Wow lots of interesting comments, thanks everyone. The FF7 Japanese discs arrived yesterday. Here's the contents of kernel.bin and window.bin. I was only able to find three tim files in window.bin, i can't figure out what the fourth 2kb file was. FFText was useless on the kernel.bin files because...well, they're not encoded in english. Anyway, here's a couple of zip files.
http://students.washington.edu/ckovatch/ff7/window.ziphttp://students.washington.edu/ckovatch/ff7/kernel.zipThe contents of 2.tim and 3.tim are most interesting, but will be difficult to understand unless you're familiar with kanji. halkun, I'm hoping that your avatar guarantees me this assumption
2.tim has the standard Hiragana/Katakana/Romaji/weapon images/etc. stored on the odd-numbered CLUTs (the first CLUT being #1), but on the even-numbered CLUTs, there's an entirely different Kanji set stored on the upper half. Interestingly, the 11th row of Kanji is cut-off midway. This may be the fault of my TIM viewer more than the file itself.
3.tim is similar, with a Kanji/romaji split on the odd-numbered CLUTs, again with some evidence of overwritten Kanji present. Even-numbered CLUTs have a whole bunch of kanji.
I also checked window.bin from FF7PC, which has only three files, two of which are TIM. The Hiragana/Katakana (Japanese syllabry) is present, but the kanji is not. I'd be interested in looking at window.bin from the US PSX FF7, but my discs are in America
What TIM viewer/converter do you guys use? None of the ones I've found seem to handle the Japanese TIM files properly.