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Metal Gear

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This page is for the 1990 port of the NES version. For the 2020 port of the MSX2 version, see Metal Gear (2020).

Metal Gear
Metal Gear cover
Developers
Konami
DOS Banana Development[1]
Publishers
North America Ultra Games
Europe and Japan Konami
Release dates
DOS August 30, 1990
Taxonomy
Series Metal Gear
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Metal Gear on Wikipedia
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Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance 2003
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance 2014
Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes 2014
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain 2015
Metal Gear Survive 2018
Metal Gear (MSX2) 2020
Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol.1 (series)
Metal Gear Solid Δ: Snake Eater 2024

Key points

This release is based on the Nintendo Entertainment System version which is different from the original MSX2 version[2]

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Prompts for answers from manual, code wheel, etc.
DOS

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS

Save game data location

System Location
DOS

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
For DOSBox toggle with Alt+ Enter (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
For DOSBox use an unofficial build (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Capped at 30 FPS.

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
For DOSBox change the priority background value in the DOSBox configuration file.

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes CGA, EGA, VGA

System requirements

DOS
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 1.0
Processor (CPU) Intel 8088/8086
System memory (RAM) 512 KB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) CGA, EGA, VGA


References