Dear Chinese players!

I fell in love with Chinese culture as soon as I watched an old (1961) animated movie about Sun Wukong "Havoc in Heaven" on Soviet TV, it was the mid 1980s and I was 6-7 years old. Hong Kong's 80-90s movies and martial arts practicing cemented that love, and while I was growing up I tried to learn more about your country's story, religion and philosophy.

I finally visited China for the very first time in 2023 (I was in Shanghai) and since I was amazed with the country I took my family on another trip soon after that and we've been in Beijing and Hong Kong. Hong Kong was good, but was a little too western, but both Shanghai and Beijing were great. Clean streets, many trees, people are friendly and helpful, city colors, I really was impressed.

I'm really proud that more than 70% of the players of my games are Chinese people.

I want to wish all the best to you and your families in the New Year! And thank you very much for supporting my games!

You can now juggle a ball on the playground (100 times for an achievement). Player 2 will be able to do it in the next update.

Hello.

Thanks to grap3_day sending me an old save file I was able to fix the issue. Now you can use save files from original game.

You have to manually relocate them from:

C:\Users\YOUR_ACCOUNT\AppData\Local\the_friends_of_ringo_ishikawa

to

C:\Users\YOUR_ACCOUNT\AppData\Local\the_friends_of_ringo_ishikawa_ex

Don't forget that not all EX features will be available though (like fish and bicycle shop won't have shop owners etc.) and it could contain more bugs. If you report a bug please pinpoint that you played from the old save.

Thanks!

Hello.

After EX update I added:

DONE:

1. 8 new achievements
   
2. Free roam mode after completing the story
   
3. Player 2 can pet the cat
   
4. Player 2 can use scales in the gym
   
5. Player 2 can ride bicycles solo (he could just sit on Ringo bicycle before)

IN WORK:

1. Player 2 controls friends in ping pong and pool
   
2. Player 2 can take bags

You can check status of future updates here: https://gtm.you1.cn/app/846110/discussions/0/510695968495149823/

I'm not sure for how long I'll be working on the game, maybe couple of days or weeks. Mostly I'm already satisfied with it.

Hello.

It seems that the translation wasn't done by the author of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obkd_QkHNCg

I found older videos with instructions for installation of this translation, for example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMwKOo5o-6s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwX7mtTb4IM

Didn't check from the start cause I'm used to believe people.

Sadly, he didn't say it to me when I proposed to pay for the translation (I hope that my partner didn't send the money yet).

In any case, if you're the real author of this translation and has a proof, please write me to j7704@yandex.ru

The above person already deceived me (if he has proofs that he made the translation - I apologize), so I can't believe the next person by word. Sadly.

Hello, fellas!

I added 7 new achievements (5 from XBox 2nd update and 2 brand new ones).

And a long awaited "Free Roam Mode". You can pause/unpause the story any time on the "pause screen". To activate it you need to finish the story and see the credits roll. After you get the achievement and run the game from Steam - you'll see the option.

You also can turn the music off now (on the same screen). Maybe I'll add a couple more achievements next week, but overall I'm happy with the update so that's it.

Enjoy!

* Please report bugs at the forum so I can fix them.

Hello!

EX update is live now. What's inside:

1. Local 2 player coop
2. Updated sprites for characters
3. Bicycles
4. New street with a bicycle store and a fish store
5. New skills for Mechanic "dojo", new throw (suplex from FA), brand new karate drop kick
6. Updated battle mechanics
7. KO animations from FA
8. Skippable cutscenes and dialogues
9. Jumping will be removed
10. Lowering screen size from 250x140 to 240x135 so the game will look cleaner in full screen
11. Br Portuguese localization (some GUI lines are Deepl translated for now, will be replaced when I get proper translation from the translator)
12. Korean GUI (Korean dialogues are available for a long time)
13. Changeable shoes (you can change to white ones in the school)
14. Fishing mini-game
15. Little tweaks here and there

You can play old versions anytime via beta-branches:

I tried to make old saves work but I can't guarantee anything sadly, cause some game's logic changed significantly.

A little reminder that I'm a solo dev so expect some bugs ) Please submit them to the forum - I'll try to fix them.

I'll add some new achievements and free roam mode by the end of the next week.

Enjoy the update!

Hello!

I need a little help with Spanish and French GUI:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15us8fYVTrfnqgxLdnCQ7A0zCE2gzw3rFI9DwbJ5M8g0/edit?gid=0#gid=0

DONE!

And more help with Korean GUI. I took names from dialogues, but item names are just Deepl translated, also I doubt that Deepl will translate skill names and descriptions correctly.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qMT9hlLLl1S6Qxu6YWdCTfdyQAeOffGzwFHCg1hdzIY/edit?gid=0#gid=0

Please fill the tables!

DONE!

The update is almost ready, I hope to release it by the end of the next week.

Thanks!

Hello!

Recently I found out that there's a fan's Brazilian localization of the game. After I updated the game to GMS 2.3, the method which the author used to apply the translation doesn't work, so I decided to buy this translation and make it official.

So the upcoming update will be available in Brazilian.