EDIT: But at least in VBA and ZSNES it isn't actually a per-frame rewind - currently it goes back multiple frames by some configurable amount. You can set the rewind interval very low to get closer to per-frame rewind, but that will cause emulation performance to be very bad as it's saving the entire state every frame.
Nach, when you refer to Lemmings 3, do you mean Lemmings 3D? And if so, I'm a little confused since it's generally considered to be easier and slower and probably needing less dexterity. Still an amazing game though, and the "Lemmings Vision" thingy was pretty innovative and often useful.
About needing dexterity, the games in the series that are not pure puzzle games would of course need the most. Not too many people remember there was a Lemmings Paintball game. It was also pretty neat but unfortunately didn't have great mind-boggling puzzles that the series is known for. There was also a platformer involving the titular character Lomax, which was decent at best.
I think that Lemmings: Chronnicles (lem3) had a ff button
so you can increase the drop rate in this version? how dissappointing
also on the PC version you had a fast foward button.
I don't think any levels prior to mayhem would demonstrate any cool events that couldn't be shown off in a mayhem only run.
The PC version was a real test of dexterity
I dont doubt the usefullness of branches, but it shouldnt be a reason to not make the tool, imo, if it's too complicated.
Cant the emu just read which frame number the savestate has and delete it if its bigger than current frame, being unimportant if the movie state belongs to the movie or not?
I highly advise against playing music during the game. It will ruin the whole video, I agree with whom said it first. I love the in-game music, they've even revamped some of the music for later games in the series (Metroid Prime(Magmoor Cavern) and Metroid Prime 2(I forget where..) specifically.) and the revamped music is pretty cool. People can just speed passed the waiting with whatever movie player they're using also, so there's really no need to edit it all out.
Heh, it'd be cool if you could get emulators to transfer RAM over like that.
No, not really....You see, to take two different paths of the same game, one would have to do different things. And to use the same input, it is, by default, COMPLETELY IMPOSSIBLE to do two different things. It's pretty much outlawed by the very nature of the idea.