Hello again!

There was something I've been wondering about NeoLemmix: why does it use the standard VGA style for the GUI in-game (the skill bar especially)? Why not using the better High Perf style instead, or the Amiga style to some extent? Is it because of nostalgia? Simplicity?

I wanted to bring the changes on my own, but it appears I couldn't find the red digits for the game timer, only the green ones. I assume it's something handled by the game code? Does that mean that it's not possible for me to customize it?

Thanks!

Alright

Also, welcome back DragonsLover

Thanks!

I fixed the exploder sprite issue for the next release.

Cool! Although it was not really about a sprite, but those flying pixels from the bomber explosion.

And yes, coming from the original mechanics, the new builder behavior takes a while to get used to. I remember being annoyed by it, when I first encountered it in namida's Lemmings Plus packs, but I can certainly say: After a while you will get used to it.

I think so, yeah. I think I'll just deal with it. But that still doesn't answer my question: Why? Why is it like that?

Hey there everyone. Remember me? It's been a while.

I've just tried the NeoLemmix player with the "Extra Official Levels" set on the website. Great job about that! However, there's a few things here that bug me:

1. The animation of the particles from a bomber explosion is one frame too long, leaving coloured pixels at a weird positions at the end of the animation.
2. The builder behaviour is different when it has to build through a thin floor from below. Instead of continuing building to reach that floor, the builder stops when there's two extra platforms that should be built, which means you have to build two extra times in order to reach it. I don't know if it's an intended behaviour, but if it is, that makes the Genesis Sunsoft level 24 (Out, away from the tune) impossible to solve. Here's a screenshot to show you what I mean.

I really think THIS is going to interest you. They even show the dialog boxes that I could also get myself through ResourceHacker.

The level editor was clearly inside, but as stated: "...the EXE only contains code to display one dialog: the About box. It seems that prior to release, the developers decided to simply render the level editor unusable rather than removing it completely."

They tell how to make the /EDIT@ command working by changing one byte in the executable to double the amount of memory available. I tried and it indeed works, but there's no edition possible.

Now the trick is to make these windows usable again and if you manage to get this to work... Otherwise, what a shame.

I made progress with regards to extracting individual level files from the VSR.  Attached is Fun 2 extracted from the demo version's VSR.

As far as I can tell, the level loads and plays successfully if you run lemball.exe in Command Prompt with option /PLAY@TEST.LVL

The level also loads successfully with /EDIT@TEST.LVL, however after clicking on "OK", the program eventually displays an error message and quits.

That could mean a number of things:
  - the code for the level editor is missing in the game EXE (despite the presence of the dialog resources), and so the attempt to go into editor mode ultimately fails and this is futile; or
  - additional data needs to be included in the level file in order to edit it; or
  - there may be different file formats between editable levels vs the release versions of levels found in the VSR

Bottom line:  more investigations needed, and potentially no editor in the game EXE.  The easy part is more or less over so don't hold your hopes up.....

Yeah, that's exactly what I tried myself. It gives me a memory error.
I have all of the levels extracted if you're interested. Also, I have some kind of alternative files for LEMBALL.EXE and PBAIMOG.VSR. The executable contains extra commands to use (such as displaying the console) and the PBAIMOG.VSR file size is strangely smaller. How can I send the stuff to you?

Interesting.  That might actually be up my alley to figure out, though I'll have to first start by actually installing and playing that game as I have never done that yet.

And of course as a disclaimer, it is quite possible for the resources to be left over in the game but the actual coding for the editor may not be (fully) there.

If you could put your hands into that, that would be neat.