► BEFORE CRISIS FFVII - COMPENDIUM ◄

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► BEFORE CRISIS FFVII - COMPENDIUM ◄



As follow, information about the network-based action RPG, the first of its kind, developed exclusively for japanese mobile phones and published by Square Enix in 2004, released on NTT DoCoMo's FOMA 900i line on a monthly subscription basis with "multiplayer" experience. On September 2007 it was released the last special episode. On March 31, 2018 the service to fully play the game was shut down without leaving any chance to play once again to this title.

This is a list of data collected through the Internet about 2004 Before Crisis Final Fantasy VII, a prequel to FFVII, and the very first title of Compilation of FFVII. I'm gathering this in the hope of archiving as much as possible all about it and creating an idea of the game design and gameplay loop... But also in the hope of conveying a hint of the feeling that BC was supposed to leave to the player. Enjoy.

Let's start from this: Please do read this exhaustive mobile post mortem (pp.28) before indulging in the compendium below.

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■ OFFICIAL WEBSITE & FAQ

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• [JP] BC Official Website (wayback machine) - it's a flash website and only available through pale moon browser
• [JP] BC Official FAQ (wayback machine) - it's a flash website and only available through pale moon browser
• Yandex Image Translator - do screenshot first from the official website and then drop it here to obtain both, the japanese text and the translation of it
• DeepL Machine Translator - japanese alternative translator
• Compatible devices: NTT DoCoMo FOMA 900i Series, SoftBank Yahoo! Mobile phones, AU EZweb phones. | FOMA Devices: P900i, P900iV, N900i, N900iS, SH900i. | AU Devices: W43H, W43HII, W51H, W51CA.

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■ STORY ◄◄◄◄◄◄◄

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• Full Playthrough on YouTube - translation by Grimoire Valentine
• BC Plot, Story Playback - 10th Anniversary Ultimania - translation by TurquoiseHammer
• English script - text format (fan translation) by Gunshot Romance - Translation notes
• English script & video - text & download format (fan translation) by Turk Leader
• [JP] Japanese video - all chapters (rinrin's original upload)
• [JP] Japanese script - text transcription of BC chapters
• [JP] Story Events
• [JP] Time Limited Events
• [JP] Japanese script - text transcription, a few lines from Rod
• Toriyama acknowledge Fuhito and Elfe as leaders
• Compilation of FF7 - Complete Timeline (Credit to Luneyes from Cosmo Canyon Observatory)
• Release date of Chapters - Beta: August 31, 2004. | Chapter 1: September 24, 2004. | Chapter 2: October 10, 2004. | Chapter 3: November 2, 2004. | Chapter 4: November 24, 2004. | Chapter 5: December 16, 2004. | Chapter 6: December 24, 2004. | Chapter 7: January 28, 2005. | Chapter 8: February 18, 2005. | Chapter 9: February 28, 2005. | Chapter 10: March 31, 2005. | Chapter 11: April 25, 2005. | Chapter 12: May 13, 2005. | Chapter 13: May 31, 2005. | Chapter 14: June 16, 2005.| Chapter 15: June 30, 2005. | Chapter 16: July 22, 2005. | Chapter 17: August 19, 2005. | Chapter 18: August 31, 2005. | Chapter 19: September 15, 2005. | Chapter 20: October 14, 2005. | Chapter 21: November 18, 2005. | Chapter 22.1: December 22, 2005. | Tseng: December 22, 2005. | Chapter 22.2: January 30, 2006. | Chapter 23: February 28, 2006. | Chapter 24: March 31, 2006. | Legend: December 25, 2006. | Reno: September 13, 2007 (Credit to NaoyaShinota)

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■ CHARACTERS ◄◄◄◄◄◄◄

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• BC Character Profiles - 10th Anniversary Ultimania - translation by TurquoiseHammer
• Character names, official: Rod, Gun, Two Guns, Shotgun, Martial Arts: Female, Martial Arts: Male, Shuriken, Katana, Nunchaku, Knife, Legend, Veld, Tseng, Reno, Rude - This is obviously referred to the actual weapon they are equipping and in the original Before Crisis you could actually rename the characters as you preferred.
• Main characters FFWIKI
• Main characters by Turk Leader - note the BC Turks name inside this particular website are fan-made
• [JP]Character Stats
• [JP] Other character information
• Some Portrait 380x462 (including Legend)
• All Portrait 170x200 ish by Grimoire Valentine
• Original Avalanche BC, CC and Remake costume comparison
• From Last Order Sketches, in brackets there are the BC official names: Alvis[Rod], Emma[Gun], Ruluf[Two Guns], Freyra[Shotgun], Maur[Martial Arts M], Juget[Martial Arts F], Balto[Katana], Cissnei[Shuriken], Nunchaku[=], Knife[=], Legend[=].
• From a bonus video of ACC, Reminiscence of Compilation FFVII: Balto バルト [Katana] and Crisis クライシス [Rod]
• About Following Character Names: Veld[Verdot], Shears[Sears], Diné[ディネ], see:
• The FFVII Advent Children Reunion Files, a rare book released in 2006 which feature both japanese and english language (page 96) has both Veld/Verdot and Shears/Sears depicted on the same page
• The FFVII 10th Anniversary Ultimania, a book released in Japan only in 2007 has Verdot and Sears only
• As per a Japanese-speaker: "The Japanese has very precise and inviolable rules on phonetics, for example every consonant (except n) must necessarily have a vowel behind it. So when a Japanese creates a non-Japanese name in katakana, it will often be approximate. "Shears" and "Sears", pronounced in English, share the same result - シ ア ー ズ, so without more info from who created the name it becomes impossible to trace the original name with certainty. Ditto for "Veld" and "Verdot", although Veld *perhaps* could be written differently in Katakana."
• For Nanaki's companion, as per Japanese source ( ディネ ): "It's Dìne or Dinè (or Deeneh in phonetic English) but impossibile to guess where the accent should be going." Following english FF Wikia: Diné is the name of the Navajo people in their native language. So ultimately I would say it's Diné.

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■ GAMEPLAY ◄◄◄◄◄◄◄

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• BCFF7 "S" Guide, Mission by Mission (google translation) - (original jap)
• Training: Additional opponents to battle against can be unlocked as the story progresses.
• [JP] WEAPON D Mode
• [EN] WEAPON D Mode by Grimoire Valentine
• [JP] Free Mode
• [EN] Rescue Mode by Gunshot Romance
• [EN] Rescue Mode by Grimoire Valentine
• BCFF7 Gameplay structure explained (fan translation)
• Some Enemy Stat (rough) - (fan translation)
• Some Weapons and their respective Upgrade per Rank/RP required - (fan translation)
• Some Armors (fan translation)
• Items (fan translation)
• Summon (fan translation)
• All the Ranks (fan translation)
• [JP] All Stats (if you click on them it will tell each Turks which max HP/MP can reach.)
• [JP] All Armor, All Weapons, All Accessory
• [JP] All Items
• [JP] All Abilities+All Chocobo Abilities (Chocobo race)
• [JP] Rank Point system
• [JP] The Materia Support Gauge becomes Limit Gauge in the last battle and in WEAPON Dimension mode
• [JP] The Knockback system
• [JP] EXP points system
• [JP] AP system
• [JP] In which chapter to get HP or MP Absorbption materia
• [JP] Speed materia exchanging Dio's medal
• [JP] How to obtain a Special Materia in Chapter 23
• [JP] Critical times (prolly when u got low HP)
• [JP] How to avoid enemy
• [JP] All Magic Types, their consumption, range and effect
• [JP] Summon and how they act in field
• [JP] Special Skills performed during the story
• [JP] All monsters, their weakness, resistance and invalid attribute.
• [JP] Zirconiade "The Ultimate Summon" - Battle Insights "A 4-stage battle"
• [JP] WEAPON Dimension Mode - Only for the High lvl characters
• [JP] Jade Weapon appears in WEAPON D Mode (game analysis)
• [JP] Materia Support Gauge or simply Materia Backup (explained)

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■ GOLD SAUCER ◄◄◄◄◄◄◄

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• [JP] Gold Saucer: Chocobo Racing, Super Dunk, Arm Wrestling, Fortune-telling, Arena - GS#1

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■ MUSIC

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• The Before Crisis and Last Order Original Soundtrack was released on December 19, 2007. The CD contains 27 tracks, of which 12 are extended versions of the music featured in Before Crisis.
• In which story moment the music is playing
• BC OST
• LO OST
• The CD is still available from Sony Music Shop and Amazon.

Tracks:
01 - "Theme of Turks" (BC-FFVII-Version)
02 - "Mission"
03 - "Survive"
04 - "Secret action"
05 - "Theme of Elfe"
06 - "Black Beat"
07 - "Desperate Crisis"
08 - "Last Labyrinth"
09 - "Rebirth"
Bonus Track:
10 - "Theme of Elfe" (Angel)
11 - "Theme of Elfe" (Devil)
12 - "Rebirth" (Edit)
Theme of Elfe - Lyrics:
"The sky is falling, the stars are unclear
Sometimes I wonder where I belong
Please take me back to when the stars all aligned and shined
I try to keep myself alive
Please don't predict my future

Be strong enough to live your life
Don't look back
Keep your eyes wide open and see
Cast aside all doubts

Fly me to the sky
No time to waste
Fly into your dream and future
I need to go on and on
Never runaway from the true
Fly me in the sky
I need to go on and on

How can you see me, inside of my heart?
Sometimes I'm afraid to realize
Someone is dying, someone is killing
How can be build a peaceful world?

Be strong enough to live your life
Don't look back
Keep your eyes wide open and see
Cast aside all doubts"[/list]

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■ GALLERY/MEDIA

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AVATARS

• Collection of all the portraits (all sizes and alternatives)

ARTWORKS

• BC Turks Sketches from Last Order
• BC Turks Sketches from Last Order
• Artwork page by Grimoire Valentine
• Ultimania 10th Anniversary - BC Section: We have

FF ARTNIKS & TCG - CARD ARTWORKS

• FFARTNIKS (from page 64 to 71.) - Wikia has some HQ cards.
• FFTCG BC section
• Artcard Vol2

MERCHANDISING

• SE NA Store: Gaming Mouse Pad
• SE JP Store: Metallic large postcard set

MADHOUSE's MAIN ANIMATED TRAILER

• Intro Grimoire's upload - Download link (512x384)
• Intro HD - Youtube Video (1280x720)
• Intro FHD - Youtube Video (1920x1080)
• Intro 4K - Youtube Video (Upscaled by Kuraudo.)

Download with: h.ttps://www.y2mate.com or ytsmate.com or h.ttps://yt1s.ltd/en165xjh/ or https://y2down.cc/en/ or https://save.tube/en32/
Regarding the 1920x1080 youtube link I'm not sure if that is being modified anyhow, prolly another upscale.
1) There is the niconico video n.1 (512x384) which source as mentioned in the description might come from a specific DVD from magazine "Young Gangan"（ヤングガンガン創刊号付録）。The niconico video n.1 is matching with the resolution of Grimoire's uploaded version (512x384).
2) The niconico video n.2 (1920x1080) it's mentioning another source in the description which is the SQUARE ENIX DVD PRESS 2014 WINTER. The only issue with niconico video n.2 it's the audio which is totally different.
3) It is possible to download any niconico video from videofk.com website or nico downloader chrome plugin

TRAILERS & VIDEOS

• FF7 BC Tokyo Game Show trailer
• FF7 BC Trailer CM
• FF7 BC Trailer Short CM
• Reminiscence of Final Fantasy VII Compilation
• Cissnei Footage #1
• Cissnei Footage #2
• Cloud Vol.1 Dengeki 21/12/07 (Eng Footage at 0:11)
• Chapter 1 Demo (credit NaoyaShinota)
• Nunchaku footage (credit Sousi)
• Cissnei limit break (credit Sousi)
• Episode Reno - 1st Mission (credit Sousi)
• Episode Legend - a scene (credit Sousi)

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■ NEWS SITES, ARCHIVES, GUIDES & BLOGS

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• [JP] Famitsu Articles:
• -01 -02 & 03 -04 -05 -06 -07 -08 -09 -10 -11 -12 -13 -14 -15 -16 -17 -18 -19 -20 -21 -22.1 -22.2 -23.1 &2 -Episode Tseng -Chocobo materia -Battle square -Special mission WEAPON -WEAPON mode -Episode Legend -Episode Reno -Nunchaku Dengeki Article -Knife Dengeki Article -Beta Gamewatch Article -Hard Mode -Easy Mode
• BCFF7 Wikipedia japanese (google translation)
• BCFF7 WikiWiki japanese, status and main stats - (original jap)
• BCFF7 FF Fandom Wiki english
• Gunshot Romance's general info
• Grimoire's general info
• Thelifestream.net Research - Website
• Thelifestream.net Research - Forum
• Naoya Shinota's Resources
• What is Before Crisis? by beforecrisis.net
• Materia Production by beforecrisis.net
• Gameplay by beforecrisis.net
• Developers of Before Crisis by beforecrisis.net
• The Development of Before Crisis - Deep Analysis
• GameFAQs BETA Guide and Walkthrough by Suzaku
• GameFAQs BETA Game Script by Suzaku
• Magazine Scans
• Naoya's Magazine Scans
• [JP] Jugem japanese Blog #1
• [JP] Gameapp japanese Blog #2
• [JP] Mblg japanese Blog #3
• [JP] Romabi japanese Blog #4
• [EN] Marathon gaming Blog #5

BEFORE CRISIS PLAYERS

• [JP] sousi
• [JP] Sshin
• [JP] shiro
• [JP] tomo

INTERVIEWS

• Several Interviews - Go bottom page for the links
• [JP BC INTERVIEW] Tabata's Interview Pre-launch
• [BC INTERVIEW] Nomura talks BC
• [BC INTERVIEW] Kōsei Itō by TurquoiseHammer
• [JP BC INTERVIEW] 2004 BC interview
• [BC WIP 2d Unity project] The Turks - Materia matters
• [BC WIP game] Before Crisis Cissnei
• [BC full game] RPGMaker vers by Richter

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■ BONUS: THE FIRST SOLDIER / EVER CRISIS

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• [EN] EC Official Website - Archive
• [JP] EC Official Website - Archive
• [EN/JP] FS full script - Archive

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*Important*
If anybody is will into support, sharing their knowledge or have more information about BC please add your post in this thread.
- If you have any information about the original game or demo long gone.
- If you have any information about the script of the several game modes.
- If you have any new footage.
- If you have any HQ arts to share.

Other FF7 related topics:

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FFVII Rebirth News Thread - FFVII Remake Intergrade News Thread - FFVII Remake News Thread - Midgar Undiscovered - FFVII BC COMPENDIUM - FFVII Soundtrack options COMPENDIUM - FFVII Must Install Mods COMPENDIUM

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