I recently discovered shimeji and I'm addicted to the little guys (if I can get them to work)!

Do you have any little desktop friends running around your monitor? If so who/what are they and why? I currently have Pikachu, Flygon and some random OC characters I found on DA.

I used to have an Ishimaru from Dangan Ronpa, but it made my laptop run a little slow and he would occasionally duplicate. I remember allowing him to duplicate to the point I had about 30 of him running around my screen. It was so distracting haha I had to uninstall him ;n;

I don't think I could handle something like that. The movement would either drive me to distraction or a cat would come flying across the room and tackle my monitor.

i used to have the cats and dogs program a long time ago for my really old computer they were disks you would buy and install and you could choose a cat or dog that would run around your desktop and do funny little things. i loooved them and shimeji sounds just like it. i would loove to try one could i ask where you got yours and if you have any spacific resource to recomend for finding myself one. thank you

My favorite is a little chibi flygon that flutters around my screen. Makes me want a plushie off it!

I remember that game. It was fun for awhile but got boring quick. Plus the artwork was terrible. They looked so ugly!

I found most of mine on DevaintArt. Just do a search for shimeji and you'll get plenty of results. It can take a bit to get some of them to work though. Many of them are meant for Japanese computers but with some tweaking I could get most of the ones I have working. Keep an eye out for an artist named Cachomon. I think they made ones that are better for American computers. Also, you have to have java so make sure it's up to date.

yeah the artwork on the cats and dogs did suck but these guys look so cute. thank you for the info i am excited to try them out "runs off to deviantArt"

back in the day i had england from hetalia....i had to run off and do something for like ten minutes once and when i came back literally the entire screen was filled with duplicates since then ive occasionally tried other ones and ive yet to find ones that dont duplicate...i mean, none were as bad as the england one...but still

I had one of Castiel from Supernatural, but I stopped using it (and shimeji in general) because the duplicating gets really annoying.

I just downloaded an umberon one from DA :D he's so adorable!

I had ones of Ezio Auditore, Leonardo da Vinci and Yusuf Tazim from Assassin's Creed at one point. Not sure where Leo wound up, lmao.

I had some Hetalia ones a few years back, but they slowed down my computer. Even after upgrading to a new laptop I never bothered to re-install them.

The ones that I have and use most frequently are Castiel and Gabriel from Supernatural.

moving this to the internet section of entertainment

The ones I have don't duplicate as much as some I've hard of people leaving their computers for a half hour and coming back to it overrun by shimeji. A couple of the pokemon ones I have are "no-clone" so they don't duplicate.

oh man i used to have so many shimejis on my old laptop but i never got around to redownloading them. i agree with everyone that the duplicating gets really annoying so i might hold off until i can find some that don't duplicate.

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