I may have seen it on a homebrew site for a Kingdom Hearts fan game at the same time (bonus points for this one: it sported an image of a Keyblade wielder who dual wielded two-sided Ultima Keyblades in a white coat. It doesn't mean it wasn't in those 33 pages, but I didn't see it - I didn't patrol RPG maker sites back then so I believe this had some light press/forum notoriety. I scrolled RPGMaker's site for 33 pages (Sorted oldest to newest) late last night and I could not find it.
It was not a parody or a fan game, but an attempt at original characters. I don't remember if it was about time travel like Chrono Trigger, but I remember going through a portal (it was the Chrono Trigger portal sprite) and ending up in I BELIEVE a swamp -I remember the title really got my attention and made me curious, and I'm almost positive it did not have Chrono/Dragon/Final Fantasy/etc in the title. Ages ago when I knew what the game was, I found a review of it on an RPGMaker dedicated site that called it a Chrono Trigger rip off (it was not Channel Changer). Shading on the sprites all around was great. Characters had limbs but weren't very long. Sprites were more like FFVI than Chrono Trigger or FF1. He also wore all black with a bit of red and white in the palette. Here's what I remember: -Turn-based, I believe the characters were on the sides like sprite Final Fantasy games -The main character had short black hair that was long-ish in the front. I wrote a description for r/tipofmytongue that I will be pasting here, so if there's any oddities in the post, blame it on the paste. Unfortunately, I also do not remember the name. That doesn't mean it wasn't there, but I didn't see it. I checked the sites and the lists and I didn't see it.
Hey, I'm looking for a game from my formative years.