After futile attempts with Kega Fusion and ZSNES despite Fernito's help (thanks again!), Insane Steve and I finally got it working through WinUAE+Kaillera, not perfectly, but to a well playable extend (and the advantage is having mice). The main issue was the lag, which peaked in a lost connection a few times. But after tweaking the settings a few times, and getting used to clicking slightly in advance of the assignment, these issues were barely noticable anymore as the game was just too exciting.
Very good games (I avidly remember level 19, trying to achieve maximal damage with only two lemmings left
, amongst others), and very balanced results. Still got 5 ONML levels left, and it seems we also missed level 14.
Sorry, no video, I just took two screenshots (not very exciting ones at that), when we're still messing with the settings. One of them is attached, but vertically distorted due to that.
For reference, I attached the levels ordered in levelpacks, credits for ripping them go to Mindless. Also, the access codes are at end of this post.
I sincerely hope that this will also work with my uni connection, as I already long for more. Below I'll describe how to set everything up to work:
It's mostly just information taken from
this site, but it's only described in German there.
First, get WinUAE:
http://www.winuae.net/Then download the three archives from here:
http://www.amigaclassics.de/kaillera/ger_beginning.htm and unpack them into the WinUAE directory.
The second one is 57MB and contains a whole bunch of games. I suspect it's likely possible to adapt the configuration to simply take an image of Lemmings/ONML instead of this, but I don't really know how to do that (there's the parameter in the config listing the games package as file, but there are also some other values that seem to correspond to that).
After you have everything setup like this, there's only one file missing: Kickstart 3.1 (40.069) (A1200) (Commodore) (1993).rom
Searching for the filename should bring it up somewhere on the internet, alternatively you can also as me to send it to you.
Once you got this file, put it into the 'Roms' folder.
Next thing is the configuration, this site shows a few screenshots again:
http://www.amigaclassics.de/kaillera/ger_config_display.htmFor the display settings, it seems that you should set the line mode to 'Double', as otherwise the display is only half as high as it should be. I set the resolution to 800x600, however in windowed mode it caused the emulator to lag a bit for me (might be different for you). So I ended up setting fullscreen, which prevented me from taking screenshots. Ingame usually F11 is the screenshot key, however F11 is mounted to chat mode, so you can't take screenshots with it.
Next configuration setting is I/O. The first player should set the 'Mouse' to JOY Port 0, and 'Keyboard layout B' (Joystick might be possible as well if you have one connected) to JOY Port 1. The second player should do vice versa, i.e. Mouse to JOY 1 and Keyboard B ro JOY 0.
You can leave the next config tab (Input) as is, and go to the Kaillera tab and press 'Launch Kaillera'.
It will then proceed to ping and list a lot of servers. Both players should then choose one with a low ping time, and join it. EDIT: Forgot to say, both should choose the same connection type: For us 15 (Average) gave fluent gameplay, however with a massive delay in the cursor motion. 30 (Excellent) didn't have as much delay, ran very slow only though. In the end we chose 20 (Good), which worked best. Which one to choose depends on the quality of the connection in the end.
When both players are on the server, the first player (with Mouse at JOY 0) clicks 'Create New Game' (and select the Kailera games pack there). The second player can then select this newly created game and click 'Join'.
With both players on, the first player can then 'Start Game'.
After a few seconds, a game menu turns up in the newly opened WinUAE window, select Lemmings or ONML with the arrow keys and then confirm the choice pressing Right Ctrl. This will start the game.
Within the game (and actually already on the selection screen), you can press F11 to have a chat line appear so you can chat with the second player. Beware that F10 quits the game and brings you back to the game selection menu.
Access codes:
Lemmings 2 Player
01 JAJHLDIBMO
02 IJHLDKJCMJ
03 NHLDIJADMU
04 HLDIJINEMN
05 LDIJAJLFMW
06 DIJIJLLGMP
07 IJANLLDHMM
08 JINLLDIIMV
09 JAJHMDIJMX
10 IJHMDIJKMQ
11 NHMDIJALMN
12 HMDIJINMMW
13 MDIJAJLNMP
14 DIJIJLMOMY
15 IJANLMDPMV
16 JINLMDIQMO
17 JAJHLFIBNR
18 IJHLFIJCNK
19 NHLFIJADNX
20 HLFIJINENQ
ONML 2 PLAYER
01 JAHPTDIBKE
02 IHPTDKJCKP
03 LPTDKJADKM
04 PTDIJILEKD
05 TDIJAHTFKM
06 DIJIHTTGKF
07 IJALTTDHKS
08 JILTTDIIKL
09 JAHPUDIJKN
10 IHPUDIJKKG