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'''Key points'''
 
'''Key points'''
{{ii}} This release is a standalone version of the Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence port of Metal Gear for the MSX
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===Save game data location===
 
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{{ii}} Up to 64 saves can be created.
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==Input==
 
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[[Category:GOG.com Enhancement Project]]

Revision as of 15:51, 22 October 2020

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

Metal Gear (MSX2)
Metal Gear (MSX2) cover
Developers
Konami
Release dates
Windows September 25, 2020[1]
Reception
IGDB 73
Taxonomy
Modes Singleplayer
Series Metal Gear
Metal Gear (MSX2) on HowLongToBeat
Metal Gear (MSX2) on IGDB
Metal Gear (MSX2) guide on StrategyWiki
Metal Gear (MSX2) on Wikipedia
Metal Gear
Metal Gear 1990
Metal Gear Solid: Integral 2000
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 a standalone version of the Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence port of Metal Gear for the MSX.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
The in-game soundtrack can be found at <path-to-game>\Sound as uncompressed DAT-quality WAV files.
The manual for the MSX version can be found on Archive.org.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\settings.ini[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\SaveData\[Note 1]
Up to 64 saves can be created.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
4:3 only. Graphics drawn at 256x212. Dialogue and inventory text drawn at 512x424. Windowboxed to 640x480.
GOG.com release can be Stretched, Letterboxed, or integer-scaled to output resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Uses 2D sprites.
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Dialogue and inventory text is antialiased.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Capped at 16 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

Game settings.
Game settings.

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
No spoken dialogue.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Spanish

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 8 GOG.com release uses a custom Direct3D8 to Direct3D9 wrapper.
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 7, 8, 10
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1 GB[Note 2]
Video card (GPU) 256 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
  2. Installer is 135 MB, installed game is 80 MB

References