Combat System Corrections — Tales from Zilmurik Steam update #141480

Over these past few months, I've returned to RPG Maker 2003 and discovered a heartbreaking aspect of its programming - one that had crippled the battle system I'd brainstormed and polished to a degree of complexity I've yet to see in any other games designed using the program: the elemental tables simply did not work the way I intended them to, resulting in many "synergistic" spells behaving the same in terms of damage calculations. Not only did this make spells boring copies of each other outside of the status ailments tied to each elemental family, but the weaknesses and resistances lovingly applied to each foe was all but erased.I was crushed, to put it bluntly. How could RPG Maker 2003 be such trash? Would I have to port twenty years of passion into a more advanced program that my computer, frankly, does not meet the requirements to run properly? Would I be gatekept out of my own gam...