General info:

Even though it cannot officially be one, consider this an improvement to my my previous attempt of TASing this hack.

The first thing you're going to notice comparing both submissions, aside from a huge 24 second improvement (or 31 seconds if you pefer RTA timing like me), is that im playing the Sega Genesis version. I chose it for a few reasons:

Playing i noticed a few differences compared to the SNES version of the hack:

Note that this submission contains inputs by Akiteru, who doesn't want to be listed as a co-author on this submission.

Here is a level by level breakdown: (I wont go over what i already covered on the SNES TAS)

The Pridelands

Same as SNES tho there is a time save where i get hit by the porcupine to not do a ground splat animation. i had to not press C for a frame during the turbo on that part as i would either get hit and pulled in-bounds or would not get hit and lose time to the ground splat animation. This trick is not possible on SNES as i can't go through the ceiling to do it

Can't Wait To be King

Same as SNES but i discovered that by jumping while the rhyno throws you, it's possible to get to the monkeys earlier as you cancel the rhyno's animation

The Elephant Graveyard

Same as SNES but more optimized

The Stampede

yes 👍

Simba's Exile

As Simba's jumps are shorter you need to jump more times and the trick to do it in less jumps does not work, tho by the different physics between SNES and Genesis, the Sega version is faster anyways

Hakuna Matata

I clip into the ceiling to the pulled inside the wall snd skip the Water Slide section. I initially thought i was impossible to go under the level because you can't go low enough without dying to the death trigger and even if you could, Simba would go through the ceiling you need to bonk anyways, but later i discovered the route used in this TAS which i again use the ceiling to pull Simba inside the wall and i use the frog's spear to take damage and skip a ground splat animation. You'll probably also notice that the TAS for the OG game doesn't clip on the waterfall, that's because while you can clip, it's impossible to get out, but on this hack it actually is possible to get out by jumping on a specific position, and it is faster because skips a ground splat animation.

Simba's Destiny

Same as on SNES but more optimized and there is no damage boost

Be Prepared

Here is the trick i talked about at the start, while it is possible on SNES and even faster than here on Genesis, no such RNG Seed has been found yet, you can find a explation of this trick here. (This level is a resync of Akiteru's inputs because differently from SNES, memory advances differently so the LUA Script doesnt work and it's near impossible TASing this part without some kind of RAM Watch)

Simba's Return

Pride Rock

The same "Glitch Kill" is used here except its only possible with specific conditions to correctly cancel your attack and do the glitch. Scar 3 uses the same mechanic explained on this submission. (Scar 1 is a resync of Akiteru's inputs because as i wasn't getting the second glitch i decided to tinker with known working inputs to test if it was possible or not)

InputEvelution: Replacing with a 101 frame improvement from the author.

InputEvelution: Claiming for judging.

InputEvelution: Optimisation looks good. Accepting!