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Well wow. 
This is all pretty amazing stuff.
Your art looks very good and I am a bit curious whats inside the book.

I wonder though, what is your big plan? You want to publish a game with these ideas?
I don't know your position but this seems advanced enough to go to a studio with.
Otherwise I would have at least gone with this to a more active social hub.

As long as you stay independent I could help with some things as long as they take little time. I became pretty alright in starting projects and organizing stuff. I am not much of a help with RPGMaker as I never got around learning much of it.

Ho that is pretty great. I think I played your GS1 patch once.
When I replay the games I think using your patches will be my preferred way to play.

Given your hardware no Gameboy Advance emulator should have lag or audio trouble.
It is likely your setting in VBA that make it behave strange.
Make sure "Options>Emulator>Synchronize" is on as well as "Options>Frameskip>Throttle>No Throttle".
For the visual look, check the "Options>Filter" menu out. As well as "Options>Video>Render method".
With the filters you can apply a few effects the whole of the screen, like scanlines or smoothing out.
When looking at render methods, make sure VBA uses one that your system supports well and full. If you have screen tearing make sure Triple Buffering is on in Render Methods.

Hope that helps!

Apologies! I watched the video earlier and forgot to write here how good it looks!

No I do not think this has been done before!
Pretty interesting actually. A shame I played so many RPGS in between and kinda forgot what was viable and what was not.
A few things I remember though:
-Deadly Poison is a really good status effect and I remember that it works on some Lizard boss in GS1.
-Specific classes had access to strong single target Psynergy, which can be usefull for bosses. C i guess.
-Salt is a good Djinni.
-Eddy is one of the best Djinni. Many of my Dullahan setups abused that thing

I think the list would also be better if you specified 'buffing' some more.
Agility buffs are amazing with some bosses and utterly useless with others.
If you want to get really specific I would say put all damage Djinnis in D.

That is all I have.

(...)I wonder if Luna can make gsmagic "very maintainable?" Hm?

Well it really depends. First off, is there a repository for GSMagic? I cannot even find the download link on the forums, except for the beta
in the first post. Then there is the question of programming language. I specialize in Java (do not quote me on that, I cannot work with a single Java framework  ) and other things will simply take me more time. Time is another important factor, I have little with all the schoolwork and problems at home.

But once we get there, I think I am capable enough to get around at least 70% maintainable code.
I tried to incorporate that aspect in most of my school subjects so I have quite some experience with it.

  This is really nice.
And here I was thinking every engine project died.
You were also the person that created the RPGMaker engine back then right?

The demo works well for me and this looks very promising.
Really good that you finished the walking and battle screen first. I hope you start making the overworld interactables (pillars and crates etc)
next. The only concrete feedback I have right now would be about the walking and collision. Walking seems just a bit too slow and the collision is still janky, likely because you started of with non-square collision detection as a start.

I also look forward to contributing on this project. I have very little free time, but I should be able to refactor things here and there.
If you like I can eventually help you make the project very maintainable.

Well, the dll's could be marked as unsafe by an OS an thus be rendered useless.

Welcome!

Sounds like some dll problem... Do you perhaps miss any of these or moved the editor executable?

It is in your interest if you could provide some more information about the problem...

First time running should be dead easy as far as I know. Unpack the thing and run. Gamemaker requires no external stuff most o f the time.

Pretty interesting research.

First off, hello there and welcome to the community!
It is nice to see that some people still care enough about these games.

About your Let's Play:
I only watched little pieces of the first and last episode, so keep that in mind.
-The description you put in the last episode, might have been better to put in the first.
It might also be a thing to put highlights or intro text in the description of every video, but that might be just me*.
-Your voice is pretty nice to listen to.
-Your voice-acting however, does need some work (check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxeH7Rd0tlA&index=27&list=PL950A7D15C39E8ED8).
-it's a good thing you removed the interlacing in the last episode, I personally think it looks weird.
-You know a lot about the game and prevent boring pieces like grinding, which is good.

That's about it.

*To give an idea of what I mean, I made the descriptions in this playlist : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGdYmmYl5nVivjJN-0iXXKNMEyo5GK8z8

@1: Okay. It's always worth making sure, though... Right?

yeah

@2: For which? The fact that he did it address, size, address, size, etc. or???

Well, the whole process of finding free space. I have true trouble grasping this right now (and maybe because some parts are not really written the way I usually write) but still pretty interesting.

When i=0x5000
if list[0xA000] == list[0x9FFE]
<<1 is like multiplying by 2.

Yeah I know shifts, I just did it wrong... not an expert with Hex.

If you do the calculation for any i, the two address will always be the same distance apart (The entry before and the current one... for when the two addresses match... The problem is I'm not sure how they'd ever match based on the rest of the code used? But I'm sure I could have easily missed something.)

list[0] = The first entry's free space address
list[1] = The first entry's free space size
list[2] = second entry's free space address
list[3] = and size (and so on.)

Pretty interesting.

First if?

Yeah "if (list[i<<1]==list[(i-1)<<1])".
so when i = 0x00005000 for example,
list[0x00012000] == list[0x0005FFE] (correct me if I am wrong, still very tired)
that would make little sense to me. I am sure there is some reason that range between the two indices makes sense, but I simply don't know it.

Don't try to understand it without seeing the rest of it: (From Atrius's Source code... C++ Space Manager code file.)

Mmhh... aha, so this takes the ROM passed to it by another program/code, then is able to tell you where free space is?

If one is found... the code inside the if block shown in the first post basically swaps them. I'm not sure why there's an "|0x40000000" though..

I guess the bitwise OR is some kind of marking that methods afterwards can use.

Oof that is some tangled code.

I am not really sure what I am looking at here.
I would like to help out, but I am really too tired currently.
That first if is very puzzling.

Okay pretty nice.
But what kind of format are you going to use? I guess that would be the first step in this problem.

Now that I think about it, you might only need to specify a width for the image and then simply just load RGB values, which makes an extremely easy format.

Fox, that sounds so difficult...  I never had any kind of programming experience or instruction, so I don't even know what most of what you said meant.

Well if you are interested, he wrote down some GBA CPU instructions. Better know as ARM instructions.
Even though you have no programming experience, I'd say ARM is relatively easy to understand. Mostly because normal programming languages have quirks to understand and ARM has almost none. At any rate, this forum might be the best place to learn it.

However I did understand it's not possible to do what I intended, such pity... But of course, if hacking this game was that easy, then I guess we would have tons of GS hacks to play like it happens with Pokémon or Mario (and there's none as far as I know).

Well... those games are also simply more popular.

Hello there and welcome!
Unfortunately I don't know much about the hacking tool. I do understand a bit of GBA assembly, but not enough to really hack.
There are/were also non-hacking related projects here, if you are into it.

Yeah it is quite a shame Camelot is done with it.

Hello there!

Always nice to see a new face here.

Anyways, developer laziness is one of the key problems facing accessibility today. Most software is not made accessible because most people don't know what's required and they don't fill in all the accessibility labels, let alone try to build a logical focus order.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minimum-every-software-developer-absolutely-positively-must-know-about-unicode-and-character-sets-no-excuses/
Does that include translation?
I know windows supports lot's of languages. But Android IDK?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7973023/what-is-the-list-of-supported-languages-locales-on-android
Quite a lot, but likely not in the earlier versions.