I've also updated the Ren'Py Language (Official) Visual Studio Code extension to version 805.1.0, which updates the extension to more closely match Ren'Py 8.5.
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A list of changes that may require you to update your game can be found at:

www.renpy.org/doc/ht...

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As well as many other improvements, changes, and fixes. For a complete list of changes, please see the changelog.

Downloads of Ren'Py 8.5.0 can be found at:

www.renpy.org/releas...

A full list of changes to Ren'Py can be found at:

www.renpy.org/doc/ht...
3/5

* A new Automated Testing framework makes it possible to perform automated test of games and of Ren'Py itself.

* Local labels have been relaxed so that they can be declared with any global label.

* Ren'Py supports Unicode 17, and more Emoji characters.
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(And other reasons, of course!)
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asec.ahnlab.com/en/9... has more information.

I don't really think there's much to do about this - they could just as easily have distributed something claiming to be a game without the game. I hope everyone is aware that pirating software is a problem for security reasons.
2/3

There's still a bit to do - right now it's leaking memory - but it's nice to see it working for the first time.
2/2

Just added that config variable. (It'll be in 8.5.)

Ren'Py 8.5 is planned for late this year.
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Right now you can rewrite 00images.rpy, but I should probably just change things to allow more than one.

I suspect this could be made easier by having two images directories, with the game picking the patch image if present and using its non-patch equivalent if not.

A full list of changes to Ren'Py can be found at:

www.renpy.org/doc/ht...

A list of changes that may require you to update your game can be found at:

www.renpy.org/doc/ht...