ARINOCH'S PROFILE

Long time reader, first time poster of a creation-based question.

A while back I started working on sprites and story for a game idea, but life happened and I never had time to really get off the ground doing maps and such. I really don't have much time now either, but thought it would be fun to start working on an RPG Maker game in my spare time, especially after playing a few good ones lately.

My question is this: Are people still using RPG Maker 2003 (which I have), or are the new ones significantly better? I ask because I generally like the FFVI-style of combat (not to mention I've been working on sprites for such), and didn't think the new Makers used that system. Of course there's also the option of some kind of override, but I don't know if that's possible.

While I'm at it, I'm also looking for some good village and town tilesets...the spirtes I'm using are FFVI-inspired, so any of those era of SNES game tilesets would work.