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JPDE is a fan Visual Novel developed by Team J.P.D.E. based on the RWBY animated series. It features a completely original story which runs parallel to the timeline of Volume 2 and Volume 3. Take control of an original character and, through a chance meeting with Penny Polendina, embark on an adventure in Remnant!

Attend Beacon Academy and explore Vale City! You may interact with a large cast of characters, each with their personalized events! Make new friends, discover new lore and maybe take your relationship even further...!


Depending on how many and which bonds you will have made during your semester at Beacon Academy, you may influence the ending of the storyline and even canon events from the show! How will your fate change?


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ANDROID VERSION LINK
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SOUNDS/VO PATCH [REQUIRED]
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ALT LINKS - MEGA
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Install instructions

THE SOUNDS/VOICE PATCH IS REQUIRED FOR ANY VERSION OF THE GAME

PC/LINUX/MAC Instructions

1) Extract the ZIP archive. Find the 'game' folder.

2) Paste the 'JPDESoF-4.6-Sounds.rpa' in there.

Android instructions:

1) Get any file manager, “X-Plore” for example https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lonelycatgames.Xplore

2) Navigate to Internal storage/Android/data/com.lizzy.jpde/files

3) Create a 'game' folder.

4) Paste the 'JPDESoF-4.6-Sounds.rpa' in there.

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Hey! I am a big fan of your guy's work and I just wanted to ask if the refrain was out or not yet? 

Hey so... I just finished JPDE last night... I must say I absolutely loved it! I had followed this game when it was in early development, back in like... 2017 or so? I joined the discord back then! It was actually kind of a part of why I even made a discord account to begin with... At some point though I wasn't very much into RWBY or this game so I kinda didn't follow it too closely, then I remember Meinos made a new Discord server, and since I wasn't very active and stuff I decided to not join the new one.


The most I had ever played before a few days ago I believe was when the ending was the cliffhanger of Jack's semblance in the match against Weiss! Not too long ago I was in a bit of a RWBY mood and decided to download this game again... and Oh my god! did it deliver! the start was mostly how I remembered it! and as such I kinda wasn't so enraptured in it... but as shit started to hit the fan... I honestly started to love it more and more... I love what you did with the characters, the whole subplots and stuff with the side characters and the new angles of some more main ones! I love the way you handled Ozpin and Glynda! But I believe one of my favourite things was Raven, It really painted her in a new light! and honestly I love it!


Anyways... I just wanted to say thanks for making such an awesome game... and kind of apologize that I wasn't there for more of it and that I just finished it now... I couldn't really help much back then and I still kinda can't... I was in highschool when I started following it and now while I finished that, I am still studying some stuff and don't yet have a job so... yeah... But honestly Meinos you outdid yourself! And I am very glad this project came through and I played the full story!


Also I went with Yang for the Dance, and I loved the whole endgame a lot! many a super saiyan reference from what I could tell! lol

What happen? I cant open cg and bgm can someone tell me to fix?

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WARNING: THE GAME IS NOT CURRENTLY PLAYABLE ON ANDROID! New security features in Android have disabled the ability to move files as described in the instructions for the sound patch; your system will not give you the necessary access to your SD card. No file manager I have tested can circumnavigate this issue. Without the sound patch, the game experiences constant errors and is effectively unplayable. Unless the designer provides a release making this issue irrelevant or more functional instructions, I would advise against downloading the Android version.

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Yet another reason why the Remake is needed...!

I am just used root

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Or you can play used joiplay emulator

really? How?

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Doing download joiplay and ren'py 8.2.3 plugin  just like  and add game where you extra file game 

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Is Refrain being actively being worked on rn? Or is it something for after Adagio is done?

The first episode of Refrain is going to come out this month, actually :)

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soo episodic system with one short episode per month again?  i have a dejavu suddenly. how much of core story will change tho? what % we need to expect 

I clicked on the download links but I didn't get any downloads

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no hay un parche para ponerlo en español?

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Are their suppossed to be only Evelyne and Penny voiced? Or did I somehow mess up installing the voice over patch?

I had the exact same issue...

i know its probably a dumb question but can someone give a full list of characters who have events and requirements for unlocking them. 

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I can't seem to install the sound/voice patch in the game is there by any chance a future version of the game that already has the sound/voice patch is in the works?

I can't download it in windows, i checked the pop ups and its all good, I don't know what else to do, the download never starts.I can't download it in windows, i checked the pop ups and its all good, I don't know what else to do, the download never starts.

did u try to use the alt links? becuz i had the same issue and used te alt links and they worked.

So, when I try to open the gallery I get this: 


[code]

I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While running game code:

TypeError: got an unexpected keyword argument 'transition'

-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

Full traceback:

  File "renpy/common/_layout/screen_main_menu.rpym", line 28, in script

    python hide:

  File "C:\Users\simms\Downloads\JPDESoF-4.6-PC\JPDESoF-4.6-PC\renpy\ast.py", line 823, in execute

    renpy.python.py_exec_bytecode(self.code.bytecode, self.hide, store=self.store)

  File "C:\Users\simms\Downloads\JPDESoF-4.6-PC\JPDESoF-4.6-PC\renpy\python.py", line 1178, in py_exec_bytecode

    exec(bytecode, globals, locals)

  File "renpy/common/_layout/screen_main_menu.rpym", line 28, in <module>

    python hide:

  File "renpy/common/_layout/screen_main_menu.rpym", line 35, in _execute_python_hide

    ui.interact()

  File "C:\Users\simms\Downloads\JPDESoF-4.6-PC\JPDESoF-4.6-PC\renpy\ui.py", line 301, in interact

    rv = renpy.game.interface.interact(roll_forward=roll_forward, **kwargs)

  File "C:\Users\simms\Downloads\JPDESoF-4.6-PC\JPDESoF-4.6-PC\renpy\display\core.py", line 2165, in interact

    repeat, rv = self.interact_core(preloads=preloads, trans_pause=trans_pause, pause=pause, pause_start=pause_start, pause_modal=pause_modal, **kwargs) # type: ignore

  File "C:\Users\simms\Downloads\JPDESoF-4.6-PC\JPDESoF-4.6-PC\renpy\display\core.py", line 2683, in interact_core

    root_widget.visit_all(lambda d : d.per_interact())

  File "C:\Users\simms\Downloads\JPDESoF-4.6-PC\JPDESoF-4.6-PC\renpy\display\displayable.py", line 431, in visit_all

    d.visit_all(callback, seen)

  File "C:\Users\simms\Downloads\JPDESoF-4.6-PC\JPDESoF-4.6-PC\renpy\display\displayable.py", line 431, in visit_all

    d.visit_all(callback, seen)

  File "C:\Users\simms\Downloads\JPDESoF-4.6-PC\JPDESoF-4.6-PC\renpy\display\displayable.py", line 431, in visit_all

    d.visit_all(callback, seen)

  File "C:\Users\simms\Downloads\JPDESoF-4.6-PC\JPDESoF-4.6-PC\renpy\display\screen.py", line 480, in visit_all

    callback(self)

  File "C:\Users\simms\Downloads\JPDESoF-4.6-PC\JPDESoF-4.6-PC\renpy\display\core.py", line 2683, in <lambda>

    root_widget.visit_all(lambda d : d.per_interact())

  File "C:\Users\simms\Downloads\JPDESoF-4.6-PC\JPDESoF-4.6-PC\renpy\display\screen.py", line 491, in per_interact

    self.update()

  File "C:\Users\simms\Downloads\JPDESoF-4.6-PC\JPDESoF-4.6-PC\renpy\display\screen.py", line 697, in update

    self.screen.function(**self.scope)

  File "C:\Users\simms\Downloads\JPDESoF-4.6-PC\JPDESoF-4.6-PC\renpy\parameter.py", line 429, in apply_arguments

    return parameters.apply(args or (), kwargs or {}, ignore_errors)

  File "C:\Users\simms\Downloads\JPDESoF-4.6-PC\JPDESoF-4.6-PC\renpy\parameter.py", line 360, in apply

    raise TypeError(

TypeError: got an unexpected keyword argument 'transition'

Windows-10-10.0.19045 AMD64

Ren'Py 8.2.0.24012702

JPDE - Sonata of Fire 4.6

Fri Jul  5 10:13:06 2024

[/code]


Any idea how to fix it?

fighting dose not work

:/

i almost came to the same conclusion at first but then i realized the game asks if you want fighting and i clicked no thinking it meant fighting tutorial

Im trying to download the game on android and I tried doing the sound files like you said to do them but it still gives me that error screen. Is there something im doing wrong?

 i have a problem, the characters not shown and i want know if someone know the reason ( i download the game in pc)

Are you able to romance anyone in game?

Late, but yes. Quite a few characters are romancable.

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The battle tutorial keeps crashing the game.

This is the message that appears is:


[code]

I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While running game code:

  File "game/battle_scripts/Tutorial.rpy", line 54, in script

    if persistent.battle_skip = True:

SyntaxError: invalid syntax (game/battle_scripts/Tutorial.rpy, line 54)

-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

Full traceback:

  File "game/battle_scripts/Tutorial.rpy", line 54, in script

    if persistent.battle_skip = True:

  File "C:\Users\Administrador\Desktop\JPDESoF-4.6-PC\renpy\ast.py", line 2133, in execute

    if renpy.python.py_eval(condition):

  File "C:\Users\Administrador\Desktop\JPDESoF-4.6-PC\renpy\python.py", line 1151, in py_eval

    code = py_compile(code, 'eval')

  File "C:\Users\Administrador\Desktop\JPDESoF-4.6-PC\renpy\python.py", line 1088, in py_compile

    raise e

  File "C:\Users\Administrador\Desktop\JPDESoF-4.6-PC\renpy\python.py", line 1034, in py_compile

    raise orig_e

  File "C:\Users\Administrador\Desktop\JPDESoF-4.6-PC\renpy\python.py", line 1027, in py_compile

    tree = compile(source, filename, py_mode, ast.PyCF_ONLY_AST | flags, 1)

SyntaxError: invalid syntax (game/battle_scripts/Tutorial.rpy, line 54)

Windows-10-10.0.19041 AMD64

Ren'Py 8.1.3.23091805

JPDE - Sonata of Fire 4.6

Thu May 23 22:35:37 2024

[/code]

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;-; it's beautiful thank you SO MUCH FOR GIVING THIS BLESSING TO US MORTALS I LOVE YOU I JUST FINISHED IT AND IM CRYING.

I'm glad you enjoyed it so much despite all its flaws! ^^

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Don't know why the game keeps crashing

Said it's because of this


```

I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While running game code:

OSError: Couldn't find file 'sound/VO/Penny/Penny_02.ogg'.

-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

Full traceback:

  File "script.rpyc", line 8069, in script

  File "renpy/ast.py", line 930, in execute

  File "renpy/exports.py", line 1474, in say

  File "renpy/character.py", line 1352, in __call__

  File "renpy/character.py", line 1003, in do_display

  File "renpy/character.py", line 693, in display_say

  File "renpy/ui.py", line 299, in interact

  File "renpy/display\core.py", line 3582, in interact

  File "renpy/display\core.py", line 4379, in interact_core

  File "renpy/audio\audio.py", line 1224, in periodic

  File "/home/tom/ab/renpy-build-fix/tmp/install.linux-x86_64/lib/python3.9/site-packages/future/utils/__init__.py", line 444, in raise_

  File "renpy/audio\audio.py", line 1202, in periodic_thread_main

  File "renpy/audio\audio.py", line 1144, in periodic_pass

  File "renpy/audio\audio.py", line 534, in periodic

  File "renpy/audio\audio.py", line 72, in load

  File "renpy/loader.py", line 833, in load

OSError: Couldn't find file 'sound/VO/Penny/Penny_02.ogg'.

```


Any help?

You need to install the VO/Sound patch.

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Anyone else's browser calling this a potential security risk and not downloading it?

Can someone give me a discord link that one's expired.

Not gonna lie have had to many issues installing on Android so I'm just gonna assume it's great and call it a day. Also instructions seem kinda vague but could just be to me.

Yeah, let's just say that the code for this is old enough now to be a problem... We're officially working on a total revamp, now.

When is the Gallery being fixed?

How soon is the new update?

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Just finished the game. Its amazingly well written, great voice acting, the art is jaw-droppingly good and the music incredible.

Thank you very much! ^^

i got the sound/vo patch now what do i do with the rpa file

One of the links is down for Android and the one I did download had a lot of rollback pop ups

I'm trying to do the yang route, but the option doesn't show up for it at the end. I'm not sure what i'm doing wrong, as I got all of the events leading up to the one with her mom.

Sorry, I guess the game lacks enough diegetic info! You're also supposed to do Raven's route to unlock it...

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Found this game before the animated series and I like the game more that the animated series so far! Though kinda wish I could hangout with the characters more like on Saturdays, but not on Saturday.

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Why do many pop ups of rollback and ingnore codes.

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This strange it say I initiative_list is not defined when try battle mode for any it keeps say sans thing so how do I fix it? 

For Some reason I can't Download the Android Ver. one Please Help 🙇🏻‍♂️

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For some reason I can’t download this game to my phone, but I played it on my laptop, and therefore I can’t help but share my impressions.


 This game has everything I wanted in a novel. The game did everything I expected and it pulled me deep into its world. The characters are well constructed, I personally really like them. I like the development of relationships, it is gradual and quite logical, I like the main character. I like the presence of both dirty scenes and romance, I liked David’s partner Jack the most, she’s really cool. Among the antagonists, I give preference to Howard, But of course, all the characters are good and deserve attention, each has its own story, its own unique character and its own cockroaches in the head, I think I like Howard, because in my heart I connect myself more with him, I'm sorry , that so little is known about him and that, apart from enmity with the main character, he has no relationship, I would like friendship, or at least friendship, but alas. I find him very interesting as a character.


 Overall, the game gave me a lot of good impressions, and I want to express my gratitude to the developer. Thank you for your work!

i cant download any of the downloads for some reason

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is there an apple phone port yet? Sry I am new to itch lol

Hi! Unfortunately, no. Apple makes it terribly costly to develop for iPhone...

ah, that’s alright. Thank you for replying!

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Windows/Linux Link is being blocked and flagged as a possibly tampered download due to insecure link. Though the patch went through fine

Does anyone know the code to put a specific day in the command console? I want to repeat Saturday so I can do all the routes.

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