The Royal Warp is a secret that's in all the Katamari games (in the levels in Katamari Forever that are hosted the RoboKing, it's called the "Robo Warp"). It occurs when the player goes outside the games' boundaries, such as when your Katamari is pushed outside the playable game area by a moving object (such as a car), pushed out of the level when playing in multi-player, or, in the rarest case, finding an area where your character simply falls through. Usually, when the character falls through the ground, it will keep falling until it respawns back in the game world. However, there have been cases where the Katamari found itself rolling on the air. When you are spawned back into the playable level, the King will explain that what happened was a "Royal Warp", and he will apologize to you and state how "embarrassing" it is to have you fall through the floor. After that, the game will continue normally.
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- An accidental Royal Warp has been achieved in the Seagull Park of the Katamari Damacy Demo. This happened merely by rolling on the pavement, until it clips into the water.
- In Make a Star 5 in Katamari Damacy, there's a warp under the "neck" of the giraffe slide. Wait until you are slightly too large to pass under the slide, then try to push your katamari through. You will fall through the floor and the King will warp you to safety. You can try to get a bump from the little green elephant-shaped watering cans that walk through this area, but you can do it easily on your own.
- In We ♥ Katamari's Firefly stage, there's tunnel you can access from the waterfall. Inside there's a crocodile hiding in the bushes. Try to climb him. If you do it right, you'll fall trough the level (try to be 1.5m when attempting this).
- In the Cousin stage of We ♥ Katamari, you can warp by continuously dashing into Twinkle, who is stuck in a wall.
- In Me and My Katamari's Sakura Town (over 75cm), at the farthest wall behind the hill, there are food stands. At 3m go behind those against the wall and try to dash a lot. If you do it right, you will be outside Sakura Town and on a small invisible platform, roll forward and you'll fall through.
- (Do this on Turtle Eternal) Again in MMK but this time in Joshumua Villa. There's a cat with a mask in the corridor. He is going to be your "tool" this time. Build up your Size to 20-25cm and go to the door against the shorter wall from the room with the two guys in it. The cat has to push you through the door and the wall in order for this one to work. It can be difficult, so be patient.
- In The Great Journey in Touch My Katamari, the warp is the main means of travel within the level. Once the player has successfully rolled up a warp mushroom to go to the next area, the katamari will fall out of sight before being put into the next area and The King will state that it's all thanks to The Royal Warp.