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Lemmings & Oh No! More Lemmings

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Lemmings & Oh No! More Lemmings is a fairly rough Game Boy Color port of the first Lemmings game and its expansion pack, featuring an entirely original (worse) soundtrack which would inexplicably go on to be used in a string of bootleg platform games by the unlicensed developer Sintax.

This was also the last time the series would appear on a Nintendo console, being released shortly before Psygnosis was absorbed into Sony Computer Entertainment Europe.

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Development Tool Text#

To do:
The text for the error handler as seen in Animal Breeder 3 is here too.

This game contains similar text to Animal Breeder 3 (from the same developer), left over from some kind of development tool.

Starting at 0x1FEA44:

sp buf full
undefined cgen group No.(BW)
undefined cgen group No.(CL)
undefined cgen No.
undefined chain group No.(BW)
undefined chain group No.(CL)
undefined chain No.
obj buffer over
TAG_TABLE:undefined tag table
LCD_STAT_INT:undefined lcd status interrupt
trance queue full
QUEUE_AFTER:trance count over
WDIV:division by ZERO
BDIV:division by ZERO
proc_stack over(other)
proc_stack over
proc_stack under
Undefined proc No.
full graphics:nou found null char

Regional Differences#

VS Mode#

The Japanese version features a VS Mode, where players compete via link cable to be the first to complete a level, but for some reason the option was removed from the US release.

Japan

US

American lemmings don't care.

However, the mode is still present, still fully functional, and was even (sort of) translated to English!

Well these all seem like coherent and useful options so I guess I'll just pick all of them. Okay so after careful deliberation i have decided your new initials can be B.U.T.T. I've been looking for a communication companion my whole life. ;_; Advice not just for Lemmings, but for life. It... it communicates! IT'S ALIVE!

You can access it in the US version using the GameShark/Action Replay code 0101D3C8 (which will force VS Mode selection on the title screen).

The level selection menu was already in English in the Japanese version, but had a spelling mistake which was corrected. The unusual "r" in "Normal Game" was also modified to something a bit more standard-looking.

Japan

US

The Japanese internal cart header gives the game's name as VS.REMMINGS. This was fixed in the US version.

Level Names#

The Japanese version has a number of typos in level names, which were mostly fixed for the US version:

Japan

US

DON'T DO ANYTHING TO O HASTY

DON'T DO ANYTHING TOO HASTY

LEMMINGS LEMMING EVERYWHERE

LEMMINGS LEMMINGS EVERYWHERE

NIGHITMARE ON LEM STREET

NIGHTMARE ON LEM STREET

LE'T BE CAREFUL OUT THERE

LET'S BE CAREFUL OUT THERE

HERE'S ONE I PREPARED EAELIER

HERE'S ONE I PREPARED EARLIER

I HAVE A CUNNING

I HAVE A CUNNING PLAN

FEEL THE HERT!

FEEL THE HEAT!

THE FOR SIDE

THE FAR SIDE

JUST A MINUTE (PRAT TWO)

JUST A MINUTE (PART TWO)

JUSTY WINTSY... LEMMING

INTSY WINTSY... LEMMING

JUST A QUICKLY

JUST A QUICKY

One that was toned down:

Japanese

US

SUICIDAL TENDENCIES

LEMMING TENDENCIES

A couple which featured typos in the Japanese version but were changed outright in the US one, possibly due to their reliance on a British reference (the sitcom Only Fools and Horses) and a Coca-Cola trademark (the juice drink 5 Alive) respectively:

Original Amiga

Japanese GBC

US GBC

Luvly Jubly

LUVLY JIBLY

LOVELY LEM

Five Alive

FAVE ALIVE

ALL ALIVE

And one named in romanized Japanese in the original, misspelled in romanized Japanese by the Japanese developers of the GBC port, then "helpfully" translated back into English by the US localizers:

Original Amiga

Japanese GBC

US GBC

Konbanwa Lemming san

KONBABWA LEMMING SAN

Hello, Mr. Lemming!