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Having the original games sprites load from the original files would be even better too. With a custom ContentManager class in XNA you could load them like you would with any normal texture file.
Edit: Also when loading the animations from the original BAN/BND files, transparency will already be added to the textures. So you don't even need to supply a Color Key.
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That's how the test worked when I made it, it creates a memory stream to obtain the bitmaps, keys out the pixels and then loads them into a Texture2D object using SetData(Colour[] Data). Slow, but effective.
If you can figure out a way to read them straight from transparent resources, I'd be glad to add it.
Of course the bitmap alternative is there if someone really wants to use a bmp for whatever reason.
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No I'm dead.
And good news for using XNA 4. Your engine can be very cross platform.
XNA Games can be ported to Mac and Linux using MonoGame; Heck even iOS, with a license of course though.
So if Cross platform is what you're aiming for, I'd Google MonoGame and do some research in converting your XNA Project to it. It's not THAT hard. All the code stays the same. Only things like shaders become a little more harder to do. (Personally Speaking)
If you aren't too sure on how to do this, then I'd just keep going as you are right now. You can always convert your project to MonoGame at any time. But it just makes things easier if you did it now.
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I've heard of Mono before, sounds good to me; I'll look into when it comes to working on the XNA stuff.
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XNA is no more supported by Microsoft. It is going to be unemployed in future. That was a real shock for me a year ago. Maybe, Mono shall be a chance for revival, but we can not expect something marvellous from a not-really-known engine.
Do not forget commas after "No,", "Yes,", please.
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Whilst it's not supported by Microsoft, it's not dead, there are ways to get it on Windows 8 even if they don't want you to (I know it's possible; I used to make XNA stuff on my spare Windows 8 laptop).
If it comes to being as dead as you say, then it's a good thing it's going to be open-source.