Sorry for reviving such an extremely old topic, but find my replays for the NL Introduction Pack for v1.43, meaning this is the one that has the missing gimmicks and hidden Special ranks since the gimmick levels are compatible only for v1.43, as well as my replays for the Old Formats v10.13.18 NL Introduction Pack, where both the gimmicks and hidden Special ranks were removed. I have played these packs from a while back, and I plan to eventually post all my replays for all packs I play to the appropriate level pack topics, so I'm just doing this for completeness in case anyone wants my replays. Of course, pretty much the entire community has transitioned to New Formats. The levels here are well-done for the most part, but since these packs are for really Old Formats and Old Formats and no longer being maintained or updated, and there's currently a New Formats Introduction Pack in development, I would point everyone to Icho's NL Tutorial pack for New Formats instead, as these two packs here won't really be of interest to anyone these days, but again just posting my replays for completeness.
In the case of the v1.43 pack, I unfortunately didn't have any replays saved due to not having checked the setting of automatic replays upon successful solving of the level, so today I went back to do that, as well as play the levels of the Special rank. I don't recall if I ever played the hidden Special levels or not, but I'm thinking I didn't since I don't think I unlocked any of the talismans before, so I did that as well. There's only 4 of them, so I figured why not even though I really don't care for the talismans.
I must admit, it did feel a little strange playing gimmick levels again after so long once I had finished Lemmicks earlier this year, but it did feel nice experiencing the different gimmicks again and figuring out the solutions and the new rules associated with each gimmick presented in the levels. As for the Special levels, nothing too fancy about them other than I thought the third level was the hardest one in the rank.