Black Tiger

Submitted by: rickHH

Hints:
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It is possible to get the elephant on level 1
(hidden bonus in the wall left of the only salesman
on level 1) before touching the salesman and entering
the shop. If you succeed you can immediately buy the
1500 zenny weapon even if you have been very unlucky
harvesting zenny. Here's how:
Shoot the snake on the pillar.

Shoot the wall until the first section of wall opens.
Don't open the second part of the wall with the elephant
behind it yet.

Move somewhat near the salesman on the platform and do a
standing jump to the right (that is, without touching the
joystick jump, and then move to the right in mid-air).
You'll grab the green pillar in the correct position in
order to jump to the left and pass between salesman and wall.

Open the second wall section, get elephant, touch salesman.

NOTE: if you should fail you'd enter the shop and loose it.

When you get to the end of a level, just before jumping up
to the boss/dragon/etc stand on the closest platform below
and shoot skeletons until the time goes down to about 10
seconds. Then jump up and kill the boss - only the final
dragon takes any length of time. In other words, use all
the time before leaving the level! If you do this early
on in level 1, you are able to afford the second weapon
at the first shop; this makes level 2 considerably easier.
Also, this allows you to finish the game with a 2 million+
score. If you just finish the level immediately you only
get about 1.5Million.
At the end of the levels with monsters - not dragons -
just stand in front of them and press jump and fire, don't
move, and they will not touch you.