RM2k3-style Battle System?

[JMCornett]

I am working on getting a computer game development company started and am really interested in using RPG Maker XP or VX. But I miss the style of battle system that RPG Maker 2003 had, and I was curious as to whether there would be a way to use those animations to create a custom battle script. My partner in this venture and I both agree we want a side-view system, and we'd like to use the RM2k3 graphics if at all possible. But we also agree that we want to keep this as legal as possible, so using RM2K3 itself is out of the question.

Is there any script that does this, or can one at least be made? Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Sles]

Using RM2K3 graphics outside of a legally purchased RM2K3 is illegal.  On the script side, someone has created this script, try searching the forum for it.  I'll look a bit as well.

 

[Jeronimus]

There's always the Animated Battlers by Minkoff (Enhanced by DVV). If one of you two has talent for spriting, it's possible to create your own characters on a template - if you check the Resource Analysis you might find the Kaiser Battler Pac, which will work well as a template.
Of course you can always base yourself on the RPG2K3 battler sprites, but make your own template/battlers. I'm not sure as to how much that's not legal.

 

[Sles]

People made templates for the RM2K3 battle system, which I presume are legal to use.  But graphics that are included in the RTP aren't legal to use in RMXP.

 

[JMCornett]

Oh no, I'm not that stupid. If I were to do the RM2K3 RTP's files, I'd at least have the decency to try to find the japanese version and develop the games using that (I've heard it's possible, with a few extra characters in battle messages, to make English games with it, but I can't seem to find a version of it for sale!). But this is helping out somewhat. Since the templates were made outside of Enterbrain, I'd assume their use to be legal.

 

[DerVVulfman]

Indeed, you can use Animated Battlers as noted by Jeronimus.  I myself have made an old demo with RM2K3 styled battlers with it as the system can be adjusted to use 3-frame battlers like RM2K3 used.

Now for RM2K3 battlers themselves, you can make them with an online generator at CHARAS which I have used for a few li'l project demos.