Hi folks!
Sorry I haven't been around much... busy with Lemmings DS, an' all!
The three most wanted things in Lemmings DS it seems are:
- Wireless multiplayer support.
- Support for traps.
- All the original, holiday and OMNL levels.
I can't do anything about the first one: I'd love to just slap in the two-player mode from the Amiga version, it wouldn't even be
that difficult (OH-HO! Famous last words, eh?
)... but I can't do anything until ad-hoc wireless stuff is written for the DS. Nothing I can do at all.
As for traps, there's plenty I can do. I've got the whole traps system figured out in my head, and it's gonna work, damnit! If my devious plans are correct, all I need are the trap graphics themselves. Some time ago, a kind soul sent a zip file to me full of all the original Lemmings and ONML terrain graphics as 256 colour, properly numbered PNGs.
Absolute mega kudos to you, and the very, very patient person who put that set together! If there's a second set of graphics for the traps lying about somewhere... that would be most helpful. :tongue: Failing that, any info on what traps there are, and where they can be found would be helpful also. (Although, it won't be easy getting enough lemmings to the trap to clear the surrounding terrain to make captures possible. (On account of my being a bit poo at Lemmings))
Once the trap system is in place, the convertor will be 100% finished, and all Lemmings for Windows LVL compatible levels will convert like clockwork. It's almost complete as it is, I just need to run through all of the terrain styles and fix any pieces or objects that are knocked out of alignment. I've been using rt's level format document as a reference, but there's a couple of flags that I don't understand: On my conversion of Tricky 22, "Turn around young lemmings!", there's no water running along the bottom of the level. Is there a flag for this?
Cheers,
MK
PS. Almost forgot!
Wip DLDI Lemmings DS can be found here. Download it, and DLDI patch it to the DS card you're using. Doesn't seem to work on R4 due to some technicality... working on it!
Edit 2 -
*RIP* ( ... or something like that)
http://it.travisbsd.org/lemmings/_misc/lem_object_gfx.zip
http://it.travisbsd.org/lemmings/_misc/lem_terrain_gfx.zip
I... ah... found exactly what I was looking for... in the same thread as the one where I found what I needed last time. Damn it Mindless, you must be going back in time and setting all this stuff up for me! :shocked: I'm just going to get some duct tape and tape myself to the chair until I've finished this.
See y'all in a bit.