Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (GC)

Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, known as Metroid Prime 2: Dark Echoes (メトロイドプライム2: ダークエコーズ Metoroido Puraimu Tsū: Dāku Ekōzu) in Japan, is a first-person, action-adventure video game developed by Retro Studios and published by Nintendo for the GameCube. It is the seventh published game in the Metroid series and a direct sequel to Metroid Prime.

Like its predecessor, Metroid Prime 2: Echoes takes place in an open-ended world with interconnected regions, revolving around solving puzzles to uncover secrets, platform jumping, and shooting enemies. Echoes features parallel dimensions gameplay, Light Aether and Dark Aether, where changes in either dimension often reflect changes in the other. Dark Aether's atmosphere is caustic and damages Samus' Power Suit, requiring the player to move between designated "safe zones" that allow Samus' health to be regained slowly.

An updated version was released for the Wii as part of the Metroid Prime Trilogy.

Problems
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The Black Bar
During Shader Compilation, stuttering can become so severe that it desyncs the GPU and CPU threads in Dual Core mode. The game freaks out over this desync, creating a black bar at the bottom of the screen, which takes up 15% of the screen space and "squishes" the game in the remaining space. The black bar will remain there from then on whether stuttering continues or ceases.

After, enabling Virtual XFB or Real XFB will fix and/or prevent the problem. If XFB is disabled the problem may still occur. Details can be found in the September Progress Report. Fixed with Hybrid XFB in.

Visors
Visors will only work if Store EFB Copies to Texture Only is disabled. Though Store EFB Copies to Texture Only is forced off by the GameINI, visor corruption may still occur if the graphics configuration window is opened during gameplay before. Disable Store EFB Copies to Texture Only in the Dolphin GUI to avoid any problems.

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IR>1 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 is present whenever the HUD is on screen.

A workaround for this problem is to put these custom textures into the Dolphin Emulator\Load\Textures folder and enabling the Load Custom Textures option in the advanced graphics settings.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/559645428451246090/802436195375382538/Dot_Fix.zip

60FPS in Multiplayer
When playing with 3-4 players in split-screen multiplayer, the framerate is locked at 30FPS. These Gecko codes provided below will make split-screen multiplayer levels play at 60FPS.

NTSC-U
$60FPS in Multiplayer [Nick Reynolds] 003C5AB1 00000000

PAL
Enable 50Hz Mode [Ralf] 042BEE20 3BC00000

NA Culling Fix
Like many games, to optimize performance, objects outside view are not rendered (this is called "frustum culling"). In 16:9, you can see culling on the sides of the screen (because you see more than what you are supposed to). The AR code below disables culling entirely. While culling won't be seen, this can affect the performance of the game. Use the following code along with the Dolphin Widescreen Hack. $Widescreen/VR Culling Fix 04302498 38600001 0430249C 4E800020 04302298 38600001 0430229C 4E800020 043022F8 38600001 043022FC 4E800020 04302450 38600001 04302454 4E800020 04302364 38600001 04302368 4E800020

EU
Disable the Widescreen hack before using. $16:9 Widescreen [Ralf] 04036EA0 38A00356

HD Textures
Metroid Prime Trilogy - HD Interface Textures. This texture pack works with the Trilogy and the standalone GameCube/Wii titles.

Immediately Present XFB
This graphics hack can be enabled for the PAL release of Metroid Prime 1 and 2 for Gamecube to reduce input latency. NTSC releases will crash when launching the game with the setting enabled.