Venomalia's Metroid Prime Texture Pack

I play the Metroid Prime games every year and even though there have been a few Metroid Prime HD projects, I’ve never really been satisfied with them. Metroid Prime is difficult to upscale due to the realistic style, either the textures are too soft or have too many artifacts. This package was created with my ESRGAN model HDCube as quality control, it is specially designed for Gamecube and Wii textures.

supported: Metroid Prime 1 (GC) Metroid Prime 2 (GC) Metroid Prime 3 (Wii) Metroid Prime Trilogy (Wii)

requires DX11 compatibility GPU

The downloads are divided into individual games and are automatically recognized, no matter which version (folders don’t need to be renamed!). For example, Metroid Prime 1 HD has all the textures for the Gamecube and Trilogy versions.

Screenshots:

Texture comparison:

Here in comparison to the HD Texture Pack from Malkierian.

Instalation:

Original release and updates: Venomalia’s page.

How to set it up

1. In Dolphin, open File > Open User Folder, then go into Load/Textures/.
2. Extract the download there, so you end up with a Load/Textures/GM8/ folder (or R3M/ for another release).
3. Open Graphics > Advanced and tick Load Custom Textures. Ticking Prefetch Custom Textures too stops stutter, if you have the RAM for it.