Preservationist Spent $900 And Strung Together 90 GPUs To Save A Lost Final Fantasy 7 Spinoff

A bit of Closing Fantasy VII misplaced media has been restored after an costly and painstaking course of. First reported by Wccftech, hacker and recreation preservationist Yuvi has restored Dirge of Cerberus Misplaced Episode -Closing Fantasy VII- to working order.

Dirge of Cerberus Misplaced Episode -Closing Fantasy VII- (yup, that’s the total title) was a mobile-only spinoff recreation for Closing Fantasy VII spinoff recreation Dirge of Cerberus. The sport was launched in 2006 on the Amp’d Cellular cellphone community and have become totally unplayable when Sq. Enix shut recreation servers down in 2018.

Nonetheless, in 2024, Yuvi acquired all of the information for the sport on an encrypted SD card and set about attempting to decrypt them and restore the sport. They wrote on their blog that they spent two years attempting to obtain the keys essential to decrypt the information, however to no avail. “So this previous week I mentioned sufficient is sufficient; I’m going to unravel this subject. We now have the info; we simply have to unencrypt it. Let’s determine how,” Yuvi wrote.

In line with Yuvi, it took loads of extraordinarily concerned work. And whereas they have been making progress, Yuvi deemed that the method was taking too lengthy. So… “I made a GPU farm,” they wrote. “I spun up nicely over 90 GPU Servers to crunch these numbers so quick,” with these GPUs together with “RTX 4090s, A4000s, A4500s, A5000s, RTX 6000s H200, and extra.” In addition they mentioned they spent over $900 to make this all occur.

In consequence, a job that was projected to take a couple of months was completed in a few days, and we now have a working copy of a recreation that’s been misplaced since 2018. Yuvi put up a video of the sport on their YouTube channel.

Along with Dirge of Cerberus Misplaced Episode, there are a selection of different misplaced Closing Fantasy cell titles together with Earlier than Disaster Closing Fantasy VII and Sq. Enix has itself attempted to revive elements of these lost games. Parts of Dirge of Cerberus‘ story have made it into the Closing Fantasy VII remake trilogy, and through a Closing Fantasy XIV Fan Fest occasion in Berlin, director Naoki Hamaguchi mentioned the group is planning to incorporate more lore from these spinoffs into Revelation.