The Lion King – FAQ/Walkthrough
Game Boy
FAQ/Walkthrough by Necrokhahn
Version: 1.01 | Updated: 01/23/19
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lion King Gameboy FAQ version 1.01 last updated 1-22-19 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- || || || Contents || || || \\------------------------------// 1: Gameplay Basics - Moves - Icons and Pickups - Enemies - Cheat codes 2: level guides - level 1: Pridelands - level 2: The Mane Event - level 3: Elephant Graveyard - level 4: Stampede - level 5: Exile - level 6: Hakuna Matata - level 7: Simba's Destiny - level 8: Hyena Lairs - level 9: Return to Pride Rock - minigame: Pumbaa and Timon Bug Patrol 3: Legal and copyright stuff - Copyright Information - Contact Information - Guide History ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- || Part 1: || || Gameplay Basics || || || \\------------------------------// The game revolves around the character of the young lion cub Simba, who must run, jump, and claw his way through various game levels as he grows up and eventually fights the evil lion Scar. //------------------------------\\ || || || Moves || || || \\------------------------------// Simba has several different moves and attacks. A Button: jump. If the A button alone is pressed, Simba will jump directly up into the air. If he is running in a direction as he jumps, Simba will cover more horizontal distance. Simba can also change directions in midair during a jump. B Button: roar. This will paralyze some enemies if Simba is close to them. Certain bugs will also immediately explode. Start Button: Simba will scratch at an enemy. This move is unlocked only when Simba becomes an adult (level 7). It is particularly useful against the Hyenas and Scar in the final levels. Direction Pad left or right: move. Pressing left or right will move Simba in either direction. Direction Pad up or down: look. Pressing and holding the direction pad up or down will have Simba peer above or below him. This is useful for scouting enemies above or below you. Direction Pad down while running: If the direction pad is pressed down while Simba is running, he will perform a roll. This is necessary to break through some obstacles, especially in level 3. This move no longer works once Simba becomes an adult (levels 7-9). //------------------------------\\ || || || Icons and Pickups || || || \\------------------------------// Life Meter: Simba's portrait is the top left corner of the screen. The number next to it shows how many lives are left. On Prince (normal) difficulty, the number will start at 4. On Cub (easy) difficulty the number will start at 5. On King (Hard) difficulty the number will start at 3. You will lose a life if your health meter reaches zero. Health Meter: On the top right corner of the screen is the health meter, looking like a circle with four slices. Each slice represents one hit that Simba can take. Four hits will result in you losing a life. Some obstacles such as water will kill Simba instantly. Golden Bug Icon: This looks very similar to the ladybug icon, except this is not dark and does not have spots. Picking this up will restore all of Simba's health, as opposed to just half. Ladybug icon: This is the most common health pickup in the game. It looks like a round bug with three dots floating in the air. Moving through this icon will refill two slices of your health meter. Life-Up icon: A "1-Up" icon. This will add 1 to Simba's current life. Lion icon : creates a savepoint in a level that will let you start over from that point if you die later on in that same level. Touch it with Simba to activate it. Square Bug icon - A bug icon that has two dark triangles on it, forming an X. Grabbing this will activate the Timon and Pumbaa bug catch minigame once the current level completes. //------------------------------\\ || || || Enemies || || || \\------------------------------// Boulder - found in level 5. An environmental hazard. These rain down in level 5, threating to crush Simba if he remains too long in one spot. Simply move to the left or right to avoid getting hit. Gorilla - found in levels 6, 7 A large monkey that will sit on the ground and will throw cocconuts at Simba. Running into him will only hurt Simba. You must knock the thrown cocconuts back at the gorilla, either by jumping on them or scratching them once Simba is an adult. Hyena - found in levels 1, 3, 5, 8, 9 A larger enemy that takes multiple hits to kill. The hyena has two attacks: either running directly at you or jumping at you. You can often jump over the hyena if he runs at you, or if he jumps from far away. Occasionally after an attack, the hyena will pause and will act as if it is eating something on the ground. This is when you can attack, jumping on him. As an adult, Simba can scratch at him to damage him. On Cub difficulty, one jump will kill it. On Prince, two jumps. On King, three jumps. Lizard - found in levels 1, 5, 9 A small lizard walking along the ground. It will occasionally try to stick its tongue out at Simba to attack. Simply jumping on it will destroy it. Growling at it will paralyze it. Porcupine - found in levels 1, 5, 9 A sharp critter walking on the ground. Simply jumping on it will only hurt Simba because of the quills. You must growl while nearby the porcupine to flip it over, and then jump on it to destroy it. Spider - found in level 6 A spider that will drop from its web and run around quickly on the ground when Simba passes nearby. Jumping on it will destroy it. Stinkbug - found in levels 1, 7, 9 A very small, and occasionally hard to see, enemy. If you jump on it, one of two things will happen. When a cub (level 1), the enemy will freeze for a moment, and then will explode. When an adult (levels 7, 9) the bug will explode immediately. Growling at the bug, whether as an adult or a cub, will cause the bug to explode immediately. If Simba is too close to the blast he will be injured. Toad - found in levels 6, Probably the easiest enemy in the game, these guys just sit there and occasionally inflate themselves into something that looks like a ball. Jump on them to destroy them. Vulture - found in levels 3, 7 Water Buffalo - found in level 4 Large buffalo who will run across the screen at Simba. These are only found in level four, and are often easily dodged. //------------------------------\\ || || || Cheat Codes || || || \\------------------------------// There is one and only one cheat code. This will allow you to warp to the next level. When you are in a level, hit select to pause the game. While the game is paused, hit the following buttons in succession: B A A B A A If done correctly, the game will warp you to the beginning of the next level. If done on the very last level, it will end the game, showing you the "win" message and the game credits. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- || Part 2: || || Level Guides || || || \\------------------------------// The Lion King game for the Gameboy is broken down into nine levels, plus one minigame that can be unlocked after certain levels. //------------------------------\\ || || || Level 1: || || Pridelands || || || \\------------------------------// Level Enemies: Lizards, Porcupines, Stinkbugs, Hyena (boss) This is the first level, and serves as a way for the player to get used to how Simba moves around. You begin at the lower lefthand corner of the level. Move toward the right to find the first ladybug health pickup on a ledge. Feel free to jump up to grab it, even though you have full health. Keep going to the right to find the first enemy, a lizard. Avoid its tongue and jump on it to destroy it. Keep heading right to find the second enemy, a porcupine. Growl at it to flip the porcupine over, and then jump on it to destroy it. Keep going right until the ground angles upward. This will take you up to the second level, where you can head left. If you go to the far right corner of this spot, you will see a Life Up Icon, but it is inaccessible until you get farther up. Head left, jumping onto the lizard that is on the first ledge. You will come to your first gap, so jump over it. Time this right to make sure you land on top of the lizard that is on the other side. Keep going left, taking out the next two enemies, a porcupine and a lizard. At the point where you will jump up and onto the third level, you will see a stinkbug enemy. Jump on it and then quickly move away before it explodes. Continue to the right, destroying another lizard and stinkbug before jumping across the gap. Jump on the lizard, and then up to the forth level. On a ledge here is another ladybug health pickup. Jump across the gaps to the left, killing another stinkbug, lizard, and porcupine. You will pass over another ladybug health icon, but probably will not need it. From here jump up and to the right to two ledges, making sure to touch the lion cub icon. This is a savepoint that will allow you to start here if you die later in the level. Cross the gap to the right, and you will find two lizards very close together. They will probably overlap, so jumping on them will kill them both. From this point you can go two ways. Jumping up and to the left will let you get to the end of the level. If you head right, however, you can pick up lots of cool items. Let's go right. As you jump to the right, you may see a hyena at the very top of the screen. This is the boss, but ignore him right now. Jump down off the ledges, making sure to watch out for the porcupine on the large ledge below. Kill the porcupine and grab the ladybug health icon if needed, before heading to the right and dropping down. You will fall down onto another ledge with a porcupine. Kill it and head to the right, dropping down into another small square area. In here are two pickups: on a ledge is the life-Up Icon and at the very bottom is the Square Bug icon that unlocks the Bug Catch minigame (see Minigame section). Once you have these, head back up out of this small area and head back up, retracing your steps up to the fifth level. Where the previous path diverged, head left instead of right. Jump up onto the higher ledge and head left. You can jump onto the right ledge and kill the lizard there, but it is unecessary. Head left and then jump into the tree tops. You can keep going left and then down to find two more enemies, but they are unecessary too. Carefully jump into the treetops, and you will find a golden bug icon. This will restore all your health as opposed to just half. The treetops are difficult to jump up on. You must position yourself exactly in between the two treetops to jump up between them. A good tactic is to jump directly up, and only push a direction button once you are at the height of the jump. So this to jump onto the next tree on the right. From here you are on the very top of the level. Take a running jump to the right to cross the gap and land on a ledge with another Lion-Cub icon. Run through it and drop down to face the hyena. The hyena has two attacks: either running directly at you or jumping at you. There is not very much room to maneuver, however, so both attacks are fairly difficult to avoid. You can often jump over the hyena if he runs at you. Occasionally after an attack, the hyena will pause and will act as if it is eating something on the ground. This is when you can attack, jumping on him. One to three jumps (depending on the level difficulty) will kill the hyena, and the level will end. //------------------------------\\ || || || Level 2: || || The Mane Event || || || \\------------------------------// Level Enemies: water / environment hazards This is a nasty water hazard level. Luckily it is fairly short, but there are several places where you are almost certain to die at least once. You begin at the left of the level, right next to water. If you all into the water, you will instantly die. To your left is a rhinocerous. There are two important things about him: his horn and his swinging tail. If you jump on top of his horn Simba will be knocked up into the air. If you jump and catch onto his tail you can swing off of it. It is good to play around a bit with his tail right now, because in later parts of this level you will have to catch onto other rhino tails. When you are finished practicing with that, swing or jump onto the horn. You will be boosted up into the air and will be caught by a monkey in the trees above, who will throw you to another monkey. This monkey will throw you down onto the head of a giraffe. You have to act quickly before the giraffe tilts its head and throws you into the water. Jump to the right onto the heads of two other giraffe, and from there back onto solid ground. Their heads are fairly small platforms, and it is very easy to move too far to one side and fall to your death. If you are accurate enough, you can jump off the last giraffe's head directly onto the swinging rhino tail, and from there swing into the waiting monkey's arms. If you fall onto the solid ground, just jump on the horn and bounce up to the monkey. There is nothing special on the ground anyway. You will get passed between two more monkeys before landing on a giraffe head, which will immediately drop you onto the back of a running ostrich! Now you have to alternate between jumping and ducking around obstacles. You have to act quickly, because there is not much time to watch for them. Watch the ground at the far right of the screen as the ostrich runs forward. There will first be a hollow in the ground with another animal; you will see the ground slope down. Tap the jump button right before the hollow and the ostrich will hop over the obstacle. If you hold down the jump button too far in advance, Simba will jump into the air off of the ostrich and will probably hit a barrier and die. While the ostrich is still in the air from the small jump, hold the down button to make Simba crouch. They will pass under a tree while crouching. This combination of hollow then tree will repeat once. At the second tree, jump up immediately after passing the barrier to collect the square bug icon that unlocks the Bug Catch minigame. After running along a littler farther, the ostrich will deposit Simba onto a small island where you can touch the lion savepoint icon. To the right of Simba are three swinging animal tails. This is the most difficult part of the whole level. You must swing from tail to tail without falling into the water below. Catch onto the nearest tail as it swings towards Simba. The easiest way is to swing off the tail when it is at the right, and then turn around in midair to catch the next tail when it far left of its swing. You have to catch the very tip of the tail to grab onto it. As I have already written, this is very difficult to do and you will almost certainly die multiple times before getting the hang of it. Once you get past this horrible point, run and jump over the next water hazard and jump up from the rhino to the monkey. You will be thrown a considerable distance between four other monkeys before landing on another giraffe head. Quickly jump off and to the right edge of the screen to end the level. //------------------------------\\ || || || Level 3: || || Elephant Graveyard || || || \\------------------------------// Level Enemies: hyenas, vultures, I hope you liked the hyena boss from the first level, because now there are many hyena enemies. This is also a very long level, so Be Prepared! (heh.) You begin this level in a large room being attacked by a hyena. That seems unfair. Unlike the first level, there is considerable room to maneuver, so run and jump around the hyena to avoid its attacks, jumping on it when it looks like it is eating something on the ground. You have to defeat this first enemy, otherwise the barrier at the lefthand entrance to the room will be indestructable. Once the hyena is dead, run and roll (down button while running) at the barrier to destroy it. You can head to the left, jumping across the gap onto the bone slope to grab a ladybug health pickup if you were injured in the previous battle. Regardless if you do so or not, drop down into the gap to fall onto another ledge and collect another ladybug icon. Follow this slope to the left and drop down onto the floor of the level. If you want to, head left to collect yet another ladybug icon. Go right and you will pass under a ledge up high that includes still another ladybug icon! Wow. The developers sure aren't making this very difficult. If you want to grab this icon, jump up and grab onto the lower lefthand ledge. Pull yourself up and jump onto the upper righthand ledge to grab the health pickup. Whether you grab that icon or not, head right along the bottom floor to find another hyena. You can defeat him or ignore him. Jump up onto the small ledge underneath another ladybug icon. You can't pull yourself up onto this ledge, but you can swing onto the next small ledge to the right. Repeat this swing for the next two ledges until you swing over a gap and land on a floor. Run to the right and you will encounter your first vulture. The vulture will launch into the air as soon as it sees you, but if you are quick you can run and jump on it as it is lifting off. The vulture will fly left and right, eventually trying to land on you. When it comes down to land, jump on it again, and repeat until it dies. The vultures will follow you through the entire level, so you can not ignore them. Once the vulture dies, keep heading right down a small bone slope and drop onto another small bone slope. Head to the left to collect a life up icon, and then jump to the right over the gap. Keep heading right to find a whole set of the small swing ledges and another vulture. Kill the vulture and grab onto the bottom left swing ledge. Swing to the left, and then press right in midair to move right and catch the ledge immediately above it. Repeat this until you have reached the top platform. If you want to swing to the top left ledge and then swing off to the left, you can grab the square bug icon that unlocks the Bug Catch minigame. Just be careful not to fall in the gap at the very bottom. Swing onto the top platform and head right. Jump off the ledge and fall down through three ladybug icons, being careful to land on the ledge at the right. Head through the short tunnel and you will see more ledges progressing upwards. To use these, jump onto the bottom left ledge. Then press jump WITHOUT any direction arrow, and Simba will leap to the next higher ledge. Repeat this until you are at the top of the area, where you will land on another vulture. Kill this vulture and then drop down into the righthand gap to land at a bone blockade. Much like the first barrier at the beginning of the level, roll through this one to destroy it. Then jump up using the ledges again, and destroy the next vulture. It is easiest to jump on the vulture, and then jump again to the right (where the lion savepoint icon is). This will give you some extra space to fight the bird. After you defeat the vulture and touch the save point, take a running jump onto the ledges at the right. These act much like the previous ledges where you have to hit the jump button without a direction to jump from ledge to ledge. However, here there is a new complication, a large mass of ... uh, something, that will shoot upward the moment you grab onto a ledge. You must jump from ledge to ledge as quickly as possible to make it to the top without getting hit by this thing. If it touches you you will immediately die. This may take a couple of tries to do correctly. You will now have to head left along this top part of the level. You begin before a spiked pit with a small ledge at the right. This small ledge will fall into the spikes when you get close to it. If you are fast enough you can run on the ledge and jump off it as it falls, managing to clear the pit. However, this is very difficult, so it is worth it to navigate the spiked pit in two jumps, ignoring the damage you will take from landing on the spikes. As you cross this pit you will encounter two vultures in quick succession. At this point you are high enough in the level that the vultures can not gain enough altitude, and consequently you can just jump on them when they are flying through the air. Once they are defeated, keep heading left and jump across the gap to face two more vultures. If you fall into this or any of the upcoming gaps, you will have to retrace significant portions of the level. After defeating the two vultures, jump left over another gap to face a hyena. To the left of the hyena is a health pickup, which you will probably need from jumping across the spiked pit earlier. Head left down the slope and fight two more vultures. If you need to gain altitude to jump on these quys, just run a little back up to slope and jump on them. Once they are destroyed, jump across the left gap onto the higher bone ledge. You can jump onto the lower ledge to collect the health pickup, but it is very easy to fall down to the lower level and have to backtrack. Jump from this higher ledge onto another, where you will fight another vulture. Head left, and you will face the final hyena in the level. You have to defeat this enemy before rolling through the barrier. As you go through the barrier and down the slope, you will see a ledge that looks like you could jump on it. This seems to be just for looks, as I have never been able to actually jump on it. Anyway, head to the end of the slope and to the left to end the level. //------------------------------\\ || || || Level 4: || || Stampede || || || \\------------------------------// Level Enemies: Water Buffalo A very simple and short level, basically testing how fast you are able to dodge obstacles. Simba begins in a top-down view running in place as the level scrolls past. You can move up and down, but all other controls are disabled. Many water buffalo will run past you from the left side of the screen to the right, and you must dodge them all. There is no real set walkthrough for this level since the water buffalo appear randomly. A basic tip is to stay towards the center of the screen; the buffalo will often appear in groups, and if you are caught at the very top or very bottom of the screen it becomes difficult to dodge around three or four of them. Note that if you are playing the game on the easy "cub" difficulty, the game will end after this level. To access any of the subsequent levels, you must select "Prince" or "King" difficulty in the Options menu at the beginning of the game //------------------------------\\ || || || Level 5: || || Exile || || || \\------------------------------// Level Enemies: boulders, hyenas, lizards, porcupines You start at the top left of the level, on a ledge. Head right down the slope to where you see a lizard and kill it. By now you should see that boulders are slowly raining down on you. If you stop in one spot for too long, you will get hit. So make sure to keep moving. To the right of the lizard are two porcupines you can destory, but this is not necessary. Head left through the area where the lizard was and drop down onto a ledge. From here you can grab the ladybug icon if you need some health, and then head right. Destroy another porcupine, and drop down onto the next lower ledge. To get to the end of the level, head left. If you want to collect the square bug minigame icon, head right. Let's go right. You can grab the ladybug icon in the pit, then go right and fight a vulture. Be careful here as you wait for it to swoop down and land, because boulders are still raining down. Once the vulture is destroyed, go right. Drop down into a fairly large open area, and you will see a life-up icon. You can't get to this until later in the level, so ignore it for now. Kill the porcupine on the righthand ledge. This is very difficult to do, as you can not growl at it before climbing onto the ledge. Combined with the falling boulders, this has to be timed perfectly. Once the porcupine is dead, jump onto the smaller right ledge above this one, and from there to the left onto the larger ledge. Run to the left and collect the square bug icon. Head to the left, defeating another porcupine. Right after that drop down and kill two lizards before dropping down to the next lower level, where another porcupine awaits. Now you will come to a field of thorns. In the air is a very small rock which you need to catch onto. Jump and grab this to swing, much like the swing ledges in level 3. Swing across the next several ledges, collecting a ladybug icon and the life-up icon you saw earlier if you went to grab the minigame pickup. After getting the life-up icon, drop down to the next lower level, taking care not to land on the porcupine wandering around below. Make sure to touch the save point icon, then defeat the two porcupines walking around this area. Head left to face a hyena. Ignore the hyena and keep going left; it will not follow you down to the next level. Drop down onto a ledge, and you will see a ladybug icon at the very bottom of the screen. It is possible to grab this, by jumping from far enough away that you catch onto the edge of the ledge with your claws, but this is difficult and will kill you if you mess it up. It is also possible to get this by landing on the ledge normally, then dropping down to the left off of the ledge, preventing your fall by immediately pressing right into the ledge to catch onto it as you fall. Jump across the next two ledges, collecting another life-up icon if you feel up to it. Keep jumping right until you come to a big empty area. Similar to the thorns above, you have to catch onto the small ledges and swing across the empty space. The first jump onto the first swing ledge is the hardest, so make sure you have a slight running start to clear the gap. Then simply swing from ledge to ledge, finally landing on another ledge. Run to the right to end the level. //------------------------------\\ || || || Level 6: || || Hakuna Matata || || || \\------------------------------// Level Enemies: spiders, toads, gorilla (boss), This level is a fun water level. While landing in water will kill you, you are able to ride down waterfalls, which is great fun. You begin at the top right of the level. There is a drop down with a waterfall to your right. Notice that at the bottom of the waterfall there are two slopes: one heading left and one heading right. Depending on which slope you land, you will be deposited in different areas. For now, jump over the waterfall gap completely onto the righthand ledge. Here you can destroy two toads by jumping on them. Once this is done, drop down into the waterfall gap, taking care to land on the RIGHTHAND slope. While riding down the waterfalls, continue to press right on the direction pad. If you do not the waterfalls will shunt you to the left, into a small area with a life-up icon. This sounds good, but then you have to get out. This is pretty much impossible and you will fall into the water, having to restart the level. If you kept pressing right while riding down the waterfall, you will be deposited into a ledge above the ground. Jump right to the ledge in the air and head right. A spider will come crawling down, so jump on it as it comes at you. If you want to collect the square bug minigame pickup, drop down to the bottom level, run to the right, defeat the spider, and grab it before coming up to this level. Anyway, from here pull yourself up to the right ledge and jump up to the next higher level. Run to the left and jump across the gap. You will see a series of jump ledges; jump up them. Once at the top head right, destroy the spider, and you will see more jump ledges. Only now they are only along one wall! These are easy enough to get through. Jump off the ledge as normal by not pressing a direction arrow, but then in midair press right to soar back and grab onto the next higher up ledge. Then jump as normal, grabbing onto a swing ledge to the left. Swing three times to the left, and then once to the right to get to the top. If you want, you can drop down onto the waterfall under the final swing ledge to grab a life-up icon, but you will have to head back up the ledges again. Run to the right, destroy a toad, and touch the savepoint icon. Destroy another toad and jump across the waterfall gap. Head right and drop down into the second waterfall gap, again taking care to land on the righthand slope. It will put you on a ledge where another toad awaits. Destroy it and run right to ride down another waterfall. When you finally land at the bottom, head right and jump onto the triangle ledges in a really big waterfall. This next part is either lots of fun or excrutiating, depending on how impatient you are. You have to get to the top of the waterfall. There are several triangle platforms, but most are too far apart to jump onto. However, tree logs are falling down the waterfall. You have to get from ledge to ledge, and ultimately to the top, by hopping on the logs as they fall down the waterfall. The logs appear randomly, so this can be very quick or could take a very long time. It is very easy to overshoot a log and fall all the way to the bottom. It is best to go slow, and only jump on logs when they are grouped together, and you are sure you can land on them. Once you get to the top of the waterfall, head right. You could head left into a series of ledges where you can find a life-up icon, if you feel so inclined, but you will have to cross the waterfall to get to the right side. Run right and fall down the waterfall gap. It will deposit you on a new ledge. Head right, jump down and to the right over two lower ledges to find the save point icon. I guess the developers figured players will have a hard time with the final gorilla enemy. Walk left and drop off of this ledge. If you jump too far to the left you will fall in the water. Go right to face the gorilla. It will throw coconuts at you. Simply jump on top of the thrown coconut to knock it back at the gorilla. When the gorilla finally falls over the level will end. It is possible to run past the gorilla and explore some of the ledges to the right, but there is nothing special over here. //------------------------------\\ || || || Level 7: || || Simba's Destiny || || || \\------------------------------// Level Enemies: gorillas, stinkbugs, vultures Simba has now grown up! You will immediately notice that Simba's graphic looks different, and will move slightly different from when he was a cub. He also now has the ability to scratch enemies (Start Button), so make sure to play with that. You will begin very close to a gorilla, facing away from it. Run a little to the right, and then turn and fight. Now when the gorilla throws a cocconut at you, scratch at it when it comes close to knock it back. When the gorilla is defeated, run back to where it was and collect the square bug icon in the air that unlocks the Bug Catch minigame. Once you have this, head back to the right. To get up to the ledge, you have to grab onto the tree root hanging down, and from there swing up to the ledge. It is very difficult to grab these roots, and it is easiest to stand directly below the root and jump up to grab it. Once on this ledge, you will see a stinkbug walking around on the top level. In previous levels you could jump on them, but now that you are an adult the bugs will explode immediately if you jump on them. Simply growl to blow it up from a safe distance. Head left, fighting another gorilla as you do so. Keep going left, and you will come to a wall where you can drop down onto a lower level. Drop down, making sure to destroy the stinkbug by growling from a distance once you are on the same level as it. If you want this level to end quickly, head left, then jump up on the ledge immediately past the wall where you dropped down. Jump back onto the top level and keep going left. If you want to pick up a few health icons, head right down the various levels, defeating stinkbugs and another gorilla. The right path will loop around to where you began. Keep going left until you see a long drop down. Fall down to the bottom level, and head right. You will come up against a barrier. Scratch at it to destroy it. Keep going right, and you will come up to a field of thorns with three tree roots hanging above. You are supposed to jump and grab onto the tree roots to swing over the thorns. If this is proving difficult, just run over the thorns, ignoring the damage you take. Scratch through another barrier and you will find another small pit of thorns. You can just jump over these and pull yourself up onto the ledge instead of swinging on the tree root. Keep heading right, growling at the next stinkbug to blow it up. Jump onto the high ledge and you will come to a small ledge with a stinkbug and a ladybug icon on the side above the thorns. This is almost impossible to get past without getting hurt. Drop down off the high ledge, pressing the right direction arrow to catch the edge of the ledge and grab the health icon. The stinkbug will run into you as you pull yourself up, but ignore the damage and keep heading right. Pull yourself up onto the next ledge and growl to blow up the next bug. Keep going right, touching the save point icon as you head underneath a health icon high in the air. Since you are probably hurting at this point, let's grab that icon. Head right a small distance until you see a series of ledges progressing upward. If you encounter the next stinkbug, you have gone too far. Jump up these ledges until you get to the top. Head left, falling down into the tunnel and scratching through another barrier. Keep going left until you drop down to a lower level, the run right until you fall down through the health icon and back to the bottom level where the save point icon is. Right right along the bottom level until you come to a ledge with another stinkbug on it. Again, this is a point where you are almost certain to get hit as you pull yourself onto the ledge. Get past this point, head right, and jump up onto the next to ledges. On this next ledge, another stinkbug is running around, but luckily it is easier to avoid. Destroy this bug and head right onto another series of ledges. If the last two bugs hurt you, drop down and grab the health icon. Otherwise jump up and to the right over a series of ledges, onto a long ledge where another stinkbug awaits. As you jump up here, you will see a life-up icon below you. Let's grab this. Run right, clawing through another barrier and jumping over a pit of thorns. You will come to a ledge with two stinkbugs on it. If you want the level to end quickly, jump onto this ledge. But let's get that life-up icon, so head to the right below the ledge. Claw through another barrier and jump over another pit of thorns, eventually dropping down to where a gorilla awaits. Once the gorilla dies, run left to find a lengthy pit of thorns. You can cross it if you take a running jump. On the other side is a ledge up to the left where a golden bug icon awaits, and a gorilla throwing stuff at you offscreen to the left. It is easiest to destroy this gorilla first before heading up to grab the golden bug. Keep heading left along the bottom level, over another stinkbug on a short ledge. Keep left until you hit a wall, and you will see yet another stinkbug on a small ledge that you have to jump onto to get to the life-up icon. Once you have collected this, all that remains is to backtrack all the way to the point where you saw the two stinkbugs on the ledge earlier. Jump onto this ledge, blow up both bugs, and head right. You will come into an area with both a gorilla and a vulture. It can be very difficult to fight both of these ememys at once. If you don't want to, just jump up onto the ledge at the left and head left. The vulture will follow you, but the gorilla will be out of the picture. If you do fight the gorilla, you can run to the right past his location, fight another stinkbug, and find a ladybug health icon for your trouble. Either way, head left along the top ledge where the vulture is. The vulture can not fly very high in this area, so it is very easy to jump on it while it is still flying around. Head left, blowing up another stinkbug and jumping across the gap where another vulture is flying around. If you fall down this gap you will fall into thorns and will have to backtrack part of the level. Jump left across another thorn pit where a life-up icon sits. If you position your jump right you can grab the icon, or if you have a fairly full health meter you can just jump in the thorns and grab it. Keep going left, trying not to run into the stinkbug here. Jump across the gap and claw through a barrier. Run to the left until you see a ledge along the top where a vulture is flying around. Ignore the vulture. Hop onto the bottom ledge, and then jump to the right up onto the top ledge. Head right a little into this area to end the level. //------------------------------\\ || || || Level 8: || || Hyena Lairs || || || \\------------------------------// Level Enemies: hyenas This level is a bit different, in that you progress from room to room, with each room separated by warp points/cave openings. Most rooms contain a single hyena, whom you must defeat before continuing on. You will not be able to use the cave opening in an area until you defeat the hyena there. Room 1: You begin the level in a large grey area. Run to the right for a distance to find the first hyena. Since you now have claws, use them to scratch the hyena whenever it comes close. You will make short work of this enemy. When it dies, take a look around the area. You will see a series of three cave openings. To enter an opening, press the up button when you are right over it. If it doesn't work, move a little to the left or right to reposition yourself and try again. Head into the middle cave. (All three caves will take you to room two; the middle cave just puts you in a position to easily kill the next hyena.) Room 2: This will put you in a new room, on a righthand ledge. Wait until you stop flashing, then jump down to the left into the middle of the room, falling on the hyena. This will damage it some, and finish it by scratching at it. Once the hyena is defeated, jump back up onto the same ledge you entered the room at, and head into the same top right cave opening you just came out of. Room 3: You will find yourself in a narrow room with ledges overhead. Jump up on these ledges, then jump and head left on the platform. At the end of this platform is a small opening. Go through and drop down to face another hyena in a very close space. Once the hyena is dead, go through the cave opening to room four. Room 4: A simple room with no enemies. You come out of the left cave, next to a health pickup. Head right and exit through the righthand cave opening. Room 5: You come out of a cave at the top left of a dark space with ledges heading down. Drop down these ledges until you come to the floor of the room. There are two cave openings here. The one on the left will take you back to room one, where you will have to start the whole puzzle over again. Do NOT take the left cave opening. Instead take the right cave opening, which will bring you to room six. There is a hyena on a ledge to the right of this cave opening, which you need to kill. Room 6: You are in a short, long room. You come out at the top right corner. On the floor of the room left of you is a hyena. Kill the hyena, and keep heading left to find another cave opening at the far left of the room. Go through it to room seven. Room 7: You find yourself on a ledge with two cave openings. You have just entered the room through the righthand cave opening. If you go through the lefthand cave opening, you will enter a bonus room that contains a single (and difficult to get) health icon). To get to room eight, head right and drop down from the ledge. At the very bottom of this narrow space is a hyena and a third cave opening. Kill the hyena and go through this opening to room eight. Bonus Room: If you choose to go to the bonus room to get the health pickup, you will find yourself on a ledge at the top left corner of the room. Jump down and to the right. Make sure you actually jump (instead of just dropping down), or you will fall onto spikes. The health icon is sitting just above the spikes. You will need to fall and then grab onto the edge of the ledge to get this icon, something that might not be worth the effort and danger. When you have the icon, go back through the cave opening you entered the room from, and it will return you to room seven. Room 8: Very similar to room three. You find yourself in a narrow space. There is a hyena to your left, blocked by a wall. However, this wall is so thin that you can scratch through it and kill the hyena safely. Then jump up and head over to the left to the area the hyena used to be to find another cave opening. Use this cave to go to room nine. Room 9: Long room with nothing in it. Hyena to your right. Exit through same cave you entered the room in (only one cave in the room). Room 10: Small room with ledges to the left and right. Hyena on left ledge. Exit through same cave you entered the room with. (only one cave in this room). Room 11: You find yourself on a platform surrounded by spikes. Carefully jump to the ledge on your right. From here jump up to a series of smaller ledges that contain a health icon and the minigame icon. Once you have these, head left back to the cave opening you just came out of, and enter it. This will put you into a new room. Room 12: You are in a larger room, with a hyena directly to your right. Kill this enemy and head right. There are a number of platforms on two levels; you need to reach the highest level. The top level of platforms is fairly difficult to jump to, so it may take several tries. Once you are on the top level, head right to another cave opening. Enter this cave to end the level. //------------------------------\\ || || || Level 9: || || Return to Pride Rock || || || \\------------------------------// Level Enemies: Scar (boss), hyenas, lizards, porcupines, stinkbugs You begin this level under attack by the game's boss, Scar. Scar is essentially a clone of Simba, with the same types of attacks. Scar will most frequently use his scratch attack. He will generally run towards you, try to scratch you, duck under your attack, then back off a little bit before running back towards you. He is easily defeated by simply staying in one spot and scratching continually. Scar will just walk into your scratches. He will occasionally duck under them, but will get caught by most of them. Alternatively, you can crouch and scratch, which Scar will still somehow duck under. These scratches may do less damage. After about six scratches, Scar will run off to the left. You now have to chase him. Run to the left. You will jump across a large gap and swing across two small swing ledges to get to the other side. Keep heading left and you will see a series of ledges heading up with two porcupines on them. Roar to flip the porcupines over and then jump on them to kill them. Head up and to the right. On the top platform just above the second porcupine is a hyena. Kill it by jumping on it then scratching it. Keep heading right, jumping over the gap to stomp on a lizard on another platform. Go right, jump over the gap, and kill the next lizard on the next platform. Be careful when jumping in this area, as falling inbetween the two lizard platforms will drop you into the bottomless pit you previously swung over. Jump up and to the right to climb up to another platform with yet another lizard on it. If you feel like doing the first part of the level again, you can drop down to the right to collect a health pickup on a lower platform. If you do this, however, you will have no way to get back up and will need to retrace your steps. Either way, jump to your right to catch onto another small swing ledge. Swing right until you reach the third swing ledge, then swing to the left to grab onto the platform (with a porcupine) and pull yourself up. Kill the porcupine, then jump up and to the left to climb onto another platform, where you will be attacked by a hyena. Kill the hyena by scratching at is, and keep going left. Jump over the gap to a small platform, then again to a larger platform with another hyena on it. Once this hyena is dead, jump up and grab the swing ledge above where you first saw this hyena. Swing up and to the left several times until you reach the top of Pride Rock. Swing up, grab the ledge, and pull yourself up to the next level. Scar will attack you once again. This fight is just the same as the first. Keep on scratching at him when he comes near you. It may be a little more difficult if Scar manages to corner you at the left edge where you pulled yourself up. To prevent this, run to the right, and you will run under him when he first jumps towards you. After a few scratches, he will retreat once more and run to the right. Follow him. You will find yourself in an area with lots of small platforms. Do not worry too much about falling here, as there is a large platform on the bottom you will land on. If you jump across the platforms all the way to the right, you will find two porcupines you can kill. You need to get to the top. Jump right across the platforms until you get to the platform above the porcupine area. Then head left on the higher level of platforms. On the second platform you come to, you can jump up to a series of higher platforms. You eventually will come to a lefthand ledge, and see a platform with two stinkbugs on it. Growl at them to blow them up safely. Once you get onto this platform, you will see Scar one level above you pacing around. Head right. Jump right over the gap, then up and to the right to a platform where a health pickup is. This platform is very small. If you fall off to the right, you will land on the porcupine platform from the previous paragraph. Jump up and to the left to confront Scar one last time. This third fight progresses the same as the last two. Scratch him whenever he comes near. He will again duck under many of your scratches. After several more blows, Scar will run offscreen to the left, and Simba will automatically follow him. Simba will find Scar cowering at the edge of Pride Rock, and will growl at him, sending Scar plummeting to his end below. End of Game. A scene plays showing that Simba has now reclaimed Pride Rock and his kingdom. Press A to get to the credits. //------------------------------\\ || || || Minigame: || || Pumbaa and Timon Bug Patrol || || || \\------------------------------// This minigame appears after certain levels where you are able to collect the square bug icon that unlocks it. It is a simple game where you move Pumbaa along the bottom of the screen, trying to catch the bugs that Timon drops from the top of the screen. They will drop at various locations and at various speeds. You have to avoid the big spiders that fall down, while catching all the other bugs. This is extremely difficult to do. The bugs drop at completely random speeds and locations. Sometimes they will all drop slowly, other times they will drop at opposite corners of the screen at very high speeds. Often the bugs you need to catch will drop and overlap the spiders you can't catch. In cases like this, it is physically impossible to catch them, and the minigame will end. You do get rewards for catching certain numbers of bugs: 30 bugs: life up will drop 60 bugs: extra continue (halo icon) will drop You must catch these icons in order to gain the bonus. If you miss them the minigame will end. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- || Part 3: || || Legal/Copyright Info || || || \\------------------------------// All characters are copyright 1994 Walt Disney Company and Virgin Interactive Entertainment. All game levels, text, etc are copyright by their respective copyright holders, including the game developers Virgin Interactive, Disney Software, and all others who apply. This guide is to be used for nonprofit personal purposes only. None of the material in this FAQ was used or gained through other publications, FAQ files, or players except where otherwise stated below. This guide is intended to be a fan effort, and no money is being made off of it whatsoever. The text of this guide is copyright 2007-2008 by me, Cosmo Felton. I currently only intend to post this FAQ at the website GameFAQS.com. If you wish to use this guide on a particular website, e-mail me to discuss it. Failure to ask my permission will result in the various legal punishments that are applicable. So ask me first. Thank you. Contact information: If you wish to contact me via e-mail concerning this guide I have written, send an e-mail to bookfreak13@yahoo.com. The subject of the e-mail must read "Lion King Game FAQ". Otherwise I will delete it unread. Also, please don't e-mail me unless you have a question/comment regarding this guide. If you submit extra information that you wish to be included in this guide, I will most likely include it in a new verson and will give you credit, provided your tip actually works. Also realize that I am merely a single player, with no connections into the development of this game. This FAQ has probably missed some aspects of the game, various alternate routes, etc. Please don't write just to bitch about how I skipped over such-and-such special item which you feel is necessary to complete the game. I welcome constructive criticism, but please do it in a polite and civilized manner. --------------------------------- FAQ History: 5-27-07: (v. 0.15) began construction of guide. 9-9-07: (v. 0.25) added in guide for level 1, minigame, and several enemy and icon descriptions. 9-13-07: (v. 0.35) added in quide for level 2 and part of level 3, added in minor information for levels 7,8, and 9. Updated information on rewards in minigame. Added in cheat code information. 9-18-07: (v. 0.55) completed levels 3 and 5, added in partial guide for level 6. Submitted partial guide to GameFAQs. 9-21-07: (v. 0.80) Completed levels 6 and 7, added partial guide for level 8. 5-17-08: (v. 0.90) Completed level 8. 5-19-08: (v. 1.00) Finished level 9, guide is essentially complete! Wow, it took an entire year. Damn, I'm slow at this. 1-22-19: (v. 1.01) Fixed typo in level 8, room 2. Credit to David Bikker for pointing this out. --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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