MGSHDFix

Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Fix

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This is a fix that adds custom resolutions, ultrawide support and much more to the Metal Gear Solid Master Collection.

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IGN (Video Guide) • IGN (Best Mods List) • Digital Foundry / Eurogamer • PC Gamer • Rock Paper Shotgun • Ocelot (YouTube) • GamingOnLinux • Dextero

Games Supported

• Metal Gear 1/2 (MSX)
• Metal Gear Solid 2
• Metal Gear Solid 3

Other Metal Gear Fix Projects

• MGS Master Collection - Metal Gear Solid 1 and Bonus Content (MG1/2 NES) | MGSM2Fix - Repo / Nexus Page
• MGS Master Collection - Metal Gear Solid 4 and Peace Walker | MGSPatriotFix - Repo
• Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain | MGSVFix - Repo
• Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater | MGSDeltaFix - Repo / Nexus Page

Features

[!NOTE] (More features and fixes are added frequently and may be missing from this list.)

Shared Engine Features:

• Custom resolution/ultrawide support.
• Experimental 16:9 HUD option that resizes HUD/movies (MGS2/MGS3).
• Borderless/windowed mode.
• DualShock 2 / 3 support (pressure-sensitive / analog controller face buttons)
• Option to swap X/O (OK / CANCEL inputs) in Menus.
• Mouse cursor toggle.
• Launcher skips (see Config Tool to configure).
• Option to disable pausing on alt-tab.
• Option to disable bilinear texture filtering, giving the games a pixel art/retro appearance. PR #138
• Increased texture size limits (MG1/MG2/MGS3).
• Adds support for custom PS2 controller glyphs without overwriting existing textures.
• Option to continue aiming your gun after firing it while in first-person/while holding lock-on.
• Toggleable wireframe modes.
• Option to force highest level polygon models during gameplay & cutscenes (improving visual quality.)
• Adjustable anisotropic filtering (MGS2/MGS3).
• Skip intro logos (MGS2/MGS3).
• Option to disable 2011 HD Collection gameplay camera angle/positioning changes.
• Option to adjust scale and opacity of cutscene captions.
• Option to disable Steam Achievement unlocking. (For speedrunners.)
• SMAA (Subpixel Morphological Anti-Aliasing) support (MGS2/MGS3).
• Gamma correction for all games, correcting colors to appear more vibrant and making some lower blacks even deeper, as they would have appeared on an actual CRT screen.
• Option (MGSHDFix Internal tab) to start MGS2 & MGS3 in their developer menu level select screens.
• Speedrunner In-Game Timer / statistics overlay
• Option to restore PS2 memory card strings / messages / captions.

MG / MG2 Specific Features

• Option to crop overscan borders on the top/bottom of the screen.
• Option to correct the game to a 4:3 aspect ratio. (The game was using the MSX2's raw output aspect ratio of 64:53.)

MGS2 Specific Features:

• Option to enable Bluepoint's cancelled Subsistence style Third Person view camera.
• Option to enable Bluepoint's cancelled First Person Shooter camera.
• Option to restore 2001 Japanese Sons of Liberty phone ringtone.
• Option to restore PlayStation 2 Solidus choking durations & health reduction (rebalanced in the HDC.)
• Option to force Snake / Raiden to wear their sunglasses (and outright disable their sunglasses.)
• Option to force Real Time Clock based hostage Easter Egg.
• Option to restore grenade cooking (having detonation timer start while the grenade is still held.)
• Option to swap thermal goggle color palettes in realtime (Substance/vanilla, red hot / Sons of Liberty, Splinter Cell Blacklist, black hot, white hot), using Numpad 7 while thermals are equipped. Examples
• Option to enable cut Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake Colonel sprites during some late-game Codec calls. PR #234
• Option to restore original 2001 Sons of Liberty radar rotation. Example
• BP_Asset / Manifest file modloader support. PR #251
• Option to render shell casings at all distances.
• Option to have shadow resolution (which was hard-coded to the PS2's 256x256 size) increase dynamically with game resolution.
• Option to enable radar in Snake Tales.
• Option to set a custom lifebar name.
• Option to have the lifebar name reflect the current player character's name, like in MGS3/MGS4.
• Option to restore Sons of Liberty's elevator glitch, for speedrunners that want to practice old strats that were patched out.
• Option to make punches count as non-lethal damage against Vamp instead of doing lethal damage.
• Option to force all NPCs to always use their highest quality polygon/LOD model.
• Option to use the High Frequency blade anywhere.
• Option to restore several flashing effects (ie explosion flashes) which were censored in the Master Collection for photosensitivity reasons.

MGS3 Specific Features:

• Option to force grass to render at all distances.
• Mouse sensitivity adjustment.

Bug Fixes

Shared Engine Bugs:

• Fixes hundreds of typos across both MGS2 & MGS3.
• Fixes idle wait issue, dramatically reducing CPU usage - increasing game performance. [PR#225]
• Fixes the collection's games sometimes defaulting to integrated graphics processors on systems with multiple GPUs (due to Nvidia/AMD driver misconfiguration.)
• Fixes gameplay/cutscene aspect ratio for ultrawide resolutions (MGS2/MGS3).
• Fixes window size on displays with High DPI scaling enabled. PR #127
• Fixes the monitor going to sleep during long cutscenes (for Windows only, Linux needs to be fixed by Valve.
• Fixes the bug where your character would start aiming right away after re-equipping a gun that was drawn when you put it away.
• Fixes vector effects / line based rendering scaling (ie rain, lasers, bullet trails.) PR #140
• Fixes UI scaling. PR #181
• Option to force the game to output stereo audio, which corrects the infamous "rain is louder than codec conversations" issue. PR #162
• Restores close-up camera blur / depth of field, outright disabled in MGS2 & MGS3 by the 2011 HD Collection.
• Fixes MGS2 & MGS3's audio reverb being nearly inaudible; volume is now boosted and user-adjustable.
• Fixes MGS2 & MGS3's blind rendering (lines on Codec portraits / nightvision / thermal goggles) not scaling with resolution.
• Rewrites some game functions to speed up processing. ♥

MGS2 Specific Bug Fixes:

• Restores numerous strings that were changed in the HDC due to TRC game certification restrictions.
• Restores contrast / color filter post processing effects in numerous cutscenes, which have been broken/missing since the 2011 HD Collection. Examples (SPOILER WARNING)
• Restores broken heat haze post processing effect on roof of Strut A.
• Restores underwater UI swimming post processing effect. PR #245
• Restores numerous particle and visual effects to proper PS2 timing, fixing effects that ran at double speed and ended too early in the HD Collection and Master Collection versions.
• Restores dogtag viewer information.
• Restores color swapping Red / Blue "2" on the title screen after game completions. (Requires MGS2 Community Bugfix Compilation)
• Fixes in-game timer not pausing during loading times. (This was a HD Collection regression. IGT behavior now matches with Substance. Can be disabled for those that want the vanilla/broken behavior.)
• Fixes Depth of Field / blur post processing effects not scaling with resolution. PR #248
• Fixes shadow resolution not scaling with game resolution. (It was hard-coded to 256x256 / PS2 resolution.)
• Fixes English item / weapon descriptions in the item/weapon menus being squished horizontally.
• Fixes incorrectly positioning "Metal Gear Solid 2" title card during the start of Tanker when playing in Letterbox mode. Example
• Fixes Stillman crash/hang in Strut C.
• Fixes crashes, audio desync, timer delays, and broken loading zones bugs caused by alt-tabbing the game. (For speedrunners who utilize this bug to skip forced codec calls, this bugfix can be forced off in the ini.)
• Fixes the Steam Cloud related "DAMAGED SAVE" / "CORRUPT SAVE" issue.
• Fixes bug where your character would stop aiming their gun while holding L1 when you fully tilt your joystick.
• Fixes typos in several Snake Tales missions, and in the in-game novel "In The Darkness of Shadow Moses". PR#201
• Fixes optical camouflage refraction effects. [PR#228]
• Fixes unique Metal Gear Ray unit numbers not properly updating. [PR#229]
• Fixes Harrier not properly updating damaged state textures. [PR#229]
• Fixes coolant not fogging up breakable mirrors / glass. [PR#231]
• Fixes coolant glass fog appearing as hot in thermal goggles. [PR#232]
• Fixes sensor-A Bomb radar overlay moving as the player moves.
• Fixes broken sun reflections / sparkles during a lategame cutscene. Spoilers
• Fixes broken Colonel MGS1/Ghost Babel sprites. Example
• Fixes incorrect audio location when Solidus strikes Raiden with his tentacle arms. [PR#227]
• Fixes Shell 1 B2 Computer Room parrot's radar cone not turning to face the player.
• Fixes invisible shell casing in cutscenes.
• Fixes hostages having incorrectly colored hands in Shell 1 Core. (Requires MGS2 Community Bugfix Compilation) PR #247
• Fixes incorrect screen texture during a Shell 1 core cutscene. (Requires MGS2 Community Bugfix Compilation) PR #247
• Restores crossfade camera transitions.
• Restores overcranked (slow-motion) cinematic camera transitions (Plant opening, Fortune's intro cutscene, several others).
• Restores PS2 motio