Bros I played a turn-based JRPG-style game (you control a character in a top-down style map, you start in a castle and the king sends you on a quest, you go to the overworld to explore and enter random turn-based encounters dragon quest style) in the late 90s or early 2000s. I downloaded it for free so I assume it's either freeware or shareware and it required fiddling with the sound card settings to get the audio to work and I assume it was on DOS. Does anyone remember this? I drew you a map. (The lower gray blob is the castle you start in, the upper gray blob is a village you can enter after you go through the mountain range through the cave, the green area is a forest with a bunch of enemies)
It reminded me of RPGmaker games except older