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Since this project was born from the need of the people who never could have his and Soutarou's routes back in the 2000's, Both Souratou and Torahiko routes will be the last to be released.

I'm pretty sure their schedule will be to release all routes that already exists on the original with their original text, then leave us without updates for one or two years until they have Tora and Sourarou routes completed WITH the artworks and sex scenes too. Which means, we will only experience the full Tora route by version 1.0 of this project.

And I'm fine with it. Creating a game takes a huge ton of time and this project is free. I'll patiently wait for it. 

I hope you can enjoy it. I'm working on an update in engine that will make the Android (and the PC versions) way better looking, so for now I hope it's good enough to enjoy the story. Just know that since the money I'~m making with Just Friends is barely the minimum wage here and it's the only job I have right now, it's being very tricky for me to buy more art for the project. Still I hope you enjoy the content! 

It's NSFW however there is no actual porn right now in it, first because Just Friends is designed to have all the porn as a reward at the final two days in-game, and second because I need to make more money producing the game to buy more art for it. However, in some S-class segments, there are some very lewd descriptions here and there.

So to the very least, read it while you're alone for now. :)

Weird. I can always upload the file as the pkg file, but I would recommend your trying to use a PC to unpack the file first, sometimes android can be finicky to unpack zip files. @_@

I think it's smarter too, because everyone who's here, wants a Torahiko route, since his route never existed in the original.

Which means once they finish his route, it's probably the end of the project, the interest it gone. They can't monetize with Morenatsu but no one wants to work on a project that people lost interest. And that interest is lost as soon as Torahiko's route is done. 

Hello there, I'm deleting the previous commend and adding an important update here for you: 

Just Friends Visual Novel is now available for Android.

The build have some kinks on Android, for more information, read this post:  https://yekkusu.itch.io/just-friends-visual-novel/devlog/801772/just-friends-is-...

If you enjoy the game and want the android build to get better and to work better on a phone small screen remember that only Tier 3 patrons can vote on what I should work monthly. And fixing/enhancing the Android build experience is one of these features they can vote.

Thank you so much for wanting to check on Just Friends!

Hello there. IT's specified in this page over bold letters, but here's the answer: The current Build fo the public is the 0.49.0.35, the next scheduled public build is scheduled for December, and it will be the build 0.53.0.35.

Said build, is already available for Tier 1 Patrons, and in November, Tier 0 patrons will also be able to download the next public build earlier before it's put for the public in December. 

Patrons have access to monthly updates, currently Tier2+ patrons have access to Builds 0.63.0.35 and this month is scheduled to release the build 0.64.0.35.

I   hope that helped you somehow. 

We all are, don't worry xD

This looks like a mod, an older version or an alplha build.

I don't think it's an older version because they only swapped models twice, and the older models were awful compared to the ones in the image, so either this is a mod, or is a build that was never released. Sorry mate I doubt you'll find it here tho.

They should give us an update soon, follow them on their discord server.

Thanks, it's very costly to have this level of quality in the VN so it takes time to add more art, but I'm glad it's paying off.

Just wait, I prefer them taking their time to give me free updates of a game I don't need to pay to play, rather than keep making them work for free and give me updates as if they need to release builds every X months or so. In the end, if they do it out of their own free time with care, we will have something cool and fun and very well done. I prefer that, rather than having this game repeating the same things the original did and never reading through the rest of the routes :D

The closer they get to the finish line, the harder it is to release faster though. 

There are guides in-game. But you need to finish the route, and you'll get the password to unlock the full guide for that route.

Think like a Developer:

You're remaking a visual novel that everyone who's 25+ loves. That lots of people tried to re-do but none did to the end. You was able to fetch attention to the Remake, and the routes everyone wants the most are Kouya, Kyouji and Soutarou and Torahiko, the last three never had their routes finished. 

Torahiko is also the "main route" of the game.

If his route is finished, there's a huge change most people would lose interest in the game. So it will obviously be the last one. I believe Torahiko itself will be the last route to be added and will also only be added once all artworks for his route is complete, because once his route is done, the game is also done. But I may be wrong.

Revisited is not a Remake, it's a reimagination of Morenatsu.

Essentially the Original is unfinished, and full of social problems, such as having underage characters, rape, kidnapping, grooming and other aspects that are not cool. Those were completely removed from Revisited, all characters are +18 and the main protagonist now can be a Human or a White Fox, all characters are re-drawn and all routes will be different and finished. Some routes haven't changed a lot, but some of them are being completely rewritten. So yeah, that's the difference.

If you wanna see NSFW scenes, only the Original MOrenatsu have them, Revisited will focus first on finish all routes, THEN, they'll make the NSFW scenes, those are expensive or costly to make.

Developing anything takes time and learning does it too. It took me an entire year before opening my Patreon, to take Godot, learn it, and create a system that would work as a Visual Novel. It has it's perks, but also has the downsides. One of them is that for me to port it to Android I need to manually recreate a lot of menus. 

Either way, keep on studying, Godot is far easier than a lot of engines out there. 

Sorry for the huge delay.

Update: The issue was that I upload the files as labeled as executable, I changed their tags to "other" and this fixed the issue.

I was able to select the build and launch it. So I hope you guys can enjoy it now.

I... Don't think so? I never put anything not even a single reference in-text to Steven Universe.

Just Friends is powered by Godot 3.5.4.

Ren'py was one of the choices but after seeing how big projects like Camp Buddy would start running on that platform I decided it would be way more difficult to optimize code and edit already existing scenes. 

I created the whole visual novel code from scratch to work with Godot years ago. 

Sorry for taking so long to answer: Each answer you give gives, or subtracts points from your affinity gauge. After the third day in-game, if you have enough affinity points, by answering the correct path, you can get into more interesting routes, one of them with Wagner can even lead you to a cutscene.

For guides though, that's a Patreon-only perk, every ten or so builds I update a chart for patrons to use. But there's no public chart made yet. Maybe, eventually, I'll make one for the public, but right now my focus is solely on my Patrons and Patreon content. 

I can give you a tip though: Every time you answer something wrong, 90% of the time the character will have a bad reaction to what you said. That's not a rule, of course, but it is a design choice I made for the first days. :)

I'm sorry to hear that mate. So, the thing with MAC is that it needs a special key that is very, very expensive for me to buy right now, and I can't test it without owning a MAC which, sadly, in my country is considered Elite hardware. 

For now, only Windows and Linux are compatible, eventually I will be porting it to Android. iOS will not be supported for the exact same reason, and I'm so sorry.  Apple is known to be very strict with how people develop stuff for their hardware, so it's a whole expensive, and difficult process for me, considering how much I make monthly for this game. But hey, maybe in the future once the project is at it's end or released on Steam I will be making enough money to buy apple hardware and fetch all the licences to port the games to their system too! But for now, that's impossible for me, so I hope you understand.

Thank you for your interest in my game, please keep following the project if possible! :)

Well, they work on this game for free, while working on the game that ACTUALLY give them money to work on. So we should just be glad they found an artist who is kind enough to donate his art for this project OR that they have the spare money to invest in the project because Art is expensive especially good art, good music, etc. So I'm not complaining, I'm gladly gonna wait for months, even years as long as they keep updating the discord every now and then saying that they are working on it slowly or not. 

Just remember it's very, very hard to make a visual novel, and work on one for free, and give quality work like they are doing? We should be forever grateful. 

The art alone from someone like Wagnermutt costs 150 minimum, not including background and everything, I only (and recently) started making 200, I'm already working with him on installments at times, plus at the end of the day I'm also handling coding and writing alone, and as you can imagine, I can't pay the bills and eat with 50 ~ 100 a moth, still here I am working on the project with all the love and passion I got and right there to answer everyone's questions about it whenever they need.

So I guess it's quite fair to compare popular VNs making 1k+ a month and me trying to work through mine with the little I got.

The game is Zipped. You need to unzip it.

install win-zip on your system and unpack it. Both files should be on the same folder.

Then run the .exe file.

I'm working on (slowly) an android Version. It will take  along time since it's not what my current patrons want me to, and I'm not making a huge lot to hire someone to help me, so yeah. But eventually we'll have android builds too. I hope. 

There's no install button.

it's two files: One .EXE and another .PCK

You need to extract both of them to the same folder and execute the ,exe file.  I hope this helps.

As I DO think the Morenatsu characters were released to the public domain, the music probably belongs to someone else, so it would be wise to AVOID any legal stuff especially for a fan-project that raises no money at all.

Thanks for your time playing the game. Every time I find some time I try my best to find every typo I did on the current builds, I also use Grammarly to help with those but sometimes it does more damage than help. Just yesterday I was compiling Wagner's first day as an ebook for Tier 4 patrons and I found lots of small typos I fixed on the first day so eventually they will be fixed! :D

Patrons also can send their own corrections in-game for me and I add their name on a revision team in the credits too, so if you're interested, consider supporting the project as a Tier 2+ on patreon! :D

Sadly no. I'm still searching but so far any build I try to export for Mac OS just won't run on any MAC computer, so for now Mac is out of the question. I believe there are ways to emulate Windows on Mac, which would make it possible for you to run on your mac, but so far that's the only way. Sorry.

No. To develop it to android I need to re-work the entire UI to work on a small screen. That would mean creating a different build of the game just for Android and so far the game is not making enough to justify an Android Build. 

I use Godot, and most of the work to make a port is on me, not on the engine itself (like it is for Ren'py), so for now, no Android. Sorry.

Only Windows and Linux Operating System such as Ubuntu, Manjaro  or Mint.

Of course not.

The sole reason every single team always want to do a Remake of Morenatsu, apart form the atrocious writting of the original and stuff that only works in Japan, is because Tora never had his route.

That will probably be the last route. 

I don't remember if they are re-writting the story or using the original script (which I do remember is not the best story ever written) or if it's a mix of both, but I do know writting anything takes a long time. 

I will be doing that soon. I wanted to let the MAC version, but sadly the way making stuff for Apple is, insanely expensive, and I do need a MAC myself to be able to buy the keys from them and all that, and frankly it's not worth it.

Ironically though, my issue this month was with someone wanting the game for ANDROID. I know Android is based on Linux, so I made sure to tell on the main page that the game only works on LINUX OPERATING SYSTEMS ON PC. Just to be sure haha. And at this point the MAC version here is insanely outdated. 

Thanks for the advice though.

At this point I will be absurdly glad if they finish the writting and then add cutscenes later on. Making a Visual NOvel is a tedious, long and super expensive project, art is not cheap, and since they are re-writting new stuff and making sure they can have two scenarios, one with a human and another with a fox for Hiro, that work is doubled. The same for artwork, if they will implement a system with Hiro as both human and fox, that will take a long time and it will be quite expensive, volunteer or not, the time they lose making this game, making assets for the game, etc, is taken away from their free time since they need money to survive. And any other projects they have with a Patreon or a Donation system or wathever, the money raised from those projects are to be used on these projects alone, so there's that.

Let us just be glad a team decied to actually make an effort and create a quality visual novel with a good visual artstyle that is close to what we had but at the same time, different so it's not the exact same game. Morenatsu had way too many problems they are trying their best to fix here. XD

I did answer you there and I already checked the scene, and found it's not having any issues for me there. I also sent you a message explaining what could be, but I'm almost 100% sure it's a save-file issue. The version you guys can play here is 10-15 builds earlier than what we have on Patreon, and I did code new stuff in the game from that much time. I do recommend every time you grab a new build, to just start a whole new save. The Skip Dialog is a feature that saves constantly what dialogues you've read in each route you enter, so even if you start a new save, you just need to click skip and as long as the route still exists in the newer build,  you will be able to skip the same number of dialogues you had before. So it's quick to get back to where you were.

Sorry for the delay.  If anyone else is reading this message and having the same issue with any build, public or not, remember to always start a new save and see if the issue persists first. 

Do you know the original morenatsu?

I'm pretty sure everyone here wants to play Torahiko's route together with the other two that never had a route before. And I'm sure as hell that they will release his route last. Especially since they are changing stuff, so the story is not exactly the same either. 

Just wait, maybe in a year or two we'll have the stories done, and we still need the CGs too, which are expensive on their own XD

 Oh, that's interesting. Good to know.

Game in development. A lot of place holders are inside sometimes, just to fill every part that should be used in the future, even if it's not used. You always should only expect to complete galleries and any other stuff if a game is on version 1.0. 

Sadly no. For now there are no plans for an Android release.

Well I did add the versions to the TAG section. If it's not working, give me a heads-up so I can check what I should do. Thank you for your feedback. 

When you click on DOWNLOAD button, you can select your version. The last MAC working version was the 0.21. I'm really sorry for not being able to keep up with the MAC version.