Consider this a "bump" to the entire forum.  What happened?

Are people migrating to other Lemming forums?

That thread on the "General Discussion" forum, when you click on any of its links (1 - 37 or so), you keep getting the error "300 : .txt No such file or directory".  Is something corrupted on the server?  I hope you have a backup you can restore the thread from.

I mentioned on the Lemmings Challenge thread that deveria.com's info on the NES levels are very incomplete, so I'm thinking of filling it out myself.

It's still a work in progress, hardly any better than what's on deveria right now, but you can see it here:

http://www.geocities.com/guestlevels/neslemmings/nescodes.html

The screenshots I have are actually the level previews, which is why they are black and white. &#A0;The actual levels are in color. &#A0;It'll probably be a long while before I posted the full-size screenshots. &#A0;But at least the levle previews give you an idea about the level.

The level stats I thrown into the table because it's too much hassle to add it to the screenshots like alexis did on deveria.com. &#A0;Whenever you see just a bunch of 8 numbers for the skills, they are in the usual order of climber, floater, exploder, blocker, builder, basher, miner, digger.

Illegal ROM downloads should be pretty easy to find, just use Google. &#A0;It took me only like 15 minutes or so. &#A0;NES emulators are also pretty easy to find.

I don't know how many people would care about this, but I've finally managed to hack Cheapo so that it is no longer restricted to MIDIs for music playback!

You can download the hacked version of wledit2 and wlem2, as well as various support files, here:

http://www.geocities.com/guestlevels/MCIChMus/MCIChMus_v1.0.zip

Included in the zip file is a readme, but installation is very simple, just unzip the contents into your Cheapo folder and you're done!  The hacked versions of the game and level editor are named wlem2x and wledit2x.

So that you can try them out, I included two styles for you to experiment with.

http://www.geocities.com/guestlevels/MCIChMus/AmigaCrystal.zip
http://www.geocities.com/guestlevels/MCIChMus/SNESCrystal.zip

Think of them as the CrystalLemmus style except with Amiga and SNES versions of the Lemmings/ONML music.  AmigaCrystal contains music from the Amiga version of Lemmings, ONML and Lemmings 2.  SNESCrystal contains music from the SNES version of Lemmings and Lemmings 2.

In case you want them for your own styles, you can go here to get the music I incorporated into those styles:

http://www.geocities.com/guestlevels/MCIChMus/lem1_lem2_SPCs.zip
http://www.geocities.com/guestlevels/MCIChMus/L2MEDs.zip

You can get the MODs for Amiga Lemmings and ONML from Mindless's portal.

You can get SPCs (SNES music rips) from many, many SNES games at http://www.snesmusic.org/v2/

Keep in mind that these new music formats will be quite a bit larger than MIDIs, so including them in your styles will increase the style's size, as you may notice when comparing the size of CrystalLemmus to AmigaCrystal and SNESCrystal.  And people without the hacked version of Cheapo will only hear silence when playing the non-MIDI music.  Remember that MIDIs still work in the hacked versions of the game and editor, and you can have a mix of all the supported music formats in a single style.

Oh yeah, btw, unlike MIDI playback, the non-MIDIs formats supported so far will playback with seamless looping.

I was wondering if anyone can find an electronic version of the Lemmings 3 manual.  If not, at least a brief overview of how the game works.

I guess eventually I'll figure everything out (after all, that's how I went thru Lemmings 2), but help is appreciated too.  Thanks.

This is kinda frivilous, but anyway, I remember that a long time ago, Conway had released 1 or more levelpaks consisting of nothing but selected official Lemmings/ONML levels, minimally revised to becoming more challenging (generally by requiring 100% saved or the like).

Well, by now there are enough new progress on that sort of thing, it makes those paks Conway made look rather quaint. &#A0;So I figure maybe I should make some such "challenge packs" of my own, and upload them via Mindless' scripts or something. &#A0;I doubt there's much of an audience for it, but again, if the comparatively less interesting levels Conway included in his challenge pak deserves to be in a levelpak at all, then these definitely deserves their own challenge pak as well.

Obviously this requires retitling the levels, preferably to refer to the greater challenge involved in a witty way. &#A0;This is where I'd like other people's feedback.

For Lemmings 1, I've already found 9 10 levels definitely worthy of inclusion. &#A0;I'm currently planning to fill in the remaining slot with the 100% Cascade, at least until I found something better. &#A0;For ONML though, there's the additional task of which levels to include. &#A0;I haven't really played through all of them, and of the solutions that I discovered myself, only a few I deemed to be interesting. &#A0;This is where you can provide suggestions and feedback if you care.

Titles marked in red are the original titles, meaning I haven't figure out what the revised title should be (and hence where I really need your help). &#A0;You can give feedback on the other ones as well. &#A0;Remember that in Lemmings, your title must be at most 32 characters long.

Lemmings 1 Challenge Pak:

A Challenge for Bombers&Blockers &#A0; &#A0;(Fun 6, lose only 3, 1 bomber + 3 blockers)
Between the Boundary Lines &#A0; &#A0;(Tricky 23, lose only 1)
A Method Without Compression &#A0; &#A0;(Taxing 6, save 100%)
Mary Poppin's Land &#A0; &#A0;(Taxing 16, 100%)
Sequel to M.C.Escher &#A0; &#A0;(Taxing 18, save 100%, no bashers, modified to prevent direct-drop)
POOR YOU! Good luck on this one. &#A0; &#A0;(Taxing 28, lose only 15)
The Explosion-Proof Boiler &#A0; &#A0;(Mayhem 2, lose only 1, no bombers)
Pillars of Hercules &#A0; &#A0;(Mayhem 10, lose only 3)
The REAL Steel Mines of Kessel &#A0; &#A0;(Mayhem 26, lose only 5, 10 builders instead of 20)
Save 77/80 of Me &#A0; &#A0;(Mayhem 29, lose only 3, water added around starting platform)

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For ONML, levels marked with (**) are definitely for inclusion, levels marked with (*) are possible for inclusion, and unmarked levels mean I don't really care either way. &#A0;Again, in addition to the titles, it's still in the air which levels to include or exclude. &#A0;And the list is incomplete since I haven't gone through all the levels in ONML:

Getting No Help from Builders &#A0; &#A0;(Tame 14, Save 100%, No Builders)**
Custom Built for Lemmings &#A0; &#A0;(Tame 20, Save 100%, No Builders)**
Quote "That's a Tough Level" &#A0; &#A0;(Crazy 1, Save 98%)*
PANICKING NOW? &#A0; &#A0;(Crazy 19, Save 100%)*
Lemmings Head &#A0; &#A0;(Wild 5, Lose Only 3)
100% Snow Joke! &#A0; &#A0;(Wild 12, Saves 100%)*
Hannibalemmings &#A0; &#A0;(Wild 15, Lose Only 2)**
StOp! YoU mAy NoT pOp! &#A0; &#A0;(Wicked 6, Saves 100%)**
98%??? &#A0;How On Earth Now? &#A0; &#A0;(Wicked 9, Save 98%)
Save 98% If You Love Me &#A0; &#A0;(Wicked 10, Saves 98%)**
Don't Kill Yourself Over This    (Wicked 12, Saves 98%)**
SPAM,SPAM,SPAM,EGG AND LEMMING (Wicked 15, Lose Only 2)
The Lemmings Funhouse &#A0; &#A0;(Wicked 20, Saves 100%)
Flow Direction Control &#A0; &#A0;(Havoc 10, Lose Only 4)**
THE HIGHLAND CHALLENGE &#A0; &#A0;(Havoc 13, Save 100%)
Have an ice day &#A0; &#A0;(Havoc 15, Save 100%)
Dare to Save 100%? &#A0; &#A0;(Havoc 17, Save 100%)

Thanks again for your help!

[edit: &#A0;note the Lemmings 1 list has changed. &#A0;Tricky 25 is taken out. &#A0;Instead we get a Mayhem 2 challenge. &#A0;See the "Challenge" thread for details.]

[edit2: &#A0;I've decided my retitling of Tricky 23, to put it mildly, sucks. &#A0;So I've throwing it back to the public for suggestions]

[edit3: &#A0;I've finally come up with an okay retitling for Tricky 23]

[edit4: &#A0;Added the newly discovered 48/50 solution for Wild 15]

[edit5: &#A0;Added the newly discovered 100%, no builder solution for Tame 20, but haven't made decision on the renaming. &#A0;See posts below.]

[edit6:  Added the 79/80 solution for Wicked 12]

Alright, so I finally registered. &#A0;B)

I actually did want to register as "the guest", but alas, like most online systems, any username with the keyword "guest" is not allowed, and apparently yaBB is no exception.

So I ended up using my older (but still very much active; in fact, most e-mails to me from this forum goes there) e-mail address as the username. &#A0;Feel free to e-mail to either one (ccexplore or guestlevels at yahoo) as you wish.

Anyway, this is just to let everyone know that over the next few days I'm going to wean myself away from guest postings, and that despite being a very different username, I'm still the exact same person (last I checked, anyhow). &#A0; &#A0;I'll still be using www.geocities.com/guestlevels as the place to upload stuff to.

Oh yeah, I mentioned that I will register when I have something to offer, and I'm indeed true to my words. &#A0;It isn't quite what I had in mind, but it's still something offer...for details, stay tuned on the Level Design thread.......