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Super Metroid
Super Metroid | |
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Developer(s) | Nintendo R&D1, Intelligent Systems |
Publisher(s) | Nintendo |
Series | Metroid |
Platform(s) | Virtual Console, SNES |
Release date(s) | SNES JP March 19, 1994 NA April 18, 1994 EU/AUS July 28, 1994 Virtual Console NA August 20, 2007 JP September 20, 2007 EU/AUS October 12, 2007 KO April 26, 2008 |
Genre(s) | Action-adventure |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
Input methods | GameCube Controller, Classic Controller |
Compatibility | 5![]() ![]() Perfect |
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See also... |
Dolphin Forum thread |
Super Metroid (スーパーメトロイド Sūpā Metoroido), also known as Metroid 3, is an action-adventure video game and the third game in the Metroid series. It was designed by Nintendo Research & Development 1, programmed by Intelligent Systems, and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System video game console. It was released on the Virtual Console for all territories at 20th anniversary of the North American Metroid release.
Super Metroid continues the same style of gameplay as its predecessor, but with radical improvements. Samus still explores an open world non-linear environment, finding powerups to open more areas and proceed through the game. But Super Metroid enhances this with a map system, a complex introduction technique, a proper save system, more energy tanks, and other gameplay tweaks; fixing all of the main problems of the original while expanding its strengths. It was released with universal critical acclaim, but due to poor timing of its release it had unimpressive sales. Nintendo sat on the franchise for eight years, till the release of Metroid Prime on the GameCube.
Problems that may occur with any Super NES title on Dolphin are listed below.
Glitched Sound
Sound is glitched in the OpenAL backend. Use XAudio2 to prevent this. Fixed in 5.0-798.
Problems
Screen Shifted Up
The display is shifted up showing a black bar at the bottom of the screen. This can be corrected by setting External Frame Buffer to Virtual.
Configuration
This title does not need non-default settings to run properly.
Version Compatibility
The graph below charts the compatibility with Super Metroid 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 |
3.0 | Windows 7 | Intel Core i5-3570K @ 4.7 GHz | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 | Highly inconsistent framerate, bounces between double speed and normal speed depending on what's on screen. Adjusting the framerate options does not fix it, neither does any option I've tried. Plus, the framerate fluctuations result in all kinds of audio distortions. Saves do not stay after closing Dolphin (global issue). I.E. it's a mess. But it runs at least. | MayImilae |
3.5-268 | Windows 7 | Intel Core i5-3570K @ 4.7 GHz | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 | Same as before. | MayImilae |
4.0-8721 | Windows 10 | Intel Core i5-4460 | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 | Some slowdowns (e.g. when Power Bombs explode), but FPS and VPS stay at 60. Slowdowns may be present on Wii and SNES too. Otherwise flawless. | Karmeleon |
5.0-3287 | Windows 10 | Intel Core i7-7700k | NVIDIA GeForce 980 Ti | Flawless | IceStrike256 |
Gameplay Videos
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- Nintendo R&D1 (Developer)
- Intelligent Systems (Developer)
- Nintendo (Publisher)
- Metroid (Series)
- Japan (Release region)
- North America (Release region)
- Europe (Release region)
- Australia (Release region)
- Korea (Release region)
- 1994 (Initial release year)
- Action-adventure (Genre)
- Single-player (Game mode)
- Single-player only (Game mode)
- 1 (Players supported)
- GameCube Controller (Input supported)
- Classic Controller (Input supported)
- 5 stars (Rating)
- Tested On (Release): 3.0
- Tested On (OS): Windows
- Tested On (CPU): Intel
- Tested On (GPU): NVIDIA
- Tested
- Tested On (Release): 4.0
- Tested On (Release): 5.0
- Untested for 10000+ revisions
- Virtual Console games
- SNES games