Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection (Vol. 1 - 24th October 2023)

[Julius]

On 5/25/2023 at 4:08 PM, Julius said:

I'm curious to see if they do have Mantis reading your "memory card" this time, too, considering that Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and (hopefully) Suikoden will both be out on modern consoles by then, but given this is Konami, I could see them giving it a complete pass. I think I remember reading something about the PC version skipping that dialogue? 

Well here's the answer to that question! You'll be able to create save data for any PS1 Konami titles not released on modern platforms to recreate the memory part of the Psycho Mantis battle. 

Kind of blown away by some of the extra flourishes Konami are adding to this collection, got to give credit where credit is due!

Also, it's been a long minute since I've booted up a PS1, so I might be off here, but the memory card editing screen being 3x5 is a recreation of the PS1 memory card screen, right? If so, that's really neat! 

Edited September 24 by Julius

[Dcubed]

All those nice touches, yet they can’t be bothered to ensure that the games don’t run like arse on Switch 

[Dcubed]

On 22/08/2023 at 3:04 PM, Dcubed said:

1080p on PS5/Series X is still crap, just less crap than the Switch version.

Nope.  Turns out that Konami lied.  Now that the game is out, turns out that it runs in 720p on all platforms, with a low quality bilinear upscale to 1080p (and that’s before the TV/console/PC upscales it again to 4k).  So it actually looks worse than the original HD Collection release.

#Fuckonami

[darksnowman]

I'm looking forward to getting this sometime. The Switch has been excellent for providing the opportunity to give all kinds of non-Nintendo games a go.