HUGE FFVII Discovery Brings Aerith Back To Life!

[@4-8Productions]

WATCH THE FOLLOWUP VIDEO HERE: kzbin.info/www/bejne/sGbOd4CPgbSsmdU

[@josephfournier3718]

Does it work on the Xbox series x

[@X862go]

WOW imagine climb the wall just to turn around lol.

[@selfloveybear5556]

I know we CANT have yuffie in other save files. But why EXACTLY can't we have her in the are main save file where we bring aerith back. Also THO does this strictly ONLY work with orginal an pc version 🙏

[@edpistemic]

So that kid in the playground in '97 WASN'T lying after all!!!

[@ProLaytonxPhoenix]

😂😂😂

[@usuariofuturista]

I mean he was lying, as in 97 we only had the playstation version and this glitch wont work with it so...

[@Atomysk]

His dad really DID work for Sony.

[@mattreese-7]

@@usuariofuturistayou’re over-literal

[@DezorianGuy]

Just being smarter than all of us together. You got my respects, old chap.

[@KatoCoyoteCombatWorkshop]

Yuffie: Hehe! Hey, Cloud! Watch what I can do! *rips the fabric of reality apart*

[@dmholla139x]

Lolol this made me laugh hard

[@RTU130]

Tru

[@petersen523]

hahaha best comment

[@rajzakku8829]

Yuffie Griffin

[@blushworthyspeaks]

Completely in character.

[@lostnumbr]

Like 25 years ago I was a dumb kid trying internet rumors on how to revive her and here we are with a real revive glitch. What a time to be alive.

[@mindofgod1543]

25 years ago INDEED....

[@ragnaroksangel]

Be me, 1997-1998 using Netscape Navigator and Alta Vista combing the internet looking for ways to save her and getting distracted by Marilyn Manson fan pages, AOL and Yahoo! chat rooms, and hoping I don't get sued by Lars from Metallica for using Napster

[@Frog89mad]

Yep i remember reading in cheatcodes or some website that you had to bring 18 mastered life materias to forgotten capital to Revive Her. And Life materia takes a lot of AP to level up, people were so mean :D and then you always had a small doubt "maybe i did something wrong" when the alleged revival trick did not work

[@Khronnus]

@@ragnaroksangel I remember being on my shitty secondary school computer, following "guides" to revive her. Now, 25 odd years later, here it is!

[@covertmisnomer7726]

I’m old.

[@steak9194]

I like this format where you just play through the entirety of the glitch and fast-forward through the grindy parts, stopping when needed - good stuff

[@Jyukenmaster95]

Yuffie truly is the Chrono Trigger

[@AkaiAzul]

Appropriate that a ninja is an assassin of time.

[@CrunchyDark]

​@@AkaiAzul What ninja? I don't remember that! 😭

[@CrunchyDark]

​@@AkaiAzulIs Yuffie a character from another game though?

[@AkaiAzul]

@@CrunchyDark Yuffie is FF7's ninja.

[@CrunchyDark]

@@AkaiAzul ok. I played the game too long ago. Time to play it again 😬

[@MelioUmbraBelmont]

Womans: Man don't have feelings Mans: Dudes, we wont stop until Aerith is back (27 y later)

[@Darkkadia]

❤

[@VisiblyPinkUnicorn]

I MUST PROTEC

[@alexvignolo7798]

😂

[@skahler]

Dude for real

[@172louis]

And they say that chivalry is dead. 😂

[@ASolidOpinion]

I love that, at this point, Yuffie isn't a party member. She's a Tardis.

[@ens0246]

She suuuure is TARDIS 😏😂

[@AustinCoop53]

I have never been interested in speed running but seeing this has blown my mind. So cool! Yuffie be a magician!

[@Stephen_Eee]

😂😊

[@pudoutoi]

She is the guardian of the death gates

[@eleronpfoutz7823]

She's certainly more useful as a TARDIS than as a party member. TARDISes don't steal your Materia.

[@novelezra]

"Save me Cloud" "I'm so sorry Aerith, but I didn't understand the explanation"

[@chemicalbeef3128]

LOL

[@GeneGear]

"Instructions unclear, Dragon-broke Yuffie."

[@OuroborosChoked]

"Sorry, Aerith... I saved over one of my setup files. RIP"

[@stylis666]

I"m working on it! 🤣

[@dynamixdj9506]

HUGE huge props for showcasing this Death, extremely well put together, and a massive shout out to mccalas89 for finishing a project that I started 7 years ago and gave up on. The fact that stuff like this is still being discovered is mind boggling.

[@andersonmccall895]

Hi, Death! I'm mccalas89. Thanks so much for giving this some exposure. Aeriths for everyone!! For anyone looking to try this out, death's setup is perfect and you can do this with zero problems. Cheers!

[@antoningavrel2808]

Thank you so much for making this happen! Which tools did you use to check for the flags?

[@andersonmccall895]

@@antoningavrel2808 the main tool was MakouReactor. It's pretty intuitive if you want to have a look at things, and you can view and see all instances where GameMoment and variable/flag advance or get ticked. Also used Chest Engine to view current GameMoment and keycard states (which was a bit tricky to find). Have fun!

[@LostChildOfTime]

Aerith getting to ride the highwind. Dreams do come true.

[@silentflaw]

I remember my very first playthrough and being so upset that Aerith never got to even fly on the Highwind despite the game booklet having a picture of her on the platform looking at it

[@xRhychux]

:')

[@shivasthong4924]

@@silentflaw And now we can fix that.

[@highwizard6764]

Imagine if she also gets to visit Wutai

[@BL-mf3jp]

Is that what she calls it?

[@Gigatless]

Bro I can imagine the devs receiving a call in the middle of the night "they found another one"

[@Ostr0]

The Ceo wakes with bloodshot eyes and says They can't keep getting away with this! 🤣

[@Terszel]

"time to shift the timeline again"

[@davemccombs]

Considering this isn't new and is clickbait, I doubt it Nor would they give a fuck to begin with, "bro" C-level execs don't tend to wake up and obsess with fan behavior in things they released 25 years ago

[@PirateNightsuN]

@@davemccombs you must be fun at parties

[@someoneout-there2165]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@ThickCutOhio]

27 years later and this game is still not done…

[@MetalsirenIXI]

Just getting started!

[@Namelessfx]

I love it😂😂😂

[@alanlee67]

Buggiest game ever made and still on people's short list of greatest games ever made. Makes you realize that devs are just doing it wrong nowadays. Look at skyrim, people dgaf about bugs if your game is amazing.

[@nathanking5137]

​@@alanlee67 skyrim is such a good example

[@7DragonEyes7]

@@alanlee67 There is a difference between bugs that makes you impossible to complete the game or make your first playthrough a mess and bugs that need specific triggers almost impossible to encounter in a normal playthrough.

[@bon7029]

Yuffie: Wanna see a neat trick? *pulls Aeris out of Barret's ass* Cloud: HOW?! Yuffie: *shrug*

[@CrunchyDark]

🤷😅

[@CatzyCatzy]

Ninjas Right?

[@xrip75]

oh i think i’ve seen that video on a different website

[@johnboats9075]

Phoenix pants down

[@DavidLe-i9e]

Red XII looks up Barret's ass: There's so much space in here!

[@MetalsirenIXI]

FF7 in 2030 "Guys..we've gotten Zach and Sephiroth into the party, can control both and found dialog hinting they were originally controllable"

[@TussalDragon344]

FFVII in 2069: “Guys! We managed to make all party members playable at the same time, plus you can play as enemies, bosses, and NPCs! We also discovered you can modify the story, so you don’t have to watch Aerith die!”

[@melonusk6120]

thought you gonna say they were Gay ☠

[@poppukon-au]

FFVII IN 2100: Guys... We found a fully playable FVIl-2 game within the original FFVII PC version, no hacks. Sephiroth has twins with his mom.

[@ASolidOpinion]

@@poppukon-au FFVII IN 2200: "Guys, we now live in FF7 via a combination of glitches and holes in reality".

[@letao12]

Y'all are joking, but it wouldn't surprise me if there is a bug in the game's code that lets you program and execute arbitrary code to make the game do whatever you want.

[@timonikkinen9578]

And just like that Remake trilogy and its multiverses make perfect sense. You just needed to kill your party on 3 different timelines and play through some past events multiple times to get Aerith back to life. Everything is still canon, boys!

[@HankHammer-cp5px]

Ff7 remake was a complete peice of garbage, and a disgrace to the original. Boring, depressing, repetitive, combat is a joke. Not just a bad game standing alone, but a disgusting blunder in context of the original ff7.

[@jaybaldwin]

This is the comment we needed, friends. This is the one.

[@TheShadowOfHumanity]

So now its Marvel slop. Oh joy.

[@Soldano999]

@@HankHammer-cp5pxi played the demo and decided not to buy the game. I hated it. One thing the new generation of games doesn't understand is being laid back, cool and slow. They're all flashy, al over the place and loud.

[@fnxych3penicillin350]

​@@HankHammer-cp5pxL take. The remake trilogy is what got me into the original FF7 that you so adore. It made me appreciate both the original and the remakes. I understood why it was such a timeless classic. Without those remakes, I wouldn't try the OG. It's a shame you're blinded by the nostalgia that you couldn't see past what's good in the remakes.

[@RogueSeraph]

I fkn love this game so much. Remember the PlayStation Magazine many years ago? That came with the demo discs for PlayStation? There was a section in there where fans would mail tips and tricks but they would also mail silly rumours and fake information and that's when the whole "reviving Aerith" rumour became famous....and now it became true 27 years later.

[@how_am_i_not_myself]

Add this myth to the 27 club because it's dead

[@hoobaguy]

Except you can't do it on the psx version.

[@FGazi-qf1hp]

Idk why this was in my feed, but I'm so happy that it was. I've been waiting for this moment for the last 20 years. Thank you, now I can finally continue with my life in peace.

[@petfriendamy]

Some things: -Both the leaving Midgar cutscene and the Turks cutscenes are GameMoment-based. They aren't flags. -During normal gameplay, card clearance gets set to 67 when Hojo unlocks the door. When he locks the door again, it gets set back down to 66. Then, after Sample, when the Turks capture you, they take all your keycards and set card clearance back to 0. By tricking the game into making Hojo lock the door again, it pushes it back up to 66, allowing us to freely roam through Shinra HQ again (up to floor 66). -For anyone trying this at home, when re-leaving Midgar at 26:36 (and 38:26), I'm like 90% sure you can't put Cid in your party, or it'll softlock. -There's an NPC who gives you keycard 68 if Hojo locks the door on you, so you can probably avoid the softlock mentioned at 35:21 by just talking to that NPC. -36:44 Based -Technically GameMoment isn't fixed until you get all the way through Whirlwind Maze (everything between end of disc 1 and there is just flags), but who's keeping track. :P All in all, very cool discovery!

[@4-8Productions]

It just so happens that once you start that Elena scene you are forced into going all the way to whirlwind maze so funnily enough it works out either way lol.

[@callmeshaggy5166]

@@4-8Productions well now I wanna see what shenanigans happen if you trick the game further by planting a gold chocobo on the snowboard path and leaving the area. Like maybe have Cloud during huge materia or something. (Edit) I'm dumb this is impossible before the highwind

[@Badenhawk]

I tried to find someone cooler than petfriendamy and failed.

[@petfriendamy]

@@andersonmccall895 Good point, yeah you'd have to have not talked to him previously. And I'm glad I could help!

[@x_Knyght_x]

does the game allow you to pick aerith at the when you fight all forms of sephiroth?​@@4-8Productions

[@douglas2437]

Man... just the idea of this hits hard. Losing Aeris was legit my first true experience of loss of someone you're attached to. I played FF7 when I was about 8 or 9. I dreamed for years of bringing her back to life. Now in 2024 I have recently lost my younger brother who ended his life. And my subconscious is still engaging in the same pleading with fate that I engaged in with regard to Aeris. Obviously, I can't glitch my brother back to life. But this revelation has kind of healed at least my first 'heartbreaking loss'...and all I can say is that I'm really happy your video showed up in my feed. Thanks for still playing this wonderful game, creating content about it, and thanks to the entire community for bringing this into existence and keeping the game going. I still replay FF7 every few years. Definitely going to do this next time ❤

[@stylis666]

That's a really lovely read ❤ FFVII is still very loved. And we're still finding new ways to break it harder! 🤣

[@ExperimenturalVideos]

When I was a child, I found a glitch on disc 2 or 3 where she would flicker into the church. I spent hours of my life running in, out of, and around that church figuring out how to trigger seeing her, and what I had to do to get her out. Naturally, I was a very disappointed child.

[@gustavedelior3683]

Grief is a strange thing, and if that helps bring you a step closer to closure then you resurrect that flower girl, love her and don't look back (que 80s hair metal ballad)

[@levimogford3202]

grats this is the gayest post ive seen

[@No_More_Naggers]

Get a grip, holy shit.

[@SaintJames14]

No fucking way. This is the holy grail meme glitch. I remember being a kid and this was the rumored, fabled thing you could do. You mean it's real? Watching now.........

[@SaintJames14]

Impressive there are people devoted to bending this game's jank code more and more every year. I love it. Well done and thank you for the vid

[@bingbongwahoo-ov1ip]

did you know you can actually get mew as well? Not the truck, there's another glitch that's actually real and works.

[@mielthesquid6536]

only real on ports which is not that great tbh

[@Bennijin]

​@@bingbongwahoo-ov1ipThere's at least two.

[@SaintJames14]

@@bingbongwahoo-ov1ip what?

[@NathanielBraun]

Hey Death, great video! I think I found a simpler way to do that. Here are the different steps: * Play normally without recruiting Yuffie until just before the fight with Jenova∙LIFE. Save your game: that's save A. * Defeat Jenova∙LIFE. GameMoment is equal to 677. You can do the Fort Condor battle. * Sail the Tiny Bronco to a beach near Midgar and save close to the Tiny Bronco: that's save B. * Sail the Tiny Bronco to a beach near Junon. * Save with a dead party of Cloud, Barret, and Tifa near Junon: that's save C. * Start a new game or load a save in the first reactor and die there while the timer is on, on the screen with the save point. * Load save C, and die to the fight with two Nerosuferoth and one Formula. You can try this as many times as needed until you get that specific battle. * Load save B and start a fight on the world map. This will teleport you to the first reactor. Save the game there: that's save D. * Quit and restart the game, and load save D. * In the debug room, go to location #8 (north), talk to the Shinra employee on the bottom left, and click on 67(B1) without holding 🔲 * Kill H0512. Aerith is now available in the PHS! GameMoment is now 284. We need to get it back to 677. * Go down to 66F, and take the elevator. From there, play the game like normally until you exit Midgar. * Once you exit Midgar, sail Tiny Bronco to Rocket Town and save at Yuffie's forest. That's save E. * Load save A, and die to Jenova∙LIFE. * Load save E, and defeat Yuffie. You will be teleported to Jenova∙LIFE. This will set GameMoment back to 677. * Defeat Jenova∙LIFE, and resume playing normally, with Aerith now available in the PHS!

[@ThunderSnowStorm1]

Among many things, 1 thing in particular that I appreciate is how you explain the nuances of how to do these glitches. The details of how to make it work from what I assume is much experimentation.

[@eikon9102]

In the name of every Final Fantasy 7 fan. Thank you!!!

[@4-8Productions]

Thanks!

[@chrisparkhurst5158]

You fulfilled so many OG FF7 player's hopes and dreams. So many people in the 90s and early 2000s came to the internet hoping to find a way to bring her back

[@solo-ion3633]

That's some S-Tier detective work right there. The presence of Aerith in the party causing her to appear in some cutscenes and cause others to crash is a well-documented bug. People hacked her back into the game ages ago, and I suppose bugging her back in wouldn't change anything. Also back on the PS1, you could apparently swap disks mid cutscene and continue the game using the wrong disc, causing causing incorrect cut scenes to play out.

[@vecatthemad6303]

So my memory card is a multiverse.

[@Omnimon152]

Potentially yes

[@TonicofSonic]

Proof we live in a simulation.

[@unixtreme]

Your memory card is basically the remake.

[@DrKreiger]

Yup rebirth wasn't a retcon after all. Just tech limitations of the ps1.

[@Ostr0]

Ye

[@jasonguarnieri4127]

My favorite thing about FF7 is how stable and well programmed it is.

[@MGPW]

Time to update the "Days Without a Newly Discovered FF7 Glitch or Exploit" chart.

[@albertlevins9191]

Wow. After all these years. You found the holy grail. Dude, you will go down in history as the most important person in the history of FF7 journalism. This is purely awesome. You are a legend. Thank you for showing me this. I must try this now.

[@ScumSookar]

"The History of FF7 Journalism" That is the gayest phrase I have ever heard in my life. Its a video game, you dork.

[@PlatonicGuy]

Very nice find. Glad you spent some talking about the history and people involved in finding this, the stories behind glitches and finds like these are really cool to hear about.

[@octosalias5785]

I was like 'oh, right sure' and then I saw it was 4-8 and we were about to plunge into the lifestream itself for Aerith

[@Ostr0]

Final Fantasy 14 ahh moment

[@nikob3277]

Same. I read the title and was like pfffft look at this click-ba-- 'Sees 4-8' "The time has come."

[@babaganoosh1969]

Bought a gameshark back in the day, because her death shocked me that badly

[@CloudWalkBeta]

clearly money wasted! this bois showing you "frugal ways to break aeris back into the game"! XD

[@babaganoosh1969]

@@CloudWalkBeta yeah...almost 30 years later...

[@Bjorick]

@@babaganoosh1969 you never heard - better late then never? lol

[@Bloodstar-o7]

​@@Bjorickit's too late for him and his children... maybe the grandchildren will be spared now. 😅

[@darrylshields6148]

With a lot of trial and error I was able to use the debug menu to get her back in my party in 1997.

[@joshuasmith6542]

I’ve only ever played the game with a ps1, it’s the first game my mom bought me while others had ps2. I’ll never forget the story and I’ll never speed through it, aeris was the only missing piece to my wholeness of this adventure. My mom died young, so reviving aeris feels like reviving my mom. I’m going to get a pc and finally do what the makers should have made the ultimate quest on ps1. Bring back to life the one you love the most. Grinding for Ap or EXP was easy, I loved it. Knowing that the story would finally be over was the hard part. I’m 37 and would be greatful if anyone could tell me what all I need to do this. Much love to all the poor kids that got to experience one of the greatest adventures of all time.

[@mennymoto]

Ok, it works on the original pc version and the steam one. Prerequisites: a save after Aeris death, without recruiting Yuffie a save outside Shinra Hq before breaking in a save in Shinra Hq right after Cloud sees Jenovah, before watching Hojo going upstairs a save after beating Rufus in Shinra Hq, before motorball

[@0xPRIMEgs]

Cloud dragging Aries' corpse along, moving her arms, trying to speak in her voice as he casts cure, and everyone else is uncomfortable af, but doesn't have the heart to say "just let her go, man" to him.

[@TayKinGaming]

Weekend at Aerith’s

[@Lumberjack9999]

When the boundaries of fate are breached, new worlds are born. The Planet encompasses a multitude of worlds, ever unfolding.

[@bingbongwahoo-ov1ip]

hey come on man we're talking about final fantasy 7 around here

[@Omnimon152]

@@bingbongwahoo-ov1ip Yes, it's what sephiroth says in rebirth.

[@bingbongwahoo-ov1ip]

@@Omnimon152 neat but we're talking about final fantasy 7 here.

[@tiffyw92]

Sephiroth always thought Aerith was the greatest threat to his plans. He didn't expect it would actually be Yuffie.

[@bingbongwahoo-ov1ip]

True. In a book that you have to buy separately for 70 dollars it explains that there's a parallel universe where stamp is actually an ether chocobo, in that universe you can catch one and win the t rank chocobo race, unlocking the power of the ether portal, which takes you back in time to stop kefka, who is actually wakka, but wielding the power of the ultima sombrero, an accessory that you can use to unlock the backstory of the guy in the pipe in midgar by aeristhshsths' house. You see, the mistranslated dialog of "this guy are sick" is actually an ancient summon spell that calls up a quadriceratops tank, who holds the key to the pentagonal materia, created by the materia sage, a mysterious character with ultimate power who doesn't matter and won't come up again. But watch out! while all this is happening, the knights of the round are having their backstories, but they all have separate books i can't afford yet, they'll probably be dlc chapters or something but one of them probably involves yuffie geting the masamune which, when combined with 1/1 solidier you get from collecting all the 1/35 soldiers, destroys the catastrophe bridge, which is really crucial to whatever sephiroth is doing these days, which no one's really sure about because sephiroth can't afford the errata book that tells what his plan is but you can't make fun of him for that because it's not fair.

[@G.Snackwell]

It's kind of amazing that Yuffie is the character that enables all of this since she was the glue that held the party together in Advent Children.

[@marcplaszlo]

she was? shes in 1 scene... the final battle

[@Yuzoboy]

I cannot believe that this game keeps giving out these surprises!

[@ColinOfDaventry]

Your videos are great man. You articulate and explain things extremely well. You're very respectful of the community. You're extremely knowledgeable and efficient about FF7 while still understanding that not everyone else is, and you don't act smug about it. On top of that your videos are edited nicely to speed up certain sections. Just want to say thank you after watching many of your videos over the years. FANTASTIC job in all your presentations.

[@Grimangelx]

Imagine square making this canon by making you kill your party on different timelines just to revive aerith

[@saw31489]

Welcome to Rebirth's story. They introduced multiverse in order to bring those realities Aerith and Zach back to life in one of them. The entire notion that Sephiroth is attempting to merge realities will cause a shakeup where some are left in the story being told. That's why we saw a reality where Aerith still lives after The Forgotten Capital and why Zach is so happy at the end of Rebirth and able to talk to Cloud and interact with him for a short time. Watch

[@efrenarevalo2025]

I'm waiting for Cloud to reverse all the changes he made so he can go to a timeline where Aerith lives and prevent World War 3...oh wait wrong series.

[@benjaminvdvyt]

I've seen enough Dr Strange to know this isn't the way.

[@masonasaro2118]

ooh, like a bad ending?

[@apanofbread]

​@@masonasaro2118 Not for Cloud lol

[@durianaleria7919]

Always fun stuff. Thanks, dude!

[@4-8Productions]

Thank you!

[@matthewlandoll7812]

Imagine a mod of this game that has points where proceeding requires Yuffie warping to acquire things that you shouldn't be able to have at that moment, but that also takes something from you (either random or scripted for certain points in the game) each time you warp, and that keeps track of the warps you have done and makes Yuffie stronger each time by increasing stats or adding to her moveset to make each warp harder. Off course, after you beat Sephiroth, Yuffie steals all your stuff and disables Yuffie warping, and then retreats to Wutai where--after you grind for what items, equipment, and materia you can--you have to fight a no-turning-back gauntlet in the Pagoda of all the Yuffies you killed in the process of warping throughout the game, with YUFFIE-Synthesis, Bizarro-Yuffie, and Safer-Yuffie being the final bosses.

[@Ostr0]

What in the Multiverse is that!?

[@justinesmith8050]

Did you not recall her in action in FF7-AC during bahmut battle?

[@SkyReaperOne]

I remember a friend of mine telling me about this bug at least a decade ago. He was also telling me how it sucked that she would be pretty much gimped for end-game since there wasn't any further upgrades to her weapon, making her kindof useless. He also noted that her lack of presense in any further cuts-cenes and lack of any voice lines basicly made her feel like a ghost just haunting the party. (edit) Alright, watched the video a bit more and I guess it wasn't 10 years ago, because he described that Yuffie method you talked about 8 years ago. He also said he found this on You-Tube. I guess it was through your video. Talk about a small world! XD

[@dynagamerproductions8249]

Yeah, the old method of keeping Aerith had some drawbacks, such as skipping out on items and quests, and not being able to PHS her in and out of your party. This method is the first time that we are able to keep her with absolutely no drawbacks - no items missed, no quests skipped over, and we can PHS her in and out at will

[@DustinDonald-cz9ot]

Honestly I think she would be broken if you got her last limit break which pretty much makes your party invincible.

[@diacor4life489]

Casting Revive is quite a hassle

[@AuricomSystems]

It's absurd that the game can hold itself together through all these manipulations. It's absurd that the manipulations can lead to desired outcomes instead of collapsing into, I dunno, some Missingno stuff everywhere. It's even more absurd that people have managed to find all the specific steps needed to make these things happen. Incredible stuff!

[@MegalonVII]

all those playground rumors about how to revive aerith 27 years ago and now we finally have an answer... jesus christ what a whirlwind it must be for veteran fans

[@station-7]

Yeah man. Been here since the beginning. This is crazy.

[@AeonLumen.]

Yup

[@chrlpolk]

You have someone who used a code and the only thing that was resurrected were those rumors.

[@nathanielholzgrafe5274]

This is a dream come true.

[@deceiver444]

I still remember buying the PC version back in June 1998

[@narniaphuket]

this is like using the gamegenie to get past the easy mode ending in streets of rage 3 (by skipping to the level after) to see lots of additional story elements and choices we weren't meant to see there's some dialog you're gonna get from back when they had planned to bring her back if you never caught it, they've admitted she was supposed to come back, but one of the dev's mother died, and made him rethink the finality of death

[@johnmininger8480]

Best community, best game

[@SomnusShinra]

FF7 is eternal... My favourite game of all time

[@youngmasterDX]

Thank you so much for this!!! Just did this on a new playthrough it worked like a charm(steam). Finally able to mess around with 9 party members and enjoy more strats I couldn't before with the strongest caster/healer/support and best girl!

[@fattmusiek5452]

Praise be to Yevon fam ❤

[@danjbundrick]

What a time to be alive. It's finally been done

[@dominiksledziewski]

Mind officially blown. Edit after watching: I'm just speechless. Human determination and creativity is boundless, discovering something of this magnitude after 27 goddamn years, just wow.

[@tr1bes]

After 27 years, Aerith is finally alive.

[@shivasthong4924]

Always was.

[@vsolyomi]

Yuffie the legendary mystical ninja with space-time powers...

[@SnareX]

On the ps1 version if you disc swap disk 1 with 2 it'll play the disk 2 cutscenes. Aerith dying is replaced with the midgar cannon blasting crater. Really ramps up her death to another lever

[@stargazersdance]

Iirc that's because all discs have the game on it, only differences between discs are the cutscenes and music.

[@seraphicsublime]

Never forget to check the washing machine first!!

[@172louis]

So cool that this game has still has such huge following and facination to it, to this day

[@karlr42]

It's crazy to me that they coded the cutscene scripts in such a way that an NPC has to actually use key items like keycards in the player's inventory to open and lock doors, instead of just having the game engine do it. Its so charming.

[@attaxiaffxi7033]

The craziest thing is that there was actually probably (maybe) a valid reason to do it that way. We are spoiled with the tools we have at our disposal today.

[@Bloodstar-o7]

Im just guessing here but... the reason is likely because they had already done it for the player (giving or removing access through key items), and this was a way to avoid writing new code. So rather than make an npc inventory for one cutscene, they probably just added Hojo to your party temporarily. 😂 Why update the game engine or write complicated code when you can just use simple tricks or workarounds in the existing engine?

[@andersonmccall895]

So, Hojo doesn't actually "use" your keycard. Once you cross a certain coordinate on floor 67, a script starts that basically reads: set GameMoment, move Hojo, open door, set party keycard access to 66. The whole point of the game changing your keycard access is to force you to move up the elevator to the next floor rather than going back down and getting lost on what to do next lol.

[@RTU130]

Hmmmm

[@Kaizien]

​@andersonmccall895 I think you nailed it. Triggering events based entering, exiting, or while being within certain invisible collision volume(s) is a tried and true game programming practice. They probably did it very differently in the 90s (like you said, passing over certain map coordinates)

[@davidwilson6577]

Death, I've waited my whole life for this.

[@ranibro]

Kinda same

[@Ostr0]

We all have

[@KING-ZEAL]

One of the most historic moments in gaming history has been achieved. This moment will be remembered forever.

[@4-kathryn]

Cloud right-direction shimming over to the party just outside Midgar was funny. Thank you for breaking this process down, I think it's too tricky for me but it's neat Aerith can return to the party after the player has seen her death-scene.

[@kushpoe]

Thanks!

[@4-8Productions]

Thanks so much!

[@kiertopaz]

when you are high and not looking at the screen and hear ahhh omg sapphire weapon is attacking midgair....is genuinely terrifying

[@AndrewEvenstar]

Listening to this on a road trip to Las Vegas, so glad this came up on recommended.

[@luquaku]

The timing of figuring this out right while everybody is still reeling from Rebirth’s ending is completely insane. FFVII is the gift that keeps on giving

[@joshuacrumley2031]

Dude.....this is EPIC! Thank you and everyone else involved in figuring this out!

[@kingbeef5076]

It always amazes me that there are people out there with the brainpower to work this stuff out in the first place. 😂

[@david_gaia]

does this work on the PS4 version released in 2015 or is it only Steam/PC?

[@pdxgraham2442]

Good work, June 2024 and these things are STILL being found. Crazy

[@gibbleway]

i dont know what all you said, but your bringing this up after so many years is highly theraputic

[@woozyguy9]

Props to mccalas89, showing its never too late to start contributing to the community, and making an impact.

[@Mazurat]

Not all heroes wear capes. Subbed, saved, and shared. Excellent job good sir

[@LunarWingCloud]

Insane I have followed your content since very early on with your FFVII guides, and you *still* have fresh things to share because of the brokenness of this game and the devotion of the fans for it Love to see it

[@4-8Productions]

As mentioned in the video this ONLY works on PC and Steam, but there is only one problem keeping us from doing this on PS1 and it has to do with how the game wipes global memory. You can learn more about why warps don't work on the PS1 version by watching my Wrong Warp video here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l2W0pJeabMZna6M

[@MrUnkn0wn84]

First thanks for this amazing video, second what about the switch version, does it work there?

[@rocketrebelracerstudios9816]

And the ps4 and xbox

[@Profeces]

@@MrUnkn0wn84 What part of the word "only" did you have a hard time understanding?

[@alexvignolo7798]

I’m very curious. Besides after the snowboarding minigame, which scenes does her sprite still appear in? Thank you and amazing work from you and the community 👏🏼

[@MrE-mm5ws]

Anyone know of this works on the FF7 port for iPhone?

[@athorn923]

literally saw the video. made a bowl of stove popcorn and grabbed my fizzy water.

[@RnGrndMts]

Followed this video to the letter with perfectly reproduced results. Bravo to everyone involved in this journey. Thank you!!

[@de_life_stream]

amazing work bro, this breakdown is incredible!

[@skins4thewin]

Thank you & the community for all your hard work! I bet this will be the start of the Community trying to fine tune this even further. In other words, this probably isn't going to be the "Aerith Perma-Life glitch" Final Form.

[@HeadPats4Peter]

Maximilian Dood, you need to get in here and watch this. This is not regular FF7, this will blow your mind like Super Mario 64 half A press 😆.

[@Tsunamods]

Would this also work if you leave Tiny Bronco at Midgar. Yuffie warp to Air Buster whilst already having the key to sector 8. Killing Air Buster, Aerith gets added to the party, then you just leave Midgar and Yuffie warp back?

[@dynagamerproductions8249]

Thinking on it, this could actually work.... I won't know without testing it though, but it's a good idea.

[@Nickmacpaddywhack]

Wow.... almost 30 years after the original release of this game and we FINALLY have a reliable way of bringing her back WITHOUT debugging or using a cheat engine or a gameshark. This is incredible and impressive. Great work bro! 👍 👍 👍 👍 👍

[@andrethompson9437]

My question is, why park the Tiny Bronco at Midgar and not at the beachfront next to Fort Condor? Any particular reason?

[@TheYired]

Nothing like seeing a new video about FFVII where the game is broken/destroyed.

[@kylematlock7889]

I watched this whole thing slack-jawed. the amount of effort to find this is absolutely insane

[@AmeenTopa]

@22:25 "Yuffie grind" does not sound appropriate 🤣🤣

[@gazman2626]

😂😂

[@nem3sis.yt_]

1:47 I love how this specific song plays in the background while he starts this whole ordeal. like things- ARE ABOUT TO GET SERIOUS 🔥

[@audiocrow2632]

Just learning about yuffie warp from this - would it be possible to warp to the save right before Cloud falls into the church? Wouldn't that be much easier because you wouldn't need keycard shenanigans?

[@qbrt4050]

It's almost midnight by the time I find this and you're telling me I can't flush the toilet ten thousand times!?!!??!?!! My boss will hate me tomorrow 🫠

[@justintodd5145]

Congratulations for figuring it out. It's been a dream of mine since zi was 13. Now we just have to figure out how to bring back Biggs, wedge, and Jesse.

[@matttrent946]

you're the only creator / FF7 fan expert that i WILL sit and watch for 47 minutes. that is how much i trust and respect your content, Death

[@Kellestial]

As someone who has never played a FF game, never seen a FF7 speedrun and watched like one play through of the remake… this was an interesting watch

[@jeffblackwell5493]

This glitch is easier to understand than the ending of FF7 Rebirth.

[@Ostr0]

Lmao

[@carsonrush3352]

I feel like this is how time manipulation would work. Guys, just imagine a spec ops squad of angels going on a mission from heaven. They arrive and start talking exactly like these speed runners... "Alright, guys, remember we need to time this just right in order to trigger the correct causal flags, or else we'll get softlocked in a time paradox. Raphael, please avoid the probability cloud on that guard or else we'll trigger a causal cascade. He's going through a ton of moral dilemmas right now due to his divorce, and the cloud is extra wide. Gabriel, is the other squad in position to trigger the Oprah warp? Good. Let's bring this Lazarus guy back from the dead."

[@dorcusss3693]

I hope the 3rd part of ff7 remake does some crazy warp arounds like this and gets us Aerith back.

[@hyshade5132]

Now, in order to get Ramza into your party we're going to be utilizing various Yuffie glitches

[@Edgr0717]

Probably a stupid question but can you un-get Yuffie if you already have her? So that you can setup the Yuffie warps from a specific save point where you already have all your stuff prior to the final boss fight?

[@Sarstan]

I consider it a great sign of maturity that I have finally accepted that her name is Aerith and not Aeris. Ignore the fact that it took over 20 years after the fact to do so.

[@JackSparrow-ct4mh]

the case was kinda settled , when it turned out that glitching her into party with skips gives her default name Aerith.

[@YosherYoshi]

This feels like Mew under the truck scaled up to the max. Good stuff.

[@HunterPBrown]

Breaking the game! Breaking the game!

[@Badenhawk]

Priest reference, nice.