You can always just not use it. If you're wanting to not receive emails from the site, that can all be configured from your profile.

I encourage you to stick around though - just because one idea you put forward wasn't taken up doesn't mean we don't want you here.

The reason this happens is a simple oversight by me when coding the Mechanic skill; it's because mechanics' removal of trigger areas doesn't take into account the flipping of the object. I'll make sure to fix that in the next update.

Assuming you didn't want to go with a custom "Japanese-ized" name, the transliteration would be リックス "rikkusu". Of course, that's assuming "Lix" is the singular form (I remember there was a debate a while back about singular and plural forms of "Lix", but I don't remember what the consensus was).

If "Lix" is the singular form, but you wanted to invoke the idea of plurality in the name, you could (though by no means have to) add たち "tachi" at the end.

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It's worth considering the different targets of each port too.

Lemmix: This was originally created as a windows-compatible version of DOS Lemmings, and intends to mimic it exactly (and does a damn good job of it), except with some added fine-control features. (In fact, I believe that project was initially done as a playtest mode for a level editor, then was later built into a standalone player when the author realised "why not?")
NeoLemmix: This was created to be based off the same interface and feel as Lemmix (and by extension, the original DOS Lemmings), while removing the glitches that break levels, and adding some new features, without going overboard to the point of basically turning it into L2. To be perfectly honest, I primarily created it with my own level packs in mind, but saw little reason not to make it available for everyone to use.
Lemmini: This was (IIRC) around before Lemmix, and simply aimed to be a cross-platform version of Lemmings that was consistent across all various systems; there was no intention of perfectly mimicing the original behaviour, just of roughly estimating it and providing a playable Lemmings game.
SuperLemmini: This was created as an upgrade of Lemmini, to bring it more in line (though not 100%) with Amiga mechanics, as well as adding some new features (although not to the same extent as NeoLemmix has).
Lix: This is an entirely different ballgame altogether; the purpose here was (as far as I know) to create an online multiplayer Lemmings-like game; originally it was actually using Lemmings but was changed to an original character for copyright reasons.

So, as you can see, each of these projects essentially fills a different niche. I would, in all honesty, somewhat argue that Lemmini has outlived its usefulness due to SuperLemmini (whereas NeoLemmix doesn't so much replace traditional Lemmix in the same way, due to traditional Lemmix's aim of being an exact port), but given that the amount of content available for Lemmini is probably second only to the amount for traditional Lemmix, I doubt it'll disappear anytime soon. (There again, Cheapo had a lot of content, yet it eventually died out - though with that being said, there's currently ongoing work to port existing Cheapo content into the NeoLemmix engine.)

SuperLemmini does have a configuration option (in the styles themself, I believe) to "move" the trigger area. I'm not sure off-hand how it works, but if you ask in the SuperLemmini topics I'm sure Tsyu (or someone else) will be able to point you in the right direction. This should allow you to get it working properly in SuperLemmini, if you prefer that.

Hi,

I've just noticed a bug in Fun Level 2 (Sólo los paracaidistas viven).

For some reason none of the Lemmings will exit via the door.
They just seen to walk backwards and forwards in front of it instead.

This was using SuperLemmini 0.99, so I'm not sure if it is specific to this or not?

Thanks.

If the graphics pack was designed for regular Lemmini, then this is expected. Basically, in the images that define the "trigger area" (the place where the lemming has to be to interact with the object), the two define it in a different way - Lemmini checks "is the middle of the lemming within the area", while SuperLemmini checks "is the lemming's foot within the area"? (The latter may seem strange, but this is actually how the official games / Lemmix / NeoLemmix handle it too; Lemmini's method is unique.) So, the graphics pack would have to have its trigger areas modified to account for this.

I believe SuperLemmini has some option to automatically shift the trigger areas, but I'm not sure entirely on how it works.

Somewhat. Lemmix and NeoLemmix do support RGB-based graphic sets and VGASPECs, and from the next release, NeoLemmix will also support RGB-based MAIN.DAT files, which essentially means all in-game graphics will (or at least can) be RGB-based.

However, there are three reasons why that may not quite be adequate for back-porting the graphics from PS3 / Vita versions:
1) Although they support RGB, it's not full 24-bit color. It's only 18-bit; essentially this means it's still limited to the same color pool as the DOS games were, it's just not limited in how many of them at one time can be used.
2) Most likely, the PS3 / Vita (and even PS2 / PSP) sprites make use of alpha blending. (Neo)Lemmix doesn't support this; alpha is limited to "transparent pixel" or "solid pixel" in these, there's no inbetween.
3) The biggest one of all is resolution, or in less-technical terms, how many pixels are on the screen at a time. Although (Neo)Lemmix does zoom to nearly fill the screen, internally the graphics are still a 320x200 resolution, just like the DOS games. Even many other clones don't do much better than this; Cheapo was 320x240. Lemmini and SuperLemmini can display more area at once due to being in resizable windows, but effectively function at a 640x360 resolution (not including the skill bar, unlike the others which *is* including it) - it's somewhat hard to directly compare them. I'm not sure where Lix stands, but it's probably similar to (Super)Lemmini. By comparison, the minimum resolution that's usually considered "HD" is 1280x720, or a non-widescreen equivalent would be 960x720 (meaning that you could fit 9 copies of a NeoLemmix screen on a non-widescreen HD screen space, with full detail, and still have a strip of 60 pixels each above and below to spare). Since "HD" usually also implies widescreen, that'd also have to be taken into account. To put this as simply as possible; without resizing (and thus losing some detail), a PS3 / Vita lemming is most likely about 3 times the size of a (Neo)Lemmix one.


I don't really plan on expanding NeoLemmix beyond those; it'd involve reworking so much of the core elements that it'd probably be more effective to create a new clone from scratch for this purpose. Which I'm not saying I'd never consider, but it's not on my todo list any time soon; chances are if I feel like creating something from scratch, it'll probably be a completely original game (and most likely not an IRS).