Shimeji Desktop Pet - How to Download & Use

Shimeji are little desktop companions that run around your computer screen, be it mischief or cuteness depending on the shimeji you use! Pick from the best characters drawn by artists all over the world.

[TSwany]

We need these that have the stick figures from Alan Becker’s animations.

[okiedoki]

my quackity shimeji is just chilling in cedar rapids

[boop]

"We don't want any spam here"

Me who camehere to download a Spamton (from Deltarune) Shimeji: uhh :|

[sprngles]

1:29
irony that i'm watching this for a Spamton Deltarune shimeji

[xavierxavier]

This is a whole new step in programming, even if this isn't new. Imagine voice control on your computer with animations like this!!

[bundthead]

i have little Peridot's running around on my desktop ; - ; im so happy

[KonfluxGames]

Having problems getting Shimeji running? I've made an FAQ which covers any common issues! The vast majority of problems are solved with the shortcut trick, included in this FAQ.

[riptide_]

Me watching this trying to get my sleepy boys inc. shimejis to work: 👁👄👁

[baraqueen]

Thank you so much, I used your tutorial for some genshin shimejis and it worked! Now I can have my fave genshin characters walk around my laptop

[aegidoll]

it's been a few years since i've messed around with making shimejis, and i couldn't find an english base file to save my life back then lol. tbh i didn't even know you could manually do so much with them. this is great.

[ShOwOba]

I love how enthusiastic you are! I hope you get more views!

[arthurslimeman]

THANK you so much for this! so simple when explained properly lol, very helpful!

[lilliris]

After installing Java and opening shimeji, there's no change?? It just gives me a weird coding pop up

[loopy]

thanks for this, man! Downloaded a shimeji a while back and now i finally get to have fun with it, your video is very helpful :)

[alexisrussell]

Thank you so much for this tutorial. It helped a lot! The only thing I cant figure out is how to do 2 at once. other than that its awesome :D

[areyoucereals]

Not only is this a very helpful tutorial on something I was struggling to figure out, but it's also a very entertaining one! Are you the creator of Shimeji? That's so cool that it's by a fellow Australian! Your voice sounds like it should be in a commercial or a sports commentary!! I love it, so attention-grabbing!

[ashclouds_]

ranboo is just chillin at the bottom of my screen while watching this :)

[seabirdflutter]

IN CASE SOMEONE ELSE IS HAVING THIS PROBLEM: if you are trying to get a shimeji to work and the file that you're supposed to double click is a winrar archive file, IT WILL NOT RUN REGARDLESS OF JAVA VERSION. you need to delete the shimeji file, uninstall winrar (uninstalling winrar asks you to restart your pc), and re-download the shimeji file. when it is extracted, it should be a .jar file (java executable file with a java icon) and not a winrar archive file. it HAS to be a .jar file to run. i couldn't find any resources on how to turn the winrar archive file into a .jar file, or how to find the .jar file in your files, so if anyone else has any helpful input, feel free to drop it below!

[KonfluxGames]

Thanks to the latest version of Shimeji, 1.0.7, you shouldn't need to worry about 32-bit or 64-bit anymore!

[hellothere-wcqm]

Let me guess, most of us are here for the mcyt shimejis