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Yes, they should be stored in the same place as on the PC version, if you're using JoiPlay at least. Just transfer them over and boom.

I've put games that don't even have an official android version through JoiPlay and it's worked just fine. I've also supported VN's that have transferred over without issue. 

It's a bit more "work" on my side but if that makes updates more frequent and it less stressful for you it's better. 

If you had read the guide...

GUIDE.zip - Google Drive

It's only crucial if you don't know how to use the command line 😉

You downloaded just the bat files but not JAV-IT itself. Make sure you have both and they're in the same folder. 

read the little blob of text right above  "Change Log:"

This program isn't for the technophobes. It's a CLI - Command Line Interface tool. And the guy who made it is *eventually* gonna make a GUI but that's still a ways off. 

• What I need is for it to catalog my 3000 ish titles and then download them all to an external HDD as the primary backup before R18 closes.

There is a way for that, but i'd recommend supporting the dude on patreon and hopping in the discord to ask. This is possible, but batch downloading isn't a part of the free version.

Using the paid version you can achieve this.

The batch file -- which is named "download.bat" doesn't do well if it is saved somewhere with spaces in the folder name. For instance, D:\your folder name\jav-it.  You can do two things here

move the jav-it folder somewhere where it's not in a folder which has spaces in the name, not even nested as in D\:folder one\folder\jav-it

Edit the batch file -- if you know how to do that, you're already advanced so i'll keep that short. change the %CD% (current directory parsers) to "%CD%". The thing basically errors because CMD expects something like "D:\your folder name\" instead of D:\your folder name. 

Make sure you're actually on the R18 tab when you export the cookie file.

The game is awesome, relatively show placed which I like and a high quality story without being as merciless when it comes to locking out characters as your previous games. 

Supported you so I can't wait to see 0.5 just that little bit earlier.  

Itch is reccommeding me more and more better ero games after HH. Skipped the patreon but threw a 'donation' in via Itch. This one is fun! 

Check the game files. The saves are in there.

If you backup the saves beforehand you can continue them from where you left off.

If you deleted them when you deleted your game to update you're shit outta luck.

If you met "the guy" has he also already challenged you as well?

Check Ellen it should have an option "Accept the guy's challenge".