Characters and power-ups

Updated 2026-11-05

The published game files list 17 names per build, each paired with a country code. These are parody-style roster labels from the game file, not confirmed portraits of real players. No name has its own page, because none has a separate stat line.

Rafa and Sonya also appear on the cmug mirror page. That mirror is a second page, not a second publisher, so I do not upgrade the whole roster to “two sources”. The other names are one reading: the game file.

Three names carry into 2026: Rafa, Maestro (called The Maestro in 2020) and Ash. The other fourteen 2026 names are new. I do not decode Djoker, Carlitos or Coco into a real-player claim. The labels rhyme with famous players, and that is all a single file shows.

The files contain 17 roster labels. Kizi’s original portal feature list instead says 16 characters, while Poki mentions unlockables without listing a currency or unlock conditions. Those portal claims conflict with a simple all-17-unlocked reading, so the tables record file labels rather than a guarantee that every slot starts unlocked. Character speed, power and price values are left unspecified.

Power-ups are states on the ball, not a second roster. Hitting the ball through a pickup starts a timer. Freeze lasts 3 seconds in the file. Slow, shrink, speed and grow last 5 seconds. TwoPlayerGames names freeze, shrink and a speed boost in plain language. Slow and grow are only in the file. There is no state between shrink and speed. Portal lines about “transformations” match the grow, shrink and slow visuals, not a character evolution tree.