I tend to dislike coding on paper cuz it doubles my task , I prefer to code directly on calc, then debug there. If I am scared of screwing up code I just do a copy of my program and archive it in case.

Thats precisely what I do Identical in every way

Here's a screenie of my current progress on the battle engine.  I keep running into little bugs, and so progress is slower than I hoped.  There is one placeholder, and it says "Calculate and Animate Here".  I must animate the attack and then figure out how much damage was dealt to everyone.  The list I also output shows who is affected by the move.  Stamina is also not effected currently.

Above I said there would be only one list, with compression.  I had forgot that I needed a type for each move, so I will be using two lists with compression of PP.SS and AA.T .

What do you think should happen if you don't have enough stamina do do anything, ie you have zero stamina?

Also, the health displayed below each character is in percent, so I can display it all.  Since only three digits would fit, and your health can be up to 99999 I decided keeping tract of health like that down there would be best.

What do you guys think?

Edit: What do you think I should do to designate who's turn it is, as you can't tell which enemy is attacking?

Yes, Eeems it's a M O tile. It will change throuout the game, like in Illusiat 13.  I'm using Metroid Pi style sprites right there, and I think it's the only spot in the whole game.

Looking Good!  I think the enemy animations would help tell who is attacking, even if its as simple as the enemy moving up and down while they are attacking.  That or some sort of marker apear below or above them, but now I'm just rambling Good job!

Yeah I think just having a marker above the enemy who is attacking should be sufficient enough.

BTW, I really like the screenies I've seen so far. Nice work!

...I would make it like ROL1 and 2, have the enemy move one step closer to your char during the attack, then move back afterward

Awesome idea!  Since this is on the graphscreen, I think I'll have attacking enemies move half a step forward, or 3 pixels.
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was this done using Celtic 3? because the graphics are amazing

Hey shadowking, welcome here!
Thanks on the graphics!  I'm using two different methods, like this (DJ explained the one like the O/H):
O/H Metroid Pi/Zoith style:
:Text(0,0,"O
:StorePic 1
:Text(0,0,"H
:RecallPic 1
E/d Serenity style:
:Text(0,0,"E
:StorePic 1
:Text(0,1,"d
:RecallPic 1
I/m using the Metroid Pi style in battles, and Serenity style for the overworld.  I'd like to point out this if you'd like to experiment with this style graphics: http://ourl.ca/3839