i read about it in a big article about advent children/crisis core, DOC it was called before crisis... something like that. it listed them like ac/bc/cc/dc
it was about the turks and for japan i hadn't heard of a us release

found the article electronic gaming monthly oct 05



BEFORE CRISIS -- spring 06
FINAL FANTASY VII
Sir, we have Sephiroth on line three!!
(though you probably consider cell phone games to be fluffy fare like Bejeweled,
Jamdat Bowling, or Tetris, Square Enix intends to change the way U.S. gamers think about mobile entertainment. Before Crisis is serious stuff: an episodic (16 downloadable chapters are available so far in Japan) action-RPG chronicling the six years that led up to the events of Final Fantasy VII. You control various members of the Turks—highly skilled mercenaries hired by the nefarious ShinRa corporation. Fans of FFVII will recognize nearly everyone, and it's an interesting twist, for example, to lead the Turks against a freedom fighter such as FFVII's Barret. "BC really fleshes out the events that transpired before FFVII," explains Producer Kosei Ito. "And it also shows you how your favorite characters turned out the way they did."
As you'd expect from something you play with a phone, BC doesn't sport overly complex gameplay. Exploration occurs in top-down dungeons, and battles use a blend of real-time action and menu-driven magic. If you're in over your head, you can even fire off a text message to a friend, who can instantly lend some of his own magic materia to help you win the battle.

thats all i have on it