Metroid Prime Trilogy KBM UI Project

[Zombie]

IMPORTANT UPDATE (02/09/20) Today marks the release of my new Dolphin utility: Phazon UI. Dynamic user interfaces for Metroid Prime Trilogy can now be generated with Phazon! As such, this project has officially been rolled into Phazon UI and will no longer receive updates or bug fixes. Please check out the Phazon UI Dolphin post or the Phazon UI Discord for more information.

With the recent release of the Metroid Prime Trilogy upscale by Malkierian, I took it upon myself to create a set of keyboard/mouse UI icons for the games. All three Metroid Prime games have been tested, and work without any major issues.

The KBM UI pack comes with your choice of a Metroid Prime font or a sleeker Orbitron font.

Controls

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WASD (nunchuck stick): strafing, map navigation
Left Mouse (wiimote A): primary weapon fire, accept, interact
Right Mouse (wiimote dpad down): rockets
Mouse Wheel Up/Down (motion controls: twist, tilt, swing, IR forward/back): grapple beam cast/pull, lock twisting, removing energy cells, push/pull handles
X and C (motion controls: twist): alternate twist controls
Mouse Wheel Up (motion controls: flick): spring ball
1 (wiimote 1): open map, advance some dialogues/prompts
2 (wiimote 2): open log book and options
Q (wiimote -): visor selection, map zoom
E (wiimote +): beam selection (Metroid Prime 1 & 2), hypermode (Metroid Prime 3), map zoom
Z (motion controls: shake): shakes off Gandrayda/Metroid Hatcher (currently broken)
Shift (nunchuck Z): lock on, scan, pan map, spider ball
Ctrl (nunchuck C): morph ball
Space (wiimote B): jump, screw attack, ball boost, cancel/back

Mouse Preview

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Prime Font Preview

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Orbitron Font Preview

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Download

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v1.0.1 DDS

Known Issues
• Slightly overlapping mouse icons for darkburst + sunburst tutorials (Metroid Prime 2); this appears to be a game/emulator problem, not a custom UI problem
• Corruption scanner is difficult (Metroid Prime 3), but shouldn't be required
• Metroid Hatcher/Gandrayda "shake off" controls don't work (Metroid Prime 3)... no solution found, if anyone finds a fix please let me know!
• Includes a few redundant files to guarantee proper replacement when used in conjunction with the Metroid Prime Trilogy upscale by Malkierian; will work to remove these when a new version of the upscale pack comes out

Revision History

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v0.95 6/5/2019
• Initial release

v0.96 6/6/2019
• Added missing MP2 texture
• Added controller configuration file
• Added controller configuration screenshot

v0.97 6/7/2019
• Minor alignment changes
• Orbitron font clean up
• Prime font "Q" adjustment
• Another pass on missing MP3 textures
• Custom wiimote warning screen
• Custom MP3 control screen
• Updated MP3 motion controls

v0.98 6/9/2019
• Updated Ishiiruka (Prime Hack) controller config
• Added Dolphin controller config

v0.99 6/10/2019
• MP3 UI improvements
• Improved MP3 motion controls -- Only remaining issues should be inability to shake off Gandrayda/Metroid Hatcher + corruption scanner
• Added alternate twist controls to make synchronized security lever easier: X (left twist) and C (right twist)
• Added Prime Hack hack_config.ini with my preferred visor/beam shortcuts
• Updated intro splash
• KBM replacement for a controller menu texture
• Cleaned up file organization in the pack
• Added alternative KBM "shake off" UI replacement textures in the event these controls can be fixed with KBM

v1.0 6/11/2019
• Final controller config pass -- MP3 motion controls are fixed (exceptions listed in known issues)
• MP3 control screen adjustment
• Controller infographic added to pack in addition to this post, check it out!
• [Prime Hack Only] Fixed loss of mouse control on death/continue and mission complete save screens. You may need to alt-tab in/out to regain control (a side effect of how Prime Hack takes control of the mouse). Hopefully this will be fixed in a new version of Prime Hack
• README added to explicitly address installation and pack options
• Updated preview screenshots

v1.0.1 6/23/2019
• Minor tweaks to controller infographic
• Fixed typo
• README improvements

[Malkierian]

Ohh, so you made the UI elements with Orbitron as the option. For a second I thought you had done some of the regular fonts and I was wondering how you did it so quickly XD.

[Zombie]

the sheer number of font textures makes my head spin mate

[MayImilae]

*sigh* A fork of a fork.

They really made a mistake building their custom prime build off a fork, because Wii Remote controls were *just* overhauled in Dolphin, and it can't benefit from that at all. And that's not all users would be losing by going to that fork, they'd also be missing out on Hybrid XFB and other features extremely beneficial to Metroid Prime games. So um, not a good recommendation! Anyway, we have a rule against recommending forks, and it has some serious compromises compared to master, so... I'm just going to go ahead remove that link.

[Zombie]

(06-05-2019, 10:00 PM)MayImilae Wrote: They really made a mistake building their custom prime build off a fork

I don't disagree, but I didn't have anything to do with developing it. Ishiiruka itself is weirdly fetishized for something that seems to generally be worse than an up to date version of dolphin.

(06-05-2019, 10:00 PM)MayImilae Wrote: Wii Remote controls were *just* overhauled in Dolphin, and it can't benefit from that at all

I've yet to find any combination of settings and configs on the current build of dolphin that makes metroid prime trilogy not awful when using a mouse as an emulated wiimote, unfortunately

[DeadlyAnGeL91792]

Can you upload the preset you use for controls too plz

[Zombie]

(06-06-2019, 11:34 AM)DeadlyAnGeL91792 Wrote: Can you upload the preset you use for controls too plz

they're already listed in the post

edit: both a controller config screenshot and ini have been added to the new build... again, MP3 is a work in progress and subject to change

edit 2: config screenshots have been removed for now, but configs for both dolphin and ishiiruka are now included

[Zombie]

v1.0 is finally here!

there's been a ton of progress in the last week, and the pack is finally polished up and ready for release... check the revision history for more information on what's changed. And don't forget to check out the shiny new infographic in the control section

[gephreyjeckson]

Just what I was looking for, thanks. Can't wait to try this out with the Mouse and Keyboard mod.

[Zombie]

(07-31-2019, 06:13 AM)gephreyjeckson Wrote: Just what I was looking for, thanks. Can't wait to try this out with the Mouse and Keyboard mod.

enjoy! The zip includes a controller config specifically made for that build, so make sure you use that... I beat the whole trilogy using it, and the only issue I ran into was not being able to shake off enemies in MP3

if you notice any issues, let me know