Well, there's a level I've always wanted to review.
It took me ages to solve; when I first saw it, I dunno, it had somewhat mystic to me. I knew: I must solve it, at whatever cost. Everytime I played it, I looked at the Mon0lith, thought, thought, thought, and got desperated...
Now that I solved it, it's still a legend for me:
I.S. 4: Hopeless - Level 20: The Mon0lith
Save 28 of 40
Release rate: 95
Time: 2:15 minutes
Skills: 4 climbers, 2 floaters, 2 blockers, 4 builders, 10 bashers, 3 miners, 1 digger
Good: Already starting up with an accosting introduction text, when seeing the Mon0lith itself, it has a memorable and though astonishingly clear design. It is very nicely formed, nicely steep, not too straight and not too bumpy, and the writing on it has style, it gives the Mon0lith a twist but isn't high-pitched; also the clear design around it matches the whole style. For the solution, having given seemingly enough miners and builders the level doesn't seem that bad at first, but later this fact only causes the desparation, as the well chosen music also does. Once you have worked out the main idea, you also need to work out the timing of everything to get everything right in place giving it a second challenge. The main idea uses a nice trick which is neither glitchy nor unlogical, and this fact makes you wonder why it took you so long, but there must be a reason I don't know. When all the timing is worked out, there's no frame or pixel precision required. The time limit is very tight giving it more thrill when you're trying to solve it, but for the right solution you'll always get them in at 0:00 without much problems for whatever reason, however the time peroid the lemmings walk towards the exit is full of excitement. The amount of lemmings to save is the minimum for the method, thus avoiding annoying re-tries until you get it. And it's very pleasing to solve it...
Bad: Nothing. Really. Although...it lost a little bit of its mystic after solving it.


Well, that's what I just wanted to say. I just wonder whether this thread will keep active since the are already two custom level review threads, for both Cheapo and CustLemm.

IS01: Difficult - Level 21: 4 Pillars and a Trap
Save 76/80
Release rate: 30
Time: 3 minutes 15 seconds
Skills: one of each

Good: It's already almost a classic, uses one of each skill most effectively showing up several ways to break through a thin wall and has a simple and clear design.
Bad: The long time of digging is the only thing I can think of.

BTW, I'm almost done with your four sets, Insane Steve. Only one more level to go. I hope you'll get this work ready anytime.

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Having the normal cursor AND the border for the lemming is a bit...strange (to me). I don't like it actually. Waiting for other opinions...

The Windows version does the same thing, but border and cursor are monochrome and less bold. Maybe it would look better with a little thinner graphics. Anyway, I must admit I like the idea of split Lemmings frame and cursor for a number of reasons.

Then you seem to have a different version of WinLemm since in my version either the cursor (when no lemming is selected) or the border appears, but never both.

I actually like the idea that the selected lemming is pointed out. It's just that having additionally to the cursor the border around the lemming makes it unintelligible and somewhat strange.
Just to give a different aspect, in Cheapo an arrow from above is pointing on the lemming that would be selected.

When a climber climbed out at the top of the game field (Havoc 7: 'Creature discomforts', lemming of the left entrance is made climber), I got the following error message: http://207.58.177.175/~geoo89/lemmings/Error_1.PNG

Also, climbers (output) look as they'd be climbing a little in the wall, and at least for climbers facing left, I noticed when they hit the top, there's one frame they get walker (you can assign any skill at that point) before they fall.

And also, builders hitting their head aren't checked correctly still: they can still build a few (three or four) steps too far when their head is already in the terrain, I suppose it's just the checked pixel that is the wrong one.

Due to your new changes indeed some new bugs appeared:
- builders hitting their head don't turn around anymore, they just keep on building
- when a digger has finished digging or is assigned a skill, he'll walk/execute that skill to the right, no matter what direction he went before
- the bug that lemmings don't walk up bridges starting on slopes (http://207.58.177.175/~geoo89/lemmings/slope_builder.PNG) is back again, however it only seems to happen in special cases: I could only reproduce it in Tame 5 on a miner's slope building to the left, and even then it happened not everytime

#  Explosions speed up with FF and stop when paused.

I don't know whether you forgot or justs did not do, but also objects should be speeded up in FF.

#  Messed around with fall distance and entry height

The we all fall down levels are solvable now and Mayhem 1 works correctly, but 'Take care, Sweetie' (Wild 16) is still impossible: the second fall on the left should actually be survivable, but it isn't. Since everything seems to work fine for original lemmings, perhaps you could do it the same way it is done in the DOS versions: setting the max-safe fall distance of ONML 3 (low-res)-px higher than the distance for original lemmings?

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Then again, all Levels of the Windows version (+5 additional levels) are in,

I am missing Tame 15-20, but that could conceivably be just my copy of WinLemm.  Anyone else have the same problem?  (Granted, few people would care about the Tame levels anyway.)

For me only levels 17 - 20 are missing. But this is since they're also missing for WinLemm.
I don't know for level 15 and 16 however.

Two more things to add:
- any terrain removing action leaves a black space in the mini map, I think it should be the background green
- lemmings can get past a blocker when they're walking on a little higher level than the blocker and the blocker is placed at a certain point: Situation in Taxing 6

I had a first look a it, and I quite like it. The name Lemmini doesn't sound that bad IMO (I'm also German)
However there are some problems, or differences to what I'm used to I noticed:

- object animations continue when the game is paused or when fast forwarded, in same speed; that causes for traps, with fast forward more lemmings can pass one trap, it might cause a potential backroute for 'Compression method 1' (Taxing 6) and perhaps also for other levels; pressing pause again can cause that some more lemmings than intended get killed by a trap
- already the first lemmig coming out is affected by the RR, actually the first lemming should come out not depending on the RR
- the climbers seem far too fast to me (twice the speed they actually should have?)
- a climber hitting his head does the 'vaulter' animation (transitioning to walker) at the beginning if his fall; a climber who should actually do this animation (when having finished climbing an object) doesn't do it however
- changing the RR influences the outcoming of the lemmings instantly, at least in the DOS version the RR changes effectively only after outcoming of the next lemming (I actually don't have any problem with it, also, in Cheapo it works the same way, but anyway)
- the 'jumper', a lemming climbing a step of a height 3 - 6 px doesn't have his own animation which causes a skip of a few frames (this problem also appears in the WinLemm version) - actually each 2 px of vertical movement should take one (I think) extra frame *image (jumper) below
- when building on a miner's tunnel or a 45 degree slope (away from it, not into), the following lemmings cannot access the bridge of the builder, might be fixed having the bridge start by 1 px shifted
- it is impossible to assign a builder to a lemming when he would hit his head before setting his first brick
- I did one level with 97% saved (100% needed), and get the "Rock Bottom!" comment, which is (afaik) only meant for 0% saved

Some things I'd like to suggest:
- the scrolling seems a bit slow to me (fortunately there's still the mini-map to scroll), might get a little faster
- the in/decreasing of the RR works also a bit too slow for my taste
- I'd like to have the Enter key for fast forward, as it is used for Lemmings 2 and Cheapo
- the exit in the hell style doesn't have its horns, in the brick style the exit is not completely displayed (the area where the trigger area is located is black), this should be corrected
- it seems a bit strange to me that the numbers of skills/RR is displayed above the button (I don't know about the Amiga version however)

The digger animation, as it was already said, seems a bit strage also to me.
*) here's an image how the jumper looks like in e.g. the DOS version: