Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and the Flame (SNES)/Level 12

Hard - 1 Life Potion available

Here is the longest and hardest level of all. The exit is just at your right, but you'll have to make a long detour to open it.
 * 1) First go left through the gate by making sure you don't step on the switch that will close the gate.
 * 2) Climb up two times and let's call this position A.
 * 3) Here you'll have to do some practices for later.  Jump to make the floor crack and fall and climb up.
 * 4) Just the next screen at the right, there's some floor that crack and fall, but you can't just go there and fall with the floor, else you'll die.  What you need to do is run to the right, then turn around, you'll automatically, grab the ledge while the floor fall.  Make sure your timing is right and that you can do it everytime, the second time you come here you'll have to do it and if you fail and die, you'll have some major grounds to cover again.  This floor that fall will hit a switch below, opening up the gate above.  Let's call this switch : B.
 * 5) Go back to position A and don't touch this switch for now.
 * 6) Go left and you'll be in a room with a birdman.  You now have 4 gates to open.
 * 7) Jump over to the left, get between the 2 columns and keep hitting the floor above so that two floors will fall, opening our 1st gate.
 * 8) Jump back to the right and climb up, here in the middle, in the left is the four gates where you need to go, but you still have 3 gates left.
 * 9) Keep climbing up completely and make the floor crack and fall at the right, this will open up the second gate.
 * 10) Climb down twice and just at the right, make the floor crack and fall to the third gate.
 * 11) Go down completely and kill the birdman.
 * 12) Right there on the floor is the 4th switch for the gates, step on it, climb up to the four gates and make a big jump to avoid the spikes in the wall.
 * 13) Head to the left, slowly.
 * 14) Jump as far as you can to the left.  It doesn't matter if you die here, after jumping you will have passed the checkpoint and start exactly where you wanted to jump.
 * 15) Drink the Life Potion, make the floor fall on a switch and drop down by grabbing the ledge.
 * 16) Just right from where you are right now, is the room where you killed a birdman, the thing is that if you died in the big jump just before, the birdman will be there again, so be prepared.
 * 17) Go right and back to position A, then make the floor fall on the switch B.
 * 18) Head back to the 4th gates but go right this time, slowly.
 * 19) When you enter the screen you'll see a gate opening.
 * 20) Jump over the hole since it's a trap.
 * 21) Continue to the right in the next screen.
 * 22) Make a big jump over to the right and pass through the gate before it close.
 * 23) You're now at another checkpoint and you sure will need it.
 * 24) Standing just after the gate, on a switch, you have to make a big jump to the right, as impossible as it may looks like, it's the only way to go.  At least if you die you can start over from here.  You might want to stand as near as you can from the gate before jumping.  This is only all about timing, try different time when pressing  for jumping.
 * 25) Once you finally do it, draw your sword and head to the right to kill the birdman.
 * 26) Make a big jump to the right and hit the switch at the same time to open the gate below.
 * 27) Next you'll have to jump to the left to grab the ledge, thus avoiding the spikes, so don't jump too far.
 * 28) Go left and drop down to hit the switch that open the exit door, then go right, slowly, just two small steps, grab the ledge and drop down.
 * 29) While dropping down, hold  and as soon as your standing up just go left so you can avoid the birdman.
 * 30) Crawl under the blade, go left, kill another birdman, get past 2 gates while avoiding a switch that close the gate.
 * 31) Continue, slowly, to avoid 2 blades, drink the potion and climb up to the screen above by demolishing the floor.
 * 32) Your now back at the beginning, just go to the switch B and grab the ledge, but this time, let go.
 * 33) Go right to the exit door, finally!

In this level, if you go right completely there's a special potion, if you drink it a small guy will come out and push a switch at the right. It's not clear what this switch does, and you can finish the level without taking the potion.