Metal Gear Solid: The Essential Collection

Different ending/music

Contributed By: Warhawk.

Alternate Save Message from Psycho Mantis

If you save less than three times before you fight Psycho Mantis, you will get a special message on how reckless you are.

Contributed By: MrFoxhound.

Castlevania Message

If you have a save game of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night on your memory card, Psycho Mantis will give you surprising message before you fight him.

Contributed By: Lock and Chain.

Get Mei Ling Mad

Keep calling Mei Ling on the codec. Say do not save about 5 to 8 times. She will get mad eventually and stop talking to you.

Contributed By: danyates.

Ghost Picture of Hideo Kojima

After you beat the Ninja, take your camera and take a picture of the picture of the big orange-like robots in Otacon's lab. When you've done it, reset and load the picture. You'll see a ghost picture of Hideo Kojima!

Contributed By: Pin_Cheater.

How to make the Ninja free you

After you are tortured, thrown in the cell, and called Otacon, the guard goes to the bathroom. Otacon comes, gives you a few things and then when he leaves and the guard comes back, let the guard go to the bathroom 2 more times. When the guard goes to the bathroom the second time, you'll hear something like a FAMAS. The Ninja comes and frees you!

Contributed By: Pin_Cheater.

Save message from Psycho Mantis

If you save enough times before fighting Psycho Mantis he will tell you how wise you are for saving often.

Contributed By: djmikso.

Special Message

If you have a savegame of POLICENAUTS on your memory card when you fight Mantis, you will get a special message from Hideo Kojima.

Contributed By: rob29.

A more useful cardboard box

When you're in the cave area with Meryl, hit her and quickly equip a cardboard box. She'll order a wolf to attack you, but if you're in a box, a wolf will pee on it instead. Now whenever that box is equipped the wolves will no longer attack you.

Contributed By: dinobotmaximized.

Defeat Psycho Mantis with ease

Make the boss fight with Psycho Mantis much easier by switching your controller to port 2 when the message HIDEO appears on your screen. If you do it correctly, Psycho Mantis will be unable to read your thoughts making the fight much easier.

Contributed By: xerc.

Easily cross minefields.

If you don't have the mine detector, but want to cross a minefield without having to worry about blowing up, just go up to the area where you believe mines are and crawl across the ground. Not only will you be unharmed, but you will also receive any claymore mines that you crawl over!

Contributed By: Felix Arabia.

Meryl's Ending

Resist Ocelet's torture to see a happy ending where everyone lives. You can use a turbo controller.

Contributed By: MrFoxhound.

Otacon's Ending

To view Otacon's Ending instead of Meryl's ending after completing the game, submit to Ocelot's torture after being captured.

Contributed By: UltimaterializerX.

Alternate ending

Contributed By: surferdude509.

Different V.R. theme

If you use MGS1 Snake for theV.R. missions you will hear the V.R. theme from MGS1

Contributed By: UBCS 2.

Hideo Kojima Dog Tag Information

When first playing as Raiden in the plant chapter, enter the name Hideo Hiojima into the first node. It will automatically put in all of his statistics.

Contributed By: Mike Loubet.

Ken Ogasawra dog tag info

When first playing as Raiden in the plant chapter, enter the name Ken Ogasawra into the first node. It will automatically put in all of his statistics.

Contributed By: Mike Loubet.

Parrot guard

In the computer room of the CORE on SHELL 1 B2, the computer room, shoot E.E's parrot and it says the things a guard says, such as 'Possible Intruder, send backup' thats sort of thing

Contributed By: Exwien.

Seagull shooting

If you go outside during the plant chapter, you will see seagulls on most struts. If you shoot these seagulls, they will fall and die. If you shoot enough with a psg1 then rose will call you and tell you to stop shooting defenseless animals and she will call you "a sick freak".

Contributed By: Mike Loubet.

Snake/Raiden thoughts when on codec

When you are listening to a codec call hold R1 and R2 and you can hear Snake/Raiden's thoughts

Contributed By: SSJ_Richard.

The Shaver

If you give snake the shaver at the start of the game, at the end he will be clean shaven. If you do not get the shaver then he will not be shaven at the end of the game.

Contributed By: Mike Loubet.

Tuxedo Snake sneaking theme

If you use Tuxedo Snake on the sneaking missions here will be a different theme

Contributed By: UBCS 2.

Enhance Grip Level Easier

You can enhance your grip level by doing 100 pull-ups on a ledge, or you can do 10 drop-and-cathes. To do a drop-and-catch, find two ledges which are parrelel to each other. Hang off the higher ledge, and press X, then repeatedly press Triangle. You should grab on the lower ledge. If you do this 10 times, you get an enhanced grip level. There are 3 total grip levels. Two ideal places to do this are the Tanker's Engine Room, and the Plant's Strut D.

Contributed By: Erkit.

Guy on toilet from MGS1

When you get to the Shell 1 Core and you're supposed to listen in on a conversation between Solidus and Ocelot, point the Directional Microphone over to the left near the stage and you should hear Johnny from MGS1 talk to himself. It has a hilarious ending.

Contributed By: TkPak619.

More grip

If you hang on a ledge and press L2 and R2 you will do a pull-up. If you do enough of these, your grip level will rise. The maximum is level 3.

Contributed By: Mike Loubet.

Play around with the music video

During the music video "Snake Eater", pressing different buttons will slightly change what appears on screen.

Contributed By: Star Player ZA.

I Like MGS Unlockables

Just choose which MGS game you like at the beginning of the game for the following unlockables:

Contributed By: Shisui312, WatsonC, Teepo123, SolidSnake74185, and lilmattsback.

Mosin Nagant

Beat The End through stamina depletion to unlock the Mosin Nagant, The End's tranquilizer-dart-equipped sniper rifle. After the cutscene where The End dies, it is just to the left of Snake's position, in a centralized clearing in Sokrovenno North. It will not appear if The End is killed by setting the PS2 clock forward, nor will it appear if he was killed outside the Ponizovje warehouse.

Contributed By: Ranmoth.

Original Metal Gear Boss Time Trial

Beat the original Metal Gear for the MSX and make a Clear Data file. When you are returned to the main menu for Metal Gear, the boss time trial will be selectable.

Contributed By: Seifer_us.

Unlock Bandana for the MSX Metal Gear games

Beat Metal Gear 1 or 2 to unlock the bandana for that game. The Bandana, when equipped, will give you unlimited ammunition for all weapons

Contributed By: WilHiteWarrior.

Unlock Boss Survival Mode in Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake

Once you have successfully beaten the game on Easy or Original, save it and you should find Boss Survival on the main menu of MG2.

Contributed By: BXBomber.

Unlockables

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Motion Capture Actors

During a cut scene, if you see the name of the character, the name in the parentheses is the voice actor. If you hit O, the name will change to the name of the character's motion capture actor.

Contributed By: yeg0.

See ghostly images of the developers during the fight with the Sorrow

Using the camera, take pictures of the bosses you've killed as they walk towards you as ghosts. Sometimes you'll see the faces of the developers on the pictures you've taken.

Contributed By: The IcecreamMan.

Bats in Cave

In the cave, bats attack you if you run. But if you use the active sonar and send out a 'ping', the bats will stop coming after you. That is because bats use sonar to see, they attack the strange noises snake is making and using the sonar tricks them into thinking you are just another bat.

Contributed By: MujariMojo.

Dazing a Guard

Whenever the '!' or '?' icon appears above an enemy's head, and you shoot it, (this is tricky) the the guard appear to be intoxicated and have some white bubbles floating from his head, giving you a few seconds to either run away, or to attack the dazed guard.

Contributed By: sinncross.

Defeat The End easily

When you enter the fighting area for the first time, save your game and quit. Go into the clock settings of your PS2 hardware and set the clock forward a couple of years. Load up the game and you will find that The End has died from old age!!

Contributed By: stonalisa.

Distract Voligin

Before you fight Volgin be sure to capture a living tree frog. When you are fighting him equip the tree frog as a weapon and throw it somewhere where volgin will see it. After he sees it he should say something then jump back he will then be vulnerable for a few seconds(until he kills the frog) allowing you time to get a few cheap shots in.

Contributed By: zeljo.

Easily deplete The Fear's stamina

While fighting The Fear, his main tactic is to jump from tree to tree in order to get the best shot possible on you. However, this depletes his stamina rather quickly, and like Snake, he needs to eat in order to keep himself going strong. As The Fear's stamina gauge decreases, he'll stop trying to attack you and begin using his crossbow to hunt for food instead. If he manages to catch enough of the local food sources, he will regenerate his stamina gauge; if you're a fan of scoring stamina kills on the bosses in order to get the secret uniforms in the game, The Fear's eating habits make it very difficult to deplete his stamina gauge in an honorable manner.

Thankfully, there is a cheap way to bypass the entire process. As soon as the battle starts, take poisoned pieces of food you have on stock and throw it into the middle of the area, then proceed to go on with the battle as you would normally. When The Fear's stamina gets low, he will cease to hunt for food and will instead go right for the food you threw out for him! Not only does this prevent The Fear's stamina from increasing, but it will actually decrease his stamina as well. Even better is that he'll stand there puking his guts up, which gives you all sorts of time to blast him with shots from your tranquilizer gun.

It should be noted that the best place to harvest poisoned food is in the very area in which you fight The Fear himself; you have to go through it en route to the science lab before fighting The Fear on the way back. The area is full of poison frogs and poison mushrooms, so make sure to stock up in advance. The more poisoned food you throw out at the beginning of the fight, the easier a time you'll have.

Contributed By: UltimaterializerX.

Find Secret Codec Frequency to Call Off Alerts

If you enter alert mode, capture any nearby guard and interrogate him. Sometimes, the guard will tell you a Codec frequency that can be contacted to call off the alert. These frequencies change after they are first used, but there will always be a new one available whenever you trigger alert mode.

Contributed By: Evil Dave.

Free Rations/Ammo in Original Metal Gear

If you die and choose "continue" too many times (approx 5- 10), you'll be given max ammo (only for weapons you have obtained) and full rations. Your maximum capacity for weapons and rations increases as your rank increases, which you increase by finding hostages.

Contributed By: NeoX51.

Hint : Anger Volgin

When fighting Volgin the first time you can wear the Ivan’s(Raiden's) mask and he will think you are the major and hesitate from attacking you. You will have a chance to shoot him a few times without him attacking. He will realize who you are after a while and become angry and attack more frequently.

Contributed By: TRin12.

Parrot to your advantage

During your battle with The End, if you capture his parrot (use a tranquilizer pistol) and then set it free, the parrot will squawk and circle over The End’s head; revealing his sniper position and allowing you to shoot him. After you shoot him, The End will then relocate and you can recapture the parrot and repeat this method until The End is defeated. If you find it difficult to recapture the parrot, move to another Sokrovenno area and then return and the parrot should be perched at one of its usual spots. If you find it difficult to spot the parrot circling over The End, use your directional microphone and listen for The End scolding his [loud mouth] parrot.

Contributed By: PyroJames.

Skip The End boss battle.

After caves and after the river with the guards on the hovercrafts, enter the next area and a cutscene will begin. As soon as the cutscene ends pull out your SVD sniper rifle and aim it at The End in his wheelchair. Before he gets taken away, shoot the guard in the head, then shoot The End in the head a few times. If done corectly The End will say something and explode. Later in the game when you get to the jungle where the fight was supposed to be, you wont have to fight him and the jungle will be filled with guards from the Ocelot unit.

Contributed By: habib is cool.

Snake’s dream

When Snake gets puts in the jail cell. Save the game and turn the system off. Turn it back on and go to your saved game file. Load it and you will see a mini-game were you are this Zombie hunter guy and you can go around and kill zombies.

Contributed By: GunBladeMan.

Starving and poorly equipped enemies

Throughout the game, you will find several storehouses of food (Where you'll find items like Instant Noodles and Calorie Mates) and ammunition (Often where you find new weapons). If you have some TNT in your inventory, plant a piece inside a storehouse, stand back, and detonate it. You'll know the trick worked if the room becomes charred and black. If you do this to a food storehouse, enemies in the nearby screens will complain about their hunger, helping you detect them easily. If you destroy an ammo warehouse, guards will have only one clip of AK ammo, then they will switch to a pistol, and eventually they will have to use a knife.

Contributed By: Janors 2.