Guide to Prince of Persia tricks (Large Topic)

[Norbert]

Cool new trick, found by yaqxsw, used here:



Only works in level 1; you press Ctrl+a (restart level) while also holding down Shift.
Nice trick to trap newbies in an empty room with no (apparent) way out.

[Norbert]

I think this also qualifies as a (well-known) trick:

[Norbert]

As shown by Khushal64n6 here.

[Norbert]

As mentioned by Iso in the shoutbox ("I think there's another trick not mentioned yet [...]").
Shown by Iso here (also by Kaslghnoon) and replicated for DOS by David here.

[Khushal64n6]

This is Jakim's trick

[Norbert]

[yaqxsw]

This trick you can make at potion of illusion level 14 I know this

[David]

If you change the rightmost tile of the middle row to empty: after you climb up, you'll be at the exact needed position.

(Press left, then immediately press up to fall down.)

I didn't have to press up.

[Norbert]

If you change the rightmost tile of the middle row to empty: after you climb up, you'll be at the exact needed position.

(Press left, then immediately press up to fall down.)

I didn't have to press up.

Thanks for the additions, I've updated my post to reflect your findings.
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[Norbert]

From level 4 of A Place Of Despair (video footage):

[Norbert]

As used by yaqxsw for Potion of Illusion and shown by him here:

[Norbert]

And... another one.
Mentioned by Kaslghnoon here.

[yaqxsw]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW

How crazy is Kaslghnoon?

[Norbert]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW

How crazy is Kaslghnoon?

Yeah, we're starting to have such a varied and extensive collection of tricks that soon we'll be able to ignore whatever the mods' authors planned and sprint straight to the exit through all the walls, traps and guards.
Good stuff though, I frequently look through the tricks just to chuckle at how crazy cool some of them are.

[Norbert]

As used, for example, here and here: