Comments on: Anglofying & running Japanese Lemmings for Windows

By: The Tomato Watcher

The Tomato Watcher — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 07:09:49 +0000

So I played around with this version for a while, playing levels spread throughout the game, and I found that, surprisingly, beyond just translating it to Japanese, Kiyotaka Kono actually bothered to improve the physics and animations slightly. Loads of the lemmings’ animations were off-center from the lemmings’ actual positions in the international version, which made the game feel less polished and could sometimes throw you off. Certain skills also had a lot of jank about them, specifically builders and bombers, which made “Oh-no! More Lemmings” in particular incredibly frustrating. All these issues seem to be fixed. Only thing is that, in fixing the janky builders, their animations are now off-center, but that’s a small price to pay for solid gameplay.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Sat, 04 Apr 2020 22:49:19 +0000

In reply to Tobis87.

Back when I found the shareware I was pretty surprised too. Although I’ve only seen this on the Amiga.

I guess by the time I had a capable enough PC I wasn’t thinking of Lemmings. Time had marched on and I’d forgotten.

It wasn’t until I found that retail box in Japan did I dive back in.

I’m not sure about the viability of WinG wrappers, as at least on Windows 10 it still works fine.

Up until Apple dumped 32bit support, I’ve lost all interest in OS X. Since many software like GCC 1.x would need significant uplifting to get it working reliably on 64bit, it’s just not worth the hassle for me, a fringe user.

By: Tobis87

Tobis87 — Sat, 04 Apr 2020 21:48:01 +0000

Very nice, one of my first games I played. I didn’t knew there was a Windows version.

It also runs perfectly with Wine + FluidSynth (using Creative latest SoundFont 28MBGM.sf2) on Linux.

Could this WinG OpenGL wrapper (with xBRZ scaler) be tuned for it?
https://github.com/Verokster/HeroesGL/tree/master/src/HeroesGL

By: uyjulian

uyjulian — Sat, 21 Mar 2020 19:26:53 +0000

You can set non unicode locale to Japanese to fix the character issue.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 16:01:08 +0000

In reply to arranarchipelago. Cool! Now I can Nihongify it to complete the circle!

By: arranarchipelago

arranarchipelago — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 14:06:18 +0000

Hey there, I dug out my European copy of this game and uploaded it to archive.org. It’s the same version (0.9.0.4) but in English and with PDF manuals.

(I was never any good at Lemmings!)

By: bbslovag

bbslovag — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 13:08:54 +0000

Lol typo “Widows” 😀 Rip husbandz