What is Shimeji?
Shimeji is a program for windows 2000 and vista, that is basically like your average desktop sitter, or that old purple monkey from the older version's if windows, minus the whole "Rogue adware" thing. They come in all sorts of skin's, its most commonly japanese skins, but recently boards like 4chan have found it, and began crafting skins for it.
Why is it called Shimeji?
It references to a japanese mushroom, saying like they duplicate like japanese mushrooms.
What do they do?
Once you run the program, a icon will appear on your toolbar, diffrent icon's for diffrent skins, usually. As they fall from the top of your screen, they will usually stand up and walk around a bit. For a minute or two they may stand still for a second to call apon coding, then they will wander around your desktop, sometimes sitting down to relax, or climbing along your monitor sides.
Well, the thing is programmed to be able to climb on windows, and on occasion. Pull them to the point where they can throw it offscreen. (There is a function to make it return to desktop though.) They can also duplicate themselves freely, but you can just use another function to remove all but one. And no, as far as I know there isnt a way to stop them from duplicating, unless you edit the code.
You said something about skins?
Sure did! There are alot of skins that have been released in the past. Some off of comic book heroes, some off of japanese vocaloid stuff. Some off of just meme stuff, like coolface, babby, 4chan stuff.
So, where to download?
Take your pick.
Big Boss (MGS)
Kazuhira Miller (MGS)
And for all your japanese and meme needs. (Also contains the only NON-chibi version of one of these, taokaka, uses actual blazblue sprites.)
By all means!
yes, they all have that weird chibi effect to it, but if you wish to make your own, there was a template on the original site.
Now, for a small comment.
For some odd reason, many other poeple are posting how its a virus of some sort, due to a registry sweep, and trying to connect to the internet. So let me clearify.
The registry sweep was due to it looking at the JNA library to look for reading calls, according to the source coding. No internet activity to be found, unless you are appreantly using windows 2000, then javaws.exe might appear to try to use the java web searcher, Im sure you could stop that though. It is suggested to use the jar rather then the .exe, but w/e works for you. People still persist it is a virus though, without providing any proof
It dosent work for windows seven, but it can in a specific way, you have to do something with it, that Im not quite sure what yet.
Also, they take up 100K of memory each, so dont go crazy with them.
And sorry if this is the wrong place, I really dont know the correct place to put it.
So, discuss it.