Prince Of Persia 2 Hints

                  Supplied by Alex McEwan

This is not a complete solution, just some hints and tips to help
you get past the trickier parts of this excellent arcade/puzzle
game.

Level 2

Go left from the beach on which you are washed up. There are four
stepping stones, one of which has a symbol carved on it. This
symbol also appears on the cliff wall on the other side of the
quick sand. Avoid stepping on the stone with the symbol, but step
on the other three to get to the other side of the trap. After a
few seconds the last stone will sink into the quicksand and a door
will open in the cliff wall.


Level 4

The skeleton that stands on the rickety bridge seems to have
caused a lot of people a lot of trouble. As you step onto the
bridge from the right you should step on a keystone which will
open a door on the next screen to the left.  As you attempt to
cross the bridge, the skeleton, which cannot be killed in normal
combat, will engage you in a fight.  During the course of your
duel, you will change places with the skeleton, and as you do, he
will run to the right to step on the keystone, and thus close your
exit door.  If you don't swap places with the skeleton, the bridge
will eventually collapse and you will both fall to your respective
deaths.

The trick is to change places with the skeleton and to prevent him
running for the keystone. To do this you must hit, or attempt to
hit him as soon as he turns his back to you. This will cause him
to turn back and fight with you.  You have to repeat this as many
times as required, and at the same time maintain a position around
the fourth or fifth step from the left hand side of the bridge. If
you can keep him there long enough the bridge will collapse, and
if you have stayed close enough to the left hand side you should
be able to grab on to the last fixed segment.

Two final points, you must step on the keystone at the right as
you enter the area. If you don't, neither will the skeleton. If
you try to be too cautious and stay too close to the left hand
edge once you have changed places, the bridge will not collapse.
It requires the combined weight of you and the skeleton on the
weakest section to bring this about.

The Horse Statue Level

If you fight your way through on 'ground' level and keep going as
far left as you can, you will pass a statue of a horse, before
crossing a desert area. At the edge of the desert, you will come
to a chasm, which is too wide to jump, where the royal palace is
visible in the distance.  In order to cross the chasm you have to
bring the horse to life. You achieve this by jumping on to its
back from the screen to the right of the statue. The best way to
handle this level is to first eliminate all the heads and the
snake on the ground, before retracing your steps to climb up at
the point where you first met the snake.  You then have a very
tricky step sequence to make if you are to reach the horse, and if
you fail you have no option but to go back to the beginning of the
level. A good save at this point is highly recommended.

The Flame Level

The inscription on the wall can be read in two ways.  It says, He
who would steal the flame must die. This is a hint rather than a
warning. The trick is to let yourself be killed by the last bird
man, on the screen where you can see the flame. If you do, your
spirit will leave your body and jump into the flame.  You will
then be reincarnated and all the bird men will fall down before
you as you make your way back to the right and the exit door.  If
you kill the last guard and jump into the flame while still alive
you will simply kill yourself. Remember the inscription, you must
die to get the flame.

The Chess Board Level

There is little to be gained by going down to the spider area.
You can increase your life force by constantly killing the two
guards who appear and reappear, but this is of no benefit, as you
will see if you read on.  Go right 2 screens from the start point
on the board, you will have to make a couple of jumps to do this.
You will find yourself in a crystal area with four exact replicas
of yourself. Climb up the one on the top left and align yourself
exactly with him so that it appears that there is only one of you.
An easy way to get the exact alignment required, is to take up a
position slightly behind the image and then draw and re-sheath
your sword a number of times. The slight step forward each time
you do this should help you line up with the image.  Your life
force will start to decrease and when it gets to four 'bottles'
you will transform into your flame state.  Kill three of the
images while you are in this state but don't turn your back on
them while doing it.  As you kill the third image, the fourth one
will disappear.

Climb up to the area above the crystal, and go right until you
find him again. He will run away from you as you enter the area.
Follow him and eventually you will be able to get close enough to
hit him with a fireball.  The fireball is produced instead of a
sword when you are in flame state.