I just noticed today that in the DOS version of original Lemmings, apparently when there are 2 entrances, the order in which lemmings come out are 1,2,2,1, rather than the expected 1,2,1,2.
I believe this only holds true for the very original DOS version (where vgalemmi.exe is like 30K or so; if you have the version where vgalemmi.exe is over 100K then it's not the "very original"). It doesn't hold for ONML, and I don't think it holds for Xmas Lemmings or CustLemm either (though I haven't checked). It doesn't hold for the non-DOS versions of the game as far as I know.
The "very original" version I have comes from abandonia.com. Can someone who got the "very original" version from elsewhere verify for me whether what I said is true? Taxing 2 and Taxing 4 are good for checking. Thanks.
I checked Taxing 2 and 4.
Both use the release order: 1,2,2,1,1,2,2,1,1,2,2.
So one lemming from the first entry and after that always 2 lemmings from the same entry.
VgaLemmi is about 30 KB.
I never noticed.
Wow, I can't believe I didn't notice that before :shocked: I suppose because it doesn't very much impact the particular levels that have 2 entrances.
(Of course, if you need custom levels in the original Lemmings that have the 1, 2, 1, 2 behavior, you can use 4 entrances, 1 and 3 at the 1st, and 2 and 4 at the 2nd.)
Now that kinda bothers me. Is the entry order in these cases level breaking or is it just "different"?
Last time we discussed this, everyone agreed that only 3 entries were different.
Is this 1221 thing really restricted to the ("original") DOS version? Has someone already checked the Amiga version?
I have specifically checked the Amiga version and it uses the normal 1,2,1,2 order. And also in DOS ONML it is also 1,2,1,2. In fact, there's a version of DOS Lemmings that came on a CD with this solution book by Mark Tsai/Psynosis, that version also uses 1,2,1,2. So I'm pretty confident it is restricted to original DOS Lemmings.
So keep 1,2,1,2 for Lemmini I'd say.
This is interesting. I'm going to go pop in my Lemmings disk (I don't believe it's an original, as the manual had ads for Lemmings 2 and the Mac version of L1) and see if it holds out in later versions.