I'm about to start my first playthrough of the first game, and I wanted to know if there was anything I should know or do beforehand. I'm running on Linux in case there's any Proton issues.
I've ran this game both on actual Wii hardware and on a Windows version of Dolphin roughly two years ago, so I doubt it's a problem with my ISO. I downloaded the Newer zip file on 30/7/26. The game acts the same regardless of what Core config settings are applied. The base game starts without issue.
All the posts I've seen are either empty or refer to pages that are no longer accessible.
This is what the log says about the exception:
05:04:706 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: ******** EXCEPTION OCCURRED! ********
05:04:707 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: FrameMemory:9008F0C0H
05:04:708 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: ---MainInfo---
05:04:709 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: CONTEXT:80359C38H (ISI EXCEPTION)
05:04:710 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: SRR0: 00000000H SRR1:4000B032H
05:04:710 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: DSISR: 00000000H DAR: 00000000H
05:04:710 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: ---EXCEPTION_INFO_GPR---
05:04:710 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: -------------------------------- GPR
05:04:710 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: R00:80000040H R11:8043FC18H R22:00000000H
05:04:710 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: R01:8043FBD8H R12:00000000H R23:00000000H
05:04:710 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: R02:80433360H R13:8042F980H R24:00000000H
05:04:710 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: R03:00000000H R14:00000000H R25:9013763CH
05:04:712 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: R04:80358B48H R15:00000000H R26:00000066H
05:04:712 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: R05:0000001FH R16:00000000H R27:0000001FH
05:04:712 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: R06:802FD600H R17:00000000H R28:00000000H
05:04:712 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: R07:802FD5E8H R18:00000000H R29:00000000H
05:04:712 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: R08:90136E20H R19:00000000H R30:80358B48H
05:04:712 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: R09:000000FFH R20:00000000H R31:43300000H
05:04:712 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: R10:00000000H R21:00000000H
05:04:712 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: ---EXCEPTION_INFO_SRR0MAP---
05:04:712 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: -------------------------------- SRR0MAP
05:04:713 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: ---EXCEPTION_INFO_GPRMAP---
05:04:713 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: -------------------------------- GPRMAP
05:04:718 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: R00: 80000040H no information
05:04:720 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: R01: 8043FBD8H no information
05:04:720 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: R02: 80433360H no information
05:04:720 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: R04: 80358B48H no information
05:04:720 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: R06: 802FD600H no information
05:04:720 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: R07: 802FD5E8H no information
05:04:720 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: R11: 8043FC18H no information
05:04:720 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: R13: 8042F980H no information
05:04:720 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: R30: 80358B48H no information
05:04:720 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: ---EXCEPTION_INFO_FPR---
05:04:720 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: -------------------------------- FPR
05:04:725 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: F00:+4.504E+15 F11:+1.000E+00 F22: 0.0
05:04:725 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: F01:+4.504E+15 F12: 0.0 F23: 0.0
05:04:725 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: F02: 0.0 F13: 0.0 F24: 0.0
05:04:727 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: F03:+2.310E+01 F14: 0.0 F25: 0.0
05:04:727 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: F04:+1.155E+01 F15: 0.0 F26: 0.0
05:04:727 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: F05:+5.000E-01 F16: 0.0 F27: 0.0
05:04:727 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: F06:+1.000E+00 F17: 0.0 F28: 0.0
05:04:727 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: F07: 0.0 F18: 0.0 F29: 0.0
05:04:727 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: F08: 0.0 F19: 0.0 F30: 0.0
05:04:727 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: F09: 0.0 F20: 0.0 F31:+6.400E+01
05:04:729 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: F10: 0.0 F21: 0.0
05:04:732 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: MSR:00001030H FPSCR:00000004H
05:04:732 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: ---EXCEPTION_INFO_TRACE---
05:04:732 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: -------------------------------- TRACE
05:04:732 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: Address: BackChain LR save
05:04:732 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: 8043FBD8: 8043FC28 FFFFFFFF
05:04:732 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: 8043FC28: 8043FD28 800C9CB4
05:04:732 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: 8043FD28: 8043FDA8 800C9BD8
05:04:732 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: 8043FDA8: 8043FDC8 80B6BE6C
05:04:733 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: 8043FDC8: 8043FDE8 80B6C42C
05:04:733 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: 8043FDE8: 8043FDF8 8091ED54
05:04:733 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: 8043FDF8: 8043FE08 8015F7B8
05:04:733 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: 8043FE08: 8043FE18 800E1D0C
05:04:733 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: 8043FE18: 8043FE28 8091F1E4
05:04:733 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: 8043FE28: 8043FE48 80161E30
05:04:733 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: 8043FE48: 8043FE88 801622E8
05:04:733 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: 8043FE88: 8043FE98 80162D38
05:04:733 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: 8043FE98: 8043FEA8 80162FBC
05:04:733 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: 8043FEA8: 8043FEB8 800E5078
05:04:733 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: 8043FEB8: 8043FEC8 800CA040
05:04:734 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: 8043FEC8: 8043FED8 800CA064
05:04:734 Core/HW/EXI/EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:306 N[OSREPORT]: --------------------------------
I can upload an image in a text post, but I want to upload a video and can't see how.
...but I'm fairly certain all the discourse surrounding this will be rancid.
Metroid Prime 2 is a better game than Soul Reaver 2 imo, the realm switching is basically the one thing SR2 does better gameplay-wise.
For context, Soul Reaver 2 is a 2001 PS2 game that also has a main gimmick of switching between two near identical versions of the game world (so does Soul Reaver 1, but I wanted another 6th gen game for comparison). The Soul Reaver games allow you to switch to the Spectral Realm at any time, though you need a portal to switch to the Material Realm (which are frequent, at least one in every room). The two realms have different enemies and allow for the use of different abilities, and the geometry literally warps to allow paths otherwise untakable. All with basically no load times.
Of course this kind of consideration would have needed to been done in the earliest stages, the final Metroid Prime 2 is based around only being able to travel via portals. You'd probably also need to make the game less detailed to account for loading in the assets of both worlds at once. But my main problem with Prime 2 is how much needing to backtrack to a portal breaks the pace of the game, and it nags at my mind when I replay it.
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