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  • Spider Ball Track
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  • Spider Ball Tracks (also referred to as magnetic rail system tracks) were introduced in Metroid Prime and since then have appeared throughout the Prime Series. Using magnetic force, they allow objects with an opposite polarity to attach and traverse them. Samus can only navigate them once she acquires the Spider Ball upgrade for her Morph Ball. If Samus uses a Bomb whilst attached to a track, it will disengage her from the track and cause her to jump up, or fall down, depending on the situation of the track. In Metroid Prime 2: Echoes and Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, the Boost Ball upgrade will repel Samus away from the track.
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  • In Morph Ball mode, press and hold R/Z; when close to this type of surface. Use Control Stick to move the Ball along the track. Release R/Z to disengage from the surface. Using the Boost ability when on a Spider Ball Track will rapidly launch the Spider Ball from the track. Detonating a Morph Ball Bomb will briefly disengage the Ball from the track.
  • While in Morph Ball mode, press and hold Z when close to a magnetic rail. Use Control Stick to move the Ball along the track. Release Z to disengage from the track. Using a Bomb will briefly disengage the Morph Ball from the track.
  • Magnetic rail system track. In Morph Ball mode, press and hold R/Z when close to this type of surface. Use Control Stick to move the Ball along the track. Release R/Z to disengage from the surface. CAUTION: A Morph Ball Bomb will briefly disengage the Ball from the track.
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  • CAUTION: A Morph Ball Bomb will briefly disengage the Ball from the track.
  • Magnetic rail system is powered and active.
  • Magnetic rail system track.
  • System: Spider Ball Track
  • In Morph Ball mode, press and hold R/Z when close to this type of surface. Use [Control Stick] to move the Ball along the track. Release R/Z to disengage from the surface.
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  • Spider Ball Tracks (also referred to as magnetic rail system tracks) were introduced in Metroid Prime and since then have appeared throughout the Prime Series. Using magnetic force, they allow objects with an opposite polarity to attach and traverse them. Samus can only navigate them once she acquires the Spider Ball upgrade for her Morph Ball. If Samus uses a Bomb whilst attached to a track, it will disengage her from the track and cause her to jump up, or fall down, depending on the situation of the track. In Metroid Prime 2: Echoes and Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, the Boost Ball upgrade will repel Samus away from the track. Magnetic rails are often used by the Space Pirates for transport of small cargo, although it unclear what actually bears the cargo, it is possibly small drones. O-Lir states that the machines of the Sanctuary Fortess use them to reach areas not normally accessible. A Spider Ball Track could be seen in Metroid Prime Hunters: First Hunt, in Regulator Mode (which is a training hologram) on the floor of a ramped shaft. More tracks can be seen bridging the floors of some raised platforms on Celestial Archives in Metroid Prime Hunters, but these are also not usable by Samus due to a lack of the Spider Ball upgrade. Their presence in this ancient location suggests that the technology is thousands of years old. In Metroid II: Return of Samus, the Spider Ball can be used on all surface areas. Spider Ball Tracks appear in Metroid Prime: Federation Force. They are present in M22: Convergence, in the chamber where Samus is battled. She uses them to gain a tactical advantage during the fight.
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