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The top screen of the Main Menu in Gates to Infinity
Top screen
The bottom screen of the Main Menu in Gates to Infinity
Bottom screen
Shiren 6 - Unused icon.png There is unused content related to this topic. See Gates:Miscellaneous Unused Content#Unused Main Menu Graphics for more information.
For the lore page, see Pkmn:Top Menu.

The Main Menu (Japanese: トップメニュ, Top Menu) is the first menu the player sees every time Nintendo 3DS Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity 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
Gates to Infinity - Main Menu icon 1 Gurdurr.png Gurdurr Defeat Gurdurr at the end of Hazy Pass
Gates to Infinity - Main Menu icon 2 Pawniard.png Pawniard Defeat the Pawniard Brothers at the end of Desolate Canyon
Gates to Infinity - Main Menu icon 3 Toxicroak.png Toxicroak Defeat Toxicroak and Purugly at the end of Crags of Lament
Gates to Infinity - Main Menu icon 4 Golurk.png Golurk Defeat Golurk at Glacier Palace
Gates to Infinity - Main Menu icon 5 Salamence.png Salamence Defeat Salamence after completing Tyrian Maze
Gates to Infinity - Main Menu icon 6 Kyurem.png 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.

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 Game Boy Advance/Nintendo DS Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red and Blue Rescue Team, Nintendo DS Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Darkness, and Nintendo DS Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky play instead, each of them only lasting a few seconds.

In Other Languages

Language Name
English Main Menu
Japanese トップメニュ

See Also

References

  • [1] Background illustrations by evandixon on Project Pokémon