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Opening Japanese Models in MikuMikuDance
– Sometimes they don’t work!
The Japanese have been into MMD for years and they 
have created and shared thousands of models online. Of course they name their files in Japanese! … and our computers, in the USA, use a different character set … don’t speak Japanese … with the result being scrambled file names. We need to use a new “program set” to open those Japanese zip files while keeping the original file names.
I found a solution to share with you: https://learnmmd.com/Applocale7zip/. Following the instructions, there, you will download a zip-file software, 7-Zip, and a Microsoft program: AppLocale. Read and follow the instructions carefully, like I did, and you will have no problems.
| Editor’s Note: 5/28/2016 Another method for keeping the Japanese file names as you open a Japanese model zip folder is to use the free Bandizip software
with the Code Page dropdown set to Japanese. See the Bandizip article. |
The only place I hada question was about saving a batch file that we will use in the future to open that Zip program. We want to make a simple icon button for our desktop that we can double-click when we want to use 7-Zip in combination with AppLocale to open a new model. The author gives us the command line:
C:\WINDOWS\AppPatch\AppLoc.exe “C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7zFM.exe” “/L0411”
and he assumesthat we know what to do with it … but it has been a long time since I have thought about DOS! What you do is open NOTEPAD on your computer; copy/paste that line of type into an empty NOTEPAD screen and SAVE AS … as a “.bat” file. Your SAVE AS window should look like this:
At the bottom of the save window the drop-down will show “Text Document .txt” … you change that to “All Files” … designate your Desktop, and name your file like he did: 7-Zip as JP.bat and SAVE. A “gear” icon will appear on your desktop. Double click the icon and 7-Zip will open. 
You use 7-Zip to extract your downloaded model’s zip file.
That’s all there is to it “:o).
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The AppLocale and 7-Zip tip saved me hours, honestly. I’d been renaming files one by one like an idiot until a friend pointed me to that same guide. Keeping the original filenames matters more than people think, since textures reference them internally. Same principle applies elsewhere: understanding your own setup first beats guessing. I tried KinkWeave at https://kinkweave.com/kink-test recently, and it’s the same idea, a private quiz that maps preferences without needing an account. Nothing to fix, just clearer.
The scrambled filename problem hit me too, and I spent an hour blaming the model before realizing it was character encoding all along. Learning to open those zips properly really is half the battle. It reminds me of taking the Aura Color Test at https://loretypes.com/archetype/ — the full spectrum stays visible instead of forcing one label, which is how these fixes should feel too.