REMAKE THE ORIGINAL FINAL FANTASY...

I'm looking for someone who knows how to use RPGmaker to help me create a remake of the original final fantasy. I have all the concepts, I just need someone who knows how to use the program and can make this happen. Not just updated graphics and some bonus dungeons like Square/Enix did. I'm looking to do the following:

!!! Change the Character concepts, progression and look
-All 4 characters start as a generic class and choose their "starting class" after defeating garland
-Have fewer "starting classes" and have multiple choices for each class when they get their level advancement
-Change their level progression in terms of HP and MP so that they max out at 9999 HP and 999 MP like the majority of the following Final Fantasies
-Create unique combat abilities for each endgame class
-Ability to choose the gender and look of the characters when generating your party
-non-combat sprites would be larger and more detailed
-combat and non-combat sprites would change with equipment

!!! Item Changes
-add more useful and greater quantity of items that are usable in combat
-change items in chests to be more useful
-add a larger variety of weapons and armor
-add an accessory slot to the characters' equipment
-change the item type of certain types of equipment to match the accessory slot

!!! Change the magic system
-change combat enhancement spells (haste, etc.) to be appropriate for the ATB combat system
-change many of the combat enhancement spells to be far more useful. For example: invisible would make the character impossible to hit physically, but take extra damage from magic (like the final fantasy 6 spell)
-update spell names
-change the way magic damage, healing or effectiveness is calculated to be more proportionate to level progression
-Eliminate multiple levels of spells (fire --> fira --> firaga or invis --> invisara) in favor of a more effective magic power system.
-make quake into a damage spell instead of a whole-party instant kill spell

!!! Slightly change combat system
-change combat to use an ATB system and not be totally turn-based
-change the way certain status ailments work (make blindness more effective, awake from sleep when struck, etc.)
-remove instant kill and stone attacks as a part of a normal physical attacks for certain enemies and make spells or special abilities available to those enemies to have the same effect (pyrolisk, mindflayer)

!!! Map/story changes
-eliminate the bonus dungeons and put many of those bosses into the main storyline dungeons
-make some dungeons larger and/or have more floors
-decrease the number of set encounters in front of chests
-change the contents of many of the treasure chests to be more useful
-make the next destination in the storyline more obvious

author=Sviel
Granted, I don't think I've played the original FF, depending on what number that entails, but will allowing the player to choose genders at will really have no effect on the plot?

It would not have any effect on the plot; the plot is completely devoid of any specifics about the characters.

author=Sailerius
Why not make an original game instead of plagiarizing?

Touche. =D The idea is to take something I already know I like and make it better (IMO). Although I would like to eventually make my own game... Unfortunately, as a person with a busy personal life, I have little time to play games, let alone sit and do the programming associated with making one.

author=SnowOwl
So let's say there's someone that would actually be interested in remaking FF1, with the knowledge of RPG Maker required for it.
What would they need you for?

They wouldn't. I'm not saying they need me, I'm saying I need THEM... to take my ideas and make them a reality. In that respect, if someone actually does this for me, they can have all credit for the remake of the game, with the exception of any rights belonging to square/enix and the creative rights of the ideas behind the changes.

The original combat system was overly simplistic. It was 100% turn based; each character got one action, each enemy got one action. Just using one of the pre-made, side view ATB combat systems someone has already shared the script for would probably be sufficient, rather than trying to program, then re-program the original combat system. I would be providing the ideas behind the spells, most of the original spells were pretty straightforward, but as stated, were either bugged, useless, or had such a low success rate that they weren't worth buying or wasting your MP casting.

You can literally find every detail of every item, weapon, armor, enemy, spell, etc. on one of the million walkthroughs out on the web. If someone gives me a green light, I will go out and find all of that for you...

If you download a gameboy advance emulator and play the Gameboy version for about 2 hours, you'll have pretty much the entire concept of the game down. I am not opposed to using slightly different tile sets than the original, however, from what little I have played with RPG maker, most of the tile sets in use on the original game are readily available, or at least something close.

Again, if someone gives me a "yes, I will do it," I've already got most of the ideas completely fleshed out. As in the exact numbers, equations, mechanics, the class system, etc. This has not been a single brainstorming session, it has been a brainchild of mine for years, and I have been getting the number crunching done since about a month ago. =D