Well, it only affects ground tiles edged by water and water tiles edged by ground.

how'd you go about it? Or+Xoring rounded edge sprites over the water and Oring rounded water sprites over the ground?

That's pretty much how I went about it, since I didn't feel like rewriting the tilemapper.

and what did you end up doing to the rain?

I used a randomly generated 96-byte array, each byte a different offset for each 8x8 tile across the screen. Each byte loops through the animation individually, creating the more randomized effect.
If I decide to bother with nibbles, I could drop the size of the array to 48 bytes, but the executable code is already past the limit, so I don't feel it's worth it.

I'm going to be scrapping the party members following you, since that could make some of the other routines, like the Chainblade, more annoying to animate, plus I'm already pushing the executable code limit on this thing, and a program can only be optimized so far.

Alright! I made a bunch more progress. Unfortunately, something went wrong with the NPC convo appvar I uploaded to my computer, so you won't see NPC interaction in the screenie, since Wabbit wouldn't take the appvar. I'll work on fixing that later.

But you still get to see the Nostalgia dimension, along with all the jumping, kicking and chain-blading action it has to offer!
And just to prove the two dimensions coexist peacefully, I have one of the maps warping somewhere it shouldn't, just to show off the Shadowed Dimension still working. I also have the beginnings of the re-implemented title-screen(there's just a placeholder right now) and the main menu.

So enjoy, and let me know what you think!

It  will look much better if the character was more human like.
Is that the Omega sign by any chance?

Ok. Do you use grayscale at all in the whole game, just out of curiosity?

That looks pretty cool.  I like how the Nostalgia dimension turned out.

Are the sprites for the Shadowed dimension final?  It's kind of hard to tell what's what, esp while moving :\

The cobble floor and carpet are just some sprites I threw together for testing, they'll probably change, and the banners are definitely place holders. Silly looking banners with an 'F' on them don't really fit in an evil overlord's castle.