Yeah, I found a bad bug there; I'm updating now.
The problem with OBB and other expansion files is that it requires a level of technical sophistication to install manually, and most people won't do it. Book 2 is set up to side-load now, which needs to be connected to the net before it will start, but afterwards should be safe to play.
Viewing post in Love of Magic: Book 1 Remastered comments
Thank you for the reply. Have you looked at how Rebirth (by LikesBlondes) is trying to handle it perhaps? Broken into smaller chapters, import the save file at the start of each chapter? Its OK when it works, different people porting the VN can mess that up though since they all try to store things in different places. The two other approaches I've come across (my apologies for repeating what must be familiar to you already, I only hope to help in some small way,) 'My New Family' is broken into two parts, play and complete part1, then install part2 which overwrites part1, but leaves the saves intact to continue on, and secondly reducing the image quality, the compressed version of a 2Gb PC release is often compressed down to something like 700Mb for people on limited bandwidth, this version is usually the one that gets ported to android,, the phone and tablet screens are so much smaller that most people are not really going to notice the lower resolutions.
Yeah, I drop the resolution a little (especially on the videos), but even then I worry about file-size. Book 2 is now > 2GB even after crunching the videos and images as far as I'm willing to take them, which is why I moved that onto the Cloud.
For Book 1 I think I'll be able to crunch it down < 2GB even with the videos, I just need to sort through things to get there :)
Looks like you got the size down quite a bit for book1, I will try the file from discord.
Thinking about book2, I have no idea how apk's work as an install process, but if you use an apk to upgrade an existing installation are all the files from the original version (other then the saves) automatically removed? Or could you use a second apk to add more files to the installation?
Yes, Its not a common error, but I have seen it happen in one other VN (its been a while though, possibly on my last tablet,) out of the last couple hundred so it may be an obscure thing. Strictly speaking its playable because I can turn the tablet upside down without it flipping again, but it is a little jarring when you launch the game and the screen flips upside down. Lol. :)
(Samsung Galaxy Tab S7+ tablet running in Landscape orientation, Android 11)