This SNES TAS was started September 9, 2023 by paiy. The TAS was finished August 6, 2024 by paiy.
The aim of the TAS was to beat the game as fast as possible without passcodes, leading to the "Best Ending". We save the required number of lemmings in each level, but do not go out of the way to save any more, leading to lemmings dying to save time. We used the NTSC-U 1.1 version as this is the fastest version due to haveing less lag.
We utilised many glitches and edge behaviours. Some of the most common are:
- Creating staircases by stopping bashers and miners mid-stroke
- Allowing lemmings to slide upwards through terrain by building as a group of lemmings attempts to fit into a small gap
- Destroying steel through various means, often overwriting its trigger area with a blocker.
A downside to this game is that it has a large amount of lag whenever many lemmings are on screen. To reduce lag, we often have to scroll the screen away from lemmings and tool use, so key moments often happen just off screen.
eien86: Claiming for judging.
eien86: Replacing movie with one with a truncated last input (the original one had quite a bunch of frames after that)
eien86: Lemmings is a beloved franchise with unique platform puzzles. This is movie beats all levels with enough lemmings saved in each to trigger the best ending credits. The movie is greatly optimized, availing itself with many entertaining glitches and TAS-only non-canonical solutions.
As pointed out by the author, sometimes the camera needs to be focused away from the action to reduce the number of lag frames. This is unfortunately a necessary evil, as it would be nice to see what's going on at those times. I hope somebody could come up with a camhack to be able to see the entire level throughout the solution.
An amazing submission that beats the previous record ([1252] SNES Lemmings "best ending" by Lord_Tom in 1:03:04.45 from 2009!!) by ~15 minutes!
Accepting to Standard
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