Hello everyone!

So I was playing The Lion King on the Sega Genesis the other day, and I came across a part where I got stuck. It was in the second level. No, it wasn't the cheap ostrich part where everyone seems to have a hard time with. Rather, it was at the part where you have to swing across a stream of water by jumping from one hippo tail to the other. The bad jumping physics made this part especially punishing for me, causing me at least five lives or so. With pure luck, I found a way to avoid having to swing across the stream at all, probably by means of an error. It could also have been done intentionally by the game designers, but I personally prefer the former. Either way, this makes this particular part of the level much easier. Here's how to do it:



^ So, you start the trick to the right of the checkpoint. You're going to want to jump towards the hippo eyeballing Checkpoint Simba's butt.


^ You'd hurl yourself towards the blue hippo. Don't worry, it won't flinch backwards, causing you to appear silly and falling in the water.


^ It might take you a few tries, but you should be able to grab hold of the hippo's head.


^ From here, you could simply jump across to that hippo over there in the upper-right corner, taunting you.


^ Don't mind the decrease in my lifes counter, that's just me being an idiot. As difficult as this game may be, I'm a pretty bad player.

And there you go! It isn't much, but this'll save you loads of frustration from having to jump from hippo tail to hippo tail, probably losing at least three lives in the process. It isn't cheating, it's making use of a glitch that allows you to make a ungodly difficult game with horrendous jump controls just a little bit more forgiving.

OrdannonsX : Thanks! This was definitely the most annoying(not toughest, just annoying) level in that game, though the music made you want to stay a while and listen. 

MysteryMan007 : Yeah, this is definitely my favourite stage in the game, probably because of the music. Thanks for reading this, BTW. Didn't think anyone would. ^^'

OrdannonsX : No problem