Everything in this guide was tested on the PC version of this game. However since the PC version is a port of the PS1 version, every trick should work on the PS1 version as well.

These control names will be used throughout the guide:

"JUMP" = G (PC, Default) = Square (PS1, Default)
"RUN" = C (PC, Default) = X (PS1, Default)
"DYNAMITE" = V (PC, Default) = Triangle (PS1, Default)
"SHOOT" = B (PC, Default) = Circle (PS1, Default)
"SEE SCORE BAR" = F (PC, Default) = L2 (PS1, Default)

Movement

Platform Levels

Movement methods

1. Jumping while holding RUN: By far the fastest method
2. Running: Hold "RUN" to run
3. Walking: By far the slowest method

Jumping

The longer you hold JUMP the higher you will jump.
When you hold "RUN" while jumping you will jump a lot higher and move faster in air.

Ladders

It is faster to jump ladders up. To do so go in front of them and jump before you reach the point where you automatically walk the ladder up.
It is also faster to jump ladders down, you can even turn left or right while still in air.

Trampolines

You will bounce of trampoline like objects. When you hold "RUN" whie jumping onto such a object you will bounce off a lot higher.

Train 1

You can move to the left and the right in part 1 by pressing "LEFT" or "RIGHT".
You can move to the background or the foreground in part 2 by pressing "UP" or "DOWN".

Wagons

Hold "RUN" for a permanent speed boost.
Press LEFT or RIGHT to lean to one side and make the wagon drive on two wheels for a short moment.
Press DOWN to duck and to avoid getting hit by obstacles in the air.

Energy Bars

In several levels you have to fill energy bars to perform an action. To do so press SHOOT and JUMP alternately.
When the bar is full it will blink, then you can perform the desired action by pressing DYNAMITE.
The faster you press the faster the bar fills up. When you are too slow the bar will loose height again.

Boxing Fights

Low Punch = DOWN and RUN
Normal Punch = LEFT/RIGHT/No key and RUN
High Punch = UP AND RUN

Upper Block = LEFT/RIGHT/No key and JUMP
Low Block = DOWN and JUMP

The boxing fights are heavily RNG based.
A general tactic is to try the same punch type again after you hit the enemy with a punch.
When he hits you or blocks your punch try another one.

After you hit an enemy too often with the same punch type he will consistently block that specific punch until you change the type.

Checkpoints

When you die you will respawn at the last checkpoint you triggered. If you didn't trigger any you will respawn at the beginning of the level.
In many levels you will have to go back to a place where you have already been. In that case you can often use checkpoints to skip a part of going back. However before you respawn there will be a sequence that takes about 10 seconds.

Health

When you touch an explosion or are hit by enemies you will loose one health point. You will die when you loose 4 health points.

Collectibles

There are several types of collectibles in the game. Some of them are only avaiable in one level.

Sheriff Star

Appearances: Level 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11

Restores one health point when you do not have full health.

B's

Appearances: Level 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 9.

There are 4 B's placed in each level.
If you collect all of them, you will have to play a bonus level after you finished the level.
The B counter is reset to 0 when loading the next level. These are the types of bonus levels:

Bottle Shooting

Shooting bottles will give you money at the end of the level. Each bottle color is worth a fixed amount of Dollars.

There are four phases:

Phase 1: Only red bottles with each cycle. (0 to 25% of time over) Phase 2: Red and green bottles with each cycle. (25% to 50% of time over) Phase 3: Red, green and blue bottles with each cycle. (50% to 75% of time over) Phase 4: Red, green, blue and yellow bottles with each cycle. (75% to 100% of time over)

Shooting the barkeeper reduces your remaining time. This will only work when one time unit has passed and when there is at least one time unit remaining (Bars around the Crosshair).
Shooting Rintincan extends your remaining time.
Once you triggered a phase you will stay in it until you trigger the next phase even when you extend the time to below the trigger point for the current phase.

To finish this level the fastest way possible keep shooting at the barkeeper (he will hide and reappear after you hit him).

Arm Wrestling

In this level you have to fill a strength bar and step by step win the arm wrestling against Jolly Jumper.

The fastest way to finish this level is to win the arm wrestling since the computer player is much slower than a human player.

The Card Game

This level has two parts.

In the first part there are 8 cards placed face down on the table. You choose one and Pat Poker will turn it around. If you get Lucky Luke, Jolly Jumper or Rintincan you win money and can choose another card. If you get Joe Dalton, the game ends and you lose all gained money. There is only one Joe Dalton card in this set of cards. If you succesfully turn around all 7 good cards, Pat Poker will also turn around the 8th card and you will gain alot of money. The second part is a new challenge, there are two cards placed face down, one is a Joe Dalton card. The rules are the same like in the first part.

The fastest way to finish this level is to select the Quit option on the right side of the cards at the very beginning. To do so press LEFT and RUN as soon as the Quit option is highlighted.

Dynamite

Appearances: Level 1, 3, 5, 8

Dynamite is only in levels where it is needed to blow away something. The amount of dynamite you have does not make a difference after finishing a level.
The dynamite counter will be reset to 0 after finishing a level

Dollars

Appearances: Level 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5 Boss, 6, 8, 9

There are two types of Dollars:

1. Normal Dollars: "Normal" sized dollars are worth 1$
2. Big Dollars / Dollars that get bigger and burst: This dollars are worth 10$.

If you have more than 29 Dollars after a level you will go to the shop where you can buy lifes (30$) and the level password (100$).
If you have more than 99 Dollars left buy the level code, else buy lifes.

Lifes

Appearances: Level 3, 4, 5, 6(?), 8(?), 9

Lifes are golden Lucky Luke heads. When you collect one you gain an extra life.

Keys

Appearances: Level 1, 5, 8

Keys will open locked doors. Each key seems to only work for a specific door.

Level Specific Collectibles

Level 4: Moon-like pearls

You have to collect all 10 of them in order to proceed to the next level. When you collected one the next one will spawn. There is only one avaiable at a time and you have to collect them in a fixed pattern.

Level 6: Totem Parts

You have to collect all four totem parts in order to finish this level. You can collect them in any order.

Level 8: Gold Nuggets

You have to collect all four gold nuggets and bring them to the guy next to the beginning of the level. He will then give you a key to enter the next level.

Level 9: Speed Boosts

There are blue lightning symbols which will act as a speedboost. When you collect them you will drive very fast for a fixed amount of time.

Cheat Codes

Level Passwords

There are four different symbols and each password is four symbols long.
In the main menu go to OPTIONS > PASSWORD in order to enter a password.

If you are not familiar with Lucky Luke, here is a short explanation what the names mean:

Lucky Luke = cowboy, main hero
Jolly Jumper = Lucky Luke's horse
Rintincan = dog
Dalton brothers = bandits

PS1 Version

Level 1: Start a new game
Level 2: Dalton - Dalton - Lucky - Jolly
Level 3: Lucky - Lucky - Jolly - Rintincan
Level 4: Dalton - Jolly - Lucky - Rintincan
Level 5: Lucky - Jolly - Dalton - Rintincan
Level 6: Rintincan - Rintincan - Dalton - Jolly
Level 7: Dalton - Dalton - Jolly - Rintincan
Level 8: Dalton - Lucky - Lucky - Jolly
Level 9: Rintincan - Dalton - Dalton - Jolly
Level 10: Jolly - Dalton - Rintincan - Rintincan
Level 11: Jolly - Jolly - Lucky - Rintincan

PC Version

Level 1: Start a new game
Level 2: Jolly - Dalton - Rintincan - Lucky
Level 3: Dalton - Lucky - Dalton - Jolly
Level 4: Lucky - Dalton - Jolly - Lucky
Level 5: Rintincan - Lucky - Dalton - Dalton
Level 6: Dalton - Rintincan - Rintincan - Dalton
Level 7: Dalton - Dalton - Lucky - Jolly
Level 8: Lucky - Rintincan - Dalton - Lucky
Level 9: Jolly - Rintincan - Rintincan - Dalton
Level 10: Lucky - Jolly - Lucky - Rintincan
Level 11: Rintincan - Jolly - Dalton - Lucky

Debug Mode

Apparently only accessible in the PS1 version. The file config.txt of the PC version does refer to the Debug Mode too, but it is unknown how to activate it.

The Cheat Code for the PS1 version is:

Press L1 + R1, L2 + R2, L1 + L2, R1 + R2 while the "ocean" logo is shown. If done correctly the word "CHEAT" appears in the top left border.
You can now activate the debug menu everywhere except for during loading screens and video sequences.
To show the menu press L2 + R2. To hide it press Triangle.
Use the D-Pad to navigate and press X to load a level.

The two most interesting entries in the menu are:

LEVEL

From that entry you can select any level or video sequence of the game, including the language select screen and the main menu.

INVINCIBLE

OFF = Default, you are not invincible
ON = Your health doesn't decrease and there are invisible walls preventing you from falling into pits and dying. However sometimes you are too far down in the pit to come back out of it.

Edit config.txt

This is only avaiable in the PC version and somewhat the equivalent to debug mode.

Open the folder "win" in the games installation directory.
Then copy the file "config.txt" to your desktop for example. Now edit the file with any editor. Finally copy it back to the folder and replace the old version.

Here are the effects of changing lines in that file:

StartLevel

Replace the number "1" in the line "StartLevel = 1" by another number to change the start level. This means that the game will start at a level or video sequence instead of with the intro sequence followed by the main menu.

< 0 = crash
0 = freeze
1 = Intro Video followed by Main Menu
2 = Abilene
3 = Abilene Boss
4 = Video Sequence between Abilene Boss and Train 1
5 = Train 1
6 = Video Sequence between Train 1 and Train 2
7 = Train 2
8 = Video Sequence between Train 2 and Pueblos
9 = Pueblos
10 = Mine Tunnels
11 = Buttercut
12 = Video Sequence between Buttercut and Indian Desert
13 = Indian Desert
14 = Video Sequence between Indian Desert and Saloon
15 = Saloon
16 = Video Sequence between Saloon and Waterfalls
17 = Waterfalls
18 = Wagons
19 = Video Sequence between Wagons and Lumberjacks
20 = Lumberjacks Trial 1
21 = Lumberjacks Trial 2
22 = Lumberjacks Trial 3
23 = Dalton City
24 = The Barn
25 = Shop
26 = Bonus Level 3 (Card Game)
27 = Bonus Level 1 (Bottle Shooting)
28 = Bonus Level 2 (Arm Wrestling)
29 = Game Over Sequence
30 = Ending Sequence
> 30 = crash

Invincible

0 = Default, you are not invincible
1 = Your health doesn't decrease and there are invisible walls preventing you from falling into pits and dying. However sometimes you are too far down in the pit to come back out of it.

Version differences

• Loading times are slower in the PlayStation version
• Elevators in Level 5 ("Mine Tunnels") move down much slower in the PlayStation version
• The versions have different sets of level passwords
• There are more checkpoints in the PC version
• There is a compass in some levels in the PC version which is missing in the PlayStation version.

Trivial Knowledge

Comic with the same name

There is a comic with the same name like the game, however the story is far away from the game's story. The Daltons escape in both versions and Lucky Luke follows and catches them. Other than that there is not really anything that is similar.