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Another question that comes o my mind is how were textboxes in DQ/FF series made. Are letters parts of the background so they don't cause flickering?

Are there any good examples of homebrew NES RPGs in the style of Dragon Quest or Final Fantasy series? What I mean by style is basically having a separate "field screen" and "battle screen". Also, what would be harder, creating a platformer engine or DQ/FF RPG style engine?

Thanks for answers everyone!

Does it mean that if my character is 8x16, upper 8x8 tile can have completely different colors than lowe 8x8 tile?

Hello. I'm new to nesdev and bit confused when it comes to color limitations of sprites. So... backgrounds use 16x16 tiles that may use 3 unique palette colors + black. What about the limit for character sprites? Most use just 3 colors, can I use black as the 4th color? Here's a sprite of on-guard s...