A GUI frontend for this program is available here. I highly recommend using it.
This is a program to randomize/customize the layout of pickups in Metroid Prime. It does not generate layouts, it merely patches the ISO. You need a to use a separate utility to generate a "layout descriptor" that you feed to the patcher. There is a layout generator built into the aforementioned GUI. I've also written a generator webpage, though it is less featureful. There's an editor webpage that can be used to customize or create a layout.
If you're on Windows, you can launch the patcher by simply double clicking the EXE file in Explorer. Alternatively, you can drag-and-drop your input ISO onto the EXE file to avoid manually typing its location later.
The patcher can also be run from a terminal.
If you run it without passing any arguments, it'll operate in interactive mode, just like when its launched from the GUI.
The patcher also has a CLI, the details of which you can find by running it with the -h flag.
If you file an issue, please include the layout descriptor you used, a hash of the input ISO, and a hash of the generated ISO.
A: Only the NTSC 0-00 and 0-02 (aka 1.00 and 1.02) versions are supported. The 00-1 NTSC version, non-NTSC versions and the trilogy version will not work. Hashes of a known good 0-00 ISO dump are:
MD5: eeacd0ced8e2bae491eca14f141a4b7c
SHA1: ac20c744db18fdf0339f37945e880708fd317231
A: No, you must use a clean/unpatched input ISO.
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Because I'm lazy I wanted to allow other people to write their own generators or create layouts from scratch.
- Support Prime 2???
The creation of this tool would not have been possible without the Retro Modding Wiki and amazing people who edit it. Additionally, in many places where I wasn't sure how to do something (for example, skip item collection cutscenes) this tool's behavior emulates the randomizer created by Claris Robyn.