Split Screen
- “This is Kat and Ana! There's no time for rest in our mode! When the game on the top screen stops, another one'll start right away on the bottom screen. You're gonna need all your concentration skills here!”
- —Kat & Ana, description in WarioWare Gold
Split Screen is a Challenge mode in WarioWare Gold. It is hosted by Kat & Ana and takes place in a dojo. Split Screen has the player complete microgames with only a minimal intermission between each one. To facilitate this, microgames can occur on either the Top or Touch Screen, with the conclusion of a microgame on one screen swiftly followed by the start of a microgame on the other screen. The mode can be played using the Mash or Ultra inputs, with the first only allowing microgames of the Mash control type to appear and the second allowing microgames of any control type to appear. This mode's Ultra inputs version does not include a guide for the control type of each microgame, similar to the "Ultra: No Guide" mode in All Mixed Up. In either case, Boss Games do not appear.
Gameplay[edit]
Each of the two screens is assigned to one character: Kat to the Top Screen and Ana to the Touch Screen. When a screen is not displaying a microgame, the door on that screen instead displays a drawing of that screen's character. The transition starting a microgame has the door fold sideways as the game zooms in on the door. During a microgame, the screen that is not showing a microgame has a scroll on the right side roll out to display the current score. After a microgame, the player's lives are briefly shown at the top of the screen the microgame was on. They are represented by shuriken. If the player won the microgame, the ninja for that screen pops out of the door, grunts, then slip back through the door. If the player lost the microgame, the door flips over into a stick figure rendition of the character with a henohenomoheji face while the associated character comments. In either case, the door flips back to normal as the character for the other screen says their name to herald a microgame starting on that screen. When the player runs out of lives, the doors on both screens flip over to blank sides, with the door on the screen that played the final microgame bringing out the Game Over message.
The first microgame of the mode always occurs on the Touch Screen. If the game is paused at any point, both the Top and Touch Screens are blacked out. When using Ultra inputs, no microgames of the Touch control type can appear on the Top Screen, and consecutive microgames are not allowed to have the same control type. Microgames are unable to end early should the player win or lose early, as the background music is in sync with the start of each microgame.
In Split Screen, only microgames with a length of eight beats can appear, Eight beats is the normal length for microgames in WarioWare Gold. This rule implicitly excludes Boss Games from Split Screen. The difficulty of microgames increases to Level 2 after reaching a score of 17, and increases to Level 3 after reaching a score of 34. The speed of the microgames increases over time, and it corresponds to the speed of the background music. Neither increases in level nor increases in speed are indicated by text to the player.
Missions[edit]
- Constant Contender: Score 40 or more in Split Screen: Mash.
- Constant Champion: Score 35 or more in Split Screen: Ultra.
Gallery[edit]
Logo
Getting a Game Over on Kat's screen
Getting a Game Over on Ana's screen
Names in other languages[edit]
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese | ノンストップ[?] Non Sutoppu |
Nonstop | |
| French | Non-stop[?] | Nonstop | |
| German | Bildschirmhatz[?] | Screen Hunt | |
| Italian | Senza interruzioni[?] | Without Interruptions | |
| Spanish (NOA) | Sin parar[?] | Nonstop | |
| Spanish (NOE) | Non-stop[?] | Nonstop |
