Screen-Shot Tool

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Message indicating a screenshot has been taken.

The Screen-Shot Tool is an unlockable feature in the Bonus Gallery for Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, New Play Control! Metroid Prime, New Play Control! Metroid Prime 2: Dark Echoes, and Metroid Prime Trilogy. Once "purchased" with Bonus Credits, the feature can be toggled on or off. When on, pressing "up" on the D-Pad takes a picture of the current screen (during gameplay, cutscenes, etc.) and sends it to the Wii Message Board.

Playing the game with widescreen or not at the time the Screen-Shot Tool is used will change the aspect ratio of the image sent. Unlocking this in Metroid Prime Trilogy requires having Credits from all three games, but also permits photos in all three games.

Even if unlocked and active, the Screen-Shot Tool cannot be used when playing in the Echoes multiplayer mode.

The Screen-Shot Tool does not return in Metroid Prime Remastered, owing to the Nintendo Switch's built-in ability to save screenshots and short gameplay recordings (support of the latter varies per-game and is available in the remaster).

Prices

New Play Control! Metroid Prime

• 1 Orange Credit

New Play Control! Metroid Prime 2: Dark Echoes

• 2 Purple Credits

Corruption

• 3 Red Credits
• 1 Blue Credit
• 3 Gold Credits
• 2 Friend Credits

Trilogy

• 3 Red Credits
• 1 Blue Credit
• 3 Gold Credits
• 2 Friend Credits
• 1 Orange Credit
• 2 Purple Credits

Official Data

Metroid Prime Trilogy manual

Screen-Shot Tool

"Press up on the +Control Pad to capture a photograph of the screen. Screen-shots will automatically be posted on the Wii Message Board. Please note that if you post too many screens, the Wii Message Board data will fill up quickly, and old messages will be deleted. Delete unwanted data on the Wii Menu.
Note: For details about the Wii Message Board, please see the Wii Operations Manual - Channels & Settings."

Trivia

• Warnings are given in the three games of the Metroid Prime Trilogy when the player takes more than three photos, or takes multiple photos too quickly. The warning messages inform the player that taking too many screen-shots may fill up the Wii Message Board too quickly.
  • "Please wait 10 seconds before taking another screen shot."
  • "To make sure that the Wii Message Board does not fill too quickly, avoid taking a large number of Screen shots."
• A Screen-Shot will be automatically taken during the Mission Final screen, whether or not the Screen-Shot Tool has been unlocked.