this is amazing! the MP4 trailer really got me hyped up and I've been dying to jump back into MP2 after playing MP1 remaster on Switch so this is perfect : )

Dude, this has been one of the best tutorials I've EVER seen on setting up an emulator. I'm relatively new to emulators and really only got into it for Metroid purposes because it's one of my all time favorites franchises. I followed your tutorial step by step and I'm now getting to play metroid prime on my PC and it feels like the first time I played it again on the gamecube when I was nine! Thakyou so much for the help and I'll be looking around your channel to see what else you can teach me.

As someone currently playing Dread and looking forward to playing the Prime series, Thank you so much for uploading this!!

Great video, Russ. I’m definitely one of those that was aware of Primehack but never took the plunge…lack of motivation in going through the setup and fearing getting too addicted being my main excuses. Your setup breakdown is perfect for anyone to rely on, and I think I’ll finally get around to doing it. Aloha from Hawaii as well.

Hands down the best guide. Very well explained and loved the comparisons shown. Thank you!

A thorough guide, and a great way to re-experience the games I've always been more of a 2D metroid fan myself, but these games are good in their own way

This was a super easy tutorial to follow, thank you!

honestly, the fact that the HD textures changed so little of the games appearance, really speaks to how good these games look

You truly earned my sub with this premium guide! Thanks!!!

I just setup the whole think by following your guide. Works perfectly! Thanks man! Subbed!

Thank you I have been wanting and trying to figure this out on my own and this has worked flawlessly.

Thanks for the tutorial! Metroid Prime was one of my favorite games as a kid and It's awesome that we now have such a great way to emulate it.

I love these HD guides. One of my favorites is the Citra one for Majoras Mask, the 4k mod looks very vibrant and it's my favorite game. I love the idea of these older titles getting the HD love. This looks amazing!

Thank you so much for this, Russ. This is the first thing I‘ll do when I get my Steam Deck

Thank you for putting out this guy I've been wanting to play with updated controls I'm just excited.

Thank you. Was waiting for this since you asked if we want it. I have it running perfect and I have been enjoying some of my childhood memories again but with two sticks this time 🤣

You thought right, it's definitely new to me! Thanks for the great tutorial!

Thanks for the great guide. I set it up this morning and it looks and runs great (only launched Prime 1 to test boot/performance). Also I used the prefetch custom textures option, and Afterburner was reporting about 24GB of RAM allocated (my rig has 32GB capacity). Definitely worth using if you have a lot of RAM, but only newer machines will be able to do so.

Thank you so much for this, I had no idea about the "portable" thing, so I was having issues with audio and configurations being shared across vanilla Dolphin.

As always, quality content! Thanks

Thanks always for your knowledge. Happy I can play these games again and finally beat them.

Hey man just wanted to pop on here and say thanks for putting all this together. Made getting everything and putting it all in the right places extremely easy. Not sure if you do other tutorials but I think you may have a knack for it. 👍

Thanks russ this is one of my favorite games ever. And i Never knew this hacks before. Youre my personal hero man. Keep going to this Child feeling inside is growing and rejoing us. Tmj

Really wish I found this before playing through the first 2 Primes on Dolphin. At least I was playing on 4k on that so it looked amazing. Definitely gonna do this for Prime 3 now. Great vid!

This is insaneeeeeeee Thanks again, Russ 🙏

Very good guide, thank you very much for this video!

man, I remember trying to set this up a while back and getting it just barely working, this is pretty nice to see

thank you very much for this guide!

Thank you oh so much for this guide. I followed it step by step and everything is working perfectly god bless you sir!

I became aware of this due to Mutahar's recent video on Shader Cache. It's a cool concept, and thankyou for the tutorial!!

thx ive been holding off on playing metroid 2 & 3, now i think is the time to play it & hd quality.

Thanks for this guide, really appreciate it! Finally I can replay these games!!

Thanks for this! I got the trilogy years ago when I got a Wii U dirt cheap but never really got around to playing it. Maybe I'll finally try it with this mod...

Tried this yesterday on my iMac running bootcamp, runs nice with all HD textures and 4x resolution !

That’s amazing, thanks Russ.

where can i get the hd textures now as the MEGA links have been taken down. Is anyone else able to release it or send me a link of where to get it?

Great video man thanks

Hi man, I absolutely love this video and I will be working on getting prime on my pc soon. I look forward to seeing more content from you so I subbed too. I just have one question: where do you get a copy or file of prime trilogy on pc? Is the dolphin version the one I am supposed to use? Clearing this up will make your video completely comprehensive :)

Setting this up on my steamdeck now. Thanks for the guide

big help. thank you!

extremely helpful, thanks

YESSS THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR

I have never played any Metroid game in my life and I heard so many good things about it. Thank you for the guide, I'm excited to finally try it.

Doing gods work ❤👌

With stuff like this, the Mario 64 ports and upgrades, AM2R, the sonic ports, GTA ports... I really wonder what else out there I'm missing out on. So many good old games are getting new love from community projects. You could do a whole series on community created upgrades and HD texture setup. I know OOT looks amazing with the HD settup and I can't wait for the port team to finish doing it up like Mario 64.

YYYYEEEEESSSSS!! Thank you thank you thank you!

Side note on the part where you suggested deleting the zip file once extracted to save time to anyone following that advice; If you do a Shift+Del it'll actually delete it. If you just right-click and delete, it just moves it to your trash bin. So it is still using up your storage. And the HD Texture pack once extracted uses up about 18GBs of storage, not 5GBs. Otherwise, great tutorial!

These may be my 3 favorite games of all time. It is making the argument for Nintendo to simply do an 'up-res' of the original, remap controls and send it out. But on second thought, redoing the most prominent textures like: Samus, doorways and HUD would make sense. Getting it up to 1080p compared to the original, breathes new life into it as it is, and it cuts down on redevelopment time and effort. - Thanks for the tutorial.

You can hit Windows key + cursor left or right to make a window stick to exactly half of the screen :)

Thanks for putting this together nicely. I never used this emulator so do I need to download the Dolphin emulator first or straight away download the Primehack?

is this portable to the steam deck minus the controls? or windows only.

Thanks man. I really loved the metroid prime series. I am setting uip anyting atm. Only thing i struggle is with the visor sensor controlls. they jsut do not want to work somehow. but lets see if i can figure that out too

Thank you for this. It's a simple video, but one that I haven't managed to come across until today. I've looked for years for a way to emulate the Prime Trilogy, even with normal textures and quality. But with this guide and the tools at my disposal, I'll even get a taste of what Nintendo themselves seems reticent to give us; Metroid Prime HD collection. I downloaded the Dolphin emulator to play this trilogy in the past, and it always looked choppy and pixelated, like it just wasn't meant to run on that size screen. And realistically, it wasn't, but it still made for a blemish that made it uncanny and almost sickening to me, to play these games in such a state. I even went so far as to fork out $100 for a copy of the trilogy, only to foolishly leave it behind at my ex's house. This video saves me that investment, at a time when that money is sorely needed. So thank you for putting out the video that the internet was so seemingly devoid of, that had all the exact information that I needed to get what I so desperately wanted.

FANTASTIC!!!!!!!

More of these guides!

Oh my god that is so cool 😎 could you please do a tutorial for Metroid prime Trilogy on Steam Deck?

Thank you!

this video is like a dream come true

If you right click on the game in the primehack screen/options window, you can click on properties and it'll give you options to screw with there. For me, disabling "DSP HLE" fixed a lot of choppy audio issues. Not perfect now but it's much better and I'm sure it'd be even better if I changed more settings. Hope this helps someone

Thanks for the video! I successfully installed everything on my PC and got it working. Now my question is, can I still export all this to Steam Deck / Emudeck ? With my save file and HD texture pack as well just like how you did with the device in this video? Just unclear on that thanks!

thanks man

I compilated a HD pack for the first Prime game which looks much better than just the upscale and interface combined.

For anyone getting errors when extracting the HD textures, don't use the default Windows extraction. I had to use 7zip to extract successfully.

Hi, Am i the only one having issues after unzipping the Zip file of the HD texture file that says "Trilogy", it just gives me a bunch of images not the files... :c

I set this up a year ago but didn’t finish any of the games. I’ve changed computers so I lost the files and I was not looking forward to figuring all of that out again, this guide is going to make it so much easier. I was 12 when MP3 came out and I played it probably a dozen times but never got to play the others. I would have paid Nintendo for a port of their trilogy to Switch but they’ve missed their chance. I reallly don’t understand their brilliant business strategy of making it difficult for fans to access their classic replayable games that fans would gladly shell out cash for. Oh well!

Looks like the link to the written guide is bad? Cant wait to set this up on my Aya Neo. I've been playing with Prime hack, but your guide adds so much more! (and it looks like we bind the controller the same!)

Thank you very much! Could you make one for OoT ? :)

Played the switch remaster of Metroid Prime (It's really good. It looks like the switch shouldn't be able to run it, and has great control options for a nintendo game.) and am now getting Prime Hack to play 2 and 3! Great tutorial.

Where can I get the first file mentioned in the video? The actual game . I really want to play this !

Since you only need HD textures for one game at a time, I recommend zipping the textures for the other two games to save storage space.

@1:11 just pointing out that this isn't the case anymore. This WILL also play on a Steam Deck, and Primehacks is included with EmuDeck. NOTE: if you use the .RVZ format for the Wii Trilogy version it's 7GB (shaves off 800MB from the .wbfs version)

The hd textures keep failing halfway through the download, any advice on whats happening or how to fix?? Thanks in advance! edit: downloaded it on my mac and transferred it to windows worked fine

Would you cover phaze 01? Looks like the ultimate metroid prime fan version

Hi so do you have any idea why the performance on steam deck completely tanks when I click either the volume button or the steam button while I’m playing this game?

awesome

Awesome guide! But question, the HD Texture pack does not unzip to the map structure shown, is it necessary for it to be structured exactly like that in the R3M folder?

Do you reckon this will, at some point, be available on the Steam Deck ?

great tutorial but i couldnt find the hd packs anywhere following your video or the written guide. The written guide says "HD texture pack under Files (click “Show Spoiler”) > and there is nothing on the page that says HD Pack or Spoiler or File. Its just a bunch of comments with no download links

Idk why but when I got to the step where I have to browse for the game file in primehack updater, the file doesn’t exist. It’s fine in it’s own folder in my files but when I go through primehack that folder is empty.

I never saw the option to select portable when I set it up, and recently got a new PC. Haven't tried to move Primehack over to the new PC yet, wondering if there is a way to set it either check if it's set for portable, or switch it to portable on the old PC before moving it?

With the switch remastered released only for the first game, do you still not care? I got so excited when it shadow dropped, but I held back to wait for a physical copy. I haven’t been able to find one anywhere. But I found your video, so now I have a 4K, 60 fps HD texture and improved controls version of all 3 games. Thanks Russ for picking up the ball when Nintendo drops it

Is this something we can do on Steam Deck as well?

great vid btw, but when i try to download the hd textures it says some stuff and doesnt let me download it

This is a brilliant tutorial, since the last update of prime hack it’s broken on my steam deck. Any suggestions??

do you think you could make one for metroid other M?

Hey russ. I Wonder if this can run in win600? Anyway thanks for the tutorial

Some reason I don't have the User folder or anything within? What am I missing?

do we need the entire prime trilogy for this or could we install just the first

With the new windows drivers I whould love to see how the steam deck preforms with emulation (if you can even get one in the first place)

Seeing this running on Intel Iris XE has excited me. Any idea if it'll run fine on Intel UHD 620?

iI have a problem when I use the pause menu or I use the ball my HD textures disappears it work with the basic dolphin prime hack but not with the MPR can you help me please ?

Emudeck makes this so easy on the Stream Deck.

Would it be possible to do a similarly step-by-step guide for Mac users? I'm SO eager to play this but don't have access to a PC.

How do I set a button on the controller to exit the game? I dont see it in the controller config.

bonjour, j'ai télécharger le pack DDS mais je ne tombe pas sur les meme fichier une fois télécharger es normal?

It would mean a great deal if you showed us the performance of the first game on the Steam Deck. 🙏🏻 So curious to see how often it stutters.

nice

I don't have any file in StateSave folder, where's just the save file if I want to copy it?

I have original Gamecube hardware - I know that the updated graphics / textures wont work but does anyone know if there is a way to get the control scheme implemented on the Gamecube?

Yes, I plan on doing this in a few hours. This will give me the perfect excuse to play the Prime games because I hated the controls.