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.
John Lay
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🎮 Retro game 💻 Software engineer 🧝‍♀️ Zelda's Adventure for Game Boy
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
Dirge of Cerberus Lost Episode Final Fantasy VII - Recovered Keitai Game
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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).
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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Love this! Thanks so much for sharing.
Who here doesn't love #Zelda, #Gameboy, and the #CDi? Okay, maybe just the first 2. But! @john-lay.bsky.social has just updated his 2023 #GBC #homebrew port of the game. "Zelda's Adventure DX" Get it here: john-lay.itch.io/zeldas-adven... #retro #retrogaming #GBstudio #gamedev #indie #indiedev
There's a Zelda's Adventure demake for Game Boy that just received a DX update, bringing color to the title along with new music and improved combat @john-lay.bsky.social #retrogaming guiltygamer.com/zeldas-adven...
This Zelda's Adventure demake redesigns the CD-i title for the Game Boy Color - Guilty Gamer
There's nothing I love more than a good demake, especially if it's released on the Game Boy. As a matter of fact, demakes are a great way to take older,
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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...
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.
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
Before Crisis Final Fantasy VII - Current Progress July/2025
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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?)