Welcome! Here you can install Future Leonardo for your desktop, step-by-step.

Desktop Ghost (or Ukagaka) is a buddy you can have on your screen that can idle and talk to you, as well as perform some simple things if you want. This particular Ghost is Leonardo Hamato, from the 2018 Nickelodeon series Rise of the Teenage Turtles Ninja Turtles, particularly my take on Future Leonardo from the 2022 movie. Given that, he is full of spoilers for the whole ROTTMNT series, movie included.

Features

• Your own desktop tired old man!!!
• He talks every once and a while, and you can ask him questions!
• Give him things! Spoil him!!
• PET THE OLD MAN ON HIS OLD HEAD
• Give him compliments or ask him uncomfortable personal questions
• Befriend him and unlock his tragic past. Or, well, his family's tragic past.
• Ask him for dad jokes and you shall receive

Leonardo can also perform standart Ghost things, such as:

• Set a picture as your wallpaper
• Empty your recycle bin
• Tell you your computer's stats
• Check if you have new email (if you set your POP settings in SSP correctly)
• Update himself remotely when he has new material
• If you drag and drop a compatible site on him, he'll add it to Headlines or RSS feeds, and you can see if there are new posts
• He'll also announce the top of the hour. It's a pretty good reminder that you're procrastinating.

How to Install

Basically, you can't run Leonardo (or any Ghost) by himself - you need a baseware program first. SSP, the program most commonly used for running Ghosts, is compatible with Windows XP, 7, 8, 10, Vista... probably anything more current than XP. If you're using a Mac or are running Linux though, there are still options for you, but I can't personally tell you how to get them to work. I have heard from people who did get Ghosts running on their Mac using one of these methods though, so it IS possible. But Google Translate will probably be your friend here.

Macs - Ukagaka on Macs, NiseRingo, PlayonMac+SSP (10.6 or above), WineBottler (I think?)

Linux - NINIX

Android - Ukagaka for Android

If you are using Windows though, just follow these directions and you'll be set in no time! If you already have SSP installed, you can just skip to the end.

• The first thing you'll want to do is download and install SSP. While the site is in Japanese, just look for the "complete install package" download on the left. Download it somewhere and install it.
• When that's done, run SSP.exe, the program with the little bell icon. A catgirl named Emily should pop up and start talking to you in Japanese, and end up throwing up a big menu. For now, ignore all of that, and just close the menu when it appears. You can also hold down a key to speed through her text. She's the default Ghost that comes with SSP, if you're curious.
• Right-click the catgirl. It should bring up a long menu. If it's in English, then you have nothing to worry about. If it's not, go to the fourth option from the bottom, set it to English, then close the catgirl and reopen her. The right click menu should switch to English. The catgirl ghost will still be in Japanese though.
• Download the turtle_ballooney.zip, which is the balloon Leo will be using. You want to do this first so he'll use the right balloon when he first appears.
• Drag and drop the turtle_ballooney.zip onto the catgirl's face. It should look like she's installing something. She might tell you the balloon's name when she's done. If you right-click her and go to the Balloon tab, you should hopefully see the turtle balloon listed.
• Download the Future Leonardo.nar file from the same Google Drive. This is the actual Ghost.
• Drag and drop the Future Leonardo.nar file onto the catgirl. She should again look like she's installing something. She'll probably say Leo's name when she's done.
• Right-click Emily and go to the "Change Ghost" tab. You should now see Leonardo listed! Switch over to him and you should be ready to go. If he's not using his balloon, you can use the Balloon tab to switch him to it.
• If you want him to stay on top of your windows, right click him, then go to Options - Preferences, then the Ghost(2) tab in the big menu that pops up. Check "Always Show Foreground" and that should do it.

If you already have SSP coming into this, then all you have to do is drag and drop his respective balloon zip and nar onto your current ghost, and he'll install.

If Emily won't install the files

What you can do instead is unpack the files manually. If you don't have an unzipping program (I think this is included with Windows now? but), I use 7-zip myself, it's free and pretty versatile. First, extract the turtle_ballooney.zip, so you have a folder called "turtle_ballooney". Then you'll want to go into SSP's balloon directory... it'd be under SSP\Balloon. You should see two folders in there called "ssp" and "emily4" if you're in the right place. Cut and paste the "turtle_ballooney" folder into that folder. Then close and reopen Emily, and check if the turtle balloon is listed. If so, then you're good!

For Leonardo, you'll want to do basically the same thing with the SSP/Ghost folder. First, extract the Future Leonardo.nar into a folder (a nar is basically a renamed zip file, any zip program should be able to unpack it. 7-zip can do it, for example). You should end up with a Future Leonardo folder, and inside the folder there should be two subfolders, called "ghost" and "shell". If everything's in place, cut the "Future Leonardo" folder, and paste it into the ssp\ghost folder, so the ssp\ghost folder should now have both an emily4 folder, and a Future Leonardo folder. Then close and reopen Emily, and see if Leonardo is listed under "change ghost". If so, you're good!

A strange error window keeps coming up

If you run SSP and you see this error message...

Future Leonardo.nar onto this message to install him from there, or you can click the first button, and then point SSP to the directory where Leonardo (or Emily) is installed. The second button is for balloons, and works similarly - just point SSP to a balloon directory.

Quick user's guide

Leo's desktop tray icon is a little icon of turtle's lit up emblems. If you can't find the bell icon while he's running, look for the green emblem instead.

You can stroke his head with your mouse to pet him. You don't have to click! You just move your mouse in the right area. If he's too small, you can use shell scaling to make him and the hotspot larger.

Double click his body to open his personal menu. This is the menu with the unique menu options like asking him questions, giving him stuff or check on his mood.

Right click his body to open the general SSP menu. You can use this to change Ghosts or Balloons.

To check for updates, select it from his functions menu, right-click him and click Check for Updates from the SSP menu, or hit Ctrl-U when he's the focus. He should check for any new stuff and download it automatically. I usually post about new updates over at my Tumblr blog, you can look at the pinned post. If you run into any bugs or problems with him, you can leave me a comment there and I'll see if I can fix them.

If you want to make him bigger or smaller, right click him and go to shell scaling, then choose the percentage you like.

If you want to uninstall SSP, just delete the SSP folder. If you just want to uninstall Leo, delete the Future Leonardo folder inside the SSP\ghost folder. You can also turn on the Uninstall option in his personal menu, then select Uninstall from the right click menu.

Leonardo is quite upbeat, so it may take you aback when he gets snappy. It may be his mood, which you can check in the status tab, or you might've poked his soft spot.

More Ghost stuff!

I've also made a Lego Monkie Kid Macaque Ghost! And if you want to check out more cool ghosts, check out Zarla-s! Their Gaster ghost was a huge inspiration for this one, and they also made a few other ghosts like Hunter and Smoker, tEMMIE and more!

This ghost was also made using the template and tutorial Zarla made, which was wonderful to work with. You don't need much coding experience to work with it, and can easily make your desktop friend dreams come true.