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Lemmings Main / Re: I'm an icky backroutist!
« on: April 05, 2013, 12:53:33 AM »
A classic from Original Lemmings.... 8)



That level has all kinds of backroute opportunities. It's a good candidate for direct drop, too, if you're into that sort of thing...

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Site Discussion / Re: Wiki
« on: February 23, 2012, 07:57:23 PM »
If there is an active wiki admin around, could they possibly set the pages [[Template:Browse top]], [[Template:Browse]], [[Template:Browse2]], and [[Template:Browse bottom]] as protected? If any of these pages get replaced with spam—and they do—that spam propagates to every level page on the wiki. Might also set the Main Page as protected, as there's very little reason to change that often and it's a fairly obvious target for spam/vandalism.

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Site Discussion / Re: Wiki
« on: February 19, 2012, 05:02:42 PM »
Well, if there's any way I can help, just ask. I'm an admin at Wikipedia so I might be able to help with getting stuff cleaned up (I seem to have reached the edit threshold that grants the "undo" button already so I'm making liberal use of that). I don't know how much time I can devote to another wiki, but I might be able to assist in some way.

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Lemmings Main / Re: PSP Lemmings
« on: February 19, 2012, 04:22:20 PM »
A lot of the PSP levels width was shorten too, but most of the solutions are not affected by this except Taxing 14, where there's less terrains to build over and Mayhem 30 with the bridge removed. I think the reason for this is some of the levels were longer than the area in the background. What do you mean by hidden exit in Taxing 17?

In the Amiga/PC version of Taxing 17, there are three X's marked "EXIT" on the blue wall. The ones on the left do not really conceal exits (one even leads to the back of the fire puffer) but the one on the far right actually has an exit behind it.

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Site Discussion / Re: Wiki
« on: February 18, 2012, 06:40:10 PM »
What's the best way to let an admin know about spam pages that need to be deleted? I would create a {{delete}} tag that would categorize them for someone to look at eventually, but if there's another way the admins would prefer that it be done...

As for how to prevent it the easiest way is to probably disallow editing without an account. That way spam accounts can be easily blocked when detected. The trick then is to keep up on recent change patrolling so that reverting spammers is done quickly. One would hope if they don't have their stuff left up for very long, they'll go find an easier target...

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Forum Games / Re: Find the Hitler
« on: March 24, 2011, 06:22:32 PM »
You misunderstood namida.  He's talking about the variation where you end with Lemmings while starting with a random article, ie.

?? → ... → Lemmings.

Oh.  :-[ I imagine that would be much more difficult. Most things have a least one country link that you can follow to Germany and thus Hitler. There aren't a lot of things that would need to link to Lemmings.

Is using Special:Whatlinkshere a cheat?  ???

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Forum Games / Re: Find the Hitler
« on: March 24, 2011, 02:25:41 AM »
...allow me to state the obvious, and suggest Lemmings.

ccexplore posted a shorter one, going through Offenbach, but I went
Lemmings → Rockstar North → United Kingdom → Germany → Hitler

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Help & Guides / Re: Lemmings 1 music problem in DOSBox
« on: February 27, 2011, 05:42:25 PM »
Here it is.

-- Simon

Thanks a bunch!  :thumbsup: I'm using the #3 fix. Always used to bother me when I'd use a code to jump ahead to a particular level and it'd have the "wrong" music....  :P

Oh good, save me the work of digging it up on my own computer. ;P

By the way, the music problem is not a DOSBox bug, but a bug in the game itself.

Interesting... I never had that issue when I was playing it in actual DOS, so I assumed there was a discrepancy between the DOSBox API and the true MS-DOS API.

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Help & Guides / Re: Lemmings 1 music problem in DOSBox
« on: February 27, 2011, 03:31:30 AM »
I haven't seen you yet so Welcome to the forum! :)

Thanks for the warm welcome! I've been a Lemmings fan since I was 4, but only got the motivation to finally beat it when I realized its 20th anniversary was coming up... I learned to write by copying the Lemmings font! (which meant my capital Q's were a bit weird...  ;P)

ccexplore has made patched versions of the executable to remedy this problem. IIRC they are on the Lemmings File Archive, but that one is a bit elusive currently. I'm sure he'll post the patched exes here anyway soon. :-]

Great! Looking forward to it.

That tune is from Canon in D???

I'm not 100% sure but I've heard the Canon in D connection bandied about. If you listen to the two songs you can sort of hear one in the other if you listen carefully. It's definitely more subtle than, say, Rondo Alla Turca or Dance of the Little Swans.


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Help & Guides / Lemmings 1 music problem in DOSBox
« on: February 26, 2011, 06:00:04 AM »
I'm having a bothersome issue with the music on the original Lemmings in DOSBox. When I play the second level in a session, the game will correctly play the second music track the first time. However, if I fail the level (whether by ESCing/nuking, or running out of time, or failing to meet the percentage requirements) when I replay it, the music goes back to the "Canon in D" variant (track #1) until I pass the level. Then it will resume with the third music track, again on the first play-through, going back to the Canon whenever I fail the level.

I'm sure someone here knows exactly what I'm talking about, as I've seen it happen on L1 Let's Play videos on YouTube, so it's not just me. My question is, is there some sort of setting in DOSBox I can twiddle that will fix it, or is it just a DOSBox bug that I can't do anything about? (If it's a DOSBox bug, is there someone that knows enough about the way music selection was done in L1 that could help explain what's wrong in DOSBox so that we could submit a comprehensible bug report?)

I'm playing through Mayhem for the first time so I'm sure if this is unfixable I will be hearing a lot of Canon in D!  :P Thanks in advance for the help!

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