# panda_venom's Metroid: Other M Texture Pack

> An AI-upscaled Metroid: Other M retexture in BC7 DDS, roughly 90% complete with a few background textures still to do.

Web page: https://emulationking.com/nintendo/wii/games/metroidotherm/texturepacks/pandavenom/
Page updated: 2026-10-02

- Artist: panda_venom

panda_venom's pack upscales most of Metroid: Other M's textures with chaiNNer, using the 4xHDCube4plus and Lollypop models among others. Textures were pulled from the game with Venomalia's TextureExtraction Tool, then touched up in GIMP and batch-converted with XnConvert.

It is roughly 90% done, with some background textures not yet covered. Everything is stored as BC7-compressed DDS for the best quality the format allows.

Original release: [panda_venom's thread](https://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Thread-metroid-other-m-hd-textures).

## 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/R3O/` folder.
3. Open **Graphics > Advanced** and tick **Load Custom Textures**. Ticking **Prefetch Custom Textures** too stops stutter, if you have the RAM for it.

## Latest builds

Download these from the web page: https://emulationking.com/nintendo/wii/games/metroidotherm/texturepacks/pandavenom/#download

- (DDS, 3.09 GB)