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Two questions actually... Whats the limit for sprites, and if you have a pretty large 2d rpg going, and you had a really large town map with tons of sprites, wouldnt that cause a pretty good amount of lag. Wouldnt every tile be a sprite or something?

Depends how you would do it. And also how fast your computer\graphics card is.

You could make each tile a sprite but retexture the sprite when you move up\down\left\right according to map data. That wouldn't make too much lag, if any.

According to the instruciton manual, you can use around 60000 Sprites +. A few years ago I was creating a RPG similar to Zelda on a platform using a resolution of 1200,1000 with the background being created from sprites of 100,100. With the chracters and info and extras on top I wasn't likely to use nay more than 150-180. And only 30-60 of these were ever going to be refreshed. Obviously a scrolling screen would take more but then base it on Zelda for the SNES and limit your areas and sprite numbers shouldn't be a problem. If you start to experiance a slow down due to the number of sprites try SET SPRITE X,?,? where the first ? sets the backsave (remembers what was there before sprite is drawn) and the second ? selects whether the colour black (RBG: 0,0,0) is transparent or not. Apparently this will increase your speed. Hope this is of any use?