#banana balls

[grimmla-arts]

Banana hydra

[deadlinesmb]

in light of today's events

[baguantte]

something i made for a certain discord server

[starrjoy]

the ultimate monkey!!!!

[chongoblog]

New Super Speed mode in Super Monkey Ball: Banana Rumble is out and oh lord is getting IL records with it FUN

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

[alexandriaellisart]

i thought you were gonna get me a drink

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[fyanimaldiversity]

In case anyone was wondering about my wonderful worm, here is 7 month old vs the now approximately 2 year old Poptart the palmetto corn snake ! Her colors have developed so intensely, she no longer is a tiny pink worm, and contrary to what I was told about the morph she did definitely gain spots, and spots that she initially had have grown in size as well!

[artsicfox]

Here's week 03 of Inktober!

With this all my inktober updates over here are up to date hehe! (if you want to see them daily as I make them I recommend going to my Insta, I upload them daily on my story!)

This week's line up ended up being;

°Day 15 - Ichi - Ichi the witch

°Day 16 - Ash - banana fish

°Day 17 - Alma - Gokurakugai

°Day 18 - Saitama - One punch man

°Day 19 - Kaneki - Tokyo Ghoul

°Day 20 - Piccolo - DBZ

°Day 21 - Rin - Blue exorcist

[heckin--vex]

[mahnisreptiles]

Meet Lotus 🥹🩷

[n64retro]

Super Monkey Ball Amusement Vision / Sega Gamecube 2001

Gif by @morebuildingsandfood 

[grimmla-arts]

sometimes I think about them

[cupiidzbow]

slowly chipping my way on figuring out how i draw everyone…. smile 🐒🍌

[tristepinguino]

Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble alphanumerics (involves spoilers)!

As stated and shown in this post by @chongoblog, Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble features it own version of the characters of the Latin alphabet and Arabic numerals. These characters are used to decorate the world and convey messages and info that can be converted one-to-one (mostly) to English. It should be noted that their written word largely lacks punctuation.

Perhaps the loudest hint that this diegetic writing has direct meaning comes from the cosmetics/clothing you can dress playable characters with. The "Loungewear" item differs slightly for each character, and features their name on the front. Great reference for vowels!

Here are some more examples from other cosmetics:

The numerals are bit harder to pin down, as examples of them are fewer and further between. Aside from the "24 HOURS" sign in the background of Neon Arena and the year "2023" seen in some Rose Garden levels, here are a few more sightings:

The full-page text-only entries in Palette's diary (diaries?) repeatedly appear throughout the course of the credits sequence. The pages that feature a photo and/or drawing appear only once, but are unfortunately all partially obscured. The full-page entries can initially be seen at the start of the credits, when Palette's diary opens with a flurry of pages. However, among that flurry is an entry that does not seem to reappear later in the credits sequence:

Palette's name (and noggin) are also on the back of the diary at the end.

If I may digress for a bit, who's this yahoo???

This character's mug is also featured on the koban that lay in the background of Golden Temple and on the corresponding travel brochure. Doesn't seem to resemble any of the Super Monkey Ball Adventure characters or anything. I wish they'd show us YanYan's dad…

Additional examples of the the written language:

Here are some miscellaneous text samples I whipped up:

I currently have no insight to offer regarding the "gibberish" seen in Oceanus. 😔

[chongoblog]

SUPER MONKEY BALL: BANANA RUMBLE TRANSLATED

So I've mentioned a few times that there's a written language in this game. To my knowledge, I'm the only one who's been actively translating everything, so I figure I should post it. Shoutouts to viv for repeatedly reminding me to make this. It's gonna be a BIG post, so I'm putting it under the cut

If you wanna see all the cool work put into this (or if you're a puzzle solver who wants to help crack a code I'm hoping to crack) then journey onward

So first of all, here is the code as we have it (as rough estimations made by yours truly)

Over the course of this post, I also found out the numbering system (as you'll see once we reach Oceanus), so here's how numbers work, although they appear rarely

Some of them vary depending on handwriting, but this should do a good job of telling you which is which.

This game isn't lying to you, that book DOES say "Journal". And each goal is labeled as such and has a sticker saying "Monkey Resort"

Here are all the brochures for each world (you may need to click to enhance). Caelum's is definitely the most interesting, but these helped me a ton to figure out the language.

The hat reads "SMB"

Here's a collection of a bunch of little misc. translations

Here's a whole section just covering Neon Arena

This section turned out to be huge, because a lot of figuring out an upcoming section is partly thanks to this one (I literally just now confirmed what X looks like with Boxing, and as a lesser note, I think we not have confirmation on numbers. Yahoo). Anyway, I don't know why it says meme, but I don't care

Anyway, here's Palette's diary that shows up during the credits completely translated (spoilers of course)

Now for the real meat and potatoes. Oceanus. What's interesting about Oceanus is that a lot of the writing is flipped for whatever reason, and it translated out to mostly gibberish (AND it used numbers). Very interesting way to portray what's supposed to be a dead language. There are multiple square panels which each include 35 characters (except one I think?) and a few circles that have 20 characters apiece in them. Is it meant to just be gibberish? I don't think so. The way it's hidden and formatted doesn't seem like an afterthought (especially when you take a look at how much writing IS in the game) I haven't had any luck making sense of them, but if it means anything to you guys, let me know!

Anyway, that does it for the codes for now! I think I missed pasting a couple of these (for example, the card that Easel leaves in Story Mode and the Easel card item in battle mode says "Preliminary Notice" on it). If you have any questions or any leads on this Oceanus stuff, let me know!