Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 1 Updated, Here Are The Patch Notes

what is most annoying about MGS2 on Switch is there is no button sensitivity for fire like the OG PS game. Originally, when you would press fire the tranquilser and handgun would not fire until button was depressed. you could slow depress to not fire - kind of essentially to the stealth mechanic. Switch does not let you do that. once you have pressed fire you have to fire no matter what. smh

@RubyCarbuncle yeah, kinda same. waste of money. If anyone wants to play MGS1 just load up an old PS1 with the game. Best way to play

I might get MGS3 when I see it for 10€ in the eshop. Not worth more than that, it seems.

@Olliemar28 ah right, yeah, makes sense

@smithyo Push the left stick in while aiming to drop your aim. Should work unless they changed on switch. Let me know how it goes.

@TechaNinja Ok thanks!

Is the Switch version better than the Vita version?

Seems the MGS2 fixes didn't come to Switch.

Trading my physical in to CEX as its such a pointless physical release. Just completed MGS1 and going to wait for a deep sale on the digitals - more fool me!

@smithyo It's phisically impossible to do that because no other console in existence had pressure-sensitive face buttons.

Either Konami is lazy or they had no experience making games for Switch. This could had easily been a slam dunk collection as all of these games are old games that didn't even made it to the Xbox 360 era. How are they having this much issues with games that shouldn't had no issues to begin with? These are not new games, you don't had to fix any bugs or glitches cause if there are those then likely they were originally meant to be there in the first place. The only thing you need to do is filter the graphics so they look good on modern HDTV and smoothen the performance, that is it. It looks like these companies are purposely screwing up their classics. If you don't know how to make a classic collection let alone a retro one then don't even try it or at least hired the compilation pros like Digital Eclipse, M2, QByte, Capcom, Sega, Nintendo, or HAMSTER to do it.

I was actually about to buy this but after reading many of the comments above, I think I'll skip for now.

@rushiosan erm no. you obviously didnt play the OG MGS2. get a PS2 slim and try for yourself. the buttons had press sensitivity and you could not fire through slow depression of the fire button

@smithyo I have played every MGS2 version, put over 100h in the PS2 original.

Only the Playstation version has the pressure sensitive stuff because Dualshock 2 and 3 are the only ones with such hardware capabilities.

Collecting Dog Tags is a pain without these controllers, but doable in newer versions if you check the button remap under the options menu. You can press the left stick before firing the gun with Y.

@rushiosan Well thats just what i was saying, the OG has a pressure sensitive mechanic that works with the OG PS2 controller, and that feature is absent without a work around as people above have indicated. But for sure, the Dog Tags are hell using the current controllers

And still no way to remove the awful bilinear filter. What a disappointing "master" collection, thanks, Konami lol

The 1.3.0 update patch for MGS2 is currently unavailable for Switch. All other 1.3.0 updates are now live. Hopefully the MGS2 patch will go live by weeks end.

@mikegamer Looks like they have yet to add other filters including the "CRT" one they mentioned before. I'm probably the only person here, but I'm sort of holding out hope that there are more improvements down the line. Especially if people keep giving flack, they better notice and do something.

@rushiosan Wonder if it's possible to map the buttons for those games to work in a modern control style where left trigger is to hold up your weapon and right trigger is used to fire.

I ended up reselling my switch copy on eBay after playing MGS2 for 15 minutes. It felt so sluggish and *****.

@smithyo you can click on the left stick to aim the gun. It says that on the weapon menu, when you choose either the M4, or the AK47U.

I'm going through MGS2 right now, playing it with no issues on gameplay whatsoever. Yes, it's visible the change of FPS, but it doesn't make it unplayable, like most people say, I'm having a great time with it!

@Olliemar28 Yeah, the games are still great fun to play. On MGS3, those 30FPS are basically imperceptible, since the frame rate is very stable, you don't notice the change. Awesome collection so far!

@smithyo There is no workaround unless you map a second button to each action of the pressure sensitive PS2 inputs... which is also impossible on modern controllers due to the lack of enough buttons. For instance, you could zoom-in codec portraits and certain cutscenes by using the analog buttons. IIRC CQC and Melee actions had some degree of analog inputs to do interrogation and heavy punches, but it's all gone. Not sure if it's a Mandella effect from MGS V, though.

Dog tags are doable but quite harder now.

Not to ignore other potential issues, but the framerate one seems to be the weirdest one to bring up. If I’m not mistaken, all the original releases were 30, yeah? So for a collection, 60 would only be a ‘bonus’ for some? I think for cinematic games, 30 is much more comfortable for my eyes, and these are slow paced stealth games, not fighting games or high speed FPS, so I’d think that 30 wouldn’t even be a bullet point, but I guess since the other systems did it, it gets brought up.

I’ve sampled em all a bit and they all seemed fine to me, only about an hour into each and all seemed well, but that was right at launch, so hopefully some of these patches can do their best to quell some of the other issues folks are having.

@smithyo L3 (clicking left stick) cancels the shot

@russell-marlow The collection was a joke, bad emulation and audio issues

Patch Notes: All games in collection now in game card.

A guy can dream.

@calbeau Nah.

The Switch update for MGS2 is here!

@BobaTheFett thanks for the history on that! interesting

@smithyo Sorry to tell you this, but "press" a button typically means to press down and release, "depress" a button is purely the act of pressing the button down, weird I know, but it's like the geographical/mental health term "depression" in that something is below the normal postion and not to "de-press" i.e. "release" a button.

It's clear what you meant though, in that you were looking for a word like release but to specifically mean that your finger was still in contact with the button, I don't know if we have a word for that.

Such a waste on an epic series. I may get the Xbox series X version over Black Friday or down later. That does have physical media at least. Right? Lol.