Metroid Prime: Trilogy

Metroid Prime: Trilogy
Developer(s)	Retro Studios
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Series	Metroid
Platform(s)	Wii
Release date(s)	NA August 24, 2009 EU September 4, 2009 AUS October 15, 2009
Genre(s)	First-Person Action Adventure
Mode(s)	Single-Player, Multiplayer
Input methods	Wii Remote + Nunchuk
Compatibility	4 Playable
GameIDs	R3ME01, R3MP01
See also...	Dolphin Forum thread Open Issues Search Google Search Wikipedia

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. The former two, which were originally released for the Nintendo GameCube, have been updated with many of the features that were first implemented in the latter. Metroid Prime Trilogy comes packaged in a Steelbook case (only available in the North America release), contains an art booklet, and includes other features; it is one of three Wii games to come in a non-white keep case (the others being New Super Mario Bros. Wii and Zangeki no Reginleiv).

Game Pages

This page should be used for specific issues with the Metroid Prime: Trilogy launcher. For individual game information, please see the following pages.

• Metroid Prime (Metroid Prime: Trilogy)
• Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (Metroid Prime: Trilogy)
• Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (Metroid Prime: Trilogy)

Problems

Crash on Game Load

Emulation crashes when launching any of the games. This happens because Dolphin doesn't support soft-resets/multiple dol files yet. See issue 661. Emulation of soft-resets is currently in development; until it is completed, there are two ways around the problem.

Official Builds

For official builds of Dolphin, the problem can be worked around by replacing "main.dol" file in DATA-partition of ISO image to either rs5mp1_p, rs5mp2_p or rs5mp3_p.dol depending on which game you would like to play. All games can be booted using this method. See the forums. Please note that you will still need to use the original Metroid Prime trilogy launcher to create your saved game and choose your difficulty. The process is...

• Load Metroid Prime Trilogy without any modification
• Create your new game, selecting which of the three games you'd like to play
• Attempt to load the game, which will freeze
• Stop emulation, and do the DOL swap described in this thread
• Start up the modified image, which will load directly into the game using the save you created

You will need to follow this process to play a different game, or a different save file. Basically, you are emulating the soft-reset that the Wii would usually do by exiting the game, and then loading the correct DOL manually.

ES-Launch

Proper emulation of soft-resets is currently under development via the ES-Launch branch, but it is still experimental and cannot be included in official builds till it is finished. However, test builds are available on Googlecode and on the Forums. Note that it is still experimental, and may be unpredictable.

Configuration

No configuration changes are known to affect compatibility for this title.

Version Compatibility

The graph below charts the compatibility with Metroid Prime: Trilogy since Dolphin's 2.0 release, listing revisions only where a compatibility change occurred.

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2.0 (r5384)

Compatibility can be assumed to align with the indicated revisions. However, compatibility may extend to prior revisions or compatibility gaps may exist within ranges indicated as compatible due to limited testing. Please update as appropriate.

Testing

This title has been tested on the environments listed below:

Test Entries
Revision	OS	CPU	GPU	Result	Tester
style="white-space:nowrap;	Windows 7 x64	Intel Core 2 Quad QX9650 3000 @ 4GHz	ATI Radeon HD 5870	Done	Foxcor
3.0-720	Windows 7 x64	Intel Core 2 Duo E7600 @ 3.06GHz	nVidia 9800GT	Metroid 2 runs at 30-40 FPS very playable with Direct3D9 EFB Copies=Ram for visor scanning Must use dol method for each game. Metroid 3 runs 30-40 FPS EFB Copies to ram for visor scanning	GodsSins