Open one file at a time in Photoshop, SAI, GIMP, etc. So, to begin, go to the base's img folder. Though most will most likely agree and say it's perfectly fine, you should still be polite. You should probably ask the artist of the base if you can use it.
To make your own Shimeji, download an already-made one for the base. You can have more than one Shimeji program up at once, too! The final button will close the Shimeji file all together. This will not close your program, don't worry. The fourth will make any IE browers appear back onscreen if your Shimeji has thrown them off. The third will make all but one Shimeji poof, this is just in case you do get 40 on your screen and your internet (or whatever you have pulled up) will lag (it's what mine does "xD). After a while, they will begin moving again. The second is "Come here!" where all of your Shimeji's of that type will follow your cursor and sit when they get to it. You can also do this by left-clicking the icon. The first one is to make another Shimeji fall from the sky. If you right-click their icon at the bottom right of your screen, a small window pops up. With your shimeji, you can pick them up, wave them around, toss them, and clone them yourself. This includes sitting, climbing on the walls of your screen, throwing your web browsers, and even cloning themselves! If you leave a Shimeji alone for long enough, you may have thousands (not really, maybe 40) of little clones running around your screen. Your desktop buddy will walk around and entertain themself.
Click the Executable Jar instead and see if it works~ This is most likely caused by you clicking the wrong Shimeji file- the "Application" file. You can do this just in case, but if it appears more than once, you may be doing something wrong.
Sometimes, a Japanese error message will appear saying you need to update Java. You may need to wait a moment after you click, be paitent! After a moment you will see their little icon (will vary depending on Shimeji character, for example, Hetalia character's icons will be flags) and they will fall from the sky! Now, (after you renamed the files if necessary) to start up the your little desktop buddy, all you need to do is double click the Shimeji Executable Jar File. It will say what you need to rename them to in the description. You should only do this if it says so in the description where you downloaded, this is why you must always read the description. This is crucial for the life of your Shimeji- some files in the conf folder may need to be renamed. The img is for all of the images, don't mess with these unless you want to make your own Shimeji, which I will go over later. The conf folder is for other files, and the lib is for Executable Jar files. Once you have your Shimeji folder open, you will see six files- "conf", "img", and "lib" which are folders two files named Shimeji, and a text document (sometimes). Her file name is Shimeji_Wales.Īfter your see the folder, you may copy (I am unsure if moving it corrupts the file, this is just to be safe) it to a Shimeji folder if you wish, which is just something downloaders make to hold all of their Shimeji folders in one place. For example, the shimeji you see in the preview image climbing on the window is my Hetalia OC for Wales. The folder will usually be named Shimeji_character name here. It then shows you the extracing process then opens your Documents. It opens my documents, and I click "Unzip" at the bottom right. Right click the entire folder and select "Extract". ZIP, then WinZip will appear onscreen with the Shimeji file. I only have the trial, so it will most likely end soon, but that's alright.
You can download the free evaluation trial if you like, or buy it. It's pretty safe, but can get kind of annoying sometimes. Before I downloaded any Shimeji's, I installed something wierd called WinZip, which is a program for extracting files. I'd like to hear and questions you may have, and though I'm not a Shimeji expert, I'll try to help out in any way I can~
If this doesn't work for you, I'm really sorry :c We might be using a different type of computer, internet browser, etc. This is what works for me, since my computer's pretty old and doesn't like to make things work. I once downloaded a shimeji and whatever I tried wouldn't work, and it turned out I was only clicking one wrong thing!
This is meant to help people who have had trouble running Shimeji's.