smithie, im impressed with your work, it has inspired me to make an attempt at a custom scene.bin file...
i tried the 2x scene, and im having some difficulties at the beginning...
im going to start fresh with the original scene.bin file that ships with FF7, and make things a little more difficult, but not too drastic...
honestly, i dont think too many modifications need to be made to the original as far as the beginning of the game goes... ill make things a LITTLE harder at the beginning, but nothing crazy...
my main problem with the unmodded version, is when i reach around the costa del sol area, enemies become too easy, since by that time, you have a good amount of materia to use...
so im going to make the beginning a little more difficult, making minor difficulty upgrades to the random encounters, but focusing mainly on the bosses... once i get to costa del sol or so, i will start making the enemies even more difficult, because i think that by that time, with creative use of materia, you should be able to defeat enemies FAR more advanced than the ones presently in the unmodded game...
my only gripe with the "2x" mod, is in the first hour or so of the game, because with limited items/materia, it becomes kind of a "hit or miss" type thing... like in the very beginning, when blowing up the first reactor, if you happen to get unlucky, and have alot of random encounters before reaching guard scorpion, you are forced to use ur potions, making it difficult or impossible to escape the reactor after beating guard scorpion...
ill post back later when i make some progress on this...
peace
edit:
ok i made some adjustments...
any monster with hitpoints under 1000 got multiplied by 1.5...
any monster with hitpoints over 1000 got multiplied by 2...
there are a few exceptions, like certain bosses...
i didnt touch anything besides hitpoints... all the rewards stayed the same, all the levels stayed the same, i strictly dealt with HP only... if i dont like the results, i may go back and change other categories, but im trying to keep it as close to original as possible...
im gonna start a new game tonight and play through, making adjustments as i go, PM me if you want a copy to try for yourself...
peace