[TAS] GC Super Monkey Ball 'Expert through Master' by byrz & CyclopsDragon in 12:55.18

Sega's Super Monkey Ball (2001) lets you take control of one of four monkeys trapped inside a transparent ball. You must complete each stage by tilting the game level to roll your monkey using the force of gravity and colliding with objects. There are over 100 unique levels ranging in difficulty from easy to near impossible.

In this TAS, the authors start at the Expert difficulty, where they proceed to tear through most of its 60 levels as well as the 10 Master levels, using warps where necessary and breaking most of the heavily optimized console world record times.

[voydcat]

Just a reminder that in Super Monkey Ball, you don’t control the character, you control the _course._ Ai-Ai has no say in anything that’s happening, so he’s probably absolutely fucking _terrified_ at all the hot nonsense he’s being subjected to.

[Radman]

275, 856 rerecords. The frame precision needed must've been insane

[Alexs]

Look at this dude, doing in 13 minutes something that took me 13 hours to do. Also, I never saw the Expert Extra or Master stages the entire time I ever owned a Super Monkey Ball 1 disc. "Expert" lived up to its name. So maddeningly difficult! D:

[redhood]

I loved this game as a kid on the game cube

[doggiegamesd]

Amazingly completed!!! I was shocked the whole entire time!!!

[Vtubears]

Falling and stumbling to victory. A sight to behold.

[GTFoxNY]

1:56 What a smashed ball you have, AiAi!

[FlippyLuigi]

1:57 Your that good that you even broke the collision and 4th wall

[runewjade]

i like that tas'ers can make expert through master seem like easy and, you call that a stage?

[curlybrace]

The weird thing is these strats aren't entirely that far off from realtime speedruns.

[apersonthatexists]

8:03
You Know A Run's Ridiculous When The TAS Uses Pause Buffering

[guywhoateallthepizza]

12:31

One random Monkey Ball Dev adding a single Banana on this Master Stage just for some TAS Maker to hit exactly 100 Bananas years later.

[chris.twentyeightt]

When I was little, I only got up to Floor 21.
Geez, now I realized Expert only had Warp Goals on Stages 2, 3, 42, & 46...

[SoundFantasy]

Master mode sounds so familiar.
Was it in a sonic compilation?

[chs]

I've never seen anything past stage 17 on expert, and I'm now learning there were master stages too...

[clairecaldwell]

You know what? This made me kinda want to play SMB, even though I'm a clumsy idiot without fine motor skills.

[Order-Sol]

Is it possible to learn something like this in real life from a TAS?

[sbprakamranonymity]

Why didn't you either skip the credits or collect as many bananas as possible?

[ShadicFusion]

Besides the screwed up ball glitch AIAI are you okay?

[K_TNE]

Even in a TAS run, pause buffering is still a common practice.