i have two things to say about this game:

1. i feel that this game conveyed to me better than any other game made by anyone on gw ever, the ideas of spacechat. when i was playing it, the main differences that I noticed were that the feelings of strangeness and confusion that i experienced when playing the original FF7 were replaced with the ones I usually feel when playing rpg maker games. aside from that, it was a near-perfect imitation. because of this difference, I can now see what FF7 'feels' like aside from the content and the literal plot. it's pretty remarkable. also i'm not sure if the demo is supposed to end after you get to that green gate-like bit but i got up to there and then i didn't know what to do next because i think the teleports were missing. anyway despite the fact that i know you didn't intend me to experience it the way i did, I think that this makes it a really interesting work of art that has bee facilitated by all your hard work. so thanks for putting the effort in.

2. the music is mixed too high and the sound effects are mixed too low. listen to the way it's mixed in the original and adjust the volume. 2:56 onwards. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJbPCJJe7fM

Neither of the links work. Takes me to "http://"http//dl.dropbox.com/u/5226139/FF72DR_R1.zip%22". If I remove all the quotes and extra bits:
http//dl.dropbox.com/u/5226139/FF72DR_R1.zip

I end up on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol

A Google search over to rpgmaker.net has this working link:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5226139/FF72DR_R1.zip

Looks like there's no " : " after http.

i remember being pretty vocal about you not doing this but i don't really feel that way anymore, keep on doing what you're doing because it's pretty interesting to watch it unfold

I appreciate your feedback, but honestly I'm not entirely sure what your feedback is! Whats spacechat?

http://www.saltw.net/index.php?topic=82033

As far as I know, it doesn't have a more precise term, which is why I used the name of the thread. I would say that it is a phenomenological investigation of the things that feel strange in videogames. More in the way that archaeology and architecture do it than other disciplines.  It's within a subculture at sw that celebrates dissonant experiences. I think it currently lives here. I'm not really a contributor, but I find the whole thing interesting.

The reason I think that this is the foremost and best work of spacechat is that it's a very good imitation of Final Fantasy 7 from within a completely different platform and development style. It asks us to think about the differences between it and FF7, and the result is that we end up thinking about the strange and confusing aspects of both. For example, I got massively lost in the first level of FF7 and this one part of it seemed like an endless inescapable corridor. I was afraid it might be the whole game. Fighting soldiers forever in a sewer. That can't be replicated in an RPG maker game easily, especially without knowing that I had the experience in the first place. Because this is such an accurate remake, it's these thoughts that come to mind. in a worse remake, we might notice a lot of mistakes and inconsistencies in the content. If you continue at this kind of accuracy, then the only differences will be extremely interesting points about what Final Fantasy 7 really is. It's only made possible by your hard work to make the best possible FF7 remake. That's what I think, anyway.

Yeah I agree that it justifies it as art. I don't think that things really need to have special justification to be works of art but it justifies it as art I find interesting.

This is really cool so far! It can't have been easy to painstakingly recreate all the scenes with blocking and everything, not to mention the custom systems. What did you use as a reference, did you play FF7 on a console or emulator while working?

Speaking of custom systems, good luck on the Golden Saucer, I expect that'll take a hell of a lot of ingenuity to pull off satisfactorily in RM.

Small update, about 80% done.

80% system-wise??