Post by: Bloodworth on April 10, 2003, 10:19:09 AM
Post by: bearski1891 on April 21, 2003, 08:27:39 AM
Post by: Bloodworth on April 21, 2003, 10:13:14 AM
Anyways, you've apparently never played a Metroid game before, because you ALWAYS start out with little more than a gun and have to find your items scattered throughout the planet. Keep exploring and you'll find your items, but realize that this game doesn't have "stages". You need to use the items you have to open new areas throughout the map, and you'll see a lot of spots along the way that you can't reach without the proper equipment. Move on, and come back when you've got the goods.
Post by: bearski1891 on April 22, 2003, 08:28:39 AM
Post by: andy-man on April 24, 2003, 11:57:43 AM
Post by: enigma487 on April 24, 2003, 01:39:31 PM
and don't forget to use recently acquired items...
Post by: andy-man on April 24, 2003, 04:59:43 PM
Post by: alky on May 08, 2003, 06:53:47 PM
here's a problem for the most hardcore metroid prime players (well i'd assume so!)
I finished the game scanning like 71% of stuff.. missing heaps of "red-entry" scans (the things you only have one chance to scan)
so i thought i'd do it again whilst playing it in hard mode also
now i've got 93% scanned, using a guide to not miss any red entries, i have all chozo artifacts and i'm about to face meta ridley... he's the third last red entry, metroid prime being the last 2.
I have all pirate and chozo lore/data, and i've worked out that i only need a couple more creatures... i'm pretty sure i know what i'm doing.
"small missile ammo"
"medium missile ammo"
"????"
"power ball ammo"
all guides i've read that list research scans have everything that I have, and only have "missile ammo" listed, not the different sizes.
to me, the list implies that there'd be a large missile ammo, but i don't think i've ever, ever seen one. and this is my second completion of the game.
so what is this scan??
anyone that can help, thank you!
Post by: Lumas Etima on May 22, 2003, 05:13:27 AM
Post by: CtrlAltDestroy on May 24, 2003, 05:32:47 AM
1. Ice parasites: Your list says that these only appear in the temple, and vanish after you get the wave beam. However, I found more of them in the Frozen Pike on the way to the gravity chamber. You probably would want to mention this. Those vanish too after you get the gravity suit.
2. Aqua drones: Just to varify. There are only 2 of these in the entire game. They are found in the Biohazard Containment room in the crashed frigate. However, once they're dead, they're dead. If you go so far as the Hydro access tunnel, they are replaced by Aqua Reapers.
3. Grapple points: You should probably mention the fact that scanning the grapple points don't count until you get your grapple beam. Unless, of corse, you scan one of them in the demo level, in the Riddly room.
That is all!
Post by: Shorty McNostril on June 18, 2003, 06:56:51 PM
Post by: Hostile Creation on June 19, 2003, 10:56:45 AM
Post by: Shorty McNostril on June 19, 2003, 05:45:40 PM
Post by: DRJ on June 20, 2003, 04:59:26 AM
Spoiler Warning:
The ending for 100% will do everything the same as the other endings. After Samus flies away you see a pool of phazon. Then a hand pops out that looks like the suit that MP ripped off of you at the end. Then there is an eye in the palm of the hand. The End.
Post by: Hostile Creation on June 20, 2003, 07:31:51 AM
Post by: ReallyScrued on July 05, 2003, 08:28:57 AM
Post by: DRJ on July 07, 2003, 07:38:24 AM
Part I - Damaging MP
He's going to swich colors, and you can only damage him with the corrosponding weapon.
When he is yellow hit him with super missiles.
When he is purple hit him with charges shots. Dont use the wave beam missle combo since it uses too many missiles and doesnt do enough danage.
When he is red hit him with single shots. Charged shots tend to miss. Also make sure you are close enough to hit him since the range is limitted.
When he is white hit him with the ice bean missile combo. He will be frozen, follow up with a charged shot.
Repeat this until he goes down.
Part II - Avoiding Damage
MP has only a few attacks which are easily avoided, once you know how.
He will shoot a lazer beam out of his mouth (different for each color, but dodge the same). When he goes to shoot just double jump out of the way or dash. Then let him have it. The beam will not move so once you dodge it you are safe for a while.
He will shoot a barrage of missles at you. Just dash to one side, of get closer to him since they will just go over your head.
He will shoot two orbs at you. Destroy these no matter what. If they hit you they will cause a lot of damage and stum you for a while so you get hit even worse by MP. Use charged shots with all weapons except the plasma gun, just use single shots for it. Collect the power ups.
He will also do a charge attack. If you see it coming roll up and get in the trench, if not dont worry, this does little damage.
Repeat Repeat Repeat.
The most important this is patience. This fight will take a while, dont rush it and get hit. Also do not get hit by the plasma lazer beam he shoots out. It does tons of damage.
Good luck
The second form is much easier.
Ice beam to freeze the metroids and metroid hunters them kill them with a missile. When he starts releasing the ones that can only be effected by one weapon (I forget their name) just use a super bomb. MP only has one attack, a shock wave type thing, easy to jump over, even easier to double jump over.
Post by: Molobert on July 09, 2003, 09:06:13 PM
Post by: DRJ on July 10, 2003, 04:50:08 AM
Omega Pirate is the hardest guy in the game, at least he was for me. There are three things yuo have to do to defeat him:
1) Dont get hit by Omega Pirate
2) Dont get hit by Omega Pirate
This next one is the most important
3)Dont get hit by Omega Pirate
Sounds easy right, well its not so get ready to die a few more times.
He has three attacks.
If you are too close he will reach out and smack the living sh1t out of you. Dont get close, this does tons of damage. If you are mid range away from him he will do his wave quake, just double jump over it. If you are far away he will shoot missiles at you, just dash left or right to avoid them, dont get hit as these do tons of damage.
When he is not shooting he will absorb all your attacks, his hand will have glowing circular rings so you know what he is doing, dont shoot, just wait. You have to take out the four phazon parts of him (two shoulders and two knees). It will take two super missile shots each, so dont even bother. Just use the plazma gun and shoot single shots at him. stay in the mid range area so he just does his quake wave. And just keep plucking away. Take your time so you dont get hit. If you get to close roll up into a ball and boost away. Lay a power bomb if you have one to slow him down. It wont do much damage, but he will stop and hop on one leg like he is hurt.
When you take out the last phazon part of him he will turn invisible and two pirates will pop out. You have some time before Omega Pirate is visible again, so quickly take out the pirates. After they are defeated collect any power ups and put on the x-ray visor. Omega Pirate will be in one of the pools of phazon recharging himself. If you are fast you can hit him twice with a super missile, then he will go to another pool of phazon, hit him twice more. If you are slow you not get all four hits on him. It took me six super missiles, one charged shot and one single missle to defeat him. If you are fast you can defeat him in two rounds, if you are slow it will take 3, if you are really slow, you will probably be dead.
After he recharges you will have to start all over destroying the four phazon parts of him again. Do the same as before. This time there will be 3 pirates attacking you. Pick one and destroy it, then ignore the other two. Target the Omega Pirate as before, and jump around to avoid the other pirates. If you dont defeat the Omega Pirate this round just attack him as normal, ignoring the other pirates. The Omega Pirtates wave attack will kill them for you (just make sure there are no pirates hanging from the wall, shoot them down so they get hit by the wave.
After you destroy all the phazon parts again this time there will be four pirates attacking you. Ignore them all completely. Take out the Omega Pirate with super missiles and this time he sould be defeated. All the other pirates will dissapear when you go to the cut scene.
If you run out of missiles use charged shots or single plazma shots. You can also use a super bomb if you time it right, but on hard mode there isnt enough time. You have to get close lay a regular bomb and then lay a super bomb in mid air. This is very hard, so I wouldnt bother.
After you defeat him, go back and save.
Good luck, this was the hardest battle for me. I was very pleased when I finally defeated him.
Post by: Molobert on July 10, 2003, 02:24:24 PM
Post by: Berny on July 26, 2003, 06:08:48 PM
In the original NES Metroid (which I'm having a lot of fun with) your health isn't refilled when you start. At least mine isn't. I always start with 30. Doesn't matter how many sub–tanks I have, it's always 30. Is there a password to have full health when you start? I don't want invincibility, just full health. Oh and I just got a new item from a Chozo statue and I don't know what it is or what it does. It was the first one I got after the super–jump boots.
Post by: Molobert on August 25, 2003, 09:15:41 PM
Post by: DRJ on August 26, 2003, 07:33:46 AM
Post by: Termin8Anakin on September 01, 2003, 08:56:11 PM
if the scans don't count to getting 100%, then what does?
I mean, is it just Pirate Logs, Reserch, Chozo Lore and Creatures then?
I hope you're not kidding.....or maybe you're talking about the US version and in the PAL version we DO have to scan everything...........
Post by: DRJ on September 02, 2003, 07:34:39 AM
Post by: Termin8Anakin on September 02, 2003, 03:59:17 PM
what about pirate logs, chozo lore and research?
Post by: DRJ on September 03, 2003, 07:41:22 AM
3 Weapons
charge beam
4 Missle combos
50 Missles (1 + 49 expansions)
14 Energy tanks
2 Visors
4 Power bombs (1 + 3 expansions)
morph ball
spider ball
boost ball
morph ball bombs
3 suits
grappling hook
space jump
12 artifacts
99 items = 100% (Phazon suit is an item but doesnt count towards percent completed until the end I suppose)
If you get all the items minus 1 you will be at 98% and the last item will bump you up to 100%
Post by: Termin8Anakin on September 04, 2003, 12:54:47 AM
cooolies.
Post by: Swordsplay on September 11, 2003, 08:00:01 AM
Post by: Termin8Anakin on September 13, 2003, 06:10:18 PM
Post by: DRJ on September 13, 2003, 08:36:27 PM
Post by: Termin8Anakin on September 14, 2003, 01:07:35 AM
Post by: Swordsplay on September 16, 2003, 05:44:46 AM
With metroid prime on hard mode, dont use the flamethrower, prime will knock the crap out of you. Just used charged up shots. Wavebuster, icespreader, super missiles, and charged up plasma beam shots work best on her, and will kill her the fastest. As for the second form, just double jump over her quake attacks and pound away.
*****END OF POSSIBLE SPOILER*****
Post by: Termin8Anakin on September 23, 2003, 12:41:50 AM
Why, and how would the flamethrower be of any benefit to you, since it has such a short range.
And that Hyper Mode is pretty cool on the final form of Metroid Prime.
Post by: Swordsplay on September 25, 2003, 04:22:41 AM
While hes flying,just simply use and only use charged up plasma beam shots on his chest, don't waste your missiles, you are going to need every last one of them when his wings burn off.
When his wings burn off, equip the wavebuster and when he opens his mouth , use the wavebuster combo on him (located in chozo ruins, tower of light), which is a infinite stream of eletrical energy that drains your missiles, all you have to do is fire the wavebuster combo until you run out of missiles. Depending on how many missiles you have, it will deplete his health dramatically or kill him without him moving a muscle or inflicting even 1 energy point of damage. If he is still alive, and your out of missiles, everytime he opens his mouth fire charged up plasma shots in his mouth by dodging out of the was as much as possible, also keep your distance, otherwise he will turn around very quickly and hit you with his tail. This is the easiest way I found on to defeat him.
Post by: Shorty McNostril on September 25, 2003, 07:55:55 PM
Post by: Swordsplay on October 09, 2003, 05:29:41 AM
If your having trouble with meta ridley on normal or hard mode, he (in my opinion) is the second hardest boss (the hardest being omega pirate).
While hes flying,just simply use and only use charged up plasma beam shots on his chest, don't waste your missiles, you are going to need every last one of them when his wings burn off.
When his wings burn off, equip the wavebuster and when he opens his mouth , use the wavebuster combo on him (located in chozo ruins, tower of light), which is a infinite stream of eletrical energy that drains your missiles, all you have to do is fire the wavebuster combo until you run out of missiles. Depending on how many missiles you have, it will deplete his health dramatically or kill him without him moving a muscle or inflicting even 1 energy point of damage. If he is still alive, and your out of missiles, everytime he opens his mouth fire charged up plasma shots in his mouth by dodging out of the was as much as possible, also keep your distance, otherwise he will turn around very quickly and hit you with his tail. This is the easiest way I found on to defeat him.
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You could use the ice spreader while hes in the air, but my strategy (listed above) seems to be the quickest, safest, and not to mention easiet way ive found so far.
Post by: The Chosen One on October 26, 2003, 07:36:13 AM
Post by: Bill Aurion on October 26, 2003, 08:00:47 AM
Post by: The Chosen One on October 26, 2003, 09:40:32 AM
Post by: Termin8Anakin on October 27, 2003, 02:49:14 AM
Magmoor Mines
In the huge room where the floor is a grated and underneath are those plated beetles that can only be killed with a power bomb (Choclytes or something). Use your X-Ray Scanner on those rock pillars and you will see it. Use the super missile to blow it up and get it!
Phendrana Drifts
Go to the room where you get the gravity suit. Up on the roof should be a grapple hook thingy. Use the grapple beam and swing to this small alcove in the roof. Blow it up first.
In the Phendrana Shorelines, there's a rock pillar near the save room with a ice block alcove behind it. Melt it and there's the missile expansion.
In Ice Ruins East or west, and look around for a spider ball track hidden in the dark behind a wall. Go up it and i theres a missle expansion there too.
In one of the upper parts of a research labs, there is a cordite pillar. You know what to do with it
Also in the reseach labs, there is a rail track that you have to jump up, use morphball and follow to the end to get an expansion.
Phazon Mines
In the room near the Omega Pirate boss, blow up the blue containment cell to find an expansion.
Go out of this area and you'll be in the cavern corridor full of phazon mushrooms, etc. Right underneath the door, use a super power bomb to blow a hole in the floor.
Go to Metroid Quarantine A (the room with the floating platforms you can only see with X-ray scanners). If you go to the rock platform right next to the spiderball track that leads UP to the red door, you'll notice that its quite a dark corner. Use a power bomb to blow up the wall next to the spiderball track, blow up the next wall, and spiderball up to the expansion!
These ones i remember cause they are the ones that frustrated me the most. I now have 100% (finally!!), and I just beat Meta-ridley (i'm doing hard mode), so all i need to do now is beat Prime, and I'm done!
Hope that helped!
Post by: The Chosen One on October 30, 2003, 12:43:04 PM
Post by: Gamebasher on February 10, 2004, 10:27:39 AM
What should I do about the smaller pirates, that are so damn annoying?
Thanks if you reply to this one!
Post by: Myxtika1 Azn on June 30, 2004, 07:54:32 PM
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Originally posted by: DRJ
Just items. There are 99 items/upgrades one percent each, + one percent for completing all of them for 100% (I assume that you get 1% for having all 99 since I was at 98% and picked up my last item and went up to 100).
3 Weapons
charge beam
4 Missle combos
50 Missles (1 + 49 expansions)
14 Energy tanks
2 Visors
4 Power bombs (1 + 3 expansions)
morph ball
spider ball
boost ball
morph ball bombs
3 suits
grappling hook
space jump
12 artifacts
99 items = 100% (Phazon suit is an item but doesnt count towards percent completed until the end I suppose)
If you get all the items minus 1 you will be at 98% and the last item will bump you up to 100%
I am nearing my wit's end here. I've started playing this game over again on Hard mode and trying to get 100% items. I'm stuck at 98% and don't know what I'm missing.
I have 250 missles, 14 energy tanks, 7 power bombs, and everything listed above. I am still stuck at 98%. What am I missing?
Post by: Molobert on July 02, 2004, 09:32:34 AM
Post by: Myxtika1 Azn on July 03, 2004, 12:36:13 PM
I finally got both 100% items and 100% Log!
Post by: FaceLeSs on July 04, 2004, 08:43:06 PM
