Gates:Main Menu

There is unused content related to this topic. See Gates:Miscellaneous unused content#Unused Main menu Graphics for more information.

Top screen

Bottom screen

The Main Menu (Japanese: トップメニュ, Top Menu) is the first menu the player sees every time Template:GameTitle is launched. The main menu opens right after the title screen.

Display

On the top screen, a card detailing the player's progress is shown, including the portrait, name, level and HP of the current leader, the team name, the location (if the game was quicksaved inside a dungeon), the current V-Wave, playtime, the total amount of adventures and a set of icons that track the player's progress.

On the bottom screen, six icons to access the game's features are present:

New Game/Continue: Brings the player to the core of the game, allowing the exploration of dungeon, progressing the story, and accessing Pokémon Paradise facilities.

Discover a Magnagate!: Access the Augmented Reality features of the game, accessing random dungeons with pre-determined Pokémon.

Wonder Mail: Brings to a menu where the player can input codes to obtain items in the game.

DLC: Leads to a menu where the game's Downloadable Content can be bought.

Change Team Name: Allows changing the team name at any moment.

Delete Save: Start a new game from scratch.

Icons

Main menu icons are small pictures that appear on the top screen of the main menu when certain story bosses are defeated to track the player's progress. Before their defeat, the icons are displayed as question marks instead.

Icon		Unlock requirements
	Gurdurr	Defeat Gurdurr at the end of Hazy Pass
	Pawniard	Defeat the Pawniard Brothers at the end of Desolate Canyon
	Toxicroak	Defeat Toxicroak and Purugly at the end of Crags of Lament
	Golurk	Defeat Golurk at Glacier Palace
	Salamence	Defeat Salamence after completing Tyrian Maze
	Kyurem	Defeat Kyurem at Glacier Palace

Background art

Each time the main menu has loaded the game randomly selects one of three different illustrations to display on the top screen. The bottom screen always shows the same picture with the bag, team badge, and various items. Unlike other games in the series, there is no way to hide the user interface to look at the art.

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  Bottom screen illustration

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  Post Town

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  Crossroads

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  Team Attack

Background Music

This menu normally plays the track known as "Main Menu" in the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity Soundtrack. However, if DLC is loaded, random tracks from Blue Rescue Team and the Explorers titles play instead, each of them only lasting a few seconds.

Trivia

• A debug menu allows entering a state of needing to be rescued, as well as rescuing automatically while asking for help. When active, it replaces Wonder Mail and only appears when it can be used.
• The top screen background illustrations are larger than the screen itself, meaning the left-most and right-most parts of the pictures can't be seen in-game.
• Two unused background illustrations can be found in the game's files.
  • There are also two unused Main Menu icons, one for the Bittercold, and a provisional one in a different style.
• A bigger version of the Team Attack background illustration was offiially published by Nintendo. In this version, each of the four Pokémon in the party has a Team Badge, which is necessary to perform a Team Attack, and other accessories.

In Other Languages

Language		Name
English		Main Menu
Japanese		トップメニュ

References

• Background illustrations by evandixon on Project Pokémon