Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (Metroid Prime: Trilogy)

Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
Developer(s)	Retro Studios
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Series	Metroid, Metroid Prime
Platform(s)	Wii
Release date(s)	Original release NA August 27, 2007 EU October 26, 2007 AUS November 8, 2007 JP March 6, 2008 Metroid Prime: Trilogy NA August 24, 2009 EU September 4, 2009 AUS October 15, 2009
Genre(s)	First-person action-adventure
Mode(s)	Single-Player
Input methods	Wii Remote + Nunchuk
Compatibility	4 Playable
See also...	Wii Version Search Dolphin Forums 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.

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)

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. 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.

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.

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.

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Example of the pixelation

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 5185. Old versions of Dolphin, such as 3.0-135, do not have this issue on all backends.

Correct emulation

Black bar and squishing

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.

Example of the bloom offset

Another example of the offset

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.

The dot, zoomed in 8x

Configuration

Only configuration options for the best compatibility where they deviate from defaults are listed.

Graphics

Config	Setting	Notes
Video Backend	D3D11	Needed to avoid the pixelated box problem

Audio

Config	Setting	Notes
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.

3.0

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5.0-21502 (current)

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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
3.0-735	Windows 7 x64	Intel Core i5-3570K @ 4.7GHz	nVidia GeForce GTX 275	Used Dol swapping. MP3 with LLE and EFB to Ram are difficult even for my system; it usually is at 60 FPS but drops are common. I experienced all the problems listed above.	MaJoR