Bro Ball

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Bros. Ball
Instructions for the Bros. Ball in Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time
“I've dubbed this the Bros. Ball. Why you ask? Because you are bros. And you form a ball.”
—Toadsworth the Younger, Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time

The Bro. Ball, previously known as the Bros. Ball, is a Bros. Move usable by Mario and Luigi that appears in Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time and Mario & Luigi: Brothership.

History

Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time

Bros. Ball being used in the Koopaseum
Bros. Ball from Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time

In Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time, the move is taught to Mario and Luigi by Toadsworth and Toadsworth the Younger after Yoshi's Island is cleared and before the player heads for Gritzy Desert, in which the move is required to clear a minigame in Peach's Castle to even gain access to the time hole leading to the area. When using this move, the Mario Bros. both form themselves into a wheel and start rolling along the ground like a ball, allowing them to traverse through areas faster. Additionally, the Bros. Ball lets Mario and Luigi go under walls and small spaces in the game.

Later on in the game, Mario and Luigi learn the ability to temporarily flatten Baby Mario and Baby Luigi so they can move under even smaller spaces. This move is called Baby Cakes, and it is learned, along with the Baby Spin, by the two Toadsworths after the player clears Gritzy Caves and before the quartet heads out to Thwomp Volcano. It is indicated that both people in a Bros. Ball have some influence on the ball's movement, as in creating Baby Cakes, Toadsworth the Younger drives their ball over Baby Peach while Toadsworth tries to prevent it.

Mario & Luigi: Brothership

In Mario & Luigi: Brothership, the Bro. Ball, now under its new name, is learned by Mario and Luigi after they rescue Princess Peach on Lottacoins Island and have to find an escape route. It now has the ability to brake, which makes the Bro. Ball move slower.

Super Mario-kun

A four-brother variation of the Bros. Ball from the Super Mario-kun, volume 37
Mario, Luigi, Baby Mario, and Baby Luigi rolled up in the four-brother version of the ball in Super Mario-kun, volume 37

In the Super Mario-kun volumes adapted from Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time, Mario and Luigi use the Bros. Ball as an attack rather than a utility move, where they smash into the Snoozorb in volume 35. Later, in volume 37, a four-brother variation of the Bros. Ball is used against the Elder Princess Shroob.

Profiles

Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time

  • Instruction manual description: "Press the A Button and Mario and Luigi will huddle together and form a ball. Use the +Control Pad Control Pad to control where they roll. To break out of ball formation, press either the A or B Button"

See also

Names in other languages

Language Name Meaning Notes
Japanese ブラザーボール[?]
Burazā bōru 		Brother ball
German Brüderball[?] Brother Ball
Italian Palla Fratelli[?] Bros. Ball
Korean 브라더 볼[?]
Beuradeo Bol 		Brother Ball
Spanish Bola dúo[?] Duo ball

Trivia

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Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time
Playable characters Mario • Luigi • Baby Mario • Baby Luigi
Non-playable characters Baby Peach • Doctor • Fawful • Gramma Red and Gramma Green • Hollijolli Mayor • Koopa Cruiser crew • Kylie Koopa • Monty Mole • Mr. Thwomp • Princess Peach • Professor E. Gadd • Elvin Gadd (past) • Star Temple gate • Stuffwell • Thwomp Bros. • Thwomp Elevator • Toad • Toads • Toadbert • Toadiko • Toadsworth • Toadsworth the Younger • Yoob • Yoshi • Yoshis
Bosses Baby Bowser • Bowser • Commander Shroob • Elder Princess Shroob • Elder Shrooboid • Hammer Bros. • Junior Shrooboid • Kamek • Mrs. Thwomp • Petey Piranha • Princess Shroob • Shroob • Shrooboid Brat • Shrowser • Sunnycide • Swiggler
Locations Baby Bowser's Castle • Fawful's Bean 'n' Badge • Gramma's Place • Gritzy Caves • Gritzy Desert • Hollijolli Village • Koopaseum • Monty Mart • Peach's Castle • Peach's Castle Dungeon • Princess Peach's room • Shroob Castle • Shroob Mother Ship • Shroob planet • Shroom Shop • Star Hill • Star Shrine • Thwomp Caverns • Thwomp Volcano • Toad Town • Toadwood Forest • Vim Factory • Yoob's Belly • Yoshi's Island
Enemies Blazing Shroob • Bob-omb • Boo • Boo Guy • Boom Guy • Bully • Coconutter • Dark Boo • Dr. Shroob • Dry Bones • Elasto-Piranha • Elite Boom Guy • Fly Guy • Ghoul Guy • Gnarantula • Gold Koopeleon • Goomba • Goombette • Guardian Shroob • Handfake • Intern Shroob • Koopeleon • Lakitufo • Lethal Bob-omb • Love Bubble • Pidgit • Piranha Planet • Pokey • RC Shroober • Red Coconutter • Shroid • Shrooba Diver • Shrooblet • Shroob-omb • Shroob Rex • Shroobsworth • Skellokey • Snifaro • Snoozorb • Soul Bubble • Spiny Shroopa • Support Shroob • Tanoomba • Tashrooba • Thwack • Thwack Totem • Wonder Thwack
Items Consumables 1-Up Mushroom • 1-Up Super • 10 Coin • 100 Coin • 20 Coin • Bean • Coin • Blue Pepper • Five Coin • Green Pepper • Max Mushroom • Mushroom • Mushroom Drop • Red Pepper • Refreshing Herb • Super Mushroom • Super Drop • Ultra Mushroom • Ultra Drop
Blocks 4-Bros. Random Block • Adult Shine Block • Aurora Block • Command Block • Control Block • Empty Block • L Block • Laser Block • M Block • Recovery block • Save Album • Simultaneous Block • Small Shine Block • Warp Block
Bros. Items Bros. Flower • Cannonballer • Copy Flower • Green Shell • Ice Flower • Mix Flower • Pocket Chomp • Red Shell • Smash Egg • Trampoline
Other 2-Person Panel • 4-Person Panel • Cobalt Star • Chomp Rock • DS time radar • Fireball • Hydrogush 4000 • Iceball • Koopa Cannon • Koopa Clown Car • Koopa Cruiser • Kyankyan • Pipe • Prof. E. Gadd's time machine • Shroob missile • Shroob mushroom • Shroob saucer • Spike Ball • Time hole • Toadbert's Drawing • Treasure Chest Block • Whirlwind
Stats Defense • Experience Point • Heart Point • Power • Speed • Stache
Status Burn • DEF-Down • DEF-Up • Dizzy • Level up • Poison • POW-Down • POW-Up • Prohibited Command • SPD-Down • SPD-Up • Trip
Moves Baby Cakes • Baby Drill • Baby Pump • Baby Spin • Baby Toss • Bros. Ball • Counterattack • Flee • Hammer • Jump • Piggyback Jump • Spin Jump
Other Beanhole locations • Bestiary • Block locations • Gallery • Gear • Glitches • Level up progressions • Mario & Luigi RPG: Sound Selection • Media • Pre-release and unused content • Quotes • Shops • Staff • Story summaries
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Mario & Luigi: Brothership
Characters Playable characters Mario • Luigi
Non-playable characters Adaphne • Arc • Billdit • Birdo • Bowser • Bowser Jr. • Buddy • Burnadette • Burnadette's dad • Chilliam • Chilliam's dad • Connie • Cozette • Dewey Fightem • Dorrie • Dr. Vulko • Dyode • Emmit • Grampy Turnip (Golden Grampy Turnip) • Great Conductor • IDLE (Ireen • Dulles • Loog • Ellow) • Ireen's mom • Issa Rock • Kamek • Knocken Slyde • Leyden • Leyden's assistant • Maykit • Patriarc • Princess Peach • Ryder O'Reilly • Snoutlet • Spiralia • Starlow • Technikki • Toads • Willma
Locations Concordia Allsand Island • Bitsi Islet • Brrrning Sea • Bulbfish Island • Color-Full Sea • Compac Islet • Conductor Island • Cozee Islet • Daintye Islet • Desolatt Island • Dinkee Islet • Dropplet Islet • Florall Island • Fortress Zokket • Great Lighthouse Island • Gulchrock Sea • Heatfreeze Island • Inphant Islet • Itsi Islet • Jellyfish Island • Liil Islet • Lottacoins Island • Lushgreen Sea • Meeger Islet • Merrygo Island • Minmin Islet • Morsel Islet • Mykroh Islet • Mynor Islet • Nanoh Islet • Offandon Island • Paquette Islet • Petit Islet • Raynforst Island • Rumbla Island • Shipshape Island • Shrimpee Islet • Shroonken Islet • Skorcheen Island • Slippenglide Island • Smahl Islet • Soli-Tree • Stormstar Sea • Teensi Islet • Teenytiny Islet • Twistee Island • Wayaway Island (Bowser's Castle)
Other Mushroom Kingdom
Bros. Attacks Mario Red Shell • Hatch Me if You Can • Bomb Derby • Clockout Blow • Conductor Connector
Luigi Green Shell • Zapperator • Jump Helmet • Yoo Who Cannon • Max-Mix Vortex
Moves Bro Ball (Ball Blitz) • Fire & Ice (Bro Bomb) • Hammer • Jump • UFO Spin (UFO Vacuum)
Enemies Big Spikely (Glohm) • Big Soreboar (Glohm) • Bob-omb • Boo (Glohm) • Bumbleshoot (Glohm) • Capnap (Capnap R • Glohm • Glohm R) • Curlup (R • Glohm) • Doom Bloom • Drillby (R • Glohm • Glohm R) • Dry Bones • Fire Bro (Glohm) • Foopfly (R • Glohm • Glohm R) • Golden Seedle • Goomba (Glohm) • Guardarm (Glohm) • Hammer Bro (Glohm) • Hydro Seedle (Glohm) • Ice Bro (Glohm) • Icead (Glohm) • Invizilizard (R • Glohm • Glohm R) • Koopa Paratroopa (Glohm) • Koopa Troopa (Glohm) • Krode (R • Glohm) • Magikoopa (Glohm) • Magmad (Glohm) • Millton (Glohm) • Palooka (R • Glohm • Glohm R) • Parashoot (Glohm) • Piranha Plant (Glohm) • Reclusiff • Seedle (R • Glohm • Glohm R) • Seedlusa • Sharkbone (Glohm) • Shower Fish (Glohm) • Shy Guy (Glohm) • Snaptor (Glohm) • Soreboar (Glohm) • Spike (Glohm) • Spikely (Glohm) • Spiny • Weeping Trooper • Zok Trooper (Helmet Zok Trooper • Glohm Helmet Zok Trooper • Jet Zok Trooper • Glohm Jet Zok Trooper • Ring Zok Trooper • Glohm Ring Zok Trooper • Spike Zok Trooper • Glohm Spike Zok Trooper • Zokkarang Trooper • Glohm Zokkarang Trooper)
Bosses Bowser (Glohm Bowser) • Extension Corps (Ecks • Ten • Shun) • Gobblick (Glohm Gobblick) • Gorumbla (Glohm Gorumbla) • Great Conductor • Mega Snaptor • Pipegunk (Glohm Pipegunk) • Reclusa (Weeping Reclusa • Weeping Core) • Sharpcask (Glohm Sharpcask) • Zokket
Objects ? Block • Battle Plug • Bomb Bud • Bouncy Bloom • Command Block • Connectar Flower • Fire Flower • Hidden Block • Ice Flower • Lift • Plug Radish • Power Tap • Recovery Block • Return Pipe • Save Block • Spite Bulb • Sprite Bulb
Items Consumables 1-Up Mushroom • 1-Up DX • Ampberry • Bean • Boo Biscuit • Candy • Handcrafted Bait • Max Candy • Max Mushroom • Max Nut • Max Syrup Jar • Mushroom • Nut • Rarest Bait • Refreshing Herb • Standard Bait • Super Candy • Super Mushroom • Super Nut • Super Syrup Jar • Syrup Jar • Ultra Candy • Ultra Mushroom • Ultra Nut • Ultra Syrup Jar
Materials Apple Core • Bulbfish Lantern • Bullionfish • Coinfish • Desolatt Scrap • Egoby • Glohm Crystal • Glohm Dust • Glohm Fragment • Heatfreeze Ore • Lottacoins Lever • Merrygo Bolt • Offandon Brick • Offin • Raynforst Vine • Rumbla Stone • Seedle Seed • Sharkbone Bone • Skorcheen Lava • Slippenglide Snow • Treasurefish • Twistee Leaf • Wayaway Chain • Zokket Alloy
Key items Adaphne Scope • Arc's Spyglass • Bonding Can • Chill-Out Fruit • Club Dyode Ticket • Disguise Kit • Fishing Rod • Floaty Ring • Hottato Stew • Incident Report • Jail Cell Key • MaxGlam Wax • Notebook • Old Brooch • Oversized Screw • Part of Bowser's Airship • Patriarc's Notes • Pep-Up Fruit • Pile of Ampberries • Potato Gelato • Spare Underground Key • Stickem Oil • Sugared Powder • Suspicious Package • Technikki Scope Deluxe • Technikki's Certification • Ultra-Sweet, Super-Rich Cake • Willma's Letter
Status Burn • DEF-Down • DEF-Up • Dizzy • Glohm • Ice • POW-Down • POW-Up • STACHE-Up • SPD-Down • SPD-Up • Trip
Miscellaneous Battle Plug • Bestiary • Block locations • Bond • Bonding Can • Challenges • Connectar • Fishing • Gallery • Gear • Glohm • Great Lighthouse • Hidden blocks • Level up progressions • Lighthouse • Luigi Logic • Power Tap • Quotes • Rank • Rare reef • Shops • Side Quests • Story summaries • Snoutlet School • Uni-Tree • Wattanist • "Yo-Ho, Bro!"
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