Valves

Valves (World 4-9) is the 39th level in Super Monkey Ball 651 and the 64th stage of Expert (214th stage overall) in Community Level Pack v2.0 's Challenge Mode.

Description
The stage consists of a series of separated green platforms with many play and pause switches scattered throughout. There is also a yellow platform that lines up with the green platforms that is constantly swinging around, not unlike Pendulums. This yellow platform can be controlled by the switches. This yellow platform fills in the gaps with the green platforms that are too large to cross, but it also has walls attached to it, which makes the player have to use both kinds of switches repeatedly. There is a red goal attached to the underside of the yellow platform.

Goal Tutorial
The blue goal is fairly simple to reach. Choose a side and as soon as the yellow platform lines up, hit the pause button closest to you. You only get a second to pause this piece. Cross the yellow bridge and then activate the play button that's closest to you, cross through the middle of the stage (making sure not to somehow get hit by the wall that pops up, stopping before the pause button in the middle. Once again, once the yellow platform lines itself up with the green platform, pause the stage. Cross the next yellow bridge, hit the play button, navigate to either of the pause buttons closer to the goal, let the yellow platform line up, pause the stage, and you have a straight shot into the goal.

The red goal, however, could easily be the hardest warp goal in the entire romhack to reach. Behind the blue goal, there's a thin wire (the same width as the 0.2 path in Choice) that goes in two directions, each leading to another isolated set of switches. Head towards the one that the yellow platform will align with first, let the yellow platform flip upside down, then pause it. It will reveal another 0.2 wire with several 90 degree turns to the red goal. Carefully cross this wire. The biggest problem here is if you do this without any skips, you most likely will not have enough time to comfortably reach the goal, and you'll most likely made a mistake and fall if you try to rush it, so you'll need to try to find reliable shortcuts to save time. This red goal alone is most likely why the stage was given 15 extra seconds in Community Level Pack 2.0.