So what you can try doing is something like

Main loop
Your code
Pt-On(X,Y,Picwhatever)
DispGraph
Pt-Change(X,Y,Picwhatever)
End loop

That'll make sure your character is erased before the next frame, so you don't have to use RecallPic anymore.

It'd be interesting, but it doesn't have to be so blatantly obvious - that makes for a weak storyline. I won't be working on this, but I just wanted to throw in my two cents

Here are a couple tips I could think of

Instead of sticking your tilemap drawing code inside the main loop (since you're not gonna be changing any tiles), you can stick it outside of the loop and StorePic to L3 (assuming you're willing to sacrifice that) and every loop through the main loop, just use RecallPic.

Also, for your collision routines, it's much easier to have a routine called GetT or something that returns the tile that a certain point is in. For instance, with your 8x8 tiles, you'd use:

Lbl GetT
Return {r2/8*12+(r1/8)+GDB0}

And since you're just checking for the empty ones, write another routine

Lbl CheckE
Return GetT(r1,r2)<1

or whatever. I've left it unoptimized for clarity - sometimes, this isn't the best way to do it, but it's good for many cases. That way you can rewrite

X-(getKey(2) and CheckE(X-1,Y) and CheckE(X-1,Y+7)) + (getKey(3) and CheckE(X+8,Y) and CheckE(X+8,Y+7))→X

Of course, there are much better ways to check for collisions, but I'll leave that as an exercise for you

Sounds good! I never really liked it when you couldn't escape battles. Although, it might be interesting to make it 100% unless the enemy uses a trap spell or something.

I've also found a more pressing one that crashes the game in level 17 or so. I'm unable to replicate it, but shooting a portal caused another level to load that was filled with random RLE junk.

So how many bullets can your engine support? And will there be other enemies?

Also, it's generally good to provide a screenshot with your updates. It doesn't even have to be that long (maybe 10 seconds) just showing off your new feature or whatever.

I don't know if this has been mentioned yet, but we could have a channel called "First Looks" or something where devs can talk about their in-progress projects.

DJ_O that last bit is the intro I was making, I'll see if I can make the blue work out.