Had an issue that was brought to my attention. That was affecting both the Chapter 8 Full Release and the Chapter 9 Part 1 Release.
Basically what happened was I was annoyed at the folder system being all out of whack so I renamed them. I made sure to edit the options file to make sure the right stuff got archived and all that. But I forgot to edit the screens files. So essentially all animations where not being found and just showing up as black screens.... My bad. Fixed now. 

But I mean can you blame me? The image folders were named like this. chapter1, chapter2, part3, part4, part5, part6, part7, chapter8, update1_chapter8, chapter9part1. Like seriously.... it bugged me. I was using "part" for the folder names originally then when I did the remakes of chapter 1 and 2 I used chapter for that because at the time I had part1, part2, and chapter1, chapter2. But then when I switched to making each chapter split into multiple parts it just got annoying seeing parts and chapters all willy nilly. So I fixed it. Edited everywhere but one spot. But 1 mistake is all it takes to break code. But not bad on only making that mistake with how long I was awake. 
Right? guys? someone make me not feel like an idiot here?........ok back to work I have had enough fun for today. 

Just released the update for Chapter 9 Part 1. Chapters 9 and 10 will be split into 3 releases each. Mainly due to them having 3 routes now, and I don't want to do 1 route per update, nor do I want to make people wait for 3 months just to get a full chapter. For the record these are going to be very large long chapters so you don't have to worry about the releases feeling too short. Each part will have about as much content as chapters 3 or 5 did on their own. If that helps you put it into context. Make sure to try out all three routes and let me know what you think. I will also be uploading chapter 8 again as apparently itch detected they were the same file and did not allow me to have both versions at once. So I am currently trying to rename the archives and see if that can get around that issue. The chapter 8 full version is now officially free to anyone that wants it. Just got to give me a bit to figure out how to have both versions available for you guys. Going to have to get sneaky with itch. Still no word from them about increasing the allowed upload size even though its supposed to be easy from what I hear? Maybe I should message again? IDK.