How does Metroid Prime Trilogy run nowadays?

n1Catastrophe · 02-06-2013, 01:19 PM #1

Most things I google are from 2009 and such. Any current news on how it performs?

i5 2500k @ stock (can be brought to 4.5 if need be)
4 gb ram
3 gb 580

**skid** · 02-06-2013, 01:48 PM #2

It works fine using 3.5-379 from the downloads page in the link at the top of the page.

There is also a game discussion thread for this game:

http://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Thread-wii-metroid-prime-trilogy--26043

***MayImilae*** · 02-06-2013, 02:39 PM #3

I just tested it yesterday. The answer? Still bad. ES_Launch means it can boot games finally, but the games themselves are still riddled with problems. Micro-stuttering and screen redraws are the worst problem, and get extremely annoying. Plus whenever it stutters it can squish the screen, showing a black bar on the bottom. I guess you could ignore it, but as a graphics artist that drives me crazy.

Check out the wiki page on it. Make sure you click to all the sub-games to see their individual problems.

http://wiki.dolphin-emu.org/index.php?title=Metroid_Prime:_Trilogy

**DefenderX** · 02-06-2013, 05:08 PM #4

(02-06-2013, 01:19 PM)n1Catastrophe Wrote: Most things I google are from 2009 and such. Any current news on how it performs?

i5 2500k @ stock (can be brought to 4.5 if need be)
4 gb ram
3 gb 580

Everything that MaJoR said. And: As new revisions are a bit slower than older ones, you should consider to overclock your CPU. You'll get some slowdowns in the Metroid Prime games (especially in battles and demanding areas).

***MayImilae*** · 02-06-2013, 05:24 PM #5

Oh and uh, it gets worse.

http://code.google.com/p/dolphin-emu/issues/detail?id=5982

Prime 3 and Prime 3 Tri are screwed up right now. Shouldn't last long, I hope.

**DefenderX** · 02-06-2013, 05:28 PM #6

Oh, when you get so little FPS (with THAT CPU!!) then definitely is something broken. I hope it'll be fixed soon.

n1Catastrophe · (This post was last modified: 02-06-2013, 11:45 PM by n1Catastrophe.)

Damn, killing my hopes. Still, I got Xenoblade working in HD so I can finally play it in all its glory so this emulator is more than I can ask for.

That being said, I only have a few Wii games; RE4, Okami, XBC, and MP Trilogy. I may pick up Last Story.

I checked the forums for each game and they all appear to share the same problems due to them all running on MP 3 engine. I don't think the squishing would bother me too bad but low FPS kills me.

Edit- Just looked over those different revisions and their performance. So if I use a slightly older revision, I could run the game full speed?

***MayImilae*** · 02-07-2013, 12:41 AM #8

It is a recent regression, so a version before 3.5-367 won't have the framelimiter problem. But you'll need a beast of a machine to run these games, and there were a ton of problems before the framelimiter started to act up...

n1Catastrophe · 02-07-2013, 04:07 AM #9

Thanks for all the info. I have another question about gamecube games that I rather ask in here than blow up the board.

I just dumped Tales of Symphonia and now I am doing windwaker. What do I do once they are dumped to prep them for Dolphin?

Particularly about the dual discs of Symphonia?

**Garteal** · 02-07-2013, 04:31 AM **#10**

n1Catastrophe Wrote:Particularly about the dual discs of Symphonia?

You do nothing after you've dumped them properly. Once you get to the ending of disc 1, you simply go to file -> change disc in Dolphin and switch to the second disc.