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Hello dear Nexus users After playing and beating the latest installment of the final fantasy series with my niece, it occurred to me that children and young adults are extremely turned off by the sprite-based games that were made before they were even born (trust me I tried). Now this is NOT a request for a total conversion mod, I understand the pioneering and hard work its takes to create a mod AND the "try it yourself / what do you bring to the table?" attitude of this forum (which I respect) that is why before anything I would like your help in understanding how to navigate through the legal and copyright minefield that is this proposition, before having a go at it myself. 1 - Now obviously Final Fantasy is a copyrighted term for the series owned by SE. Are there any legal ramifications for a "Skynal Fantasy 1" ? 2- I understand that porting of any assets is illegal (art,music,assets, etc), but has any mod in the history of the nexus attempted to load the asset (in this case for example the music) from another game by detecting it from your steam library? is that even theoretically possible / plausible? 3- After a bit of research (and there is definitely more to do) I understand that US copyright law cannot protect names including "Catchwords, catchphrases, mottoes, slogans, or short advertising expressions" so does that allow the use of "chocobo" " magical spell names such as blizzard blizzara blizzaga?" names of cities / kingdoms / dungeons / bosses used in a story? 4- in a story does a slight altering of the names protect you from any CnD orders? if character A kills character B in a story, in a retelling is character Ä killing character bÌ viable? Modding Queries In the spirit of the episode of the franchise I am (thinking) of trying to retell. - Is it plausable to mod the combat system of the game in terms of targeting / turn based (halt time - give instructions) / command companions or are these things not viable due to the hardcoded nature of such things. - I have seen Font mods and menu / HUD mods but they all seemed to have the nordic style borders, are these borders hardcoded or can new menu textures / border designs be implemented in homage to the classic game. Looking forward to a constructive dialogue , and thanks.