Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (Metroid Prime: Trilogy)

Metroid Prime: Trilogy is an action-adventure video game compilation developed by Retro Studios and published by Nintendo for the Wii video game console. It features Metroid Prime, Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, and Metroid Prime 3: Corruption on a single dual-layer disc.

Metroid Prime 3 in Trilogy is more or less a direct copy of the original Wii release. However, it uses the Metroid Prime Trilogy menus, achievements, saving system, and unlockable soundtracks; and it has extended versions of the Bryyo music tracks to make them less repetitive.

Game Pages
This page should be used for specific issues with the Metroid Prime sub-game of Metroid Prime: Trilogy. For other Metroid Prime: Trilogy games or launcher information, please see the following pages.
 * Metroid Prime: Trilogy
 * Metroid Prime (Metroid Prime: Trilogy)
 * Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (Metroid Prime: Trilogy)

Slow Speed
Starting with, the game is unable to run at full speed on any computer. The emulator will show 60vps and 100% speed, but the fps and the actual speed of the game will be 10-20fps. Adjusting the Framelimiter cannot correct it, and Accurate Vbeam Emulation makes it even worse. Holding Tab or turning off the Framelimiter eliminates the slowdown, but makes the game run too quickly. There is no known solution at this time and it is unplayable in this form. See.

Random Crashes
Prime 3 has a tendency to crash randomly. There is no known solution to this problem at this time, but restarting should allow you to get past the crash point. Save often.

Savestates
Using savestates in MP3 will crash Dolphin. Use the in-game saving to avoid any problems.

Micro-stuttering
All of the Prime games suffer from micro-stuttering: screen redraws and small stops in the video that can become very annoying. It occurs on both DSP HLE and DSP LLE, but DSP LLE appears to make it worse. It's severity varies depending on the revision used. Micro-stuttering can trigger the Black Bar glitch.

Audio Problems, Stalls
The game will have numerous audio problems with DSP HLE, such as sound effects issues and a few seconds of music randomly looping forever. And it may stall out during the "Input Identity Code" sequence at the start of the game. Use DSP LLE to insure proper audio. See.

Visors
Visors will only work if EFB to Ram is enabled. Unlike the original Prime releases, Trilogy does not have EFB to Ram enabled by default in the GameINI, and must be set manually.

Pixelation Glitches
A large pixelated block may appear in the upper left area of the frame. It may only appear during movement (newer revisions) or be stuck there permanently (older revisions), and it may appear after using the command visor. To avoid this problem, use the D3D11 graphics backend.

Black Bar
Whenever Dolphin has trouble with the game and flickers, from a loading hiccup to taking a screenshot, a black bar will appear on the bottom of the screen, taking up 15% of the screen space and "squishing" the game in the remaining space. This occurs in all graphics backends, and there is no known solution. See. Old versions of Dolphin, such as 3.0-135, do not have this issue on all backends.

Bloom Offset
Prime 3 has noticeable bloom offset problems. It will have several copies of the bloom spread out from the source, and can be very distracting. The only solution is to disable "Scaled EFB Copy", but this has some issues of its own from the low resolution bloom. See.

Dot
When playing above 1x Native internal resolution, there is a dot in the center of the screen. It's small and easy to ignore, but it's always there. There is no fix for this problem.

Wiimote Lag
The game may experience a large amount of Wii Remote lag. Use "Alternate Wiimote Timings" in the game settings to correct it. Dolphin 3.0 does not have this setting, making control of this game very difficult for that version. Fixed and the option removed by.