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Metroid Prime Port v0.42.0

Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

for Windows, for Linux (Flatpak), for Linux (AppImage), for Linux, for Android

You need your own disc image: Metroid Prime Trilogy (R3ME01 USA, R3MP01 PAL), Metroid Prime USA (GM8E01, revisions 1.00, 1.01 and 1.02), PAL (GM8P01). No disc image or game assets are included.

What changed

Metroid Prime Remastered graphics

The arm cannon, suit arm and grapple arm use Remastered’s own Thermal and X-Ray Visor models.
The Chozo Ghosts, Oculus and other enemies use their Remastered X-Ray models.
The sky no longer looks pale in the X-Ray Visor.
More of the room models match their Remastered versions.

Cheats (#264)

Moon jump.
Boost Ball speed and duration sliders. You can boost in the air and steer while boosting. (Be careful with high values!!!)
“Move Samus here” moves Samus to the free camera.

Difficulty

Sliders for damage taken and damage dealt, from x0.1 to x10 (F1 > Game > Difficulty).

Other changes

Fewer shader pipelines to compile.
The texture replacement cache shrinks when memory runs low (#266).

Downloads

Platform	File	Notes
Linux	`MetroidPrime-x86_64.AppImage`	`chmod +x`, then run
Linux	`MetroidPrimePort.flatpak`	`flatpak install --user ./MetroidPrimePort.flatpak`
Linux	`metroid-prime-port-0.42.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz`	Bare binary
Linux	`MetroidPrime-aarch64.AppImage`	Experimental; arm64 Linux, `chmod +x`, then run
Linux	`metroid-prime-port-0.42.0-linux-aarch64.tar.gz`	Experimental; arm64 Linux
Linux	`metroid-prime-port-0.42.0-linux-*.debug`	Debug info for the tarball binaries (crash reports only)
Windows	`metroid-prime-port-0.42.0-windows-x86_64.zip`	Visual C++ redistributable required
Windows	`metroid-prime-port-0.42.0-windows-arm64.zip`	Experimental; Windows on Arm
macOS	`metroid-prime-port-0.42.0-macos-arm64.zip`	Apple Silicon, macOS 13+
Android	`metroid-prime-port-0.42.0-android-arm64.apk`	Arm64-v8a, Android 9+
iPhone / iPad	`MetroidPrimePort.ipa`	iOS / iPadOS 16+

Licence

MIT covers this project’s own work, not Nintendo’s game code under src/ and include/. See LICENSE and NOTICE. Metroid Prime is a Nintendo trademark; this project is unaffiliated with Nintendo and Retro Studios.

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Metroid Prime Port v0.41.0

Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

for Android, for Linux (Flatpak), for Linux (AppImage), for Linux, Source code, for Windows

What changed

Echoes suits (mod)

Import the Varia, Dark and Light Suits from your own Metroid Prime 2: Echoes disc, or from the MP2 folder of a Trilogy disc.
The suits appear on Samus’s body, the first-person arms and arm cannon, the pause screen model and the Morph Ball. The Varia and Light suits use their own balls as their Spider Balls.
Play as Dark Samus.

Options

Beam colours picker (#223).
Arm cannon FOV slider, and an Arm cannon follows FOV toggle.

Controls

You can shoot in the Scan Visor (#243). (Enable the setting in F1)
Faster beam switching (#243).
An L binding set to Toggle lets go when its lock ends, instead of leaving you orbiting a dead target or an empty point (#243).

Savestates

Each savestate records the disc it was made on, and a savestate from a different disc is refused.
Enemies keep their collision material lists across a load.
Loading a state in the hangar no longer shows the intro text.

Metroid Prime Remastered graphics

Projected decals (scorch marks and impacts) wrap over surfaces as in Remastered, and age by Remastered’s own rules.
The sky’s flow-map clouds move.
Fish clouds swim like Remastered’s, and their fish, swarms, seedling spikes and alpha bombs take no baked lighting.
The pause screen uses Remastered’s backdrop texture, and its Samus model is lit by the menu’s lights instead of baked lighting.
Fog and room lights of areas you can’t see stay off. Room components follow the layers their area loaded with.
The underwater filter blends in linear light. The exposure meter’s mid grey matches Remastered.
More of Remastered’s own models and room effects, such as the force field in Research Lab Hydra and the rubble in Mine Security Station.

Fixes

Under Steam, the port picks X11 when Steam’s video driver list names it.
Trilogy’s “Hypermode Mode” shows as “Hypermode” and fits in the new-game popup.

Downloads

Platform	File	Notes
Linux	`MetroidPrime-x86_64.AppImage`	`chmod +x`, then run
Linux	`MetroidPrimePort.flatpak`	`flatpak install --user ./MetroidPrimePort.flatpak`
Linux	`metroid-prime-port-0.41.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz`	Bare binary
Linux	`MetroidPrime-aarch64.AppImage`	Experimental; arm64 Linux, `chmod +x`, then run
Linux	`metroid-prime-port-0.41.0-linux-aarch64.tar.gz`	Experimental; arm64 Linux
Linux	`metroid-prime-port-0.41.0-linux-*.debug`	Debug info for the tarball binaries (crash reports only)
Windows	`metroid-prime-port-0.41.0-windows-x86_64.zip`	Visual C++ redistributable required
Windows	`metroid-prime-port-0.41.0-windows-arm64.zip`	Experimental; Windows on Arm
macOS	`metroid-prime-port-0.41.0-macos-arm64.zip`	Apple Silicon, macOS 13+
Android	`metroid-prime-port-0.41.0-android-arm64.apk`	Arm64-v8a, Android 9+
iPhone / iPad	`MetroidPrimePort.ipa`	iOS / iPadOS 16+

Licence

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Metroid Prime Port v0.40.0

Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

for Android, for Linux (Flatpak), for Linux (AppImage), for Linux, for Windows

What changed

Gameplay

Seamless item pickups (option, off by default and in the Original experience): no control lock or item cutscene, and the item’s message shows as a HUD memo instead of pausing.
The Custom walk speed has an on/off switch that keeps its value. Bind it to a custom action to use it as a sprint toggle.

Controls

Map rotate and pan bindings, with matching button prompts on the map screen. Keys like WASD can pan the map without moving the C-stick in play.
Touch: a touch on the map or a pointer menu brings back the hidden back and cog buttons.
Android: the touch editor lists custom actions added after it first opened.

Reticles

Trilogy’s GameCube crosshair follows the Crosshair size setting again (#255).
Trilogy’s next-target and lock arrows no longer shake or trail behind what they mark.

Metroid Prime Remastered graphics

Many more Remastered particle features: child systems per particle, swoosh variables, spline and ring settings, electric swooshes, sleep distance, depth bias and more.
Lens flares fade behind walls and platforms, as in Remastered, instead of showing through them.
The visor face reflection moves its eyes instead of turning, and the rain-splash effect runs only while something can splash.
The Omega Pirate fight’s healing nodules glow blue instead of drawing as dark stone.
Room effects match Remastered more closely: effects Remastered dropped are hidden (such as the sparks after the Parasite Queen fight), effects it moved to another trigger no longer play twice, and debug-only layers stay unloaded.

Performance

Faster startup, most of all on Android: the shader cache no longer checks every page at launch, and it no longer grows without bound.

Fixes

Lines with one end behind the camera no longer streak across the screen.

Downloads

Platform	File	Notes
Linux	`MetroidPrime-x86_64.AppImage`	`chmod +x`, then run
Linux	`MetroidPrimePort.flatpak`	`flatpak install --user ./MetroidPrimePort.flatpak`
Linux	`metroid-prime-port-0.40.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz`	Bare binary
Linux	`MetroidPrime-aarch64.AppImage`	Experimental; arm64 Linux, `chmod +x`, then run
Linux	`metroid-prime-port-0.40.0-linux-aarch64.tar.gz`	Experimental; arm64 Linux
Linux	`metroid-prime-port-0.40.0-linux-*.debug`	Debug info for the tarball binaries (crash reports only)
Windows	`metroid-prime-port-0.40.0-windows-x86_64.zip`	Visual C++ redistributable required
Windows	`metroid-prime-port-0.40.0-windows-arm64.zip`	Experimental; Windows on Arm
macOS	`metroid-prime-port-0.40.0-macos-arm64.zip`	Apple Silicon, macOS 13+
Android	`metroid-prime-port-0.40.0-android-arm64.apk`	Arm64-v8a, Android 9+
iPhone / iPad	`MetroidPrimePort.ipa`	iOS / iPadOS 16+

Licence

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Metroid Prime Port v0.39.0

Mon, 02 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

for Android, for Linux (Flatpak), for Linux (AppImage), for Linux, for Windows

What changed

Controls (#251, #252)

Flick stick prototype
R keeps the R-jump under mouse aim and twin stick.
Mouse aim leaves a pad on the GameCube preset its classic controls.

Third person

Shots leave the cannon’s bore, from the arm as drawn.
Charge effects and the grapple beam form on the body, and the framing follows the screen’s shape.

Metroid Prime Remastered graphics

Many more room effects play: Remastered’s timers, triggers, relays, object followers and ambient spawners now drive them.
Particles gain fixed bounds, sort bias, sorting against water, birth orientation, array flipbooks, the dominant light, wider light specular and more header shaders; Pyro particles are lit.
Visor effects such as the water runoff draw after the post, like Remastered’s.

Performance

The pipeline cache covers the running MSAA setting, fog types and alpha refs, so fewer shaders compile in play.

Fixes

The empty-lock reticle marker stays on the view ray.

Downloads

Platform	File	Notes
Linux	`MetroidPrime-x86_64.AppImage`	`chmod +x`, then run
Linux	`MetroidPrimePort.flatpak`	`flatpak install --user ./MetroidPrimePort.flatpak`
Linux	`metroid-prime-port-0.39.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz`	Bare binary
Linux	`MetroidPrime-aarch64.AppImage`	Experimental; arm64 Linux, `chmod +x`, then run
Linux	`metroid-prime-port-0.39.0-linux-aarch64.tar.gz`	Experimental; arm64 Linux
Linux	`metroid-prime-port-0.39.0-linux-*.debug`	Debug info for the tarball binaries (crash reports only)
Windows	`metroid-prime-port-0.39.0-windows-x86_64.zip`	Visual C++ redistributable required
Windows	`metroid-prime-port-0.39.0-windows-arm64.zip`	Experimental; Windows on Arm
macOS	`metroid-prime-port-0.39.0-macos-arm64.zip`	Apple Silicon, macOS 13+
Android	`metroid-prime-port-0.39.0-android-arm64.apk`	Arm64-v8a, Android 9+
iPhone / iPad	`MetroidPrimePort.ipa`	iOS / iPadOS 16+

Licence

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Metroid Prime Port v0.38.0

Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

for Android, for Linux (Flatpak), for Linux (AppImage), for Linux, for Windows

What changed

Controls (#243, #244)

A Grapple binding, separate from lock-on, with a Toggle Grapple option (jump lets go too!).
Shoot While Grappling (on by default).
A Spider Ball toggle.
The left hand rests on the cannon when standing still (on by default), like Trilogy.

HUD and video (#241)

Per-visor crosshair toggles for X-Ray and Thermal (hidden by default).
Morph Ball black bars option (off by default).

Suits (#221)

Colours for the four Dread Samus suits.

Audio

Music and sound effects volume go above 100%.

Metroid Prime Remastered graphics

Performance mode improvements.
The Puffer draws with its plain skin, and the Tower of Light’s puffers are plated.
LambertFx materials are lit by the room’s baked probe.
Cheaper room cube-map reads and folded PBR shader flags.

Performance (#249)

Entering a world prepares the shader pipelines of all its rooms, so on Android and slow GPUs rooms behind doors no longer show black or load models late.

Fixes

High simulation rates: footsteps and camera bob work again, and jumps from rising lifts keep the lift’s speed (#248).
Archipelago: the Elite Quarters item no longer sits in the floor (#242).
Randomizer: the solo server takes chat commands.
Android: the touch back arrow sends B in menus under any pad preset.

Issues addressed

#221 Adjust the Dread Suit
#241 Dynamic Crosshairs
#242 Archipelago Omega Pirate bug?
#243 [Feature Request] Mouse & Keyboard Quality-of-Life Improvements
#244 [Feature request] Free aiming: Replicate the left hand-cannon behavior from Trilogy-primehack
#248 Framerate related issues
#249 Minor regressions in latest Android version

Downloads

Platform	File	Notes
Linux	`MetroidPrime-x86_64.AppImage`	`chmod +x`, then run
Linux	`MetroidPrimePort.flatpak`	`flatpak install --user ./MetroidPrimePort.flatpak`
Linux	`metroid-prime-port-0.38.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz`	Bare binary
Linux	`MetroidPrime-aarch64.AppImage`	Experimental; arm64 Linux, `chmod +x`, then run
Linux	`metroid-prime-port-0.38.0-linux-aarch64.tar.gz`	Experimental; arm64 Linux
Linux	`metroid-prime-port-0.38.0-linux-*.debug`	Debug info for the tarball binaries (crash reports only)
Windows	`metroid-prime-port-0.38.0-windows-x86_64.zip`	Visual C++ redistributable required
Windows	`metroid-prime-port-0.38.0-windows-arm64.zip`	Experimental; Windows on Arm
macOS	`metroid-prime-port-0.38.0-macos-arm64.zip`	Apple Silicon, macOS 13+
Android	`metroid-prime-port-0.38.0-android-arm64.apk`	Arm64-v8a, Android 9+
iPhone / iPad	`MetroidPrimePort.ipa`	iOS / iPadOS 16+

Licence

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Metroid Prime Port v0.37.0

Sat, 31 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

for Android, for Linux (Flatpak), for Linux (AppImage), for Linux, for Windows

What changed

Controls (#236)

Aim Lock-On (Controls > Options, off by default): lock-on picks the target nearest the crosshair instead of the nearest one.
A new Dodge binding (unbound by default; Controls > Move and aim): Can dash sideways even without locking onto something.

Texture packs (#238)

Texture pack toggle on/off (F7 by default)
Import a texture pack from a .zip

Input

Save and load your remap presets

Cheats

Infinite missiles and power bombs.

Metroid Prime Remastered graphics (#230)

Frozen enemies draw fixes.
Lava pools, crystals and many more materials draw with their proper Remastered shading.
Animated platforms move with the game again.

Fixes

Particle effects no longer rebuild their per-particle state every frame.
Windows: log is still copied when the copier process can’t start.
Archipelago: the received-items table is sized to its rows.

Issues addressed

#230 Multiple MPR Issues after 5 playthroughs
#236 Feature Request: Improved Lock-On Targeting and Optional Dodge Hotkey
#238 QoL: Custom Textures toggle key!

Downloads

Platform	File	Notes
Linux	`MetroidPrime-x86_64.AppImage`	`chmod +x`, then run
Linux	`MetroidPrimePort.flatpak`	`flatpak install --user ./MetroidPrimePort.flatpak`
Linux	`metroid-prime-port-0.37.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz`	Bare binary
Linux	`MetroidPrime-aarch64.AppImage`	Experimental; arm64 Linux, `chmod +x`, then run
Linux	`metroid-prime-port-0.37.0-linux-aarch64.tar.gz`	Experimental; arm64 Linux
Linux	`metroid-prime-port-0.37.0-linux-*.debug`	Debug info for the tarball binaries (crash reports only)
Windows	`metroid-prime-port-0.37.0-windows-x86_64.zip`	Visual C++ redistributable required
Windows	`metroid-prime-port-0.37.0-windows-arm64.zip`	Experimental; Windows on Arm
macOS	`metroid-prime-port-0.37.0-macos-arm64.zip`	Apple Silicon, macOS 13+
Android	`metroid-prime-port-0.37.0-android-arm64.apk`	Arm64-v8a, Android 9+
iPhone / iPad	`MetroidPrimePort.ipa`	iOS / iPadOS 16+

Licence

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Metroid Prime Port v0.36.0

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

for Android, for Linux (Flatpak), for Linux (AppImage), for Linux, for Windows

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Metroid Prime Port v0.35.1

Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

for Android, for Linux (Flatpak), for Linux (AppImage), for Linux, for Windows

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