Turning PS2 levels into DOS levels

[weirdybeardy]

PS2 Lemmings was the first Lemmings I came across with a built-in level editor, with pre-rendered objects and terrain, etc. I've created 40 levels on my PS2 and I'm looking forward to getting them online in the near future.

It was only after that that I stumbled across the fantastic Lemmings online community and discovered LemEdit, Lemmix, Customised Lemmings, etc. The original Lemmings series were the ones I fell in love with back in the day, so obviously I'm very happy that the games still lives on in this way.

My 40 PS2 levels are pretty much how I want them to be; I was thinking about converting them into DOS levels with Lemmix. The only way to do it would be "by hand", using an editor to painstakingly recreate them bit by bit. I was just wondering how practical people thought this would be, or if it's really worth it. Has anyone else tried it?

In my opinion the Amiga/DOS series of Psygnosis Lemmings games will always be the greatest, but my copy of PS2/PSP Lemmings is something that I've really got into, mainly thanks to the level editor and online support. PS3 Lemmings is also pretty fun, but I haven't played much of that...

So, what does everybody think of my plan? The PS2 editor is pretty intuitive, and I haven't used Lemmix as an editor yet. Is it easy to use?

[EricLang]

Lemmix is not really easy, but quite ok in my opinion if you get used to it. Maybe I could help you convert all these levels?

[weirdybeardy]

Do you recommend LemEdit instead? How do you think I could go about doing it...?

[EricLang]

Well... LemEdit is not easy either, so I would recommend Lemmix. If you read the docs that are included in te zip-file and read the site from which you can download Lemmix, it should get you started. The main thing for getting it working is setting the proper directories in de LemmixStyles.ini.

[Mr. K]

I always found LemEdit to be the easier of the two, but maybe that's because I had been using it long before Lemmix even existed... :/