The friends of Ringo Ishikawa

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Released
May 17, 2018
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Change history · Builds & patches

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    Ringo is featured in the NAG Winter Edition 2026

    8 years later some players still discover the game! 3 games later Ringo still sells the best out of them and makes it possible for me to continue living by gamedev. I consider it a pure luck actually (aka gift of Heavens), cause there's a lot more hardworking devs than me, thousa

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    Old speech bubbles are back!

    Hello! I discovered that some players prefer old version only because of old school speech bubbles. So I added an option to turn it back in EX version. Enjoy! P.S. Please let me know if something went wrong after this update.

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    Why do players still play the old version?

    Hello! From time to time, when I check screenshots section (to hide the ending scenes) I see that some players still play pre-EX version (mostly Chinese players, but not only them). At first I thought that maybe there was some problems with old saves or something like that. But i

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    Thanks to the Dude and the players

    Hello everyone! Some of my followers know that I deleted Twitter last summer, and this spring I got rid of YouTube, and generally decided (perhaps temporarily) to reduce my online socializing to a minimum and not promote the upcoming game at all (in fact, the new game was only an

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    Cloud saves bug fixed

    Hello! I've got a bug report via email that Cloud Saves doesn't work. I checked and it seems that the game uses before ex-update catalogue "the_friends_of_ringo_ishikawa" instead of "the_friends_of_ringo_ishikawa_ex". I changed it to "the_friends_of_ringo_ishikawa_ex", so maybe t

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    Physical edition of "Fading Afternoon" is opened for preorder

    Physical edition by Tesura Games is opened for preorder: It's the only full version on Switch (it matches the Steam version, digital Switch version has no gambling mini-games, additional waifu etc. because of age ratings in Japan). I also wrote some introduction dialogue and Ueda

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    Brazilian Portuguese localization is live!

    Hello, fellas! New Brazilian Portuguese localization is finally live. Done by Masamune ( ), who translated SoR4, TMNT, Yakuza like a Dragon, Fading Afternoon etc. So I hope you'll be satisfied with the quality. Enjoy.

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    Solitaire mini-game

    Hello. Now you can play solitaire mini-game on the roof (after Goro gets enough with it). There's also one new achievement. I know that you don't like new achievements but it's probably the last one. Maybe.

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    Happy Chinese New Year!

    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

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    Juggling mini-game

    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.

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    Old saves should work now

    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

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    Player 2 can ride a bicycle solo, pet the cat etc.

    Hello. After EX update I added: DONE: 8 new achievements Free roam mode after completing the story Player 2 can pet the cat Player 2 can use scales in the gym Player 2 can ride bicycles solo (he could just sit on Ringo bicycle before) IN WORK: Player 2 controls friends in ping po

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    Looking for the author of the Br-Portuguese translation

    Hello. It seems that the translation wasn't done by the author of this video: I found older videos with instructions for installation of this translation, for example: 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 p

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    Free roam mode and new achievements

    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 ac

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    EX update is live now!

    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 mechan

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    Need help with Korean, French and Spanish GUI

    Hello! I need a little help with Spanish and French GUI: 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. Please fill the tables! DONE! The up

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    Brazilian localization

    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

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    New update is coming!

    Hello, fellas! Maybe you know that I'm working on my hobby project about school delinquents now. We almost finished with all background concepts and now I'm working on dialogues, battle mechanics and game structure. It's a lot of work, so I'm not sure when the game will be ready.

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    Added missing Chinese glyphs

    Dear players! If you see any problems with a localization in your language - please report. I physically can't test all localizations myself. In this update I fixed some missing Chinese glyphs which I accidentally saw during development of Ringo EX version. So if you find more -