Quote from: Adrian060756 on July 08, 2026, 08:25:45 AMThis is the new link to the ROM hack patch, the one above takes you to a dead page as that one was before the site's migration to a new server.

https://romhackplaza.org/romhacks/lemmings-mega-edition-sega-master-system-romhack

Your levels are outstanding! I wish I had those levels on the 1994 Lemmings cartridge my mother bought me for my birthday!

Also, @Squidgy, your editor is impressive and very complete. I have to try it and adapt some of the levels I made for Lemmix, in order to try how well they behave on the SMS.

Quote from: The Tomato Watcher on March 19, 2026, 02:20:14 AMI imported Paradise's music bank into Audacity (since it can work with VOX ADPCM) and found that it steals not only tim5, tim7, and lemming3, but tim3 and tim8 as well! All 5 tracks are recordings from the DOS version (with the AdLib sound card) at 8000 Hz. That's not the rate at which they're played back in the game due to how the soundchip is clocked, which is why the example above sounds a little slow.

I did a little digging into Yun Sung's other games, and found one called "Bomb Kick" from 1998 that steals, among other things, spdbass.mid from Lemmings Paintball!

I took the time to properly rip this one (which wasn't much time, it's the same procedure I took for the Lemmings arcade protoype SFX) so you can more easily make out how they (poorly) abridged the original tune.

Seems to be played through the Sound Blaster AWE32.

Wow, what a mess they've made of the original song! What a bunch of thieves!

There's a Gals Panic clone that, in addition to plagiarizing that controversial game, uses at least three melodies from the original Lemmings without attribution. The game in question is "Paradise," by the South Korean company Yun Sung Electronics, and it steals the songs tim5.mod, tim7.mod (AKA Mozart's Turkish March), and lemming3.mod from Lemmings.

Here is some gameplay from the game:

Here's the poll for voting the 12 levels from Pillar Tribe. My choices were:

-It's Lemmingentry Watson
-Cascade
-The Crankshaft
-If at first you don't succeed...
-The ascending pillar scenario
-Call in the bomb squad
-The Great Lemming Caper
-Save Me
-Fix the road, quick!
-Be sure to be a builder.
-Move on in two separate groups.
-Fall and no life (Part Two)

Well, I've started a new poll to see if people are interested in voting. The next tribe to be examined is the Pillar Tribe. Here's the link to the poll!:

---> PILLAR TRIBE POLL HERE! <---

Pillar Tribe: A Review

Forget Doric and Corinthian capitals: the really cool ones are Ionic. Everyone knows it, and of course, every lemming knows it! Especially those of the Pillar Tribe, seasoned archaeologists and fervent enthusiasts of ancient architecture.

Their love for ancient buildings and relics leads them to travel by sea wherever they can explore and admire the works of the past: Rome, Greece, and Egypt are their favorite vacation destinations. Oh, how they adore ruins! They're even excited about modern structures under construction!

If you want to get in touch with them, send them a postcard, or better yet, go and meet them in person. Don't even think about calling them! For some reason, they've developed a tremendous phobia of telephones, especially old-fashioned ones. How ironic! The shoemaker's children go barefoot!

It seems the Dirt Tribe poll has 7 votes up to this day. Here is a snapshot of the current 11 most voted levels:


5 votes
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Just Dig!
The Far Side

4 votes
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Steel Works
The Steel Mines of Kessel
Rendezvous at the Mountain
Konnichiwa Lemming san [from Genesis/Mega Drive]

3 votes
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This should be a doddle!
Watch out, there's traps about
Every Lemming for himself!!!
One way or another
And then there were four....


There are other 7 levels with 2 votes. The poll is still young (12 days), so there is still time to vote and gain a fair and consistent consensus. How long do you think it should last? One or two months? Should I start a new poll for the next tribe, in order to gain indirect interest on this one?

Tell me your thoughts  

I think there are too many lemmings! Although that's a major part of the level's difficulty. Perhaps a smaller skillset would improve it.

Great levels, harder than I expected! 

I like that NeoLemmix uses Master System music after a successful or failed level. I wonder if RetroLemmini would use them too. 

Quote from: WillLem on February 06, 2026, 01:08:17 PMHow about "Earth Tribe"?

Earth, soil, ground, land, terrain... There are indeed many synonyms! I named them Dirt because that was the codename of the style in the level editors 

Quote from: Proxima on February 06, 2026, 02:11:37 AMNice to see this getting started. I voted for:

Spoiler

And then there were four -- very cool multi-tasking level where some of the groups can help each other

Damn! I also like this level! How could I forgot to vote for it? Instead I gave my vote for "Through the graveyard", as the most complicated level of Dirt Tribe I could think of.

Quote from: namida on February 06, 2026, 09:37:20 PMI'm surprised The Far Side is getting as many votes as it is. I really like it, but I wouldn't have thought it would be a particularly popular level.

I mostly voted (as expected for me) for the ones I actually consider good levels, but Just Dig also got a vote on the grounds of how iconic it is.

I voted for both of them. I think "Just Dig!" is such an iconic level that simply can't be culled, despite its simplicity! But let's see how people vote and if it passes the cut! 

Quote from: namida on February 05, 2026, 04:43:19 AMMy votes would go to "Every Lemming For Himself", "Upside Down World", "How Do I Dig Up The Way?", "The Far Side" and "The Steel Mines Of Kessel". Maybe at a stretch, "One Way Or Another" too.

And I guess, not on level quality but simply how iconic it is, "Just Dig" has to be in there too.

I've created a poll for submitting your votes and the votes of whoever wishes to contribute here  :

---> DIRT TRIBE POLL HERE! <---

Dirt Tribe: A Review

The Dirt Tribe has a frankly ambiguous and undeserved name! Just because the rodents of this tribe live in caves doesn't mean they live in filth!

The lemmings of this clan also enjoy strolls through the meadows, lakes, beaches, and cliffs near the caves where they usually stay. They are formidable dowsers, first-rate paleontologists, and expert hunters of wild animals, especially bears: that explains why there are occasionally bear traps around the places they visit. The problem is that they are usually so absentminded and forgetful that they end up falling into their own snares!

These natural-born speleologists also have other hobbies, such as metrology. They love the Metric System! But you'd better help them get out of their cavern before they try to figure out their total weight with the help of their giant 10-ton scale!

The rest of the

DIRT TRIBE CANDIDATES
(from the official games):

Sega Mega Drive/Genesis

• Take a little rest.
• Konnichiwa Lemming san
• Temporary peace
• Jump down!
• Watch right and left!
• Watch your fingertip!
• Over the wall
• Two ponds
• Two different worlds
• Natural life
• Everyone turn Left!
• Field athletics
• Inside the bone
• Turn around and look
• Cave quest
• Haunted botanical garden
• Stray sheep

Sony PSP

• Bash in the Direction of the Arrows
• The Wormery

Amiga Book Club

• Through the graveyard
• Something weighing on your mind?

With the rest of the official DOS/Amiga levels,

Spoiler

• Just Dig!
• You Live and Lem
• This should be a doddle!
• A ladder would be handy
• Here's one I prepared earlier
• They just keep on coming
• Ozone friendly Lemmings
• The Island of the Wicker people
• Lost something?
• Watch out, there's traps about
• Every Lemming for himself!!!
• Upsidedown World
• Hunt the Nessy....
• How do I dig up the way?
• Steel Works
• One way or another
• The Far Side
• And then there were four....
• The Steel Mines of Kessel
• Rendezvous at the Mountain

we have 41 candidates for, in principle, 12 Dirt Tribe levels. Or maybe more, if we combine Snow and Xmas tribes.

So let's begin. Should I post a poll in another thread to choose which of these 41 levels we should select for the Dirt Tribe? And then move into the next tribe.

(On another note, I am writing a little of ficticious information and history for this and the rest of the tribes, in order to give them a little background. Hope you like it, I'll post it soon  )

Thank you, I was using the pack from the first post. Didn't see the updated one on post #12