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#1
G'evening fellow Lemmings fans.

You remeber the ROM Hack of Lemmings Colour Palette & Level Title Fixes for the Sega MegaDrive/Genesis I done months ago.
I decided to give the Super Nintendo version the same treatment. with some other changed too. :lem-mindblown:

What are those changes you ask?

Well for those who got the SNES Lemmings games for the  NTSC-U and PAL regions. You noticed there were so many changes to some level due to Nintendo of America's censorship laws. I found a way to restore the original levels that were stored in the ROM which was absolutely mind blowing. I gone and restore them so you can play those levels.

I also taken upon me to also rename ALL the 5 SUNSOFT levels to what they are called on the SEGA MegaDrive/Genesis version.

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CHANGES AND FIXES:

Dirt levels no longer the pale brown look and now a rich red and golden yellow just like the Amiga version.
Yellow Pillar palette now match the Amiga version, now a proper golden Yellow rather than a bright lemon yellow.
Blue Crystal palette now matches the Amiga palette including the very dark one now black rather than BG blue.
Red Hell Fire Levels showing more reddish grey rather than a yellowish grey like the SNES retail version, Blue bricks are more Aqua Blue than a purplish blue..
Marble Levels now Pink and Lavender blue rather than Beige skin colour & purple.
SUNSOFT Intro at the start is now Blue gradient with SUNSOFT logo now Gold rather than Pink gradient and Silver.
The Game Title has improved a lot, Now a Mid Green gradient to replace the pale Light Green.
Improved the Level title & results writing palettes to be more like the Amiga Version.

LEVEL TITLE FIXES:

Level 17 Tricky – Diet Lemmingade
Level 28 Tricky – Lost something?
Level 3 Taxing – Heaven can wait (we hope!!!!)
Level 16 Taxing – Marry Poppins' land
Level 11 Player 2 – Just for fun or to the death?

ALL SUNSOFT LEVELS TITLES RENAMED TO THE ONES SHOWN ON THE SEGA MEGADRIVE/GENESIS VERSION:

Level 1 SUNSOFT – Two heads are better...
Level 2 SUNSOFT – I am A.T.
Level 3 SUNSOFT – Private room available
Level 4 SUNSOFT – Final impediment
Level 5 SUNSOFT – Lemmings' Ark

RESTORED LEVELS THAT WERE CENSORED BY NINTENDO OF AMERICA:

Level 21 Tricky – All the 6's ........
Restored Level 16 Fun & Level 3 Taxing level to show HEAVEN than PARADISE!
Level 24 Taxing – Take a running jump..... Has it's original level layout restored to show DEATH rather than TERMINATE.
Level 17 2 Player mode Map is restored.

"NOTE: Do NOT patch this Hack with the Lemmings v1.0 or v1.1 USA Revision ROM or the Lemmings Japan ROM. it will not work. You MUST patch this with the Lemmings Europe PAL ROM."

I can confirm this ROM hack is compatible to run on real hardware using the SD2SNES Flashcart on a real Super Nintendo Hardware on a SNSP-CPU-1CHIP-02 motherboard Revision .

DOWNLOAD TO THE ROM HACK PATCH:
https://romhackplaza.org/romhacks/lemmings-colour-palette-fix-v1-0-pal-snes/

Video review:

Give this hack a go and ENJOY!
Take care, stay safe, and GAME ON!  :thumbsup:

Best Regards,
Josho
#2
G'day guys.
The ROM Hack is now updated to version 1.6 More info on ROMHack Plaza.

And a bonus for the NTSC 60Hz region players out there. I've decided to give the NTSC version the same Colour Palette & Level Title Fix treatment. :)

URL to the NTSC RomHack Patch release:
https://romhackplaza.org/romhacks/lemmings-colour-title-fix-v1-0-ntsc-jp-us-hack-genesis/?show=reviews#review-23563

"NOTE:
Do NOT patch this with the Lemmings USA/JAP Rev. v1.1 ROM either. It WILL distort the colours and cause a bad checksum.
Patch this version with the Lemmings USA/JAP v1.0 Revision Version."


YouTube Video Review by yours truly:
#3
ROM Hack is updated to v1.3.
decided to update the ROM hack with the following changes.

- Special Levels have the colour palettes changes from Fun to Mayhem, Left the SUNSOFT special untouched.
- Fixed the colour palette for the purple writing as it's now a warmer purple hue.
- Tricky Level 16 "Luvly Jubly" has been fixed so it is one space apart between the words rather than 2 spaces apart.
- ROM Header now change to say "LEMMINGS COLOUR PALETTE & TITLE FIX v1.3"

With ROMHacking(.)net News only. the new v1.3 update can be downloaded from ROMHack Plaza
https://romhackplaza.org/romhacks/lemmings-colour-palette-level-title-fix-v1-1-pal-genesis/

Happy Lemming saving. :thumbsup:

Best Regards,
J.Russell
#4
G'day Mobiethian.

I'm very glad to hear. :laugh: This was something I been wanting to do for sometime to change the palettes to correct them to make it similar to the Amiga. Although I did started doing this in Late 2022. But during the whole 2023 I put this project to the side. Right up until last month or so I thought it was time to get back to finishing this hack to fix up the Palette colours so that it would look way better and something that should have looked liked back in the day. :) Believe it or not originally I was only going to release it as a Colour Palette fix Hack. One Youtuber who I mentioned on my previous post here contributed his part to fix up some of the Level Titles that needed fixing, As well as Me fixing up the correction Level Title for the first level, as well as the perfect percentage rating brief as well. Thanks to him. This ROM hack has turned out better than I have anticipated. ;) I'll say this though It looks great on the Kega Fusion emulator. But it looks absolutely excellent on real hardware when I tested it out on my Sega MegaDrive II console. It really pops out.

UPDATE: I got this Hack gameplay Premiering Today at 10:00AM Australian Eastern Standard Time
https://youtu.be/H_Ow-5zZyzE?feature=shared

Best Regards,
JRussellRetroGaming
#5
G'day, Long time no post.

I been doing this ROM hack project for a bit and decided to look into fixing the colour palette for the Sega Mega Drive port of Lemmings to fix the colour Palette on there to make it similar and match to the Original Commodore Amiga colour version. And It's now available to Download from ROMHacking(.)net. It's the v1.1


What I changed in the colour palette:

INTRO CUTSCENE COLOUR CHANGE
GAME TITLE SCREEN COLOUR CHANGE
CHANGE TEXT COLOUR PALETTE  TO MATCH THE AMIGA VERSION AND MAKE IT EASIER TO READ.
CHANGED THE DIRT TILE SET COLOURS
CHANGED THE PILLAR TILE SET COLOURS
CHANGED THE CRYSTALTILE SET COLOURS
CHANGED THE FIRE TILE SET COLOURS
CHANGED THE RATING CHANGE CUTSCENE COLOURS
CHANGED THE WATERMARK BACKGROUND IN THE ENDING CREDITS.


Whilst I did most of the work to do this hack. Another fellow contributor by the name of Adrian Gauna helped to correct the Level Titles on there and this is the changes he did.

1. FUN LEVEL 10: Smile if you love Lemmings
2. FUN LEVEL 26: Nightmare on Lem street
3. TRICKY LEVEL 4: Been there, seen it, done it.
4. TRICKY LEVEL 6: Lemmings in the basement ( Whilst the Original is 'Lemmings in the attic" thought would be good to do this change.)
5. TRICKY LEVEL 16: Luvly Jubly
6. TRICKY LEVEL 17: Diet Lemmingade
7. TAXING LEVEL 16: Mary Poppin's land.
8. MAYHEM LEVEL 20: No added colours or Lemmings
9. Fixed a typo in the ending credits. GRAPICHS fixed to GRAPHICS

Saying that. I DID do one Level title fix on that and that is the First Level of the game
1. FUN LEVEL 1: Just dig!

https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/8520/

NOTE:
Since this is a IPS patch download. In order to patch this. You must patch this using the Lemmings (Europe) ROM as this was from a PAL version, Patching this using the NTSC US/JP version will not work. To patch this, You can use the program LunarIPS which can be downloaded in order to Patch this.


LunarIPS Program:
https://www.romhacking.net/utilities/240/

Here's the screenshots to show the new colours in this attachement.
:thumbsup:


ENJOY.
Best Regards,
JRussellRetroGaming

#6
Level Design / Re: SNES Sprite remakes for Lemmini
October 30, 2012, 09:52:26 PM
Sorry for the Confusion on that remark mate.  http://www.lemmingsforums.com/Smileys/lemmings/embarrassed.gif" alt=":-[" title="Embarrassed" class="smiley" />

What I meant was, Seeing the Youtube clips of the custom tiles and levels that you don't usually see in a Lemmings game itself sure looked awesome. Was motivated to give that game a go after seeing Lacktardo Youtube clips of his custom design Lemmings level on his Youtube video which got me very inspired for me to give it a go myself. So I thought I'd start  making the entry & Exit graphics from the SNES version of Lemmings and redraw it to Lemmini High quality version as well as adjusting the colour palette accurate like the SNES version.  http://www.lemmingsforums.com/Smileys/lemmings/smiley.gif" alt=":)" title="Smiley" class="smiley" />

To answer your question, the music BG, I recorded it from the Snes emulator and playing Lemmings on it. SO I thought I record the music, save it afterwards.  I actually inserted it on VideoPad (which is a Video editing program) when editing the video when I captured the recording of playing Lemmini, then added the saved SNES BG music file to the clip. saved it.

Major bummer Lemmini can only use .MOD file only for the BG music.

The graphics? I used the default high quality version from the tile GIF pics, (But only changed the colour palette to the SNES colour palette using GIMP, it has a option for me to use the Index palette to change the palette very fast without having to go the hard way.

I'll be sure to one day show a video tutorial for that.

But thanks soo much in your input mate. I appreciate it alot. http://www.lemmingsforums.com/Smileys/lemmings/wink.gif" alt=";)" title="Wink" class="smiley" /> http://www.lemmingsforums.com/Smileys/lemmings/thumbsup.gif" alt=":thumbsup:" title="Thumbs Up" class="smiley" />
#7
Level Design / SNES Sprite remakes for Lemmini
October 30, 2012, 02:32:37 PM
G'day from downunder,

Been a Lemmings fan since childhood, The name's Josh.  http://www.lemmingsforums.com/Smileys/lemmings/wink.gif" alt=";)" title="Wink" class="smiley" /> I've been playing Lemmini for a while now. since I heard that you can make your own Levels and make your own graphic objects for the game that I seen on Youtube. So I thought I'd share something that I've been making for a while.

since I love the SNES version of Lemmings alot, just thought I'd share my WIP of the SNES Entry and Exit graphic work I made and ripping the sprite from the SNES version of lemmings and re-graphicing it in high quality version for Lemmings, so far got the dirt, fire, marble and Pillar style remade in SNES version I love to share to you all.  http://www.lemmingsforums.com/Smileys/lemmings/wink.gif" alt=";)" title="Wink" class="smiley" />

Plus I got a YT clip up as well of the First Level of the game to show as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuNQ1coMGhI&feature=g-all-a&list=PL3F2C8C163AC72D2E" class="bbc_link" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuNQ1coMGhI&feature=g-all-a&list=PL3F2C8C163AC72D2E

Cheers,
Josh