OFFICIAL NINTENDO POWER PLAYER'S GUIDE AVAILABLE AT YOUR NEAREST RETAILER! WWW.NINTENDO.COM Nintendo of America Inc. P.O. Box 957, Redmond, WA 98073-0957 U.S.A. www.nintendo.com PRINTED IN USA 49492A INSTRUCTION BOOKLET WARNING: PLEASE CAREFULLY READ THE PRECAUTIONS BOOKLET INCLUDED WITH THIS PRODUCT BEFORE USING YOUR NINTENDO ® HARDWARE SYSTEM, GAME DISC OR ACCESSORY. THIS BOOKLET CONTAINS IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION. WARNING - Electric Shock To avoid electric shock when you use this system: Use only the AC adapter that comes with your system. Do not use the AC adapter if it has damaged, split or broken cords or wires. Make sure that the AC adapter cord is fully inserted into the wall outlet or extension cord. Always carefully disconnect all plugs by pulling on the plug and not on the cord. Make sure the Nintendo GameCube power switch is turned OFF before removing the AC adapter cord from an outlet. IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION: READ THE FOLLOWING WARNINGS BEFORE YOU OR YOUR CHILD PLAY VIDEO GAMES WARNING - Seizures Some people (about 1 in 4000) may have seizures or blackouts triggered by light flashes, such as while watching TV or playing video games, even if they have never had a seizure before. Anyone who has had a seizure, loss of awareness, or other symptom linked to an epileptic condition should consult a doctor before playing a video game. Parents should watch when their children play video games. Stop playing and consult a doctor if you or your child have any of the following symptoms: Convulsions Altered vision Eye or muscle twitching Involuntary movements Loss of awareness Disorientation CAUTION - Motion Sickness Playing video games can cause motion sickness. If you or your child feel dizzy or nauseous when playing video games with this system, stop playing and rest. Do not drive or engage in other demanding activity until you feel better. CAUTION - Laser Device The Nintendo GameCube is a Class I laser product. Do not attempt to disassemble the Nintendo GameCube. Refer servicing to qualified personnel only. Caution - Use of controls or adjustments or procedures other than those specified herein may result in hazardous radiation exposure. To reduce the likelihood of a seizure when playing video games: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Sit or stand as far from the screen as possible. Play video games on the smallest available television screen. Do not play if you are tired or need sleep. Play in a well-lit room. Take a 10 to 15 minute break every hour. CONTROLLER NEUTRAL POSITION RESET If the L or R Buttons are pressed or the Control Stick or C Stick are moved out of neutral position when the power is turned ON, those positions will be set as the neutral position, causing incorrect game control during game play. WARNING - Repetitive Motion Injuries Playing video games can make your muscles, joints or skin hurt after a few hours. Follow these instructions to avoid problems such as Tendinitis, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome or skin irritation: Take a 10 to 15 minute break every hour, even if you don't think you need it. If your hands, wrists or arms become tired or sore while playing, stop and rest them for several hours before playing again. If you continue to have sore hands, wrists or arms during or after play, stop playing and see a doctor. To reset the controller, release all buttons and sticks to allow them to return to the correct neutral position, then hold down the X, Y and START/PAUSE Buttons simultaneously for 3 seconds. L Button R Button Control Stick C Stick The chozo The Chozo... Over millennia, this bird-like race of creatures made incredible technological and scientific leaps. Traveling at will through space, they built many marvels across the universe­technological wonders of unfathomable complexity and cities unmatched in beauty. They shared their knowledge freely with more primitive cultures and learned to respect and care for life in all its forms. Even as their society reached its technological peak, however, the Chozo felt their spirituality wane. Their culture was steeped in prophecy and lore, and they foresaw the decline of the Chozo coinciding with the rise of evil. Horrified by the increasing violence in the universe, they began to withdraw into themselves, forgoing technology in favor of simplicity. Tallon IV was one of several refuges they built­a colony bereft of technology, built of natural materials and wedded to the land and its creatures. The years passed, and in time a great meteor crashed into Tallon IV, sending a massive spume of matter into the atmosphere and impregnating the land with a cancerous element known as Phazon. This element immediately sank into the earth and water, poisoning life wherever it bloomed. Most plants and animals died, while others mutated into hideous forms. The Chozo called upon all of their knowledge and technology to control the power of the Phazon, but their efforts were doomed to fail. All they could do was build a temple over the crater at the impact site, separate the Phazon core, and seal it away. Believing that someday a savior would return to the planet, the Chozo left for an unknown destination, leaving behind nothing but engraved accounts of their time on Tallon IV. 6 7 THE space Pira tes The Space Pirates were interstellar nomads, technologically dvanced in both space travel and weaponry. When they plundered the Metroid population that had been discovered by the Galactic Federation n SR388, they recognized in them massive military and energy resource otential. They immediately invaded the nearby planet of Zebes, wiping ut all life (including most of the indigenous Chozo) and building a masve network of research facilities below the planet's surface. Deep below the surface of Zebes, the Space Pirates researched Metroids for many years, even as a young girl orphaned by their raid on he neighboring planet K-2L was growing up among the Chozo. Trained s a warrior and infused with Chozo blood, Samus Aran donned a Chozomade Power Suit and cut a swath through the Space Pirates' operation, estroying everything in her path, including the gargantuan mainstays of he Space Pirate army, Ridley and Kraid. She eventually made it to the ore of their base, destroyed ll the Metroids she saw, nd seemingly blew up he Mother Brain. But the Space Pirates were far from finished. They immediately split their survivors into two main camps. One headed to Zebes to begin rebuilding their ravaged facility and resuscitating Mother Brain, Ridley, and Kraid. The second set out in search of a planet with powerful energy resources. They didn't search far before they discovered Tallon IV, which was still emanating huge pulses of energy from the Phazon contained beneath the Chozo temple. Entranced by the massive potential of the strange mutagen, they immediately moved in, retrofitting their laboratories, transporters, and life-support systems into the Chozo Ruins. As the Space Pirates mined the Phazon and experimented with it, they found that its capacity to mutate was unlike anything they'd ever seen, and they promptly started combining it with indigenous life-forms. They refined their operation; powering their machinery with thermalpowered engines sunk in the molten depths of Tallon IV, they drove deep mineshafts and mined more and more Phazon, shipping it to their two main labs in the Phendrana Drifts, where sub-zero temperatures made specimen containment safer. Research leaped forward: by harnessing Phazon's power, they were able to create untold horrors that soon patrolled the dark caverns below Tallon IV's crust. The Space Pirates also transported many species to their orbiting ship for zero-G Phazon experiments, unaware that Samus Aran had finally tracked their ship to its low orbit. As they continued with their unnatural experiments, Samus sped toward Tallon IV, preparing to wipe them out once and for all... 8 9 the adventure begins et your Metroid Prime Game Disc in the Nintendo GameCube and close he Disc Cover, then turn on the POWER Button. When the title screen ppears, press start to continue to the Main Menu. Options From the pause screen, press the L Button to customize many features of your game-play experience. You can also access the Options screen from the Main Menu before you start your game. Visor Getting St arted efore playing, you must first create a Metroid Prime save file. You need to have a Memory Card inserted in slot A with at least blocks of free space on it in order to create file for Metroid Prime. Please refer to the Nintendo GameCube instruction booklet pages 18-20) for instructions on how to ormat, copy, and erase Memory Card files. this is your first time playing, select one of he NEW GAME files and press the A Button. When the words START and OPTIONS appear, elect START and press the A Button to begin. you have a previously saved game file, simly choose that file to continue from your last ave point. n order to save your progress through Metroid Prime, you must find Save Rooms ocated throughout Tallon IV's many regions. When you find one of these rooms, enter the aving apparatus. When asked if you want to ave, choose YES and press the A Button. All f your progress up to that point will then be aved to the Memory Card in Slot A. Main Menu displa y Adjust Samus's visor opacity, her helmet opacity, and the HUD lag time. Sound Title Screen Adjust the brightness and dimensions of the game play screen. Controller Adjust the volume of the music and sound effects, or select between Mono, Stereo, and Dolby Surround modes. Choose to play with standard control or a reversed Y-axis. You can also turn the Rumble feature on or off and reverse the visor/beam configuration. Progressive Scan Mode This game can be set to display a higher resolution image on TVs that support progressive scan mode (EDTV, HDTV). In order to use the progressive scan mode, you need a TV that can accept this type of input (see your TV operation manual) and a Nintendo GameCube Component Video cable (available only through Nintendo. Visit www.nintendo.com or call 1-800-255-3700). To activate the progressive scan mode, press and hold the B Button while the Nintendo GameCube logo is being displayed until the message "Display in Progressive Scan mode?" appears. Select YES to activate the mode. Save Room Please note that on some TVs, activating the progressive scan mode will set the format of the image to a wide-screen (16:9) format. Erasing Files you want to erase a file, select Erase from the bottom of the screen, hoose the file you want to erase, then press the A Button. Remember: nce you erase a file, you can never recover it, so be careful! 10 11 CONTROLS L BUTTON Lock onto enemies Scan objects in Scan Mode (see page 18) Use Grapple Beam (see page 23) R BUTTON Z BUTTON Call up map (see page 24) Look around Aim (with Control Stick) Activate Spider Ball in Morph Ball mode (see page 21) ST ART/PAUSE Pause the game and view Samus's databanks (see page 24) Y BUTTON Fire Missiles Lay Power Bombs in Morph Ball mode (see page 21) X BUTTON Switch between standard and Morph Ball modes A BUTTON Fire beam weapon Lay Bombs in Morph Ball mode (see page 20) B BUTTON Jump Activate Boost Ball in Morph Ball mode (see page 21) Dash sideways while locked-on (see page 23) + Control Pad Switch visors (see page 18) C Stick Select beam weapon (see page 17) Control Stick Move Samus Look around Aim (with the R Button) 12 13 POWER SUIT INTERFACE amus's Power Suit is technologically complex, but all of its agnostic functions are projected on the inside of the visor for asy access. Knowing the status of the suit at all times may make he difference between survival and failure, so it's important to nderstand every part of the readout. Map This area shows a small section of the current map. If you press the Z Button, you'll call up the full-screen map (see page 24). radar The wedge at the top of the circular radar display is Samus's field of vision. Enemies within the radar's range appear as orange dots. Energy Reserves The numeric display and horizontal gauge track the amount of energy in Samus's Energy Tank. The highlighted squares above the main energy gauge indicate Energy Tanks that Samus has in reserve. T argeting reticule This reticule will automatically track enemies or scan points. By pressing the L Button, you will lock onto whatever point is currently highlighted. Bear in mind that the reticule will change in appearance depending on which visor Samus is currently using (see page 18). Threa t assessment This gauge warns Samus of nearby environmental dangers. It rises in accordance with the proximity of the threat--when the threat is extremely near, the word "Warning" will appear. If Samus is actually being injured by the hazard, the word "Damage" will appear. Missile Reserves The vertical gauge and numeric display track the number of Missiles Samus has in reserve. When Samus's Missiles are armed, th ...