Albeit I like your sprites do you think you would be able to pull off something more close to the real game if I gave you width 16 pixels and height 24 pixels? or maybe even 24 wide and 32 high? No intends of being rude, I really do like your sprites and was about to use them but i just felt I wanted to graphically stick closer to the original game...

edit:16x32 should be enough. The attached image is a front view at 12x32...now, with this increase in canvas size I will do some attempts of my own at making a walk cycle...just to see if it is possible...

Keep in mind that with 32 pixels high sprites, it might be a bit hard to see where you are going when moving up/down, though.

Correct but I think I am going to make every level/city two 'screens' high. The lower screen will be containing all the ground action and the upper screen all the free running over the roofs and so...

Basically I intend it to be possible to scroll the screen left, right and up and down. If needed I might cut of the top 3 pixels which would make it 29 pxls high...
maybe because I seem to recall that scaling in levels of 8 is best on calc...mostly because the ion routine was written for that and something in the LCD drivers worked best for that as well. Anyway I still might go with custom sized sprites since a 16x3 area of waste pixels would be, well...eh..., a waste...

Thanks for the concerns though

Well, I found a really good spritesheet that you can go off of to use for your game.
http://forums.mcleodgaming.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=9488&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=0

I'm kinda busy and I'm already using up the free time I have to finish up some stuff for 8x8 Zelda, but I did do the first standing sprite for you using that spritesheet so you can see what it would look like when put into your specifications.

darn me for missing this at first...thanks alot Magig Banana I will probaly use those