Power Bomb locations

Power Bombs unleash a massive explosion once detonated, clearing the screen of enemies caught in the blast radius. There's quite a number to be found in the game (32 in total - each one gives you an extra 2 bombs), so using them often will give you a higher chance of survival in enemy-infested areas.

Also note that when enemies caught in the blast explode, the X parasites will be sucked into the core of the explosion so stay where you lay the bomb to absorb all the X caught in the blast instantly!

• Main Deck
• Sector 1 (SRX)
• Sector 2 (TRO)
• Sector 3 (PYR)
• Sector 4 (AQA)
• Sector 5 (ARC)
• Sector 6 (NOC)

Main Deck

	1.	Right after the power shuts down while you're riding up the Main Elevator, go over to the Sub-Zero Containment room and descend through the hole created by the remains of the creature kept there. Lay a Power Bomb in the next darkened corridor to open up a series of narrow tunnels leading off to the left. Follow the tunnels and lay another Power Bomb at the end to reveal this Power Bomb hidden at the top of a narrow shaft. Go to walkthrough
	2.	You'll find this Power Bomb down in the Restricted Zone once the Restricted Lab's been jettisoned. Travel down there via Sector 6, then head past the Save Room and run through the following corridor. In the next dead-end room duck while Samus is flashing, then walk over to the very center of the room (behind the pylon in the foreground) and Shinespark straight up. Samus will shoot up through a shaft with an awesome view of space outside, halfway up you'll slam into this Power Bomb. Go to walkthrough
	3.	Climb up the tall shaft leading to the elevator going up to the Habitation Deck once you've unlocked Level 2 Security Doors. You'll then spot a large creature blocking the door up the top on the right. Destroy it with a Power Bomb and go inside to find this Power Bomb there. Jump up to the right wall once inside and crawl through the hidden tunnels in the wall to reach it. Go to walkthrough

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Sector 1 (SRX)

	1.	When you enter this sector via the elevator from the Restricted Lab, go over to the shaft where you'll find a Save Room to the right at the base. In this shaft, shoot out the floor and drop down to find a long hidden corridor with a sealed door on the right. Go over to the left and shoot the creature inside the enclosed box with the Charge Beam (the Wave Beam will penetrate the walls). Wait for the X to reform into a another creature on the roof and destroy it again. Wait once more for it to reform into a yellow Zebesian, then pummel the creature in the back with missiles to finish it off. Grab the X that appear when it blows and you'll notice that the door's now unlocked. Go inside to find this Power Bomb in clear view. Go to walkthrough
	2.	Just outside the room where you recovered the Charge Beam you'll find a large orange shaft. Down at the base shoot open the right wall to find a water-filled shaft inside. This Power Bomb is up in the right corner but it's sealed in by Speed Booster blocks, so go back into the previous room and head for the Save Room to the left. Once inside, dash back out the door and over to the water-filled shaft. Just when you enter the room duck and descend the shaft while Samus is flashing (shoot downward to destroy the enemy on the wall below). Quickly run up against the right wall and Shinespark straight up to reach this Power Bomb. Go to walkthrough
	3.	Travel to the large green room near the entrance of this sector and head through the green door up in the right corner. Screw Attack up through the center of the ceiling in the following room to find this Power Bomb waiting above. Go to walkthrough

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Sector 2 (TRO)

	1.	In the giant room near the center of the Sector 2 map (it's the huge room surrounded by green shafts but there's no vegetation here), Space Jump up the left side of the room and break through the two walls with your Beam Weapon where you can see small red creatures hanging around. Fry all the creatures in your way, beyond them you'll find this Power Bomb in plain view. Go to walkthrough
	2.	In the tall shaft to the left of the room that contains the Power Bomb described above, go through the highest door on the left wall to find this Power Bomb up on a ledge across from the door. You'll need to freeze the two flying Rippers to use them as stepping stones to reach this item, as the ledge below them crumbles away when you step on it. Freeze the first Ripper when it's just above the right end of the platform, then jump on top of it and freeze the second Ripper when it flies directly under the vertical pillar. Activate the Morph Ball, jump on top of the second frozen Ripper and jump over to the platform from here (you should have enough room to clear the vertical wall). Go to walkthrough
	3.	This Power Bomb is hidden directly below the previous one mentioned. Descend through the ground after grabbing Power Bomb S2.02 and shoot down below to uncover this Power Bomb. Go to walkthrough
	4.	You'll find this Power Bomb in a giant chamber filled with crumbling blocks (the same room as Energy Tank S2.03). This one has a tendency to be extremely annoying to reach as Samus often likes to get caught on the crumbling blocks, if she lands on them your controls will go nuts. It might take you several tries to reach this item down in the bottom left corner of the room, so it ain't worth it if you've tried about 50 times but Samus just keeps falling through the blocks. Go to walkthrough
	5.	Travel down to the large room where you recovered the Hi-Jump/Jumpball abilities and Screw Attack through the wall up in the top right corner to reveal a door beyond. Go inside to reach a huge chamber where this Power Bomb's hidden above along with Missile S2.09 below. Drop down the shaft and dash over to the right hand corner. You'll need to climb up this room while using the Speed Booster to run over the crumbling blocks without falling through, eventually once at the top you'll run through the final wall blocking the Power Bomb to reach it. This might take a few tries but it'll give you a good Shinespark workout to hone your skills. Remember to dash into the small slopes just before each long straight to run across successfully. Go to walkthrough

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Sector 3 (PYR)

	1.	You'll need Power Bombs and the Speed Booster to reach this item. Go up to the long brightly-lit corridor just above the room where you first fought the Security Robot. Clear out the enemies in here and open up the door on the left. Using the Speed Booster, Shinespark through the door and you'll break through the opposite wall in the adjacent room. Once you land in the small room ahead, lay a Power Bomb to reveal a hidden tunnel in the left wall. Crawl through to find this Power Bomb hidden beyond. Go to walkthrough
	2.	From the large red room near the entrance of this sector, go through the door on the bottom right corner. Open up the shutter in the next room and dash through the opening on the right. Inside the next room you'll Speed Boost through blocks in the floor near the end, drop through to find yourself in the room right outside the giant red shaft. Lay a Power Bomb to reveal a hidden tunnel up in the left corner, then crawl through to find this Power Bomb hidden beyond. Go to walkthrough
	3.	Descend to the very bottom of the giant red shaft filled with dragon heads and head left. You'll need the Gravity Suit to safely reach this item. Keep going through the following lava-filled corridor and move into the next room. Lay a Power Bomb to reveal an opening within the shallow lava lake. Drop down below and traverse through the narrow network of tunnels down in the lava (starting up in the top right corner of the room) to eventually reach this item. Go to walkthrough
	4.	You'll need the Gravity Suit and Screw Attack to reach this one. Descend to the very bottom of the giant red shaft filled with dragon heads and go right. Bomb open the wall in the following room and move through into the giant heated room where you'll find Missile S3.06 and Energy Tank S3.02. Drop into the lava below and clear out all the Screw Attack blocks down on the right wall. Open up the door beyond and run back up the slope on the left. From here dash down through the open door to kick in the Speed Booster, then in the following room duck and Shinespark straight up while standing up against the right wall. You'll shoot up through an almost never-ending shaft, eventually you'll smack right into this Power Bomb. Go to walkthrough
	5.	While Shinesparking up the shaft of the previous Power Bomb's room, keep your eyes open and you'll fly up past an alcove where this Power Bomb lies. When Samus strikes the roof descend to this shaft and climb through the hidden tunnel above the obstructing wall to reach this item. Go to walkthrough
	6.	This Power Bomb is hidden up above the door of the access tunnels between Sectors 3 and 5. You can reach it from either the room where you'll find Energy Tank S3.03 (you need the Screw Attack), alternatively you can reach the tunnel via Sector 5 near the location of Power Bomb S5.05 described below. Go to walkthrough

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Sector 4 (AQA)

	1.	After defeating Nightmare and going across to Sector 4 you'll eventually find yourself at the top of a long coral-filled underwater shaft leading down. Scale down the shaft and roll through a hidden opening in the left wall to find this Power Bomb hidden in the adjacent room. Go to walkthrough
	2.	Descend to the bottom of the tall underwater shaft mentioned in the previous Power Bomb entry. Head left and blow your way up through the green tube you'll find in the next corridor with a Power Bomb and missiles. Climb up to find an area where mini-Draygons are floating about. Jump up and shoot open the wall up in the right corner of this area to reveal a tunnel, crawl through to find this Power Bomb waiting beyond. Go to walkthrough
	3.	When proceeding through Sector 4 right after regaining the Gravity Suit and unlocking Level 4 Security Doors, you'll reach a large underwater chamber filled with two blowfish and several crabs firing projectiles on the walls. Travel through the door in the top right corner of this room and move through the next room to find yourself in a corridor where a large green/purple pillar blocks the way. Standing next to the pillar, run back to the left and re-enter the large chamber where the blowfish live. You'll activate the Speed Booster just in time and break through the floor, then head through the door you'll find below. Run through the following corridor to build up enough speed for the Speed Booster, then duck and Shinespark up through the opening in the roof near the door at the end to find this Power Bomb above. You'll also be able to reach Missile S4.08 from here. Go to walkthrough
	4.	From the large empty blue room near the entrance of this sector, go through the room to the left of it to reach the first massive chamber once filled with electrified water. Use a Power Bomb near the door to reveal a passage leading down just ahead and crawl through. Descend below and lay another Power Bomb to reveal this item hiding in a small tunnel in the left corner. Go to walkthrough

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Sector 5 (ARC)

	1.	Not long after you score your first Power Bomb from the Data Room you'll be in a long corridor where you'll be attacked by the SA-X. Get through the corridor alive to find this Power Bomb hidden in a small alcove in the next room, gain access to it by laying a Power Bomb. Go to walkthrough
	2.	In the same room as the Power Bomb above, climb up to the two doors above (the right one's destroyed) and lay another Power Bomb to open up a large entrance in the roof. Climb up and freeze the Rippers flying about in the shaft above to reach the top, through the door there you'll find this Power Bomb hidden inside. Go to walkthrough
	3.	Travel down to the first giant frozen room in this sector and climb down the area. Eventually you'll spot a massive creature blocking a door within an alcove on the left wall, lay a Power Bomb to destroy the creature and open up a path to the door. Through this door you'll find a long corridor where the Power Bomb awaits in an alcove at the end, but you'll need to crawl through narrow tunnels where two Rippers are flying about to reach it. Lay a Power Bomb about halfway down the corridor to reveal loads of crumbling blocks, getting to this bomb is going to be tricky. Climb up to the opening of the narrow tunnels and try to freeze the first Ripper when it's hovering over the center of the three columns of crumbling blocks. Use the Jumpball to get through, just make sure you don't land on the crumbling blocks (hold left to sneak into the next tunnel, if you hold down A Samus will hop about while in Morph Ball mode, this really helps). Upon reaching the second Ripper try to freeze it when it's floating between the two middle blocks of the four columns of crumbling blocks, hopefully this will give you enough room to reach the next tunnel. Once you get into the tunnel, roll over to the edge on the left but don't drop down as there's more crumbling blocks. Stand up and jump over to the Power Bomb to reach it successfully. Go to walkthrough
	4.	Once the Nightmare's broken loose and wrecked the room where you earlier saw it flying around in the background, climb up to the very top of the chamber. Over to the right of the door up in the left corner that leads to Missile S5.03 you'll find a flattened platform running all the way to other side of the room. Clear out all the Chute Leeches and open the door over on the left. Charge up the Speed Booster by running towards the door from the right, then Shinespark through the door. Not only will you grab Missile S5.03 on the way, you'll break through the solid wall behind it to reveal this Power Bomb. Go to walkthrough
	5.	Once the Nightmare's damaged the large frozen room so that it's no longer frozen, go up through the wrecked door in the top right corner of the chamber. Shoot out the roof in the next room and climb up. The door on the right up here leads to Sector 3, instead use a Power Bomb to reveal an opening in the ceiling above the door. Watch out for the two Zebesians above, then climb up the shaft and open up the two shutters above. Within the platform you'll find this Power Bomb hidden, lay a Power Bomb to reveal it if you need help. Go to walkthrough
	6.	While tracking down the Nightmare you'll reach a room where two large creatures reside on the ceiling near the door. Fry them both then shoot open the ceiling. Up to the left you'll find an open door, go through to find this Power Bomb hidden in the room beyond. Go to walkthrough
	7.	In the same large chamber adjacent to the room containing the Power Bomb above, climb up to the door in the top right corner of the room. Lay a Power Bomb here to reveal a hidden tunnel up in the left wall. Crawl through to find a door leading to a Recharge Room, lay another Power Bomb just outside the door to reveal this Power Bomb hiding above. You'll find another small tunnel leading up to it near the left end of the horizontal tunnel you first uncovered (hold A to keep jumping and roll to the left, you'll find it). Go to walkthrough
	8.	In the area where you track down Nightmare you'll find a long corridor filled with Zebesians and Skulteras. Once you've recovered the Gravity Suit, come back to this corridor and clear out all the enemies. Open up the door on the right side of the chamber and run over to the left end. Dash back to the right and Speed Boost through the door. Keep going through the following corridor to break through two walls. As soon as you break through them both duck and quickly Shinespark up into the ceiling between the two walls to fly up to a hidden room where this Power Bomb awaits. Go to walkthrough

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Sector 6 (NOC)

	1.	You'll need the Screw Attack and Speed Booster to reach this Power Bomb. Head over to the darkened shaft near the first darkened room and go through the second door down on the left wall. Inside you'll find the corridor filled with a group of blue Xs. Clear out the enemies and destroy the blockage on the floor with the Screw Attack. Shoot open the door on the left end of the corridor and run back to the right side. Dash back to the left to build up enough speed for the Speed Booster, then duck and Shinespark through the left door. You'll shoot through the next room and blow through a wall before flying through an open door. When you shoot through this next gigantic room you'll pass this Power Bomb, wait until Samus hits the wall then drop down to the bottom of the room. You'll notice that there's pillars within the floor here, you can use these as a frame of reference for where you need to Shinepsark up to reach this Power Bomb. From the left corner, run over to the right side to kick in the Speed Booster, and count five pillars along. From the fifth pillar in the floor, stand on the right half of it and Shinespark straight up. If aimed properly you'll streak up through a wall alongside the Power Bomb, then drop down to the right to grab it. Go to walkthrough
	2.	This Power Bomb is enclosed in an area in the bottom left corner of the same room as the previous Power Bomb listed above. The only way you'll be able to break into this alcove is via the Speed Booster blocks at the top, but we'll need to perform a tricky Shinepsark jump to break through them. Go down to the bottom left corner of the room and dash over to the right. Once at the end, duck and quickly jump up to the sloping platform. Shinespark into the slope and quickly jump over to the left just before you run onto the straight platform with all the Speed Booster blocks. You'll soar through the air, jump a second time and you should fly over to the alcove and break through the blocks as you fall. Once you've successfully broken through grab this Power Bomb resting on the platform. Go to walkthrough
	3.	You'll need the Screw Attack to locate this item. Go over to the corridor where you fought the Security Robot but don't descend into the corridor. Instead, Screw Attack through the wall on the right and keep going to find a door. Head inside and lay a Power Bomb to reveal this Power Bomb hidden up in the right corner. It'll be tricky to reach due to the crumbling blocks, but you shouldn't have much trouble. Roll through the first narrow tunnel and drop down onto the crumbling blocks, quickly stand back up and jump frantically, you should eventually manage to grab hold of the edge of the alcove on the right, then you'll be clear to grab the item. Go to walkthrough

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