Pirate X-Ray Pad

A Pirate XRay Pad (as named in the level objects code of Metroid Prime 3: Corruption) is an interactive terminal featured on the Pirate Homeworld. The X-Ray Visor is required to successfully operate these terminals. The user is presented with a four digit code of numerous symbols (possibly Space Pirate language) and eight keys with those symbols forming two halves of a circle around the code. The user must copy this code by pressing each key in correct succession. When a key is pressed, the other keys will randomly change position, and the pressed key will replace the symbol on it with a minus. Inputted keys will appear underneath the displayed code, colored yellow with red boxes around them (the displayed code is red, with no boxes). Humorously, when Samus successfully inputs a password using a Pirate terminal, a robotic voice is heard saying "Awesome". A green symbol displays on used terminals.

Samus Aran uses Pirate XRay Pads five times on the Pirate Homeworld, and once on the G.F.S. Valhalla, where one was burrowed into the ship through a Space Pirate Boarding Pod. It contains the Leviathan Command Codes she needs to access the Leviathan Battleship, and in turn, Phaaze. Before she can use it, however, she must drain her energy into a terminal using her Grapple Voltage, which will lower a Pirate XRay Pad for her to download the codes.

Pirate XRay Pads are first used in the Command Vault, where Samus acquires the X-Ray Visor. It activates a line of Heavy Phazon Canisters, one of which Samus can shoot down to make it explode, destroying a block of hardened Phazon impeding her only method of escape from the room. As she is returning to her Gunship, she can use one of these terminals in the Lift Hub to access a blocked Map Station. In Defense Access, one of these Pads unlocks a metal blast door, behind which is an elevator that leads to an observation area of the Command Station. In the Command Station, a Pirate XRay Pad is the first thing Samus disables in her objective to disable the defense system, located near the top of the defense system generator. Finally, in the Scrapvault, a terminal is used in the hub linked to the Space Pirate Command Network so that Samus can access more of the Research Facility, but a Circuit board has to be repaired before this can be done.

Scans

 * Lift Hub:"Terminal controls the nearby energy shield. Advanced visor system required to use terminal."
 * Defense Access (left-hand side terminal):"Control terminal operates nearby door. Interact with the terminal to open the door."
 * Command Vault:"Control terminal operates the conveyer system. Unable to operate with standard visors."
 * Scrapvault:"Control console operates nearby access doors, but is not receiving any power."

Trivia

 * One of the symbols on these terminals resembles the icon for Grapple Swing Points.
 * Samus has a similar mechanism to these terminals aboard her Gunship, the Transmission console.
 * There is complex Lua coding utilized in the game to make these input pads. The code can be seen here:
 * It is not possible to skip the X-Ray Visor and use these terminals without it; even if a correct key is pressed while the Combat Visor is being used, the input will be automatically changed to incorrect. Pressing keys at random gives a 1 in 1,680 chance of a correct guess.