If you decide to show Lix:

• Introducing Miners by Nepster, in single/nepster/Moon/
  
• Just Mine by geoo, in single/geoo/wrappy/
  
• Rhizome by me, in single/misc/contests/2023/
  
• Merge Sort by geoo, in single/lemforum/Daunting/

All of them ship with Lix. Replays for them are in the replay proof collection. I use this collection to ensure that I ship only solvable levels.

Other than Rhizome, they're all miner puzzles. It's no coincidence, the miner is awesome. But if you want to cut, I recommend to keep at least Just Mine (novelty solution because of the wrapping geometry) and Rhizome (it's the only Lix level to win a Level of the Year).

If you have a lot of time:

• You Only Get One Bash at It! by Proxima, in single/lemforum/Hopeless/. This is hard and the solution is well hidden, but it's such a surprise. Don't force yourself to solve it, it's the 3rd-latest map in the main 240-level pack. Consider to watch the replay.
  
• Minimalism by geoo, in single/lemforum/Lovely/, to see an easy but nontrivial batter level.
  
• Flying Squirrels by me, in single/misc/contests/ for more of the forest tileset.
  
• Parking Garage by Geoffster, in single/lemforum/Hopeless/
  

-- Simon

Quote from: namida on June 28, 2026, 09:08:44 PMI think a lot of the recent resurgence in 2D games comes down to the increase in the visibility and popularity of indie games, and the fact that 2D games are considerably easier to make.

Yeah that, but computers have already mastered everything, so it went from trying to push hardware limits to gameplay limits.

can we get back to talking about forever btw

There is "Time required between searches from same user". I've now changed it from 5 seconds to 1 second.

I don't see any other settings, but I'll keep looking. Let me know if you run into limits again.

-- Simon

Can a sitemod please maybe lower the restrictions on my search limit? I'm trying to find things spread around forums and I get blacklisted every 5 minutes 

Quote from: WillLem on June 28, 2026, 05:33:11 PMWhat issues did you encounter at first? Maybe it's something that needs fixing engine-side.

I have tested this with a folder that has 3 replay files, 2 for the same level. If I choose Playback Order by Replay, the levels are started, I see a purple "R" but no skills are selected, all the lemmings die 
Instead if I choose "By Level", everything works just fine.
Additional notes:
- There is no default Playback Cancel Hotkey, and no easy way for me to set one, so there's just this field that remains empty.
- It says "choose a folder" but it only lets me choose a replay file within that folder (but then correctly identifies the parent folder).
Would you like me to raise a github issue?

Quote from: WillLem on June 28, 2026, 05:33:11 PMI'm probably not the best person to ask about levels, but for speedrunning I'd posit that the more skills a level has available the better, because there are more possibilities to carve out the most optimal route.

I may have phrased that poorly. 3 sections: Section 1: Speedrunnning the Mayhem levels
Section 2: Showcase of vanilla skills in unexpected ways.
Section 3: Showcase of crazy stuffs.
Sections 2 and 3 are unrelated to speedrunning, this is purely about levels you like. And yes your opinion and taste matters as much as everyone else's.

Quote from: IchoTolot on June 28, 2026, 09:34:10 AMThis should also help:

https://www.lemmingsforums.net/index.php?topic=6138.0

Armani made a compilation pack for all the contests! 

Thanks so much! I'll take a deep dive into that later today!

Let's do a demonstration:
Pick up any level from original Lemmings, play it with DOS Lemmings then try it with any version of NL 10.xx again with any version of NL12.xx and finally with any version of NL CE.

Now try this attached SLX with all if the above... You can not. İt involved two skilles not supported by NL. Balloons and spearer.

I am currently using SLX and happy with it. Especially because it has classical mode as well. I can play both NL and SLX levels in the time
We are all lemmings fan let's enjoy the game and have fun  let's GO.

A typo error in the PDF file, SLX has the most points not NL

Hmmm, just an idea: we already support spectators in multiplayer, and watching a replay is similar. We don't need to have identical UI for playing vs. spectating, and when watching a replay we could have a dedicated button to start playing. Some buttons, e.g. Nuke, are not relevant for watching a game. Skills are relevant in the sense that they need to readable, but they can probably be smaller since they don't need to be clicked (and arguably maybe some spectator controls to view different players' skill counts could be useful).

I'm not entirely sure that skill variety (a category that's very easy to inflate with crap - not that engines tend to do so, but still) is worthy of awarding 200+ points, when things like the amount of content available only award 10 each.

@Zanzindorf

The next version of RetroLemmini has a batch replay checker (similar to NeoLemmix's mass replay check). I've added a menu item for it, and was thinking the icon could be a red builder rucksack.

I've attached a prototype that would be usable, but this would definitely benefit from your rendering skills.

If you'd like to have a go at this, or if you have any other icon ideas for a batch replay checker, your input will be most welcome.

Is Superlemmini/Retolemmini a miner and a basher can cancel each other out whether in the same direction or the opposite direction.

Example:

In the same direction: Pimolems Hurricane 03 (The Warehouse)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Warnb1zr8k

In the Opposite direction: Gronklings level (The Isle of Skye)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnKx_W-N140