I might enter this into the competition, provided I have enough time to work on it I've been working at it on and off, and so far I've put in about 10 hours into it (I did a lot of staring blankly at my calculator .__.)

Anyways, it uses 4 assembly programs at the moment.
-Shift a portion of the screen up 6 pixels
-Shift a portion of the screen down 6 pixels
-Plot the tilemap for monster zones (tilemaps are 72 bytes, using this method)
-Draw the actual map

It uses 3x3 "tiles" on the graph screen (they aren't actual tiles, its just that you move 3 pixels at a time and everything is based on 3 pixels). The first two assembly programs are just to make scrolling through the item menu more visually appealing.

The battle engine is kind of lacking in almost all areas, but I plan to add to it as a build the game up a bit more. I just threw together a quick one to make sure the monsters worked and stuff. 18 monsters are programmed, the last three are bosses, though, so you can only face the first 15, normally.

37 items are currently in the item menu with plans to add more. Only the first 10 actually do anything, at the moment

There are very few graphics. There is also no way to obtain items, except for the first 5 you start with or through cheating.

Almost all of this was programmed in the three hours that I was waiting for laundry. The rest occurred between yesterday and today. Yesterday I added in the rest of the monsters and items that are there, now, today I added the two assembly programs and I made a map maker that generated assembly code (I wrote it in BASIC, too )

Over all, I am kind of having fun with this, programming mostly in BASIC I am still not doing any hardcore programming, though, so this is a nice way to ease back into stuff.

By the way, this is a continuation of a series I made and lost about 5 years ago Hopefully this will help me to revive it as I lost almost all desire to make RPGs since then.

Oh, also, the houses have a symbol above the door way. The symbol tells what house it is, but currently, there is no code for each of the house types. Instead, it just goes back to the main program loop.

EDIT: I have now added in the code for the merchant, so you can buy items. Not all items are for sale, though! Now on to the blacksmith stuff >.>
EDIT2: Okay, so now I have fleshed out the save file to be a 122 element list and it is 1112 bytes. Since it is also stored to L1 while the game is being run, that takes up 2222 bytes of RAM. I could write another small ASM program to save/load pieces of data, but is that too much ASM involvement? If I do that, the main save file will be 137 bytes and I can load only the pieces I need into L1, saving possibly 2000 bytes or so of RAM.

Hmm, I feel like this is my call, since it is a contest entry

Good Luck Dude!

Isn't "dude" for boys ?

Anyway, this looks great already, good luck

Very impresive

1 little question (sprry if i'm wrong) but what if you stored all of the item's name's etc in a list (letters -> numbers of alphabet) and call in a routine to convert them back into a list? Or would that be larger and slower? Just asking...

Btw: nice to see how people get a good use out of point-on(x,y,2
  and how do you "tile" your map? Is it hardcoded or string or matrix?

Cool
But yeah i'm bad at assembly and opcodes and i like the fact that a program can be contained in 1 file xD but i might have to use some asm after all eventually

But for now my drawing routine for pure basic is: a for loop in a foor loop, that loops trough a matrix

Each element in a matrix uses 9 bytes, so I would suggest storing multiple pieces of data per element. Maybe you can use a list of 18 elements for the tilemap and each element has a 31-bit number for the data in each row. I might have to do that myself >.>

EDIT: Also, my sprite drawing routine is pure BASIC, so it takes about 5 seconds to draw a 16x16 sprite using hexadecimal.

Could be a good idea

How do you draw hex sprites in basic? Or do you use a sub asm prog to translate it to basic points that need to be on?

Wow that's one cool code xD
With your approval i'dd like to use this in some of my programs (credits to you again xp)

How would i do that? In example 8x8 sprite, would that be: change the A loop end to 7 en the B loop end to 2?

Ok thx ;p but it worked with 4A as well...

Oooh wait,  my string was still 64 long xD so nvm :p

EDIT: i read it very good now and i now get the logic behind it ;p
Thx for learning me yet another thing xeda