Master

Master is a difficulty level in the Super Monkey Ball series. It is one of the hardest levels in the series. The Expert Extra Floors must be beaten without using a continue to unlock this difficulty mode. In Super Monkey Ball 2 and Super Monkey Ball Deluxe, after reaching the Master Floors, they can be played without having to go through the expert stages at any time.

In Super Monkey Ball Jr., the player does not need to go through Expert to unlock its Master stages, as they are unlocked via Play Points. In Super Monkey Ball: Banana Splitz, the player must complete Advanced difficulty before unlocking Master, which they can also select and play at any time.

Monkey Ball

In the original NAOMI arcade game, completing the Expert Extra stages without using a continue allows the player to play the Master Stage. This stage has its own background, floor pattern and music.

It reappears in Super Monkey Ball as Master Floor 9, and reappears in Deluxe with the name "Bridge Master."

Super Monkey Ball

A collage of all Master floors in Super Monkey Ball

All of these levels take place in Banana Island.

• Master Floor 1 - Wave Master
• Master Floor 2 - Fan Master
• Master Floor 3 - Stamina Master
• Master Floor 4 - Spring Master
• Master Floor 5 - Dance Master
• Master Floor 6 - Roll Master
• Master Floor 7 - Edge Master
• Master Floor 8 - Dodge Master
• Master Floor 9 - Bridge Master
• Master Floor 10 - Monkey Master

Records

The first known person in the world to access Expert Extra onto Master was user SnapDragon64, who was a registered user on Vortiginous. He was also the first person to complete Master without using a continue.

Super Monkey Ball 2

A collage of all non-extra Master stages in Super Monkey Ball 2

1. Centrifugal
2. Swing Bridges
3. Cylinders
4. Passage
5. Notch
6. Intermittent
7. Long Torus
8. Spasmodic
9. Double Twin
10. Clock Face

Extra Stages

1. Variable Width
2. Striker
3. Ooparts
4. Planets
5. Sliced Cheese
6. 8 Seesaws
7. Synchronized
8. Helix
9. Dizzy System
10. Nintendo

Super Monkey Ball Deluxe

Floor names in bold are from Super Monkey Ball. Floor names in italics are from Super Monkey Ball 2.

1. Centrifugal
2. Swing Bridges
3. Cylinders
4. Passage
5. Notch
6. Intermittent
7. Long Torus
8. Spasmodic
9. Double Twin
10. Clock Face
11. Wave Master
12. Fan Master
13. Stamina Master
14. Spring Master
15. Dance Master
16. Roll Master
17. Edge Master
18. Dodge Master
19. Bridge Master
20. Monkey Master

Extra Stages

1. Variable Width
2. Striker
3. Ooparts
4. Planets
5. Sliced Cheese
6. 8 Seesaws
7. Synchronized
8. Helix
9. Dizzy System
10. Destiny (replaces Nintendo)

Super Monkey Ball Jr.

Jr. only has 5 Master stages. All stages take place in Lava Land.

1. Master Floor 1
2. Master Floor 2
3. Master Floor 3
4. Master Floor 4
5. Master Floor 5

Super Monkey Ball: Banana Splitz

All levels here take place in Time Paradox.

1. Shanti Chakram
2. Shockwave
3. Heaven and Hell
4. Master Slider
5. Banana Split
6. Mega-Float
7. Emperor's Pyramid
8. Bumper Core
9. Chaos Metronome
10. Clock Gear

Trivia

• In the original arcade, there are two unused difficulty select objects that indicates that Master was never intended to be one stage in the arcade and that it was going to be a difficulty with 100 stages (and possibly 10 or 20 Extra stages). It was changed to one stage (which became Master 9 (Bridge Master) in the GameCube port), either due to time constraints, it being too hard, being too long, or other reasons.
• In Monkey Ball and Super Monkey Ball, you cannot enter Master from difficulty select (unlike Super Monkey Ball 2, Deluxe, Jr., Banana Splitz, and Banana Mania) as it is treated more like Expert Extra Extra.
• Super Monkey Ball 2 is the first game in the series to have Master Extra levels.
• In an advertisement for Super Monkey Ball, Master 3 was originally Exam-C. It also had more bananas.
  • The bananas would have meant that Master 9 wouldn't be the only Master stage in Super Monkey Ball to have bananas.
• Banana Split in Banana Splitz is the only Master-difficulty bonus stage in the entire series.