CGMZ Save File (Patreon)

This plugin modifies the file select screen (save/load) to give it a different appearance as well as some minor functionality options. New functionality includes: 1) allows you to only show autosave option on load and 2) change how many file slots you want.

Visually, it changes the scene pretty heavily to include a smaller file select window (with icons for slots that have save data vs those that do not), and adds a new "display window". This display window is pretty customizable, but baseline it shows the map location, an image preview of the map, the playtime and timestamp of save, and gold. Additionally, it allows you to add game variables to the save data. Ordinarily game variables can only handle numbers, but you can assign them to store text as well with a script call:
$gameVariables.setValue(13, "The Hero Returns");

Finally, it allows you to display either the face sets of the first 4 party members or the character sprites of the first 4 party members with a toggle in the parameters.

I plan to go through all of the base UI eventually and change it up / add some minor functionality here and there to help people get away from the "default" rpg maker layouts. Of course it is a lot of work though, so I started here. I am hoping this is already quite flexible, but as always don't be shy about requesting any more features for my plugins :)

Edit: Updated the save file to work with old saves

Edit: This is now in beta