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[[Image:Scene2.jpg|thumb|right|The S.S. Dolphin collides with the comet.]]
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[[File:S.S.DolphinPikmin.jpg|thumb|150px|Artwork of the completed Dolphin.]]
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The '''S.S. Dolphin''' ({{j|ドルフィン号|Dorufin-gō}}, '''SS Dolphin''' in the European [[region|version]] of ''[[Pikmin 3]]''{{cite quote|Curse this stupid ship! It may once have been a top-of-the-line vessel, but the way it criticises my piloting skills really gets on my nerves. I can't wait to get my beloved old SS Dolphin back! I need to find plenty of valuable treasure and pay that debt off as soon as possible!|Captain Olimar|the European [[region|version]] of [[Olimar's Log (Exploration Notes)|Olimar's Log]] entry #1}}) is a delivery spaceship that belongs to [[Captain Olimar]] in the [[Pikmin (game)|first ''Pikmin'' game]]. It is wrecked when it collides with a comet during a flight on a vacation, and thirty of its pieces end up scattered around the five [[areas]] of [[PNF-404]]; ''Pikmin'' involves the collection of these using the [[Pikmin family|Pikmin]]. The S.S. Dolphin is the ship used to fly to the atmosphere between [[day]]s in this game.


The S.S. Dolphin was the personal delivery ship that belonged to [[Captain Olimar]]. It was wrecked when it crashed into a comet during a flight to a vacation spot and  30 of its pieces were scattered. Creatures called Pikmin were able to help Captain Olimar retrieve 30 pieces in 30 days or less. After Olimar blasted off the planet, the S.S. Dolphin was sold to pay the [[Hocotate Freight]] Company's debt.
When Olimar returns to [[Hocotate]] with a repaired ship at the start of ''[[Pikmin 2]]'', the S.S. Dolphin is sold to help pay the [[Hocotate Freight|Hocotate Freight company]]'s enormous debt. It is then replaced by the [[Hocotate ship]]. In {{p3}}, there is no appearance of the S.S. Dolphin. However, if the player visits the [[Quaggled Mireclops]] arena in the [[Garden of Hope]], they can find a [[data file]] that in which [[Captain Olimar]] complains about the Hocotate ship and wishes to buy back the S.S. Dolphin once the new debt is repaid.


==Known Pieces==
In {{p4}}, the Dolphin serves the same basic role as its appearance in ''Pikmin'', being the ship that Olimar must repair by gathering parts after he crashes onto PNF-404. He fails to escape the planet, crashing the ship once again in the [[Rescue Command Post]] and becoming a [[leafling]]. However, the [[Rescue Corps]] later cures Olimar of his leafling status and helps him repair the Dolphin so that he can return home.
*[[Main Engine|Dolphin's Main Engine]]
 
*[[Positron Generator]]
In ''Pikmin'', if the player presses {{button|gc|a|wii|a|switch|a}} while Olimar is on top of the ship's ring of light, his [[spacesuit]]'s [[health]] will be fully replenished, and he will comment on the number of parts he has left to recover. This cannot be done after the [[sunset]] warning timer reaches the number 4.
*[[Eternal Fuel Dynamo]]
 
*[[Whimsical Radar]]
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*[[Extraordinary Bolt]]
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*[[Nova Blaster]]
 
*[[Shock Absorber]]
==Stages of the Dolphin==
*[[Radiation Canopy]]
While playing through ''Pikmin'', the S.S. Dolphin goes through several stages depending on how many [[ship parts]] the player has collected.
*[[Geiger Counter]]
 
*[[Sagittarius]]
===Stage 0===
*[[Number 1 Ionium Jet|#1 Ionium Jet]]
This is when the S.S. Dolphin has first crashed landed in [[The Impact Site]]. Every ship part is missing, smoke and sparks come from the ship, and the hull is very battered. In this stage, the ship's lights are off.
*[[Gravity Jumper]]
 
*[[Automatic Gear]]
===Stage 1===
[[Image:olimar n.jpg|thumb|right|500px|The Dolphin blasting off early in the game]]
This is when the S.S. Dolphin has recovered the [[Main Engine]]. The back-side of the hull returns to its original position, the left light returns to normal, and all the lights turn on. In this stage, the ship's lights are red.
*[[Space Float]]
 
*[[Anti-Dioxin Filter]]
This increases the Dolphin's capabilities to be able to reach [[The Forest of Hope]]. Technically, the ship enters this stage when one ship part is collected, meaning that obtaining the [[Positron Generator]] first can also trigger the change.{{cite youtube|7Z6DjOlTTEg|showing what happens if the Positron Generator is recovered on day 1|published={{date|10|March|2017}}|}}
*[[Libra]]
 
*[[Analog Computer]]
===Stage 2===
*[[Omega Stabilizer]]
This is when the S.S. Dolphin has recovered at least 5 ship parts. 3 gears appear near the bow of the ship, and a piece of the hull returns around the cockpit. In this stage, the ship's lights are yellow.
*[[Guard Satillite]]
 
*[[Repair-Type Bolt]]
This increases the Dolphin's capabilities to be able to reach [[The Forest Navel]].
*[[Massage Machine]]
 
*[[Interstellar Radio]]
===Stage 3===
*[[Gluon Drive]]
This is when the S.S. Dolphin has recovered at least 12 ship parts. A whisk-like antenna extends from the top-left side of the Dolphin, and the piece of the hull covering the cargo hatch is unbent. In this stage, the ship's lights are green.
*[[UV Lamp]]
 
*[[Zirconium Rotor]]
This increases the Dolphin's capabilities to be able to reach [[The Distant Spring]].
*[[Pilot's Seat]]
 
*[[Bowsprit]]
===Stage 4===
*[[Chronos Reactor]]
This is when the S.S. Dolphin has recovered 29 ship parts; every part except the [[Secret Safe]]. The final pieces of the hull appear between the [[Anti-Dioxin Filter]] and both [[Ionium Jet #1|Ionium Jets]], and a buckle covers both sides of the ship. In this stage, the ship's lights are blue.
*[[Number 2 Ionium Jet|#2 Ionium Jet]]
 
*[[Secret Safe]]
This increases the Dolphin's capabilities to be able to reach [[The Final Trial]].
 
===Stage 5===
This is when the S.S. Dolphin has recovered every ship part. The Dolphin is in its fully functional stage, the whisk-like antenna retracts, and every ship part is properly aligned and fitted. In this stage, the ship's lights are purple, though they turn back to blue in the ending [[cutscene]].
 
==Ship parts==
[[File:P1 Final Analysis Ship Parts.png|thumb|left|250px|The 30 ship parts in ''Pikmin''.]]
{{Main|Ship part}}
The ship has thirty named parts that are scattered around PNF-404 at the beginning of {{p1}} and [[Olimar's Shipwreck Tale]] in {{p4}}. In both stories, they are scattered around all areas and their retrieval is necessary in order to complete the game. Five of the parts are optional in ''Pikmin'', but all are needed in Olimar's Shipwreck Tale. In Olimar's Shipwreck Tale, 16 of the 30 parts are duplicates of the [[Extraordinary Bolt]], [[Repair-Type Bolt]] or [[Automatic Gear]].
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==Naming==
The S.S. Dolphin's name is a reference to the [[GameCube]]'s development codename, the Dolphin.
 
===Names in other languages===
{{needs translation|Chinese|Korean}}
{{foreignname
|Jap = ドルフィン号
|JapR = Dorufin-gō
|JapM =
|ChiTrad = 多露芬號
|ChiTradR =
|ChiTradM =
|ChiSimp = 多露芬号
|ChiSimpR =
|ChiSimpM =
|Dut  = Dolphin
|DutM =
|Fra  = Dolphin
|FraM =
|FraN =
|Ger  = Dolphin
|GerM =
|GerN  =
|Ita  = Dolphin
|ItaM  =
|ItaN =
|Kor = 돌핀호
|KorR = Dolpin-ho
|KorM =
|Por = S.S. Dolphin
|PorM =
|Spa  = Dolphin
|SpaM =
|SpaN =
}}
 
==Gallery==
<gallery>
P1DolphinModel.png|Render of the ship in ''Pikmin'', from the game's model.
olimar n.jpg|The Dolphin blasting off early in the game.
SS Dolphin in space P1.png|The S.S. Dolphin flying through space in the intro.
Scene2.jpg|The S.S. Dolphin collides with the comet in the instruction manual.
Complete Dolphin.jpg|The completed Dolphin. The Secret Safe, however, is still unaccounted for.
SS Dolphin crashed P1.png|The Dolphin after it crashes in [[The Impact Site]].
Captain Olimar opening.png|Captain Olimar in the S.S. Dolphin in the opening of ''Pikmin 2''.
SS Dolphin P2 revoked.png|The ship being salvaged for [[Poko]]s in the opening of ''Pikmin 2''.
Dolphin P4.jpg|The damaged S.S. Dolphin in the [[Hero's Hideaway]] prologue in ''Pikmin 4''.
P4 S.S. Dolphin Prologue.png|An alternate angle of the S.S. Dolphin in the Hero's Hideaway prologue.
Dolphin when landing in Hero's Hideaway.jpg|The S.S. Dolphin in the [[Olimar's Shipwreck Tale]] version of Hero's Hideaway.
S.S._Dolphin_P4_icon.png|The S.S. Dolphin's icon in ''Pikmin 4''.
DolphinACNL.png|The S.S. Dolphin as seen in ''Animal Crossing: New Leaf''.
SS Dolphin in AC City Folk.jpg|The S.S. Dolphin in ''Animal Crossing: City Folk''.
</gallery>


==Trivia==
==Trivia==
*The S.S. Dolphin's name is a reference to the Gamecube's development codename, the Dolphin.
*The S.S. Dolphin makes a [[Pikmin in other media|cameo]] in ''[[nookipedia:Animal Crossing: City Folk|Animal Crossing: City Folk]]'' as a piece of furniture distributed by [[Nintendo]] from {{date|20|July}} to {{date|3|August}} to celebrate the Apollo moon landing. It also makes an appearance in ''[[nookipedia:Animal Crossing: New Leaf|Animal Crossing: New Leaf]]'', as a fortune cookie prize.
[[Image:SMG The Ship.png|thumb|Super Mario Galaxy's version of The Ship/S.S.Dolphin.]]
*When viewed from above, the nose of the ship looks like a [[Bulbapedia:Poké Ball|Poké Ball]].
*Super Mario Galaxy has a planetoid shaped very similarly to the S.S. Dolphin located in the "Space Junk Galaxy".  It is a red, rusted color, and appears to be a subtle blend between the S.S. Dolphin, and [[The Ship]].
*The S.S. Dolphin may have a personality of its own, as Olimar's notes on the [[Analog Computer]] state that the Dolphin is quick to anger.
*When Olimar first lands in the Hero's Hideaway in his Shipwreck Tale, the S.S. Dolphin is sporting several parts that it appears to lack during the same sequence in the prologue for ''Pikmin 4''.
 
==See also==
*[[Olimar]]
*[[Hocotate ship]]
*[[S.S. Dolphin II]]
 
==References==
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{{Characters}}


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[[Category:Hocotate]]
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Artwork of the completed Dolphin.
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The S.S. Dolphin (ドルフィン号?, SS Dolphin in the European version of Pikmin 3[1]) is a delivery spaceship that belongs to Captain Olimar in the first Pikmin game. It is wrecked when it collides with a comet during a flight on a vacation, and thirty of its pieces end up scattered around the five areas of PNF-404; Pikmin involves the collection of these using the Pikmin. The S.S. Dolphin is the ship used to fly to the atmosphere between days in this game.

When Olimar returns to Hocotate with a repaired ship at the start of Pikmin 2, the S.S. Dolphin is sold to help pay the Hocotate Freight company's enormous debt. It is then replaced by the Hocotate ship. In Pikmin 3, there is no appearance of the S.S. Dolphin. However, if the player visits the Quaggled Mireclops arena in the Garden of Hope, they can find a data file that in which Captain Olimar complains about the Hocotate ship and wishes to buy back the S.S. Dolphin once the new debt is repaid.

In Pikmin 4, the Dolphin serves the same basic role as its appearance in Pikmin, being the ship that Olimar must repair by gathering parts after he crashes onto PNF-404. He fails to escape the planet, crashing the ship once again in the Rescue Command Post and becoming a leafling. However, the Rescue Corps later cures Olimar of his leafling status and helps him repair the Dolphin so that he can return home.

In Pikmin, if the player presses the A Button on the GameCube controller / the A Button on the Wii Remote / the A Button on the Switch while Olimar is on top of the ship's ring of light, his spacesuit's health will be fully replenished, and he will comment on the number of parts he has left to recover. This cannot be done after the sunset warning timer reaches the number 4.

Stages of the Dolphin[edit]

While playing through Pikmin, the S.S. Dolphin goes through several stages depending on how many ship parts the player has collected.

Stage 0[edit]

This is when the S.S. Dolphin has first crashed landed in The Impact Site. Every ship part is missing, smoke and sparks come from the ship, and the hull is very battered. In this stage, the ship's lights are off.

Stage 1[edit]

This is when the S.S. Dolphin has recovered the Main Engine. The back-side of the hull returns to its original position, the left light returns to normal, and all the lights turn on. In this stage, the ship's lights are red.

This increases the Dolphin's capabilities to be able to reach The Forest of Hope. Technically, the ship enters this stage when one ship part is collected, meaning that obtaining the Positron Generator first can also trigger the change.[2]

Stage 2[edit]

This is when the S.S. Dolphin has recovered at least 5 ship parts. 3 gears appear near the bow of the ship, and a piece of the hull returns around the cockpit. In this stage, the ship's lights are yellow.

This increases the Dolphin's capabilities to be able to reach The Forest Navel.

Stage 3[edit]

This is when the S.S. Dolphin has recovered at least 12 ship parts. A whisk-like antenna extends from the top-left side of the Dolphin, and the piece of the hull covering the cargo hatch is unbent. In this stage, the ship's lights are green.

This increases the Dolphin's capabilities to be able to reach The Distant Spring.

Stage 4[edit]

This is when the S.S. Dolphin has recovered 29 ship parts; every part except the Secret Safe. The final pieces of the hull appear between the Anti-Dioxin Filter and both Ionium Jets, and a buckle covers both sides of the ship. In this stage, the ship's lights are blue.

This increases the Dolphin's capabilities to be able to reach The Final Trial.

Stage 5[edit]

This is when the S.S. Dolphin has recovered every ship part. The Dolphin is in its fully functional stage, the whisk-like antenna retracts, and every ship part is properly aligned and fitted. In this stage, the ship's lights are purple, though they turn back to blue in the ending cutscene.

Ship parts[edit]

The ship parts in Pikmin's Final Analysis.
The 30 ship parts in Pikmin.
Main article: Ship part.

The ship has thirty named parts that are scattered around PNF-404 at the beginning of Pikmin and Olimar's Shipwreck Tale in Pikmin 4. In both stories, they are scattered around all areas and their retrieval is necessary in order to complete the game. Five of the parts are optional in Pikmin, but all are needed in Olimar's Shipwreck Tale. In Olimar's Shipwreck Tale, 16 of the 30 parts are duplicates of the Extraordinary Bolt, Repair-Type Bolt or Automatic Gear.

Naming[edit]

The S.S. Dolphin's name is a reference to the GameCube's development codename, the Dolphin.

Names in other languages[edit]

The following article or section needs help from someone who can translate Chinese/Korean text.

Language Name Meaning
Flag of Japan Japanese ドルフィン号?
Dorufin-gō
Flag of the Republic of China (Taiwan) Chinese
(traditional)		 多露芬號
Flag of China Chinese
(simplified)		 多露芬号
Flag of the Netherlands Dutch Dolphin
Flag of France French Dolphin
Flag of Germany German Dolphin
Flag of Italy Italian Dolphin
Flag of South Korea Korean 돌핀호
Dolpin-ho
Flag of Brazil Portuguese S.S. Dolphin
Flag of Spain Spanish Dolphin

Gallery[edit]

  • Render of the ship in Pikmin, from the game's model.

    Render of the ship in Pikmin, from the game's model.

  • The Dolphin blasting off early in the game.

    The Dolphin blasting off early in the game.

  • The S.S. Dolphin flying through space in the intro.

    The S.S. Dolphin flying through space in the intro.

  • The S.S. Dolphin collides with the comet in the instruction manual.

    The S.S. Dolphin collides with the comet in the instruction manual.

  • The completed Dolphin. The Secret Safe, however, is still unaccounted for.

    The completed Dolphin. The Secret Safe, however, is still unaccounted for.

  • The Dolphin after it crashes in The Impact Site.

    The Dolphin after it crashes in The Impact Site.

  • Captain Olimar in the S.S. Dolphin in the opening of Pikmin 2.

    Captain Olimar in the S.S. Dolphin in the opening of Pikmin 2.

  • The ship being salvaged for Pokos in the opening of Pikmin 2.

    The ship being salvaged for Pokos in the opening of Pikmin 2.

  • The damaged S.S. Dolphin in the Hero's Hideaway prologue in Pikmin 4.

    The damaged S.S. Dolphin in the Hero's Hideaway prologue in Pikmin 4.

  • An alternate angle of the S.S. Dolphin in the Hero's Hideaway prologue.

    An alternate angle of the S.S. Dolphin in the Hero's Hideaway prologue.

  • The S.S. Dolphin in the Olimar's Shipwreck Tale version of Hero's Hideaway.

    The S.S. Dolphin in the Olimar's Shipwreck Tale version of Hero's Hideaway.

  • The S.S. Dolphin's icon in Pikmin 4.

    The S.S. Dolphin's icon in Pikmin 4.

  • The S.S. Dolphin as seen in Animal Crossing: New Leaf.

    The S.S. Dolphin as seen in Animal Crossing: New Leaf.

  • The S.S. Dolphin in Animal Crossing: City Folk.

    The S.S. Dolphin in Animal Crossing: City Folk.

Trivia[edit]

  • The S.S. Dolphin makes a cameo in Animal Crossing: City Folk as a piece of furniture distributed by Nintendo from July 20th to August 3rd to celebrate the Apollo moon landing. It also makes an appearance in Animal Crossing: New Leaf, as a fortune cookie prize.
  • When viewed from above, the nose of the ship looks like a Poké Ball.
  • The S.S. Dolphin may have a personality of its own, as Olimar's notes on the Analog Computer state that the Dolphin is quick to anger.
  • When Olimar first lands in the Hero's Hideaway in his Shipwreck Tale, the S.S. Dolphin is sporting several parts that it appears to lack during the same sequence in the prologue for Pikmin 4.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ “Curse this stupid ship! It may once have been a top-of-the-line vessel, but the way it criticises my piloting skills really gets on my nerves. I can't wait to get my beloved old SS Dolphin back! I need to find plenty of valuable treasure and pay that debt off as soon as possible!” – Captain Olimar in the European version of Olimar's Log entry #1
  2. ^ YouTube video showing what happens if the Positron Generator is recovered on day 1, published on March 10th, 2017
Characters
Leaders Captain Olimar • Louie • The President • Alph • Brittany • Charlie • Pikmin 4 player character
Rescue Corps Oatchi • Collin • Shepherd • Russ • Dingo • Yonny • Bernard
Ships S.S. Dolphin • Hocotate ship • S.S. Drake • S.S. Dolphin II • SPERO • S.S. Beagle • S.S. Shepherd
Other Castaway • Leafling • Minor characters • Moss • Pikmin
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