VIDEOWIZARD'S PROFILE

Well,
1) You still can submit the game. If the actual download is off-site, then I don't think the limit applies. However, it's still best to get the file size as low as possible.
2) The 20MB limit is in place so RMN's bandwidth doesn't get used up. I believe that the admins will look at a game over 20MB and see if it isn't filled with things like MP3s and unused resources.
Sometimes, too, a file will appear to be over 20MB, but be zipped (WinZIP) down to under 5MB. I had a game that was 100MB unzipped, and about 7MB zipped.

I hope this helps.

RMVX is to RMXP what RM2k3 is to RM2k. It's not what RM95 is to RM2k? Really?

RMVX is RPG Maker Vista Xtreme, most likely. They originally wanted it to be RPG Maker Vista EXtreme, but that would equal RM VEX. An RM that vexes us. Hooray.

Well, I didn't really use RM2k3 that much, because it wasn't that much of an upgrade. Also, it ate some of my maps. If I do use it, it will probably be for remakes (of my game series), not original games.
I'm not sure that the "ABCDE" stuff is layers. It might be different parts of the map, much like in RM95.

And seriously, it does look like RM95. Can anyone say the remake of Dragon Kingdoms III: Cycle of Fate?

A full update will likely be ready by the end of 2009, anyway, following the RM2k-RM2k3-RMXP release pattern:

RM2k- June 2000
RM2k3- December 2002
RMXP- July 2004 (Sept 2005 overseas, but why would they go by that?)

Hmm, RMVX is actually late, in that case. And if they release a new maker (not RMVX) in the summer of 2008, it will make them look silly.

Tsukuru, you'll be pleased when you see my next project, then. The hero has green hair and uses a boomerang as a weapon.

Back to The Edge of the Sword, you sure have a lot of moves made for the hero, sakasu. I take it "I'm Bored!" shows up if you leave him alone too long? Nice touch. I wonder about that Suicide move, though, is it to be used when you're stuck at a puzzle?

The only bad thing I see is the title screen is a little plain (in game, there's some nice screens, but the title screen is mostly white?). The title should be bigger and there should be some sort of background, which, judging from the screens, could be a background with lots of green and the cherry blossom trees, a sort of Japanese styled background.

Recent pick-up after a very dead period? This is the third or fourth community in which I've seen the same thing happen. It's like the Internet disappeared around July 25...

RPG Maker Community- IGP, Township Games, and this site have been through a dead period.
Webcomic Community- Comic Genesis, Drunk Duck and the like have been through a dead period. Same goes with most creator's comics, including my own, picking back up about a week ago.
Artists' Community- Hyatt Art and Deviant Art have had a slow period.

And other sites I've been to besides those have had declining activity. So, now I think the reason things are starting to slowly pick back up is- Schools are going to be starting soon, and people will need things to do to take their minds off it. The same thing happened around this time last year, not really picking up until then Ghostlight's Demo Day.

Then again, it might also be this mind-numbing heat, as 90s and 100s cover much of North America, and probably most other places in the Northern Hemisphere. We are in the peak of summer, after all. Give it a few weeks. Temperatures will cool down and visits will come up.

We have seen Dragon Quest remakes. It's just that they only gave us the Game Boy Color ones (Dragon Warrior I & II, Dragon Warrior III). As for Dragon Quest IV, it hurts to see that ad on the back of the Dragon Warrior VII manual, nearly six years later.

Sure Dragon Warrior/Quest doesn't do well in America? Even the worst-selling Dragon Quest (IV, 80,000 units) was still more than some of the gimmicks Square-Enix has and still does put out.

I- 500,000 units. Player's Choice if it existed in the NES days. Probably has a lot to do with a special offer Nintendo was offering, but still.
II- 150,000 units. The steepest drop-off in sales of the series. Why? It came out in 1990- the game Nintendo was pushing was its 1989 predecessor- in 1991. And, this game wasn't promoted at all.
III- 300,000 units (formerly believed to be 95,000). Double Dragon Warrior II's sales, it logically followed the Dragon Warrior promotion. It was released just before the NES left the limelight, late in 1991. Another Player's Choice contender.

Trilogy I complete.

IV- 80,000 units. But this was for a game released in late 1992, was underproduced because the NES was believed to be no longer useful (see modern GameCube, GBA) and wasn't really promoted, either. People were already used to 16-bit graphics by now, and this was jarring. Even though DWIV had some of the best graphics on the NES...
V- 0 units (well, unless you count imports). Actually was in the process of translation around 1993 or 1994, cancelled due to a translation error (or something weird like that). It was trying to use 3MB at a time that storage was expensive, and they apparently wanted to go to 4MB with the translation, as well. (Ads said 24 megabits and 32 megabits, respectively) Also, it received some ugly press about barely looking better than an NES game (and when has DQ been all about the graphics)?
VI- 0 units (same situation as V). Enix America had been closed down at the time of DQVI's release in Japan in late 1995. If DQVI got translated, it would've appeared early in the N64 era, which might've led it to the same problem that DWIV had. But who knows? Storage was less of an issue by this point, DQVI managed to fit on an 4MB cart, and games had been released that went to 6 or 8MB (on Super NES), by then.

Trilogy II complete.

VII- 220,000 units. That's a lot for a game that was released in the middle of the PS2 era. Late 2001, right before FINAL FANTASY X (Barely six weeks before). Which means it had to compete against a MAJOR competitor (at that time. Now, they are part of the same team), and was released after a 9 YEAR series drought... and, it didn't do that bad. Its graphics weren't in the same ballpark (or for that matter, the same state), but see the DQV note above.
VIII- 600,000+ units in North America, slightly HIGHER in Europe. Why? Heavy promotion in both territories. The fact a major turn-based RPG was somewhat difficult to find for PS2 in late 2005. And, for those that missed VII and IV due to the systems change, the first Dragon Warrior/Quest in 14 YEARS. Gameplay actually felt like something was missing to some, possibly because of reverting to using only four characters. Then again, it could've been a DQIII tribute.
IX- Who knows? It may get somewhat of a backlash from people that don't want to play Dragon Quest on a handheld, but as long as it keeps its gameplay (see DQIV, V and VII notes about graphics), it should keep going where it really matters.

Trilogy III awaiting release of Dragon Quest IX.