I went and recorded all the sound effects from (almost) every version of Lemmings that does NOT just reuse the original samples (plus a couple extra games). I've given them all NL-compatible filenames and put them in a big collection to download. This collection includes sounds from:

• Atari ST Lemmings
• Atari ST ONML
• MS-DOS Lemmings (PC Speaker, Tandy 3-Voice, and AdLib)
• ZX Spectrum Lemmings
• PC-98 Lemmings (PC Speaker and PC-9801-26K)
• Amstrad CPC Lemmings
• NES Lemmings
• NES Lemmings Improvement
• SMS Lemmings
• Genesis Lemmings
• Game Boy Lemmings
• SAM Coupé Lemmings
• Commodore 64 Lemmings
• GBC Lemmings (the sound effects in the sound test are copied almost verbatim from the Windows version, but they are used very differently in game; as such, there are two different packs for this version, one matching the sounds to their Windows counterparts, and the other reflecting how they are used in game)
• PSP Lemmings

You'll also notice a folder named "_dummy" which just exists to more-or-less "turn off" some sound effects. For example, if you wanted to play with Atari ST L1 sounds (which don't include ANY equivalent of the "Let's go!" sound and the like) and don't wish to hear the Amiga Lemmings voice samples mixed together with them, you could copy the dummy folder first to silence all sound effects, then copy the ST L1 folder. The dummy folder also contains the default "success" and "failure" jingles, since a couple soundpacks include them and you can simply turn them off in the audio settings in-game.

I can almost guarantee there's several sounds in here you'll have never heard before, so play around with them to see if you like any. Even try mixing and matching them if you want, though there are NO guarantees that the volume mixing between different soundpacks is any good at all. Enjoy!

EDIT 1/19/2024: I have updated the folder to include the sample-based versions as well!

I've recently learned how to watch RAM among other things, and I recently tried to use that to better understand the cursor glitch in CPC Lemmings (a quick video of it in case you aren't sure of what I'm talking about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iStAIX0WYoU). I found out some interesting stuff, including some things that aren't directly related to the glitch, and I thought I would share these. I'll share more as time goes on. This post is 100% inspired by Gronkling's update in the Genesis Lemmings data topic.

At this point, all observations are of the disk release of the game, not the buggier tape release. Values prefixed with a $ are in hexadecimal.


LEVEL DATA

The data for the current level is loaded into RAM from disk starting from address $2470. I don't know exactly where the level data ends, but as far as I can tell, it's only terrain data from very early on all the way to the end.

$2470: Current level's number, starting from 1 at JUST DIG! and counting up 1 by 1 independent of difficulty rank going up to 60 at the last level.

$2471: Total number of lemmings in the level. Capped at 20 ($14) under normal circumstances.

$2472: Minimum release rate. Values above 99 are slower than 1, similar to other versions.

$2473-$2475: Position of the hatch in the level.

$2476: The time (in minutes) - 1 that you have to beat the level. $00 would correspond to 1 minute, $01 to 2, etc.

$2477-$247E: The number of each skill, in the standard order.

$247F: UNKNOWN

$2480: Save requirement.

$2481-$2483: Position of the exit in the level. Format is identical to the hatch data.

$2484: UNKNOWN

$2485-$24A4: Current level's title in ASCII, starting from the very left side of the screen going to the very right. The SPACE character is used to center the text.

$2485 onwards: Seems to be all terrain data, with each byte corresponding to two adjacent pixels.

Addresses near $0000 in RAM appear to be used as video memory of sorts? I would not know the full details on that. Higher up on the screen corresponds to a lower RAM address. When the cursor glitch is performed, the cursor is forced past the top of the screen and its graphics data underflows to ~$4000 in RAM, which is right in the middle of terrain data. This corrupts the terrain data, and when you move the cursor's ghost image to the very top of the screen, it then affects the other level data sitting above the terrain data in RAM, and now that I know what all is stored right there with the level, the effects of the cursor glitch make a lot more sense. A lot of weird effects are due to data about the lemmings themselves overflowing into other data in RAM, since there are way more in the level than are normally supposed to be there. Speaking of...


LEMMING DATA

The lemmings' data is split into 17-byte chunks (yes, 17!) for each lemming. The data starts at address $F540.

BYTE 1: Lower 5 bits are the lemming's current state. Upper 3 bits used for flags.

BYTE 2: UNKNOWN, set to $FF on every single frame that the lemming exists and never seems to get overwritten.

BYTE 3: X-position relative to the camera

BYTES 4-5: X-position relative to level. Byte 4 is the low byte and byte 5 is the high byte.

BYTE 6: Y-position. A value of above $7F instantly kills the lemming. A value below ~$10 may cause the lemming's graphics to corrupt the terrain data, much like the cursor glitch, but won't kill the lemming.

BYTES 7-8: Cursor offset for lemming lock-on feature. Byte 7 is x and 8 is y.

BYTE 9: Direction. $00 (and all even numbers) means left and $FF (and all odd numbers) means right.

BYTE 10: Builder bricks remaining.

BYTES 11-12: Bomber countdown timer. Byte 11 is set to 13 and decrements every physics cycle, while byte 12 is set to 5. When byte 11 reaches 0, it is immediately reset to 13, while byte 12 is decremented. Byte 12 reflects the number on screen. When byte 12 reaches 0, the lemming becomes an Oh-noer.

BYTE 13: Fall distance counter.

BYTES 14-17: Determine the animation of the lemming.

It looks like some sort of video memory (or perhaps a mirror of it) sits below this data, which explains the mild graphical glitches when you spawn too many lemmings on the disk version, and why some lemmings seem to disappear, as their data gets overwritten by video data. This is speculation on my part, so please correct me if I'm wrong on that.

I don't know if I'm ready for the tape version

All this time, there's been one last official Lemmings game out there that used pixel graphics that could be imported directly into NeoLemmix, but hadn't been yet... Until now.

Introducing the official Lemmings Tribes styles!

The Classic Tribe:

Features:

• 43 terrain pieces (though some groups work best as one) including a resizable "filler" piece and a steel block
• 2 infinite-use traps
• water resizable in both directions
• mostly unmodified background from the original game (luckily enough, it almost tiled perfectly already, at least horizontally)

Medieval Tribe:

Features:

• 44 terrain pieces (though, again, some groups work best as one) including a resizable "filler" piece and a steel block
• 1 very, very big infinite-use trap (slightly modified as the original animation was mildly bugged)
• water resizable in both directions
• significantly modified background to make it tile without looking broken

Space Tribe:

Features:

• 24 terrain pieces including a steel block
• 1 infinite-use trap (modified to be a bit smaller)
• added locked exit
• significantly modified background to make it tile without looking broken
• (and, hopefully in the not-too-distant future, portals! in the form of weird laser machine things )

These styles and the levels pictured here are attached below.

This is something I've been wanting to do for a while now, and this summer I decided to do it! I've recreated every original Lemmings tune in Renoise, a very nice tracker program, converted them to OGGs, and set them to loop when appropriate. Some of them may sound a little strange when listening to them standalone, as some of them fade out after the loop point, while others I couldn't be bothered, but they should all sound fine in-game. The tracks are in the default order, so Amiga order for the original game, and DOS order for Oh No!

I didn't use the MIDIs directly, but I did use them as reference, along with the Amiga MODs and occasionally the DOS VGMs. I tried to include the best parts of every version of each song, as well as slightly extend each track if possible. For example, the first half of "Can-Can" is based on the MIDI and the Amiga version, while the second half is based off the Archimedes version, with my own embellishment at the end. For several tunes, I didn't have much to work with and/or anything I tried to add to it or change just didn't sound good, so I was mostly faithful to the Amiga version, DOS version, or MIDI in those cases. My top priority was to make sure the tunes sounded pleasant enough, and I think I accomplished that decently well.

Huge thanks to freewavesamples.com, which provided the vast majority of the instruments I used to make this. I sampled a few instruments that I really like from a few versions of the original game, such as the brass section from the Amiga version and the synth bass from the DOS version. The rest just came with Renoise, with the exception of the stock dog bark sound effect I used in "Doggie."

And of course, this wouldn't be possible without all of these wonderful composers: Brian Johnston, Tim Wright, Justin Scharvona, Tony Williams, Matt Furniss, Tomomi Hatekeyama, Jeroen Tel, Colin Andersen, and Phil Stringer.

This rendition isn't anything too special, but I don't think it sounds too bad. If you simply want to hear another version of the soundtrack, you might enjoy this. Feel free to use these tracks for whatever you want if you wish, be it level packs, a video, or anything else. Just be sure to credit me in some way.

Download link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/zflk80qbgfuud14/Tomato%27s_Lemmings.zip?dl=1

So this is actually the first time I've ever drawn the little critters, and I think this turned out pretty well. I tried to incorporate an angled 3D perspective, and while I think its a bit wonky, I find it a cool effect. I'm thinking about making this a fully colored, fully detailed drawing, either digitally or by hand. I'll be sure to post it here when I get around to it. For now, enjoy my little sketch.

I want to have a discussion on the Arcade Prototype of Lemmings, as I rarely see any mention of it on the internet. I've looked at it, and it is a pretty strange game. I find it to be an interesting piece of Lemmings history.