You are now out of the moderation period. Feel free to run around and do as you please, and if you need anything just give the moderation team a shout =).
As for what I said previously. I just edited my post, its supposed to say "ditched" not "dissed". Shows how tired I am these days when I fail to spell properly, something I pride myself on (I am very anal about written language, especially when English isn't my first language.) A long time ago I offered to help you with art, but then I disappeared as I mentioned, and I feel bad for never getting back in touch.
That being said. If you want to keep the original style theme of pokemon, you could blend trainer sprites with pokemon sprites. It is relatively easy as I had demonstrated in the past, as well as keeps the art across the board consistent. As for world sprites. I think either changing all the sprites to ness-styled (it is earthbound that was the base wasn't it? Been a while since I used them) or to the pikachu styled over-world. However considering most of the sex is done with the larger sprite,s using that as a base would work too, but then it gets weird when using the tiling for the buildings etc.
Looking for my old sprites to attach if anyone else would take over the task etc. Otherwise I will beat up AnooB until he "volunteers" to help you =P.
Edit: Looked and only found the rattata girl, can't find raticate, pikachu, raichu, and spearow. Guess I lost them in the computer crash =/
Rattata Girl.png
Edit 2: Found Pikachu, but its not the original scaled one, will need to be cut down in scale back to 1:1 =/