You'd be shocked at how much wasted space there is in FFI. In my own experiences with FFHackster I've found that most of the time you don't even need to shorten things if you want to make certain item names longer, you just have to optimize them. FFII is actually even worse when it comes to that, but that's beside the point. The point is, if you run through the dialog a few times and just re-type it, a LOT of the text will be replaced with DTE (which, if you didn't know, means the game stores two letters as one, this is usually done with common letter combinations, it's VERY economical). This will free up a mind boggling amount of space. The really good thing is that FFHackster shows you how much free space you have left in the ROM. I haven't been able to get the map editor fully figured out yet, which is the only thing stopping me from releasing my hack of the game.