lemmings2 problems loading levels

[peaches]

Hi! I'm new and I'm sorry if this question has been asked/answered before (I searched around to check and I couldn't find it) but I'm having a problem with lemmings 2.

I'm using Vista (yeah...) but I finally got the game to work using DOSbox .72 I got different copies of the game from multiple sources and always come up with the same problem (except for the one time it told me Disk1 was missing) and the problem is that I can play level one on all the worlds but the Next Level button doesn't work.  The game doesn't save and the load button doesn't do anything either.  The first levels are all running perfectly, but that's all I get!  I did see that this site recced abandonia.com, but I had the same problem with this site too.  I've done some websearching, and apparently it's not just me this has happened to, but I haven't been able to find a solution yet. 

Anybody know what's wrong and what I can do about it?

[Ron_Stard]

Download this:

http://www.4shared.com/file/64933784/db3b7383/L2-FIX.html

put it on your Lemmings 2 directory, execute it (from DosBox) instead of the L2.exe, and Enjoy !

[peaches]

that worked, thank you!! 

[Clam]

I had this problem too when I played this a few months ago. It looks like the L2.exe is a demo only (which would explain the lack of levels and such). In the end I got the Amiga version and played it through WinUAE .

I'm gonna try this now. Thanks!

[DragonsLover]

L2.exe isn't a demo. I think it's a kind of copy protection or something like that. L2-Fix.com allows to bypass that and also activates the "Cheat" option.

[Clam]

It isn't? I've read elsewhere that it is. It certainly looks like one...

Anyway, it works now. The lemmings 2 download on the lemmings file archive seems to have this file in it already, so I didn't need to download it . The sound doesn't work though - when I start it up I get a message saying "FX failed to load".

[DragonsLover]

Launches Install.exe and set your sound card. Also, be sure to mount your drive with the letter C, otherwise, the game won't start at all.

[Clam]

That worked, thanks

[Dullstar]

I think the Amiga version you can run with WinUAE is a bit better, except for the disk-changing crap.  Besides, if I remember correctly, sometimes the solutions on Lemmings Encyclopedia don't work as well on the DOS version as they do for the Amiga version.

[The Doctor]

You're right. One such one was the final Egypt level, because the blast radius of the Mortar is different in DOS. The solution on the LE is a backroute anyway.

[Dullstar]

Really?  I never knew that.  I think there was also a problem in one of the medieval tribe levels.