This topic is for the purpose of discussing #8928: Gronkling, ccexplore & paiy's Genesis Lemmings "all levels" in 2:51:19.86

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.

Sorry, but I don't consider this a "100% run" if you're not saving every lemming every time. If anything, I would consider this "any%" or "minimum required lemmings" run instead. Barring any evidence of glitches or bad game design making it impossible to do without cheats or hacking, saving every lemming every time should be part of the criteria for a "100% run" on a game like this.

Liked the impressive speed going through these levels although it is difficult to really understand what is happening on some of the levels like Stray Sheep 2:43:23 where it looks like someone is digging into the ceiling then the round ends? Many levels have the camera away from the lemmings to improve speed so maybe a brief description of the less straightforward levels would help. As far as the 100% goal, the level "Out away from the tune" 2:43:23 detonates a lemming so not 100% is saved. Perhaps there is some way to get a lemmings to clip up through the ceiling and then dig down to save 100%? Two heads are better than... 2:46:43 seems like a level that requires detonation normally so 100% looks impossible.

It is impossible to save every lemming on every level, and there is no indication on what the maximum lemmings able to be saved is, and its not an easy question to answer. This makes it unsuitable for a "speed" category, and is its own separate challenge (With a long history). For example, in Fun 6, there is no way to save every lemming as bombers are needed, and some levels only have bombers. The current Any% lemmings TAS (on SNES) has the player skip to the final rank and play through only that rank, rather than every level. I can change the category to "all levels" if people think that is more clear. The amount that is off screen is the main annoying feature of this run. It would be possible to make a alternate slower TAS, showing everything. I have done this in the past.

Watching the movie and reading the posts above makes it clear to me that the '100%' does not apply, as least given the jurisprudence in the site. One might expect in such category that all (possible) lemmings are saved, which is clearly not this case. I believe that the category "all levels", or similarly "no skips" apply much better here, since it is clearly the goal stated and accomplished by the authors. Awesome movie, btw. I vote yes.

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.

Sorry, but I don't consider this a "100% run" if you're not saving every lemming every time. If anything, I would consider this "any%" or "minimum required lemmings" run instead. Barring any evidence of glitches or bad game design making it impossible to do without cheats or hacking, saving every lemming every time should be part of the criteria for a "100% run" on a game like this.

To my knowledge it’s not possible to save 100% of the lemmings in any lemmings game. Because each of the different rank/difficulties are separate play throughs of the 30 stages with different tools/restrictions, the fastest single playthrough of any one rank/difficulty would be the any % run for this game. As this run competes play throughs on all 30 stages in all the difficulties, “all levels” would be a better branch name than 100%.

I have changed the category It is actually possible (though not intended) to 100% every single level in one game: "lemmings 2 the tribes" which is an interesting run

FWIW, a “maximum score” category for this game is possible by saving the maximum possible number of lemmings. It could potentially be labeled “maximum saves,” but that may be confusing just due to the use of the word ‘save’ for save games in regards to gaming in general.

"maximum saved" is the term used by the lemmings community which is a bit more clear. It stands as the "main" challenge for the community, and has been pretty thoroughly solved, so a TAS would mostly just be going through old threads and implementing these solutions. Some lemmings games (such as the SNES port) have a score feature which takes into account other aspects such as number of skills used (with minimum skills being another common challenge)