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Bandizip® keeps Japanese file names intact when Extracting ZIP folders

Posted on May 27, 2016January 17, 2018 By Reggie_Dentmore 13 Comments on Bandizip® keeps Japanese file names intact when Extracting ZIP folders

A Feature Article by Reggie Dentmore on LearnMMD.comHow can I keep the Japanese file names when I download and extract new MMD models? Do I have to use Applocale to keep the file names from getting scrambled?

Bandisoft’s free Bandizip® software
lets you keep the original Japanese file names!

Over the years that I have been enjoying MikuMikuDance, the on-going bugaboo has been the scrambled file names that occur when you unzip a Japanese model… I have been using the 7-Zip/Applocale routine as my favorite method… but just today I was pointed to Bandizip.

Bandizip keeps your Japanese file names without running extra programs: no more Applocale!

Get Bandizip

Download the Bandizip set-up file and follow the defaults as you run that program. I opted to not add the icon to my toolbar… but I DID go for the desktop icon.

Use Bandizip

Using Bandizip is easy. Double-click the desktop shortcut icon… navigate to your zipped folder… Click the Code page button to select Japanese… and then click Extract. I just clicked OK for the defaults… and there was the new folder with the Japanese file names… too awesome!

Choose Japanese from the bandizip Code Page drop-down before you extract your zip files.

Too late for your existing models…

… unless you still have the model’s original zipped folder.

… and even so…

You will find that the model, when loaded, may still have the NULL bone names. That’s always a problem… but our xxBodger has a solution using PMDE and Google Translate.

Translate Japanese Models to English with Google Translate and PMDE

and also here:

Translate PMX models to English using a PMX editor

Bandizip… Fast and Easy…

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Comments (13) on “Bandizip® keeps Japanese file names intact when Extracting ZIP folders”

  1. KageChu2005 says:
    January 3, 2021 at 7:00 pm

    Wow…
    I might be proud that worked… thanks…

    Reply
  2. Ufonek says:
    September 22, 2020 at 7:57 am

    Thank you, this saved me

    Reply
  3. boat says:
    July 23, 2020 at 11:12 pm

    Hi, even if i switch to japanese in bandizip, the readme text files always still come out scrambled, is there any way to fix that?

    Reply
    1. Reggie_Dentmore says:
      July 24, 2020 at 9:27 am

      Yes… translate those Japanese ReadMe files… how to turn that “scrambled” text into Japanese and then use Google Translate to see it in English.

      Reply
    2. Trackdancer says:
      July 28, 2020 at 7:31 pm

      Yep there’s an easy fix: localize your PC to read Japanese characters.

      Reply
  4. RandomGuy says:
    April 14, 2020 at 10:58 pm

    you can change the coding in winrar by pressing Ctrl +E…. just saying

    Reply
    1. Reggie_Dentmore says:
      April 15, 2020 at 1:06 pm

      I did not know that… Thank you!

      Reply
  5. Exelion says:
    February 3, 2020 at 10:41 am

    Thank you very much.This is only solution that work for me

    Reply
  6. Oliver Gassner says:
    December 21, 2019 at 4:28 pm

    I´m have a Problem and I´m hope that anyone can help me. I have installed the Bandizip App, and have followed the introductions but it doesnt work…

    Reply
    1. KillerBeer says:
      December 22, 2019 at 2:29 am

      What exactly doesn’t?

      Reply
  7. MintyPatronus says:
    July 19, 2016 at 2:35 pm

    Wouldn’t it be easier to change your computer’s locale to Japanese? None of my file names come out scrambled usually.

    Reply
    1. bandages says:
      July 19, 2016 at 3:16 pm

      That’s a good solution too, but it’s not realistic for everybody– some people need to maintain their own locale, maybe to keep another language from scrambling.

      Reply
  8. Melania Wage says:
    July 2, 2016 at 3:58 pm

    Thank you !

    Reply

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