Plans on updates. I thought I'd let you know that thinks are actually being thought out and that I'm not just sitting around doing nothing new.

Unique Battle System: The new attack command consists of pressing the arrows in sequence with a time limit.
Each arrow corresponds with a different attack. If you hit the buttons in certain orders, you'll perform a combo attack increasing the damage or adding an elemental property to the attack. There's no plenty for NOT doing a combo, you'll just perform the selected attacks in that order. If you don't hit anything in the time limit, it'll randomly generate the attack sequence.
At the start you'll only be able to have a max sequence of 3, but you can increase it upon leveling. Any questions?

Other New Features:

• A few status conditions
• Creatures will no longer be randomly generated
• Item drops
• Weakness/resistance to certain elements
• Fully animated(hopefully)
• Maybe more...

Shop System: Well... I have a new inventory, so it only makes sense to update the shop too. It'll contain the 'Description' feature from the inventory system and in general just look prettier.

Menu System: Yeah, the current one will NOT support the amount of information required. The first 'page' on the sidebar will stay, but I'll be updating the other pages in a cool new way.

Classless/Statless System: You still level up, but you gain skill points instead of stats. There will be 3 specialization trees. Each tree containing 5 skills that you can level up and affect everything your character can do. Also, you do get special bonuses for specializing in a tree, but you're free to branch out as much as you like. There will be enough skill points to allow you to focus on one and still have some left over for another. Feel free to be the 'generalist' though.

Quest System: Everything from killing X amount of creature Y to saving a town from invasion. Even the infamous collect X of item Y.
Hopefully enough to kill your free time.

Story!: Speaking of quests! There should be a purpose. The story is being worked on and will be implemented. It's different than your average angsty-teenage-boy-with-troubled-past-going-to-save-the-world thing. Yay for different!

Items/Weapons/Armor: With the pretty new inventory system, I need pretty new items and such to go with it. Weapons and armor will finally be added for the first time. New fun items to be made.

New Graphics: Drak and I are collaborating on the new graphics. I plan on redesigning the town and making major upgrades to how the battle system looks. Plus redesigning the world map. The game now has a story and needs graphics to correspond accordingly.

And probably much more!

Nice. I like your ideas of the new specialization tree, and new menus are always a plus.

The combat system is more of a modified version of this.
It's where I got the idea... but I've never seen any other game do anything like it.
So... I'll be the second.

Old PSX game that I started playing (again) a few days ago.

the battle scheme you refer to sounds like that old app game i beat once. it was called Marc the Superkid.

Yeah, you should check it out (similar style).

http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/311/31127.html

And it was particularly huge for the features it had...

This game should be given some grayscale awesomeness.
Actually, I'm willing to assist with grayscale if you are interested.

I've been watching this project for some time now and I'm really excited to try it out.

(EDIT: Actually, after playing Marc, I feel I can do the system better. So, I'm going for it still.)

That shouldn't be hard to do... 

I've created a quick title screen with scrolling background. (which I've now mastered the concept of using Celtic III for scrolling backgrounds and using hex to draw sprites[which doesn't make my spriting ability any better])

It's just a test. My idea for snowing.

It's much better than the old one!
Btw, is it still as fast on a normal 83+ ?