Nice to hear!

Final advice from me for reverse levels would be to rely as little as possible on builder heavy levels and unnessesary time limits. Only use timers when they are needed to enforce a certain quick solution or block certain backroutes.

Thanks for the advice. I can assure you, I have endeavoured not to overuse skills or repeat solution types too many times. And yes, I only use timers when absolutely necessary to keep the level solution as challenging as possible.

It's ready now anyways (see main post). I'd be very interested to know what you think!

Success! I've re-installed NL 12.6.5 and Editor 1.14 and the editor can now open my levels. Currently converting them all to .nxlv and editing the sizes, as suggested! (EDIT - this is soooo much easier than the old editor!!! - I hope the PackToolKit gets an update as well )

Thanks for your help and patience guys.

Oh No! More Reverse Lemmings COMING SOOOOON!!!!!

-WillLem

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So... old .lvl levels can be converted using the new NL Editor? I have the latest version and can't use it to open .lvl files. Hence all of this, really. It seems I have to use older software to make the necessary conversions.

If you know of a way to convert them using the new Editor, please let me know!

Well, that's what was said quite a few times in various topics.    It can open .lvl but can only save in .nxlv.

Just open the .lvl file, it's as simple as that. Just have it search for .lvl files indeat of .nxlv files while searching for the levels. There might be a few inaccuracies though, double check the level afterwards it might need minor adjustments.

I wish I could! It isn't opening the .lvl files, unfortunately... no idea why, I'm not using any custom graphics or anything.

All this because I prefer the SuperLemmini interface to NeoLemmix :forehead slap:

I promise, as soon as all of this is sorted I'll get all up to date and stop using the older formats to create stuff!

Well, the obvious thing would be removing the ".txt" in the file names. For example my packs simply have "info.nxmi". Again, I advice to use existing packs as blueprints.

Also, even though namida stated that it's outdated, I personally still use the PackToolkit to create packs as I just find it much easier and quicker to use than to write files. I attached my version of this.

EDIT: Be careful saving with the toolkit -- it deletes and re-writes everything new inside a pack folder!

Titles don't show up for LVL files in the level select menu. I'm not going to bother to fix that as it doesn't actually interfere with playing or converting them, and support for them is going to be dropped altogether in the near-ish future anyway (as in, about 9 - 10 months from now).

LVL files are a very outdated format and should not be used - you should use one of the methods I outlined in your other topic to convert them to the current NXLV format. Support is there to allow people to get older content converted; it's not intended for the purpose of continuing to use old formats for new content for any reason.

OK, thanks. I'll get on this ASAP, I think this is going to make everything a lot easier. Convert to .nxlv and use the toolkit (which is very friendly btw).

I won't post any more questions until I've done this. Feel free to delete old irrelevant posts.

Cheers,

-WillLem

COMING SOON! A sequel to Colorful Arty's awesome Reverse Lemmings!

Based on Oh No! More Lemmings, the concept is simple - each level has exactly the same layout as the original game, but the entrance and exit have been swapped!

In most cases, this leads to a completely different level solution. The skillsets have been adapted accordingly and, in some cases, aspects of the level have been slightly adjusted to make the level possible the other way around.

I aimed for this to be as clever and difficult as the original, and even went so far as to try to incorporate solutions which allude to the names of the levels. For example, Havoc's Welcome to the party, pal! features a solution which requires two Lemmings working together, etc...

I've finally finished editing all of the levels and I'm now as completely happy as I can be with this level pack!

I need some help, however. Whilst my Lemmings playing and design skills are good enough to have created the levels in the first place, I could do with some guidance getting the pack to work in NeoLemmix.

So far, I can get the levels to appear in the NL directory, and even in their relevant subgroups. However, the subgroups are named 1 - Tame, 2 - Crazy, 3 - Wild, etc and the level names don't appear at all. Furthermore, they're all in the wrong order...

I followed Namida's instructions (https://www.lemmingsforums.net/index.php?topic=4335.msg77545#msg77545) to the letter but I'm not getting a title screen or level names. Also, the music seems to have a mind of its own and is just playing the standard Lemmings rotation rather than the Oh No! music.

I have attached my levels.nxml, music.nxml and info.nxml files plus an example of a levels.nxml file from the 1 - Tame subfolder (all other subfolders contain a similar file) - are there any errors here? Also attached a screenshot of what I'm seeing in NeoLemmix.

Can't wait to get this pack shared!

Thanks for your help,

-WillLem

We don't use clone engines for these challenge topics, only the official games. (The one exception is Lemmix, which we allow due to the fact that it - by design - has identical gameplay physics to DOS version, even down to the really fine details and glitches. And to be clear - that's regular vanilla Lemmix only; not NeoLemmix.)

A challenge topic relating specifically to clone engines (or rather, to be fair, I'd think it would have to be limited to one specific clone engine - and in turn, I suspect that unless that engine is NeoLemmix, there wouldn't be much interest) could absolutely be started if you like, but yeah, it would need to be kept separate for the sake of fairness.

Understood. I'll bet that the solutions shows in my replays would work in the original games though... I'll have to test it out!

Edit - when you say "original games", do you mean any of the DOS, Amiga, SNES, etc ports? Just to clarify.

Just thought I'd share a few of my 100% replays! Lemme know what you think!

Lemmings Tricky 25 - Cascade 100%
Lemmings Mayhem 7 - Poles Apart 100%
Oh No! More Lemmings Crazy 19 - DON'T PANIC 100%
Oh No! More Lemmings Wicked 17 - Down the tube 100%
Oh No! More Lemmings Havoc 7 - Creature Discomforts 100%

- WillLem