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RockmanCosmo @rockmancosmo.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

As keitai game preservationists continue to work away at preserving Before Crisis FFVII, user Sousi has been uploading his own Before Crisis gameplay recordings. This includes our first ever video footage of Weapon D Mode (postgame Jade Weapon superboss) and Free Mode! youtu.be/wDrTycFumfU?...

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Yuvi @yuvi.app · 13/08/2026

The English Translation for Dirge of Cerberus Lost Episode is now available! Play as Vincent Valentine as he makes his way to the Shinra Mansion in this once-lost mobile spin-off game. Hacking: Yuvi Translation: turquoisehammer.bsky.social Playtesting: Odysseus Special Thanks: Shinra Archaeology

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RockmanCosmo @rockmancosmo.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

After four days of bruteforcing and spending over $900, the FULL version of FFVII Dirge of Cerberus Lost Episode has been preserved by @yuvi.app! The game's SD card data, which it fully relies on, remained encrypted until now. Despite being 9MB, the game contains cutscenes and voice acting.

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Yuvi @yuvi.app · 03/08/2026

Today is another special day. I am so proud to say I have finally recovered the FULL copy of Dirge of Cerberus Lost Episode for Japanese cell phones. After many years of this avoiding us, it's been done. youtu.be/UfpwhMTwMgM

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Dirge of Cerberus Lost Episode Final Fantasy VII - Recovered Keitai Game

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Yuvi @yuvi.app · 16/06/2026

If you know, you know... This is huge progress for the project.

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RockmanCosmo @rockmancosmo.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

A new partial copy of Before Crisis FFVII was preserved by NaoyaShinota! This copy contains Turk data for Cissnei, as well as a battle map and sprites for Weapon D Mode (postgame superboss mode). Now we preserved four Turks: Rod, Gun (Male), Nunchuck, and Shuriken (aka Cissnei).

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John Lay @john-lay.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Minor update to Zelda's Adventure for the Gameboy. It's now available in German, thanks to the incredible work of Matthias Fehl. The latest update also includes improved French localization, and a few quality of life and bug fixes. john-lay.itch.io/zeldas-adven...

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Sincere thank you to the wonderful Matthias Fehl for his excellent German translation! He went above and beyond to help me understand the nuances of the language. He worked tirelessly to constantly im...

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John Lay @john-lay.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Love this! Thanks so much for sharing.

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John Lay @john-lay.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Happy to share Zelda’s Adventure for Game Boy is now in colour with enhanced gameplay. Thanks to @beatscribe.bsky.social for the music, @shin.itch.io for the adventure reforged plugin and @cismik.bsky.social for the French translation. Available from john-lay.itch.io/zeldas-adven...

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RockmanCosmo @rockmancosmo.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

The i-mode demo of #FFVII Before Crisis was preserved by Cuebus and @yuvi.app! The demo contains the entirety of Chapter 1. Last year, Kraze preserved the EZweb demo. The i-mode demo contains more features, like save data transfer and functional Materia Camera.

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Yuvi @yuvi.app · 27/07/2025

Two days ago, I found a phone with the Before Crisis Trial version on it, and well, with the help of many members of the KeitaiWiki team. We have preserved that and made it available to play today! This is mostly the same as the BREW version, but a lot easier to play.

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Yuvi @yuvi.app · 17/07/2025

Just about a year ago I joined the Keitai Wiki team to help figure out Before Crisis FF7, and well, we've done so much since then. So I made a video kind of going over everything we have recovered since then. There is still so much to do, so wait a bit. youtu.be/UsSkeH6xBBY

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Before Crisis Final Fantasy VII - Current Progress July/2025

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Chris Maltby @chrismaltby.com · 06/06/2025

Working on some tools to help diagnose slowdown in @gbstudio.dev games. Can scrub through recordings and see what was running each frame. Already found a few easy wins for optimisation coming to the next release! Code up at github.com/chrismaltby/... if anyone might find it useful (plugin devs?)

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RockmanCosmo @rockmancosmo.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

A SECOND partial copy of #FFVII Before Crisis was preserved by @yuvi.app! This copy had the Two Guns Turk and a rescue mission map. The map was part of BC's asymmetrical multiplayer, where you rescued your friends. We also got Comet and Thundara materia. More details below... (1/2)

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RockmanCosmo @rockmancosmo.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Last night, #FFVII Before Crisis demo was preserved by Irdkwia! They read the W51H's filesystem for the first time. This is all of chapter 1, and it runs in Melange (no audio support yet)! @yuvi.app is also working on inserting these chapter 1 assets into our preserved DoCoMo copy of BC.

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