Happy to have you here!

I can provide full sleeping gear (airbed, sheets, pillow, blanket) for up to 2 guests in the living room. It makes sense to offer this option to guests from the UK first, to allow you to travel light. I recommend that extra guests book a hotel, but I can host a 3rd guest at my place as long as he brings full sleeping gear himself.

-- Simon

Quote from: WillLem on August 17, 2026, 02:29:54 AMtry in the next update.

All right.

In the long term, I'll see if the unsolvability detection produces fringe cases or false positives with cloners/neutrals/... and I'll let you know.

Time yellow/cyan is open question, can't advise yet. Sand is yellow. Cyan for attention makes sense, too.

Quote from: WillLem on August 17, 2026, 02:29:54 AMwe'll do away with the 15 seconds 'warning'. Nobody has piped up in support of that, so... let's get rid of it and see if anyone complains later.

After sleeping over it: The 15-second warning has had a job before. In ancient times, if you didn't see the clock running out, the level would quit to menu by surprise, and you couldn't rewind. Overtime fixes this design, and the leftover 15-second warning hack can now go.

-- Simon

Quote from: WillLem on August 19, 2026, 03:07:13 AMHonestly, I now think this looks a bit bland.

I think it's too colorful now. Unimportant/random lines jump to eye.

Title is important, and time limit is important (hide the entire line if no time limit). And the buttons along the bottom are important. Maybe reserve green for those buttons?

Ah, and: Time limit line on preview is yellow. Sand is yellow. Therefore time limit during play should be yellow, no?

-- Simon

A bit info about Lemmings Reloaded for the C64.

123 levels in total.
Many are based on the best level designs from each lemmings port, including Megadrive, Gamegear, Apple Mac, NES, Amiga, DOS, SNES Sunsoft and PSP.
Lemmings reloaded also contains many brand new level designs (some of which contain their own additional gameplay mechanics)
There are all the classic gfx themes and a huge number of NEW graphical themes included, from Lord of the rings to Egyptology, Gremlin land and jungle vibe.

The game also includes a Juke box (over 30 tunes in the games to be unlocked) and a level rating and reward system!

I hope people check it out and enjoy.

I have not read the whole thread precisely, still giving my 2 cents. Feel free to discard post if those have already been discussed about.

Previous screen displays, in this order :

Level name, green

Pack name, rank, position, green.

Author name, green or blue. I think it just make more sense to have author not between level and pack name : you give all infos on the level and its position, then you give credits to its author.

Save n of N of now, green

Do not display RR information. After all this is purely a level solving element, only required when you start thinking how to solve, so not needed here.
One can also say that if you show RR here, then you should also show the skillset, which you definitely do not want at this point.

Time limit yellow if present, infinite time green if not.

OK... here's an example of what the Preview screen looks like with:

'Title' and 'Author' in GREEN
'Pack title - Group #' in BLUE
'Save N of N' in GREEN
'N Zombies, N Neutrals' (if present, not shown) in TEAL
'Release Rate / Spawn Interval' in BLUE
'Time Limit' in YELLOW



Honestly, I now think this looks a bit bland.

Note that it's now possible for users (and pack authors) to set their own Preview screen colors. Here are the possible basic colors (we can do all shades in-between, of course):

# EXAMPLE_COLOURS
# 0.300 = PINK
# 0.350 = RED
# 0.450 = ORANGE
# 0.550 = YELLOW
# 0.750 = GREEN
# 0.900 = TEAL
# 0     = BLUE (DEFAULT)
# 0.100 = INDIGO
# 0.250 = VIOLET

Thanks for reporting. The paint check was previously only looking for the 'No One Way' flag; Steel bricks have now been added to this check.

Fixed in RLPlayer commit 842c673.

Many thanks for the responses!

Maybe we could implement this in stages.

We could start off with a checkpoint system. The game state could auto-save at some arbitrary interval (15 seconds?). 'Rewinding' would then simply jump back to the most recent checkpoint.

If we can get this working, there may be the possibility of then utilising the checkpoints as places to jump forward from to reach a particular frame, similar to NeoLemmix's savestate-based framestepping system.

To be clear though: such a measure would be used as the basis of a fast-rewind control rather than a backwards framestepping system, which I do not want to add to RetroLemmini (for the reasons given in the OP). The goal here is simply to make it quicker for the player to move back to some point in the level before a mistake was made, not to grant fine-tuning control over the replay.

Also, this is a long-term goal. There are a few other things that need to be sorted out in RetroLemmini before we can get to this.

It's good to have the feedback, though. Thanks again

Implemented in NLCEPlayer commit 3489449.

'Nudge Viewport' hotkeys can nudge the minimap view up, down, left and right by a user-specified number of pixels.  This can be set up in Hotkey Configuration.

If I'm able to get my passport sorted out, I'd love to make holiday arrangements to spend a week in Germany. Flopsy and I have had a little talk about it in PM.