Metroid fans, here is something special for you today. Resetera’s member ‘collige‘ has released a HD Texture Pack for Metroid Prime using AI-enhanced techniques like ESRGAN that weights around 1.8GB. And as with all AI-enhanced HD texture packs, this one will improve the game’s textures while also retain its style and atmosphere.
Now the reason we’re sharing this HD Texture Pack for a Nintendo GameCube game is because you can only use it via the Dolphin emulator on the PC. Yeap, this “remastered” version of Metroid Prime can only be played on the PC.
According to collige, this pack retextures virtually the entire gameas there are about 7000 textures upscaled with ESRGAN (manga109 model) and an additional 2000 textures that were upscaled with waifu2x-caffe (UpRGB model).
Those interested can download this HD Texture Pack for Metroid Prime from here. Do note that this pack is for the GameCube version (GameID GM8E01) and not for Metroid Prime Trilogy.
Here is also a guide for installing this Texture Pack.
1.) Verify that the main texture pack folder is named to the proper Game ID or the first 3 letters.
2.) Place the texture pack into the global Dolphin directory:
C:\Users\UserName\Documents\Dolphin Emulator\Load\Textures
3.) Open Dolphin emulator.
4.) Enter Graphics > Advanced tab > Check Load Custom Textures.Performance Options:
Prefetch Custom Textures – Caches textures in RAM when game is loaded. May reduce stuttering. Found on Graphics\Advanced tab.
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Works on PAL version??
I found this discussion :
“Could this pack work with the European version “GM8P01″ of the game?”
After some quick googling, this might be helpful:
https://www.reddit.com/r/DolphinEmulator/comments/8vf9un/re2_hires_textures_not_loading/
I dumped the textures with version 5.0-9316 though so it might just work out of the box if you rename the folder.
Nice.
This is gorgeous, hopefully Metroid Prime 2 Echoes, Eternal Darkness and F-ZERO GX gets those AI enhanced too.
Insta-Download! xD
Ditto Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes.
Are you too lazy to post some pictures?
www(dot)youtube(dot)com/watch?v=AZs-BqnIO0U
The textures may not seem particularly great in that video but when playing the unmodded and then modded game back to back just now the improvement was immediately apparent to me.
you can enable/disable them in real time
Insta-download! Thanks for the heads-up, John.
https://i.imgur.com/IdXfyLz.png
> Resetera’s member
ok?
Have you posted this article here? I subscribed to this channel just recently saw the work on the game, I was pretty impressed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bRfnEdB6Bk
Too bad i already finished this game, just release it on Metroid Prime trilogy lazyasses
This kept crashing for me when using Dolphin 5.0, i.e. current-latest official stable build, so I viewed the linked discussion thread at REEEEEEEsetera whereby I noted collige having stated he’d used dev’ build 5.0-9316. So I tried that and all is well. I presume it also works okay with other recent dev’ builds.
@John: You may wish to edit the article so to advise folk to use a recent dev’ build of Dolphin instead of the now quite old current-latest officially stable release.
Thanks for the update.
You’re welcome. Just been playing it with my ‘GameCube Controller Adapter for Wii U & PC USB’ hooked up so to use a proper GameCube pad. ?
show some pics dumbass
Just gonna use other people’s work with no credit whatsoever, eh? Classy.
The header was actually a random screenshot from Google. However, and since you brought its creator to our attention, we can edit it. Thanks.
Props for answering, but it’s been 2 months and you don’t seem to have actually done this.
Ahem, check the filename, the creator is featured and credited in it -> Metroid-Prime-feature-by-Mykiio.jpg
My Dolphin-master-5.0-12094-x64 don´t load textures.
All my setup it´s ok but I have this message:
Custom Textures Loaded, 0.0 MB em 0.0 s.
What´s going wrong?