@kieran

I'm very excited and am definitely looking forward to playing your custom L3 pack in the coming weeks! L3 kind of suffers from the exact same problem with the clunky engine but even moreso than L2's. There are some similarities with one another, such as how in L3 you just need to save 1 Lemming in order to progress and similarly, how there's only 20 Lemmings per level (despite only 10 being active on the screen at any time) instead of 60 like in L2. Even then, from my full LP of L3 from last year (that was also the very first time I have ever played L3), I definitely see the game has plenty of potential that unfortunately, like L2, has left a lot of unexplored territory. From what I read of Simon's feedback in this topic, it sounds like you did a great job of filling in those gaps. From another topic, it also sounds like Clam Spammer did a great job here with their custom L3 Egyptian pack as well, though it's only for one tribe rather than all 3 tribes like your custom L3 pack.

In any case, very excited to play the custom L3 stuff in the future and to see its potential unlocked with what you made of it with your pack! I will need to first take some time to prepare and relearn the controls, as I have completely forgotten them as I haven't played any L3 since my LP of the game last year kieran's custom Lemmings stuff is just excellent for which I can definitely recommend others play, with the warning that they're very hard. I'm sure I'll enjoy his custom L3 pack, especially as I love hard levels in the game of Lemmings!  

@jkapp76, @Armani

Thanks both for the kind words and compliment! Yea, I definitely have a much better appreciation of L2 after playing through all of QFK2 and Lost Tribes due to learning so many new tricks and things that I didn't even know was possible with the L2 engine despite its clunkiness. Before this, I always thought L2 was not too bad but also not too good of a game, just meh QFK2 has made me appreciate the game in a whole different way. As namida has stated, L2 is still Lemmings and hence it has the feel of a Lemmings game, albeit one with 51 skills total (which of course includes the classic 8 from L1), even if there are plenty of things it does different from L1, such as the fact you only need to save 1 Lemming in order to progress, and similarly how there's always 60 Lemmings per level minus how many you lose which is the amount you carry for the rest of the tribe.

All this being said, I absolutely look forward to Ste Woz Ere's custom L2 pack for when I get around to playing that in the far future. Perhaps I'll continue to appreciate L2 from playing their custom L2 pack too. Sounds like overall it's many times easier than QFK2, but I'm definitely not going to get overconfident here like I did with kieran's pack! L2 is still very much a foreign game to me due to how I haven't played it anywhere near as much as L1/ONML, the latter two of which are far more familiar to me and having played them many times over in the last 30 years or so My knowledge of the L2 mechanics is still quite shaky in comparison

In any case, I will gladly take on custom Lemmings packs of any difficulty (and suffer! ), especially if it means people like you both can enjoy watching me play them and just to see my level solving skills in action, which I'm more than happy to share my thoughts and strategies with this awesome Lemmings community anytime!      

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