Metroid Prime Hunters Option Guide
Single Card Play:
This allows you to play against someone who does not own the game in Download Play mode, where anyone without the game can only use Samus (but you can use any unlocked hunter).
Multi Card Play
The main option, this allows you to play either against others who have the game, or computer controlled bots using any characters unlocked in any unlock multiplayer battle arenas.
Nintendo Wifi Connection
Play online basically. You can see your Hunters License (records data about you as a player, how long you have played online and in total, best arena, most used Hunter, headshot kills, kills in Biped form (non alt form), kills in alt form, kills in a row, connection history, online and wireless win records, win streak (how many kills in a row without getting killed), favourite weapon, favourite mode and offline multiplayer play time, plus the amount of stars you have).
You can also find friends and rivals online here.
General Settings for each mode:
Battle Modes:
- Battle- Become a Hunter and eliminate your opponents in a timed deathmatch.
- Survival- Eliminate your enemies and be the last hunter standing in limited stock battle mode.
- Bounty- Fight for possession of the octolith and be the one to deliver it to the drop point.
- Defender- Secure the designated area and increase your timer while you are the only hunter to occupy it.
- Prime Hunter- Gain the conveted enhanced powers of the prime hunter and keep it the longest to win.
- Capture- Raid the enemy team's territory and steal their octolith. Score with both octoliths are at your base.
- Nodes- Find and secure the node rings while they are under your control.
Arena
Shows all the arenas, or battle levels which you have unlocked. There are 26 arenas in total, which are:
- Combat Hall
- Data Shrine
- Processor Core
- High Ground
- Ice Hive
- Alinos Perch
- Sic Transit
- Transfer Lock
- Sanctorus
- Compression Chamber
- Incubation Vault
- Subterraneum
- Outer Reach
- Harvester
- Weapons Complex
- Council Chamber
- Elder Passage
- Fuel Stack
- Fault Line
- Stasis Bunker
- Head Shot
- Celestial Gateway
- Alinos Gateway
- Vdo Gateway
- Acterra Gateway
- Oubilette
And of course the random level option
Advanced Settings
Show hunters are radar- Says whether you and your opponents will appear in the radar.
Damage level- Choose how many damage the players give and receive.
Friendly fire- Basically determines whether your team mates can hurt and possibly kill you.
Avaliable weapons- Determines whether basic weapons are used, or the versions specific to each hunter, with different effects depending on who uses a weapon.
Point Goal
In Battle, this is how many points you need to win. It goes up to 100.
Time Limit
How long the timer goes for. Can go up to a hour.
Team Play
If off, everyone fights for themselves. If on, everyone is on different teams and fights for the team as a whole.
Hunters
Choose if you wish to use Samus Aran, Kanden, Spire, Trace, Noxus, Sylux or Weavel as your playable character. This menu also says what their alternate forms are, but that information is already in the manual.
On the next screen, you either wait for other players to join, or you can add bots of any unlocked character, until a max of four slots have been filled. The stars indicate how intelligent the opponent is, whether they are 1 star (idiots) to 3 star (quite intelligent).
Rival Radar
This is on the main screen. Click through the options and the game will automatically add anyone using rival radar who you come across to your rivals roster (list of rivals).
Options
Audio- Change the sound options
Credits- View the game credits, or who made the game in normal terms.
Controls- Change the control screen.
Erase all Data- Delete everything you have unlocked! Warning: You cannot EVER get back the data deleted in this way, even by hacking or Action Replay!
Show stats on Nintendowifi.com- Determines whether your stats are shown on the official site.