Super Monkey Ball Facts and Glitches You Don't Know

Big thanks to DarkViperAU for giving me the go-ahead to make this video. You can find his content at the following links:

Super Monkey Ball's Biggest Milestone has been Achieved (G117):

Top 10 Oldest Super Monkey Ball High Scores That Have Yet to be Beaten (G115):

DarkViperAU's GTA V Facts & Glitches Series:

𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧:

Having spent the past 6 years as a member of the Super Monkey Ball speedrunning community, I've learned tons of seemingly random little features and glitches present in the game. In this video, I cover just some of the more interesting ones to help spread the word of these interesting quirks.

𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬:

02:49 - Here I say that no floors exist in the Extra theme which contain any bumpers. This is completely wrong as Advanced Extra 5 is an extra stage with bumpers.

𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐬 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝:

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Current Super Monkey Ball Leaderboards:

Super Monkey Ball Highscores:

[raddaradda]

Lol ngl you got me with the 3mil hours joke. I did math, 343 years of super monkey ball is dedication.

[Progamer]

3:45 THATS THE DUCK!!!! That's the "rubber duck" in SMB 2 Bubbly Washing Machine's basket out of bounds! It was hiding in SMB 1 the whole time! Crazy!

[Goobermd]

If you notice any mistakes I made in this video, please let me know and I'll keep updating this comment. Cheers. :)

𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬:

02:49 - Here I say that no floors exist in the Extra theme which contain any bumpers. This is completely wrong as Advanced Extra 5 is an extra stage with bumpers. (Thanks Toothy7564)

[georgem]

There’s a weird glitch on the Blur Bridge level. If you play the game in 50hz mode, pause the game and select ‘View Stage’ the moving platforms suddenly become much wider. I don’t know why it happens but it does.

[herothehedgefox]

3:55 this HAPPENED TO ME ON A CASUAL PLAYTHROUGH AND I WAS SO MAD AS A KID. I might still have the replay saved.

[WellBadPanda]

Interesting trivia! The only one I already knew was the 1 point on monkey target for landing back on the ramp, I spent hours mucking around in that mode. You also get 1 point for landing anywhere on the support structure surrounding the ramp. Another oddity in monkey target is that if you build up enough speed before opening your wings, you can dive underwater and then pull back to take off into the air again and continue your turn.

[herothehedgefox]

*pounding table* FOLLOW UP! FOLLOW UP!

[lynxfangr]

Criminally small amount of views on this video. I don't even know why the algorithm is recommending super monkey ball shit to me now, I haven't played the game since I was 16, but this video is very well put together.

[Toothy]

"In both the Desert and *Extra* themes of the main game, no floors exist which include bumpers."


Polar Large (AX5) wants to say hi to that.


Even so, nice video!

[xtacoloverxx]

First off awesome job. I enjoy DarkviperAU and I'm glad you're able to do this for Super monkey ball. I personally can't play monkey ball because my copy for GameCube is messed up so watching these videos really helps with that keep up the good work man. Your new mic sounds great as well. I hope you make another one of these facts and glitches for Super monkey ball.

[Meganarb]

This was super neat! Defo would be interested in another. Cheers for the fantastic video!

[hexbug]

I have another possible option for a part 2 if you didn’t know about already (though since you speedrun you probably have seen it). I decided to try the speedrun strat on Expert Extra 6 cause I was bored. While I didn’t get it I did manage to bounce off the first bottom loop and clip into the side of the tube. So that was cool and if you somehow haven’t come across it it’s pretty neat

[CherryColaCake]

why does super monkey ball 1 remind me of chinese food

[PsychoBabble]

What's the story with needing dark viper's permission to do this vid? That guy's unhinged.

[NullyBird]

Great video, microphone sounds a little grousacious

[Maxxieuguu]

Uh. Doesn’t advanced extra 5 (polar large) contain bumpers on some of the moving platforms?

[charvari]

Is there a discord or subreddit/forum for super monkey ball?

[mrsharpie]

It's funny you say that; because of the horrible anxiety I had when I was a kid, I actually HATED playing Monkey Target 🤣

Sick music though

[Maxxieuguu]

Yo! I like this game! But i can’t get to master! Cuz of those stupid slippery controls! Like. People say sonic heroes is slippery! But trust me. You have not experienced anything! Until you have played monkey ball 2 or deluxe for a while and then went back to 1. My. Gosh! (So maybe i don’t like this game)

[htcthunderbolt]

why would u need permission from someone else to do a video?