Metroid Prime (GC): Difference between revisions

|modes    = Single-player

|input    = GameCube Controller, Game Boy Advance

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Despite taking place in the first person view, ''Metroid Prime'' is classified by Nintendo as a first-person adventure rather than a first-person shooter, due to the large exploration component of the game and its precedence over combat. As with all Metroid games, players solve puzzles, perform platform jumps, and fight enemies in a large, open ended world. Along the way, the player finds power ups that improve her abilities, and clues about the mystery of the planet. The story is told organically; the story is revealed through scan logs, allowing the player to dive into the story or ignore it as they see fit.

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=== Raindrop Effects ===

=== Missing Effects ===

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=== VR Culling Fix ===

<pre>$VR Culling Fix

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{{testing/entry|revision=7647|OS=Windows 7|CPU=Intel Core i7-2600 @ 3.4 GHz|GPU=NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580|result=Crashes in "Temple Entryway" (Phendrana Drifts) after you get the wave beam, when you go back to Phendrana Shorelines. Forced passage. Seems to freeze when loading the next location data, in the middle of the corridor.|tester=}}

{{testing/entry|revision=7661|OS=Windows 7|CPU=Intel Core 2 Quad 9550 @ 3.2 GHz|GPU=AMD Radeon HD 6950|result=Great, no significant performance drops so far, sound problems sometimes|tester=}}

{{testing/entry|revision=7719|OS=Windows 7|CPU=Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.4 GHz|GPU=NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti|result=DX11, 1920x1080, 3x Native, 2x AA. Game runs smoothly at 60FPS at almost all times. Audio popping and crackling problems persist, but the frequency of audio errors appears to be drastically reduced when using XAudio2. Occasionally sound effects will drop out for a bit or fail to play. FPS drops immensely when splashing into water, and when looking upwards at rain droplets in large rooms.|tester=Helvetica}}

{{testing/entry|revision=3.0-153|OS=Windows 7|CPU=AMD Phenom II X4 @ 3.4 GHz|GPU=NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460|result= Used Recommended Configuration; Fullspeed 60FPS, Audio still cracks and pops (happens when pressing digital type controls e.g. D-Pad, A, B) extreme framerate drop 95%+ when water droplets get on HUD (but does not happen from visor being covered in condensation), same effect from Arm Cannon overheat smoke and when falling in water. Some rooms cause framerate drops, not sure why yet. Sometimes when using the Scan Visor framerate will drop to 20-21FPS, not sure why yet.|tester=AnonMX}}

{{testing/entry|revision=3.0-201|OS=Windows 7|CPU=Intel Core i5-760 @ 2.8 GHz|GPU=ATI Radeon HD 5850|result=DX9, 2x IR, 4xAA, and running very smooth. Haven't noticed any negative effects from Cache Display Lists. XAudio2 distorted various sounds, using DSound instead.|tester=Maave}}

{{testing/entry|revision=3.0-201|OS=Windows 7|CPU=Intel Core i7-2620M @ 2.7 GHz|GPU=Intel HD 3000|result=Using recommended settings and dx9 back-end. Its playable, with a consistent 30FPS, however it will glitch only in certain rooms, and sometimes in morph ball form it will drop to 11FPS. Some audio issues but for the most part very good and consistent. Also playing in 720p and frame set to auto instead of native.|tester=cohn}}

{{testing/entry|revision=3.0-586|OS=Windows 7|CPU=AMD Athlon II X4 640 @ 3 GHz|GPU=ATI Radeon HD 4200|result=With recommended settings works almost flawlessly. Lava, water, and snow sometimes lowers the FPS, but the FPS will go right back up if you turn the visor to scan mode. IMPORTANT: I don't know about other revisions, but save states are broken; loading a state results in a black screen.|tester=}}

{{testing/entry|revision=3.0-787|OS=Windows 7|CPU=Intel Core i5-2450M @ 2.5 GHz|GPU=NVIDIA GeForce GT 635M|result=Running at 2x internal resolution, 720p screen res. Minor audio issues: sometimes audio clips make a crackling sound, sometimes they play at odd volumes and occasionally they don't play at all. Stable 50FPS, drops during cutscenes and action heavy sequences, but never drops below 30. It will sometimes freeze for a few seconds, but this has only happened twice so far and it corrects itself. Overall its a very stable game.|tester=}}

{{testing/entry|revision=3.5-126|OS=Windows 7|CPU=Intel Core i7-2670QM @ 2.2 GHz|GPU=NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M|result=Running with D3D9, 1x native, 9xSSAA, EFB to Ram, Fog/Per-Pixel Depth and DSP HLE usually results in a solid 60FPS, although significantly lower during bosses/fights with Aerotroopers, still playable though having it beat it all the way through. Audio glitches are annoying but no big deal, all I ever encountered in that regard was music disappearing randomly or when loading Save States|tester=Phazon Lord}}

Settings: Backend OpenGL (Direct3D seems to deliver similar performance), Enable Cheats (true), Force 16:9, V-Sync (true), 3x Native (1920x1584), 4xAA (4x SSAA is possible, but tends to cause more stuttering? it's difficult to say), Per-Pixel Lighting (true), Widescreen Hack (true) (don't forget to enable cheats or the following AR Code). AR Code Disable Culling (aka Widescreen Hack fix): 043451D0 38600001  043451D4 4E800020. Thanks to the community for the code. This fixes an issue where most objects that are outside of the original 4:3 FoV would turn invisible to try and save on graphical resources (a technique called Culling). This AR code is essential for Dolphin VR. Keep in mind certain visual effects still render incorrectly in a 4:3 aspect ratio, such as the "Colour Correction" effect when Samus is underwater. You might also wish to disable the HUD and Helmet view within the game's Options. For a true native experience, set the aspect ratio to 4:3, disable Widescreen Hack, and disable the AR Code.

All other settings left to default. It's hard to say if there's a performance difference with reduced/increased settings due to the micro stuttering issue that occurs regardless of settings. On a side note, Dolphin VR 4.0-9170-dirty with Oculus Rift DK2 and SDK 0.7 works well, drawback being choppy headtracking. With OpCode Replay Settings: Pullup 60FPS to 75FPS (true), and Disable Opcode Warnings (true), headtracking is smooth but geography will flash everywhere making the game quickly unplayable.|tester=PyroPaperPlanes}}

{{testing/entry|revision=4.0-7873|OS=Windows 10|CPU=Intel Core i7-3930K @ 4.2 GHz|GPU=NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780|result=Game has terrible slowdown issues on OpenGL, but runs nearly perfectly on Direct3D, save a tiny bit of slowdown (about 57FPS) on the whole map view, and sometimes when landing in water. Stutter issue due to shader generation still exists, but it's not too bad. Used DSP HLE with the only issue being that some rooms in phendrana drifts have a slightly messed up echo effect, but last I checked this is a known issue. No sound issues otherwise; even the background music worked fine. Played through the entire game to 100% completion without a single issue otherwise. 1920x1080 fullscreen, auto rescaling, anti-aliasing, no texture filtering (I never use it as it often breaks things), and all the optimized defaults, including EFB to texture, which now works fine for the thermal and x-ray visors.|tester=Techjar}}

{{testing/entry|revision=4.0-9222|OS=Windows 10|CPU=Intel Core i7-4710HQ @ 3.3 GHz|GPU=NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M|result=Played through many times with DirectX11, 3x native resolution, 16x anisotropic filtering, 2x MSAA, and various compatibility settings. No issues whatsoever, aside from visor effects causing temporary slowdowns. Emulation is perfect, and the only limiter to graphics quality is my laptop hardware. If you want to play with 16:9 aspect ratio and widescreen hack, consider downloading a modified HUD for the best experience (I recommend looking into this; the game is simply stunning with the widescreen HUD!).|tester=Anonymous}}

Currently running with Widescreen Hack and Widescreen HUD (don't forget to input the AR code '''043452A8 C342CB78''' to fix the culling on the sides (AR code only works on REV0 / 1.00).|tester=Hetsig}}

{{testing/entry|revision=5.0|OS=Windows 10|CPU=AMD A4 7210|GPU=AMD Radeon R5 Graphics|result=Good but a little choppy.|tester=Dogmander25}}

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|vid5=Xz7ufCbgfO8|cap5=Metroid Prime on NVIDIA SHIELD Android TV - Dolphin Emulator (Nintendo GameCube)

|vid7=SWXmOYyWfKc|cap7=Dolphin Emulator 4.0 - Metroid Prime (1080p HD) - Nintendo GameCube

|vid8=J3tkfRjAlfk|cap8=Metroid Prime - GCN 1080p upscaled in Dolphin with Iris Xe Graphics

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