Tricky 5. This last ball could be bashed only one basher. You need bash third ball right pixel and then fourth ball could be done with one only.
Good find!
This also works on DOS, so the record there is now improved to 7 skills using your discovery.
Will have to test and see whether the timing works out for SNES to do 8 skills (ie. no extra skills used for crowd control). Sadly this new way of getting through the final ball does shorten the amount of walking for the crowd, so it is much more likely for the crowd to overtake the builder (and fail the solution) if we attempt to do no crowd control, only testing can show if it ends up success or failure for SNES.
About Tricky 12 methods. I cannot find correct releaserate. Just releaserate 5 seems best, but its not even close enought.
I should've mentioned this before, there is actually a formula that translates a release rate number into the corresponding spacing between consecutive lemmings:
spacing in pixels/steps = floor((99 - release rate) / 2) + 4
floor(x) means always round down to nearest integer. So for example floor(1 / 2) = floor(0.5) = 0, floor (2 / 2) = floor(1) = 1, floor (3 / 3) = floor(1.5) = 1, etc.
So at release rate of 99 and 98, the next lemming out is 4 steps behind the current lemming. A release rate of 1 for example comes out to 53 steps. The same formula works on both DOS and SNES Lemmings (as well as Amiga, Genesis, etc., basically many versions that are closely based on DOS/Amiga physics).
The width of the pit in Tricky 12 is 16 pixels. But the lemming actually moves into the wall itself at the moment it turns around, so one single iteration of back and forth in the pit takes 17 * 2 = 34 steps. Solving for the formula above, to get 34, the corresponding release rate needs to be
39 or 38. 5 is way too low by comparison.
In order to minimize the amount of floaters used, you actually need to keep the release rate at 1 until the landing is safe, then raise it. I don't know if SNES lets you raise release rate all the way from 1 to 38 without having the next lemming comes out before that finishes. On the other hand, even a few lemmings out of the perfect position might still be okay, only testing will tell if builder can finish before some lemming overtakes.