It will be less than 100 bytes I think. Unless he uses the routine only for Reuben then it won't add any size because it will replace the other one.

I use Pt-On also for my tilemapper
EDIT: Oh, and font ruitine

to erase him i use Pt-Off

I read somewhere in the topic that you used to have an 8*9 Reuben sprite for the map. I can hack Axe's sprite routine in two seconds if you want so that you can use it because it looked better IMO.

I can confirm that any sprite routine can be hooked into to support variable height for probably about 40-50 bytes (per routine, although there might be a clever way to combine them).

Just make sure that you can still draw other 8x8 sprites fine even if the routine can draw 8x9 sprites. You definitively don't want to have to make your entire sprite data 8x9 just to have one set of 8x9 chars. In the color tilesheets I remade the sprite 8x8 for that reason (and it was even worse, as each 8x9 Reuben char took two 8x8 sprite slots >.<). However, since I used colors, it didn't nearly look all that weird in 8x8 compared to 4 levels grayscale (although this pretty much revived the original sprite >.<).

Indeed. Remembering where each monster tile are will be a nightmare especially if I want to move the monster around. At least xLIBC lets you draw multiple tiles in one command, tho.

if you have it 9 pixels high you will automatically over-draw stuff because there are at places gaps that are only 8px high where you have to head through.