Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (Wii)
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Developer(s) | Retro Studios |
Publisher(s) | Nintendo |
Series | Metroid |
Platform(s) | Wii |
Release date(s) | JP March 6, 2008 NA August 27, 2007 EU October 26, 2007 AUS November 8, 2007 |
Genre(s) | First Person Action Adventure |
Mode(s) | Single-Player |
Input methods | Wii Remote + Nunchuk |
Compatibility | 5 Perfect |
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Trilogy Version |
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption is a first-person action-adventure game developed by Retro Studios and published by Nintendo for the Wii video game console. It is the tenth game in the Metroid series, and the final entry in the Metroid Prime Trilogy. The Wii Remote and Nunchuk devices are featured in a new control scheme that took a year to develop and caused the game's release to be delayed several times.
Gameplay for Metroid Prime 3 is similar to its predecessors: players explore open ended worlds, finding story clues and power ups, solving puzzles, jumping on platforms, and fighting enemies. Unlike past games however, the game is divided into several open worlds; each world is smaller than the single open world environments of Metroid Prime or Metroid Prime 2, but the combined size is greater. As with Metroid Prime 2, exploring the worlds is not aimless: players explore the world freely, but there are specific tasks meant to be accomplished on each world which are told to you beforehand. The game also includes hypermode, a phazon overload system that allows players to exchange health for massive damage. The biggest change is the controls. Metroid Prime 3 uses a new control system using the Wii Remote and Nunchuk, allowing free aiming and movement similar to mouse and keyboard controls.
Metroid Prime 3 was also included in Metroid Prime: Trilogy, which includes updated versions of its prequels: Metroid Prime and Metroid Prime 2: Echoes.
Problems
Random Crashes
Prime 3 has a tenancy 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.
Wiimote Lag
The game may experience a large amount of Wii Remote lag. Insure "Alternate Wiimote Timings" is active in the game settings to correct it. Dolphin 3.0 does not have this setting, making controlling this game very difficult for that version.
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. DSP LLE makes it a lot better, but LLE creates stuttering problems in some revisions. See issue 5563.
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 issue 5574. 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 issue 5573.
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.
Visors
Visors will only work if EFB to Ram is enabled. However, EFB to Ram is set as default within the game INI, preventing the user from using anything but EFB to Ram for this game.
Configuration
Only configuration options for the best compatibility where they deviate from defaults are listed.
Graphics
Config | Setting | Notes |
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Video Backend | D3D11 | Needed to avoid the pixelated box problem |
Audio
Config | Setting | Notes |
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DSP Emulator Engine | LLE | Avoid sound problems and stalls |
Version Compatibility
The graph below charts the compatibility with Metroid Prime 3: Corruption since Dolphin's 2.0 release, listing revisions only where a compatibility change occurred.
Testing
This title has been tested on the environments listed below:
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Revision | OS | CPU | GPU | Result | Tester |
r5442 | Windows 7 x64 | Intel Core 2 Duo E7300 @ 2.6GHz | nVidia GeForce GTX 275 | Intro slow, but in game full speed. | |
r7111 | Windows 7 x64 | Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 | ATI Radeon HD 5770 | 20/40 frames | |
r7478 | Windows 7 x64 | Intel Core i7-2600K @ 3.4GHz | AMD Radeon HD 6950 | Works great. Real Wiimote errors. Have to use emulated Wiimote. | Robodt7 |
r7670 | Windows 7 x64 | Intel Core i5-2500K @ 4.1GHz | AMD Radeon HD 6850 | Runs flawlessly. 60fps all the time. Still has Wiimote control lag issues. Red blooming from light sources now fixed. | MegaJump |
r7670 | Windows 7 x64 | Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.3GHz | nVidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti | Struggle to reach 60fps. Enabling any kind of anti-aliasing has a serious hit on performance 20-40 frames on 4x internal res. | boeoz |
Gameplay Videos
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- Retro Studios (Developer)
- Nintendo (Publisher)
- Metroid (Series)
- Japan (Release region)
- North America (Release region)
- Europe (Release region)
- Australia (Release region)
- 2008 (Initial release year)
- First Person Action Adventure (Genre)
- Single-Player (Game mode)
- Wii Remote (Input supported)
- Nunchuk (Input supported)
- 5 stars (Rating)
- Video Backend (Config Required)
- DSP Emulator Engine (Config Required)
- Tested On (OS): Windows
- Tested On (CPU): Intel
- Tested On (GPU):
- Tested
- Tested On (GPU): ATI
- Tested On (GPU): AMD
- Untested for 10000+ revisions
- Wii games
- First-person shooter games
- Action-adventure games