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#1
Congrats on the child to come Armani, you're in for a real investment  ;P

Rest assured that we'll wait for your pack, see you when the kid is 20 or so and you'll get time to finish it !
#2
It works now, thank you.

The music and styles have to be set up correctly, beware of the place where you unzip them :

NLFolder/music/psp/files.ogg : a subfolder of the music folder is required.

NLFolder/styles/psp_crystal and the others : no subfolder of the styles folder required.
#3
I'm searching for this pack of the PSP Lemmings game in NeoLemmix format.
Though the link in OP is broken. Anyone has the pack stored somewhere ?
#4
NeoLemmix Levels / Re: Integral Lemmings
May 02, 2026, 06:29:00 PM
And now I have cleared the whole pack, with the talismans.

As everyone said before me, this is a very hard and excellent pack ! All levels are carefully designed, solutions are always clever and have a lot of variety, and the high difficulty makes it very satisfying to finally be able to solve levels.
The levels in the first Alpha rank are all open-ended, but it does not mean they are very easy, at all ! And the talismans attached to almost all of them make them very hard  :evil:

My way to approach talismans now is not to look at their requirements in the 1st place. So I play and clear the level normally to get the general idea of it. Then I look at the talisman and play the level again to try to get it if possible. This is why you'll see 2 replays for each level with talisman.

Also, being a math teacher, I appreciated the numerous references to maths and science in general in that pack, and in its creator's username  8-)

Incredible job on -ln(cos(x)) for his first level pack  :thumbsup:

I'm giving some thoughts on individual levels, the ones that struck me the most.

Spoiler
Alpha 2 : first clear I went for killing all Zombies with the trap up there. It was satisfying to watch them get squished :D
Talisman took much more time, hard to imagine a way to trap the zombies and escape at the same time !

Alpha 4 : I could do the clean compression required fo the talisman without using the RR. I guess with the given miners and how you can adjust them, you can just create a compression pit which has the correct width for them to compress cleanly. The walker and empty bashers skills allowed to perfect the compression and loose only 1 lemming to the trap.

Alpha 5 : how hard is this one ! Normal clear is manageable, but talisman requires to not loose a single lemming and this is another story.
In the end I used the "take it as it comes" approach. Meaning I did not make many plans ahead, but just used "optimal" methods when they were needed to progress through the level.
Twice I used the platform bricks that go through terrain when the platformer gets stopped by a very thin wall. This reminded of some Armani's levels which used that too, crazy.
In the end I did not have that much trouble getting a close enough crowd to trap them with the last platformer.
This level certainly taught me a lot about sliders, jumpers, platformers. Thank you !

Alpha 6 : what a nice level ! It took me some time to understand what needed to be done, and much more time to do it in under 1m30s for the talisman. "Quick Sort" is definitely the correct name for this talisman ; can you imagine a "Bubble Sort" level tan x dx ?
As everyone, the hardest part was to sort out the floaters from the swimmers. I did it using very close compression, plus the very small delay given to floaters when they open their umbrella.
In the end I think I have a somehow clean talisman solution. Then I looked at Ichotolot's solution to compare and say proudly (no pun intended Icho  ;) ) : your solution is a total mess ! Mine is cleaner  :lix-evil:

Alpha 8 : I love this level ! I also learned a lot about laserers here, and could do a save all.

Alpha 9 : kind of easier than the previous level to me, same mechanics used.

Alpha 10 : now this is a masterpiece ! First clear I killed the leftmost zombies, and avoided the right ones. It looked natural but used a lot of resources.
Second clear for the talisman gave a real awe moment :  realization that I could extend that basher all the way through to free both the right and left crowd !
But then putting that extension in place was really tough because so many things have to be taken into account : platform all the way through at the correct height, leave a zombie alive somewhere so that the basher turns into one and does not enter the exit, make sure you have enough resources to free all 3 crowds at the end.
My solution works, and use all resources.
Then I watched Icho's solution for the talisman, it is mainly the same one but is more insane with the basher going down some bridges, and the flow of builders in a hurry at the end to build the necessary bridges. Crazy !
Congratulations for this brilliant level.

Espilon 2 The problem is quite clear after some tries : if you build from the platform then the lems splat before the exir. If you build from the floor lower, the splatform is not high enough. So what to do ??
I love this solution :D

Espilon 3 I found this one very hard, mainly the part when one needs to avoid the splat by tweaking the diggers. Maybe there is an easier solution.

Espilon 5 Yes, the worker can do everything. I'd think this solution is backrtoute, since it is a very straightforward level this way.

Espilon 6 An occurence of "trigger the thing that will unblock the blockers, before the blockers are even set". Nicely done.

Espilon 7 Roadblock for some days to me. Dolly Dimple bridge on the left side is ok. But the blocker freed by the bomber on this thin floor of the bridges eluded me for a long time. Hard to execute !

Espilon 8 Favorite of kaywhyn, and hard talisman. Discussion above.

Espilon 9 The solution appears quite quick here, but the timer is the issue.
And now appears a very rare case : timed level where if you free the crowd too early, you'll actually loose to time ! Great design !

Espilon 10 Very good finisher for the rank. I love how it is called "what have we learned so far ?" and indeed uses many techniques already seen : Dolly Dimple bridge, mid-air bomber. Plus a blocker used as a waiter, I love them. Brilliant level.

Delta 1 The first level I actually played from the pack, due to my weird habit of playing the ranks backward. And that was a tough start ! I finally got that needed half-turn by having 2 very close lemmings : when one of them becomes a stoner mid-air, the second one gets trapped in the stone and turns. Wow !

Delta 4 Another case of basher extension with platformer. Same method that I used in Alpha 10, but way easier to set up here than in Alpha.

Delta 6 Intimidating at first due to the lack of constructive. Thoug as Icho said, once you see how to do it, it is not that hard to execute. Taught me a lot about stackers too, nice.

Delta 9 Tough one. If like me you want to keep a builder to get above the trap and be able to get over the last gap with an isolated worker, you'll have a very hard time !
Just bomb the trap, and accept to build the last gap while some lems are drowning looks easier.
For some tries I ended up a lemming short of requirement, then I had to willingly cut the shrugger animations in some builder to save some frames and reach the required number.

Delta 10 Not my favorite level I must say. This is the kind of level in which you have to experiement to see what does work and what does not. No real puzzle involved, just trial and error.
After many tries I thought I was about to give up, when I finally could go up that last step with a mid-air stoner triggered right before a builder. This allowed to go higher than the builder itself, and that was done ! I was relieved.
#5
NeoLemmix Levels / Re: Integral Lemmings
April 30, 2026, 11:16:53 PM
Thank you for the replay. We have more or less the same solution of compression involving getting as many lems as possible into the famous small step made by a basher during its motion.

Though you compress higher than I do, which is not silly at all actually : why let them descend to make them ascend later ?

I love that your solution is "clean", in the sense that you compress the exact required number of lemmings to make the ascending stair. I'm joining another cleaner version of mine in the sense that I compress them all on the same frame, and use only the required workers from that clean crowd.

#6
NeoLemmix Levels / Re: Integral Lemmings
April 30, 2026, 06:02:09 PM
I'm currently playing this pack, very hard it is !

I'm mainly done with Epsilon and Delta rank, currently struggling on the talismans of Alpha rank. I'm not sure if the Talisman for the Epsilon level "Dont Forget The Builder" has been cleared in its current form yet ?

I spent much time on it : no diggers allowed. This makes things wy harder for the half turns required after setting a blockers free. I went the compression route : compress and send as many lemmings as possible in the small step made by a starting basher. Repeat until you get up the full step, then enjoy a free half turn !

Replay joined if anyone is interested.
#7
NeoLemmix Levels / Re: [NeoLemmix] Deceit's Lemmings
April 23, 2026, 09:36:01 PM
As per kaywhyn's recommendation, I cleared the Deceit's Lemmings pack.

Definitely another good trip in this quite old package, perfect for my skills at the moment.
Some tough levels in the last rank, I may have backrouted some since I sometimes end with leftover skills and save more than required. Instance of this and comments on favorite levels :

Spoiler
Taxing 3 I, Me, Mine, Miner : One of my favorites. I'm usually not that good with miners, and this level taught me again how  to use them as delays, really nice.

Taxing 4 Symmetrical Structure System : Backroute I think ? I save 79/76 and spare many skill : just build a giant splaform by escaping a athlete, and free the crowd by a nice bomber.

Taxing 9 Slow Esthetics : This was hard to me ! Using the floaters at different places to allow builders to set up 2 bricks instead of one before the next lemming come was the key. Frame precise but fair I'd say.

Taxing 10 Pillar Confusion : those pillars are indeed confusing, great design ! Backroute again I think as I save 24/22 and have leftover skills. A single worker was enough, the long digger at the beginning helped a lot.

Taxing 14 Bubble Trouble : Mean time limit ! I had to use not less than 5 workers at the same time, so this level must please kaywhyn ! I end up with many skills left again and save 20/15 at the very last second, so this may be unintended.

Mayhem 8 The Law of the Jungle : I save 79/76 by going straight to the exit. The crowd is freed by using the pixels removed above a miner's head when it starts.

Mayhem 12 Shorty Deep Inside : I spare a miner and a floater in this very limited skillset. This is possible by catching all those not-so-close climbers with a builder, but it is frame precise and needs many tweaking on all required lemmings.

Mayhem 14 Lemmings Fever : I love this 1 minute level ! There are so many solution without the timer, but I guess only the most efficient of them work in under a minute. I loved the use of the bomber.

Mayhem 15 It's All About The Style : Excellent level ! The use of the diggers to free the blockers at the end is very ingenious, took me a long time to find.

Mayhem 16 The Scaffold : Is that a backroute ? I save so many skills that I think it is. Hardest part was to figure out the left blocker.

Mayhem 18 The Enigma : the miner extension was a must to spot. My way of sneaking under the OWW in the middle looks unintended. It saves some skill and does not use the rightmost part of the level at all.

Mayhem 20 Kreuzung At The Mountain : I love this marathon level, mainly gotta get the left lemmings to the right exit, and conversely, with nearly unlimited builders. I played it several times to try to optimize and could save 99/95. Could not make 100% save though but I'd say it is doable.

Mayhem 21 Enter At Your Own Risk : I agree with Icho and others here : this level is great. Nuke solution did not occur to me that fast because the save requirement of 72/80 is pretty high. So one has to optimize correctly to reach it, but execution is not hard actually once you know how.
This reminds of a certain One 5 level in the Save One pack, though I certainly created it before playing this Mayhem 20.

Thanks to Deceit for reating this pack in the early time of custom levels creation, and to kaywhyn for pointing me to it (open to others recommendation still). This was a very good ride to me.
#8
Yes you're right, the firewall was blockinh NL from launchung via NLEditor. Solved now, thank you.
#9
NeoLemmix Levels / Re: NotaLems Level pack
April 23, 2026, 04:37:18 PM
Im currently playing the Tough rank of this pack (I started by hardest rank as per my stupid habit, I like to end with soothing levels :D)

I can confirm that Tough 4 No Justice is hard and requires a lot of precision. One will definitely struggle to save those left-side Lemmings if not pixel-precise.
I do have a solution that saves 47/46 :
Spoiler
One extra Lem saved, certainly by sparing a bridge over what's intended to stop the miner before it falls to the bottom.
To achieve this you have to place the bomber, miner, and 2 builders in pixel-perfect places. See solution if interested.
#10
Hello,

A friend of mine installed NeoLemmix 12.14 and NLEditor 2.0 in the same folder. When he creates a level and tries to playtest it via the "Play Level" in the editor, he gets the following error :

Error: Starting NeoLemmix.exe failed or was aborted
Also in his main directory with NL and NLEditor, he has a file named ErrorLog with the following content :

20260422155035
System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception (0x80004005): L'opération a été annulée par l'utilisateur
à System.Diagnostics.Process.StartWithShellExecuteEx(ProcessStartInfo startInfo)
à System.Diagnostics.Process.Start()
à System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(ProcessStartInfo startInfo)
à NLEditor.NLEditForm.PlaytestLevel()

Any idea what the problem might be ?

For now he launches the created level manually with NL 12.14 to playtest, but it is quite annoying.

#11
Thank you for the solution and the head up kaywhyn.
I downloaded the dirt and dirt_md styles again, and the solution provided by MASTER-88 works fine now. For some reason my dirt styles were wrong.
#12
And the Blizzard of Lemm pack has fallen. All in all a very nice trip in the cold, many interesting levels of medium+ difficulty. Thank you for the compilation jkapp  8-)

Now I'll move onto something hotter, recommendations welcome : not too big and not too hard pack ?
#13
Thank you for the replays MASTER-88.
Unfortunately the glod talisman replay breaks on my NeoLemmix installation, because at 3.44, the worker dies in the water. At the beginning you isolate the zombie on the bottom left part (which I did not find, clever), then you open the path to the trap, come back. But then you mine and just die in the water, I'm joining a screenshot just before the worker dies.

Maybe we are not using the same version of the level ?

#14
NeoLemmix Levels / Re: NotaLems Level pack
April 18, 2026, 09:21:52 PM
I'd also like to play the pack. But will there be some updates ? I'd rather play after updates since everyone already played before...
#15
Yes it was very nice to play it.
I'm wondering if you have a solution replay for level 18 gold talisman. I have no idea how to tame that zombie without swimmer and walker ?