Reverse Lemmings: Megadrive [Difficulty: Medium-Hard]

[Guigui]

Hello Lemmings community,

JawaJuice and I are happy to present our collaboration level pack Reverse Lemmings: Megadrive.

Following in the footsteps of Colorful Arty and WillLem, we took the 60 levels from the Present and Sunsoft ranks in the 1992 Sega Megadrive version of the game, swapped hatch and exit, and tried our best to make fun and interesting levels from there. We made a point to not modify the levels' layouts, though solutions are of course completely different from the original and may use all skills available in NeoLemmix.

We would describe the general difficulty of the pack as Medium - Hard, though this may be judged better by you, our fellow community members.
Be aware though, as in Colorful Arty's pack, "the difficulty is all over the place!" There is no sense of a progressive difficulty curve and you can find open-ended X-of-everything levels next to stupid hard levels with minimal skillsets. JawaJuice reversed the even-numbered levels and I reversed the odd-numbered levels, so you know exactly who to take your grievances to if something makes no sense!

We playtested each other's levels extensively and hope they are as solid as they can be, but we're still expecting backroutes and unanticipated solutions. Do not hesitate to give any feedback or let us know if any hints are required. For a couple of levels, we actually had Armani and IchoTolot do some additional playtesting - thanks to them again for that!

We would also like to thank GigaLem for letting us use some graphical assets from his own packs, specifically the menu scroller.

The pack and its necessary style are joined in a single .zip file at the bottom of this post. Extract in your main NeoLemmix folder (levels and styles sub-folders), and it should all fall into place!

Attached to the levels is an eclectic selection of music, all chosen carefully by JawaJuice and I to fit the mood and titles of the levels. Download the music tracks from the following link and extract in your main NeoLemmix directory again (music sub-folder).

--> Reverse Lemmings: Megadrive music pack <--

Finally here are screenshots of four levels - you may recognize some from the original Megadrive game.

PRESENT 16  trap a is trap A



PRESENT 29  available room Private



SUNSOFT 19  camping go Let's



SUNSOFT 24  tune the from away Out,



We hope you will have a good time playing our pack

[LemFan]

Thanks Guigui! Would love to play it at some point, maybe kaywhyn could LP it one day!

[Armani]

Oh wow so this is what you guys have been working on! I haven't played the Megadrive version of the game so this pack will probably feel like a fresh new experience rather than a remix of the original levels for me. I'll give it a shot anyway. Though, I recognize a few of them from the Lemmings Redux pack.   The levels in the screenshots already look fascinating. The crystal one especially has a really interesting setup

Also I noticed the music pack download link is a Dropbox link. You can change the 0 at the end of the link to a 1 to force an immediate download instead of opening the preview page.

[JawaJuice]

Looking forward to watching your replays, @Armani I think Present 29 is one of Guigui's most unique, yes!

[Guigui]

I precise we do not take any credits for the level design, this is all by DMA.

I remember that Present 29 "Private Room Available" was this level where you had to trap 18 lems in 18 small rooms with diggers. It was a pain to achieve in the Megadrive version with no QoL feature at all!

In the reversed version, the lems are preset in the rooms, neutral and other useful permanent skills, and you have to guide them to the exit.

[JawaJuice]

Also I noticed the music pack download link is a Dropbox link. You can change the 0 at the end of the link to a 1 to force an immediate download instead of opening the preview page.

Guigui has fixed this now in the OP, thanks for the tip! Also, just noticed you posted an LP vid on YouTube of Present 1-15 a couple of days ago - I look forward to having a watch through that when I get chance!

[JawaJuice]

@Armani, watched your video of Present 1-15! Gratifying to see you play through it, if quite humbling at times with how fast you solve levels, but I expected that - this is you we're talking about after all! I see you generally struggled (if that's the right word) more with Guigui's levels than mine but that's understandable; he's a better, more experienced level designer than I. Early on in the pack, I was very much learning as I went along - you should see that my levels in the Sunsoft rank especially get a bit more challenging, hopefully!

Anyway, here's my feedback on your solutions to my levels - I'll obviously let Guigui respond to his:

Spoiler

Present 2 - A slight backroute but acceptable All of the key elements of the solution were there, you were just a bit more efficient, hence one skill leftover.
Present 4 - Completely different talisman solution to mine, but I think it's a fool's errand to try and enforce an intended solution on an x-of-everything level where there are probably many possible solutions. Good job!
Present 6 - Exactly as intended!
Present 8 - Exactly as intended again - I think the only slightly tricky part is right at the beginning of this level.
Present 10 - Yep, as intended. They key here is the RR, which you worked out very quickly!
Present 12 - As intended, with a slight variation at the beginning, but one I was aware of. You can either do it the way you did it, or you can make the first lemming out of the hatch a blocker then build into him with a left-facing lemming to reach the ledge. Then at the end, you release the blocker with one walker and turn him with the other. I think the way you did it is probably more logical though; Guigui did the same during testing IIRC.
Present 14 - As with 12, glad to see this level giving you a little more pause for thought, but this was a complete and utter backroute! Probably the issue with giving you so many walkers. This is the one level so far I will have to fix if we get around to releasing V2.

[lemmkeev20]

ok so...

if trap a is trap a...

what is trap b?

[JawaJuice]

ok so...

if trap a is trap a...

what is trap b?

lol, play and find out