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Vincent Valentine from Final Fantasy 7 Dirge of Cerberus Lost Episode mobile game

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$900 to Save One Game: Lost FF7 Spin-Off Rescued

Dirge of Cerberus - Lost Episode has been completely unplayable for years. One preservationist spent $900 building a brute-force program and GPU farm to crack its encrypted SD card data and pull it back from oblivion.

9 Aug 2026Final Fantasy VII4 min read

Vincent Valentine from Final Fantasy VII Dirge of Cerberus in a dark scene

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90 GPUs Cracked a Lost FF7 Spin-Off After 20 Years

Dirge of Cerberus: Lost Episode has been unplayable since its servers went dark in 2018. It took custom decryption software, over 90 GPU servers, and $900 to bring it back.

6 Aug 2026Final Fantasy VII4 min read