine.. Well that is my assumption since you're being very vague.

"under the "animations 2" tab, we can only have 32 different poses for in battle, which is actually kind of limiting for me, since I'm trying to do different severities for different status effects, or a unique casting animation for each element. If that number could be increased a good bit it would give people a lot more freedom."

Talk to Cherry for editor changes, my engine is only the executor. My engine doesn't care how long your animation files are.

"Speaking of which, how about some sort of option to tell what statuses your party members and enemies are currently afflicted with? Is this doable?"

For multiple status effect feature enabled, I'll actually have an extra optional resource that maps icons to skills. If this file is found, the icons inside will be displayed over battlers' heads. I'm not yet sure what convention I'll use to define what icon is what effect. It might be even something as crude as in-order where the third icon is the third effect.

"Lastly, is changeable resolution for battles so we can have zoom modes impossible?"

For any file, if it has another file with -2x at the end of the name, that file will be the actual one loaded in my engine. For example, a double resolution chipset for main.png would be main-2x.png. This is enabled for all resources, including things that aren't images (and it seems to work fine so far).

If your entire game is full of double resolution resources, you can add VideoSize=2 to the RPG_RT.ini file in order to force a minimum video scaling on the resolution. I'll be releasing these as a binary sometime later.

I do not have legal rights to distribute the RPG Maker 2003 editor. I also can't help you find a copy of RPG Maker 2003 because it's against the terms of service of this website. This is only a replacement for RPG_RT.exe, the engine that comes with RPG Maker 2003. You will need the original software for everything else.

It's not that hard to find and some members here can even help you purchase a legal copy (you'd then have to apply the RPG Advocates Patch though if you did since it's in Japanese)