Thanks for the input. All perfectly viable things.
To the first critique, I tried that initially, but the original ff7.exe icon has no white text outline, and with good reason. It doesn't scale down very well...it ends up looking grey and smeared and ugly. I found that this ends up looking best, although it just barely shows up when it's startmenu sized still.
To the second, I'm no artist, I can try to upscale the original icon smoothly, but I can't guarantee that it'll look good. I'll give it a try, though.
EDIT: Here's my attempt at a more classic ff7config icon. It's scaled up, re-outlined, and filtered. I didn't bother making it super detailed since the details get lost when it's downscaled anyways...
Grab it
here.
*Again, right click and save target/link as...