Responding to doubts about Hale's involvement in a 2018 interview, Wen revealed that the recordings he used in the final game included the initials of the actress in the filename from his ProTools session, 'JH', which he was reasonably certain stood for Jennifer Hale. However, the credits make no mention of her. Nintendo Power claimed that Jennifer Hale provided Samus's voice for the Prime games, and she has acknowledged recording for Samus in interviews. Notably, new sounds were present in the latter, suggesting a new actress was hired or previously recorded grunts were used as well. The foley sounds were reused in Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, Metroid Prime Pinball, Metroid Prime Hunters and Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. Afterwards, EAD had a dozen actresses record vocals for Samus and sent them to Retro Studios, where audio lead Clark Wen chose the ones he liked best. Placeholder recordings from one of the designers were used for Samus at first, but they were deemed too sexual by Nintendo EAD. Dialogue for Samus was considered, but not added as Retro Studios felt it did not suit the game. Samus first received a voice in the game Metroid Prime, although she had no in-game dialogue: instead, she only utters various grunts or yells when damaged, a scream when killed, and rarely, breathing when at low energy or in an extreme climate. Part of an interview given by Jennifer Hale to NintyFresh about her role as Samus. Ideally, if Samus speaks, it'll be really cool, but who knows when that's going to happen. This represents the first time Samus had a voiced role with dialogue. Keiko Toda voiced Samus in a promotional reel for Super Metroid, which played in Japanese game stores. She is also heard breathing during the final battle with Mother Brain, after being significantly weakened by the Laser Brain Attack. Whether the female moan described above represents Hamano's recording is unknown.Īside from this, heavy breathing sounds presumably emitted from Samus can be heard in the game's Samus Data Screen, with them being sped up briefly when a save file is selected. Sakamoto claimed in the same interview to have a special version of the ROM with the original death sequence. Thus, the voice was apparently removed and Tomoyoshi Yamane added the black Casual Outfit to Samus. This, along with a brief glimpse of Samus's nude body during the Game Over sequence, were reconsidered, in the voice's case because it sounded 'too sexual'. The developer interview in the Japanese strategy guide reveals that Minako Hamano recorded a short voice track to be heard as Samus died. The sound, and an edit that alters its pitch and speed to better match the in-game cry, can be heard below:

A female moaning sound (incorporated into the in-game jingle Samus Aran's Final Cry, which plays during the Game Over sequence) was discovered by Super Metroid dataminers in 2021.

Super Metroid was the first game in which Samus had an audible voice.

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