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Metal Gear (MSX2)

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This page is for the 2020 port of the MSX2 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]
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Top-down view
Controls Direct control
Genres Stealth
Art styles Pixel art
Themes Contemporary
Series Metal Gear
Metal Gear (MSX2) on HowLongToBeat
Metal Gear (MSX2) on IGDB
Metal Gear (MSX2) guide on StrategyWiki
Metal Gear (MSX2) on MobyGames
Metal Gear (MSX2) on Wikipedia
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Key points

This release is a standalone version of the Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence port of Metal Gear for the MSX2.

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. which has led to BGM mods like METAL GEAR with MGS BGM MOD 2020
The manual for the MSX2 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\data.bin[Note 1]
Up to 64 saves can be created.
Deleting data.bin will result in the game being unable to save. To delete all existing save data without uninstalling the game, null out the contents of data.bin in a hex editor, such as HxD.[2]

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
Royalty free audio

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

System requirements

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

  1. Classic KONAMI games return to modern computers on GOG.COM - GOG.com - last accessed on 2020-09-25
  2. Verified by User:SirYodaJedi on 2022-08-17
    I've made this mistake a few too many times.