Shimeji is designed to work on Windows, but there have been workarounds made for Macs! You can read more about Mac Shimejis at this page, although be warned, I can't help you too much with this since I don't have a Mac. You can download an update for that here, I've heard. If you get an error message in Japanese, your java is not up to date. To remove the program, delete the folder. The shimeji should fall on your desktop.Ĥ. Go to the folder and doubleclick shimeji.exe (or shimeji.jar, i heard that works too). This should extract the whole folder to this location (MAKE SURE YOU EXTRACT THE WHOLE FOLDER, NOT JUST THE EXE FILE)ģ. Click it, and specify an easy to remember location. There should be a button in your program saying something like 'extract to'. If that doesn't happen, you need an extractor like Winrar or 7zipģ. rar file and a new window should pop up with a 'Shimeji_Hunterzombie1.7' folder. Upon finding this out I immediately started making zombie ones because I have a problem.Ģ. I wrote a more detailed tutorial on how to do that here. There is also an english codefork here, if all the Japanese intimidates you.īy replacing the images in the img folder with your own, you can create your own desktop mascots. You can download the original program here. Shimeji is a free program that creates a small mascot to walk around your desktop, generally causing mischief.

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