Nitroid ❗️

Years ago, footage of the unreleased Tiger GameCom version of #MetalGearSolid was shared on AOL and Usenet. Does anyone have it?

@Demoman1960 @saladinskull It should be up, try clearing your cache.

@Nitroid @saladinskull Sooo when are you gonna fix the mgs4 site?

I know the whole "Naked Snake knows perfect russian" yada yada but it is pretty jarring when you play this just after MGS2 where all the Russian characters in that had an accent

@saladinskull But again, the accent would only make sense if the characters were speaking English -narratively-, which makes no sense given the setting. My understanding is there was an early plan to have the VA's speak Russian, but it was too big of an ask, so they opted for practicality.

@Nitroid yeah i would say it works better here since theres an actual transition between the languages i think i can just connect with the characters more if the voices are more diverse, it could've been cool for ocelot to be putting on an accent then have him lose it at the end

@saladinskull There's a more elegant example of this narrative tool being employed near the beginning of The Hunt for Red October: youtu.be/uEvwbxcRaCQ

@Nitroid you know maybe skull face had a point

"Raiden, I cannot fulfill this request. The provided text contains highly offensive, hateful and inappropriate language, including racial slurs, antisemitic remarks and references to violence and child abuse"

@Golisopodd Having some issues with it, but it should be back up in the next day or two. Sorry for the delay.

@Nitroid What happened to mgs4.site?

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (2008)

@alexfkraus @MGSMGN Probably, but you never know. Hey, @datadiscs...

@Nitroid @MGSMGN More like waiting forever

Metal Gear: Ghost Babel - 2000

@RandalfTheGreat Closest equivalent is this

@Nitroid Where's the "Kojima predicted this" version of this gif? ( I know it's not exactly a crazy out-there prediction, still funny)

@timsoret @watchingaerial Perhaps not, but as someone who saw it about a dozen times in theaters during its original run, the JP scan making the rounds is far more representative of what I remember seeing than any recent official release. This is obviously anecdotal and based on memory, but I stand by it.

@watchingaerial Yes I have a few of them for the patina & nostalgiamaxxing, but no way people believe these dulled colors are truly what Spielberg captured in 1993 for example. youtube.com/watch?v=9PE3KU…

Educative minute: Film twitter, please know that all these "amateur 35mm scans" comparison are deceptive. 1. Films are made of atoms (nitrate, acetate, polyester), and unlike digital data, they are vulnerable to entropy like everything else. 2. For the same movie, not all theatrical projection prints were made with the same process. Most were poor quality with short shelf-life (6 years according to Martin Scorsese). 3. Dye compounds are unstable, decaying at different rates over time, their colors degrading, fading & shifting. Notice how most of these "35mm scans" are bluish & faded, with contrast added in post after scanning. 4. Even if you had a perfectly manufactured, flawlessly stored & maintained, and masterfully scanned film, digitalization remains an interpretation process. A projected film is pure light, and mapping a RAW capture to the displayable dynamic range of screens is a subjective process, not a perfect science. So never interpret these 35mm scans as "how a film was supposed to look". No two surviving 35mm films look the same, and none look the way they did at release. These are just films degraded by hundreds of theatrical runs & decade of chemical decay. This organic "instagram filter" evokes a certain nostalgia, but it's an illusion. There is no pristine original to go back to. Even the original negatives stored by studios require month of digital cleaning to be considered "usable". It's all a subjective process.

@Afevis Awesome, thanks!

@Nitroid Aside from backporting nexusmods.com/metalgearsolid… this fix, I honestly haven't touched the 2003 PC port since around 2005, so I can't compare 😅 I'll be sure to toss you a link to the CI/preview build later for your notes though. (All MGSHDFix commits generate public test builds.)

oh... accidentally found third person view in MGS2MC, guess that'll go into MGSHDFix too. it locks the camera to overhead view when in super-tight corridors so you don't clip through walls, but otherwise... yeah, it been there for 15 years. will do some small fixes to it lol

@Nitroid How does it feel that MGS4 is catching up to MGS2 in terms of predicting the state of the world?

In hindsight, this would have been funnier

@StormslayerDev Pretty darn awesome. Twilight Princess is a bit of a dark horse, but it's easily my favorite Zelda game, and I've been wanting to dip my toe into modding it for a while now.

TODAY IS LAUNCH DAY! The recompilation project Twilight Princess Dusk is available for download on ALL PLATFORMS. Windows, Linux, Android, iOS and more! Modding, High res textures support, unlocked framerates, new control schemes etc! Enjoy!

@RSolidSnake11 Whenever I imagine the MGs2 versus mode, I think of Zako Survival with the two players on either side. Maybe now we’ll get to see something like that someday, haha.

@Nitroid It's cool how the idea changed from system-link\split screen as mentioned in the game plan to an actual online mode.

I didn't notice it at first, but the scripts in t00a.gcl seem to reference an online experiment they were doing with MGS2. "ネット対応プレイヤー" roughly translates to "Internet enabled player", there's also "ネットゴール" ("Net goal") and "ネット敵テスト" ("Net Enemy Test").

@RSolidSnake11 I was curious if there were any remnants of this. From what I remember, they briefly experimented with a multiplayer versus mode. I suspect it wasn’t too dissimilar from what Ghost Babel had.

There's even commands to initialise the network session and actors to test the game pad for a specific player. Sadly seems the source package doesn't include the implementation of these actors, so we only have these scripts leftovers.

so yeah just replayed MGS2 and it's re-validated almost all my criticisms I have for it an amazing game but man im not as eager to replay it compared to the others, I think the only one thats close to this is PW just because of the grind - excited to replay it for vol 2 tho

@BlackGamer86 Didn't realize it was down, thanks for the heads up. Looking into it now.

Hi @Nitroid What happened to your site?