So as part of the process of looking at older submissions this game came up. First this is a bootleg and more information can be found here
https://bootleggames.fandom.com/wiki/Super_Lion_King. There are actually two different versions of this bootleg, the most noticeable difference is whether the bug toss mini-game is present or not. This particular submission is the bootleg version that does not contain the mini-game. After looking at this submission and comparing it to the WR on
https://www.speedrun.com/super_lion_king?h=Any&x=q25757wd there is a newer trick to clip through a wall that saves about 15 seconds over this tas
https://youtu.be/yAMKXB_1Yy0?si=5AU2E6oscyneyRum&t=182. Due to this, this game would fail on optimization if it was re-judged as is due to this. That flying trick also seems like it could be used more often, but I am not exactly clear how that is done and the submission notes do not describe how it is done either.
There is also a discussion to be had about the acceptability of this obsolete FCEU 0.98.12 emulator for these submissions being re-judged as well. I could spend time testing whether this older game would work on acceptable FCEUX versions to bypass that issue, but since it would not pass optimization anyway it is not needed.