i mentioned on stream tht i would make a shimeji-ee tutorial + how to revive old shimejis this way

so here

FIRST off red text is for things that im just showing you for clarity

it’s not complicated, this is just long so i can get all the explaining out of my brain- feel free to ignore red text

anyway; go here and download this

Kilkakon.com - Shimeji-ee Desktop Pet

got that? extracted it? great

it should look like this

[folder] conf
[folder] img
[folder] lib
[text doc] licence [sic]
[text doc] readme
[jar file] shimeji-ee

what you’re going to do depends on the kind of shimeji you downloaded

if its designed specifically for this version (ie: mine, which, hello to the future bc they arent out yet as of writing this)

then you SHOULD just have a file tht looks like this

[folder] a!dave

and on the inside looks like this

[folder] conf
[14 pngs of post-scratch dave; though there will/should be more than this in the folder (i have blacked out some unused anims)]

if the folder called conf isn’t inside this folder [a!dave], then read the next section about other shimeji

[xml] actions
[xml] behaviors

the inside of the conf folder should look like this

what you’re gonna do is get the character folder [a!dave]

and drag/move it into the IMG folder of shimeji-ee

[folder] conf
[folder] img
[folder] lib
[text doc] licence [sic]
[text doc] readme
[jar file] shimeji-ee

it should look kind of like this inside the [img] folder

[folder] a!dave
[folder] shimeji
[folder] unused
[png] icon

it should just work as is, but if it isn’t, undo this back to the first step/the way things were when you downloaded it, and follow the steps below (if the shimeji you want isn’t showing up and only the white oval guy is, just hang tight/scroll to the bottom.)

if the shimeji is old/different/for the browser version/whatever

now, for older shimeji/other shimeji, i’ll use davechick as an example. the shimeji is 11-ish years old, and only is in japanese. this shimeji is from askdavechick (an old hs blog thas not active anymore)

so he is downloaded as a RAR file

this isn’t a problem, go get 7zip if you dont already have a way of extracting .rar files.

right click on it duh

just do that
[dropdown menu]
[open]
[7-zip] >
[open archive] [open archive] [extract files…] [extract here] [extract to “rar-file name"]

any of the extract options will do

extract

go into that new folder

[folder] Shimeji_davechick

this looks a little different

[folder] conf
[folder] img
[folder] lib
[application] shimeji
[jar file] shimeji
[text doc] ライセンス

its fine. just ignore literally everything except for the first two folders, [conf] and [img]

inside the img folder it should look like this

[png] icon
[35 pngs of davechick from askdavechick. though there will/should be more than this in the folder]

(the conf is missing, which is not what we want. if theres a conf in there, then cool. just install it like the previous section.)

go back here

[folder] conf
[folder] img
[folder] lib
[application] shimeji
[jar file] shimeji
[text doc] ライセンス

youre gonna take the conf folder as is- no fucking with it or taking anything out, and drag it into the [img] folder right below it

now the img folder inside looks like this

[folder] conf
[png] icon
[16 pngs of davechick]

great, awesome. back out

now you have to rename the img folder

you can name it whatever i guess but its probably easier if you name it the character

[folder] img [RE-NAME] -> [folder] davesprite
[folder] lib
[app] shimeji
[jar file] shimeji
[text doc] ライセンス

when you have that, take the newly named [davesprite] folder, copy it or cut it or drag it

then you go back to shimeji-ee like the first section

and paste it into [img]

then it should work

if the shimeji you want isnt showing up and only the lil oval guy is

no problem, go down to your taskbar.

right click on [shimeji-ee]

cool dropdown menu- this is all pretty useful and i recommend checking out the settings and allowed behaviours if your computer sucks/ you dont want them to yeet your windows

but we want

[choose shimeji]

it’ll open up this

select your guys

congrats they should be working

feel free to message me if you have questions about installing- i found these out through trial + error so i can trial and error porting over some browser shims i guess