Metal Gear: Metal Gear MSX + Style

This hack for Metal Gear (NES) corrects the numerous spelling, grammatical, and punctuation errors that were present in many early NES titles. In addition to these changes, several errors resulting from a rushed port, such as the wrong location given for the EOD suit, have been corrected.

Background tiles and palettes have been changed to more closely match the MSX original, barring any changes that would cause unintended chaos, as POWs and equipment pickups share a single palette.

The title screen has been changed to be more like the original, including a translation of the original logo style, albeit parallel, rather than the original canted alignment of the title.
Enemy grunts have been given their old uniforms, as pale yellow made for poor urban and jungle camouflage.

The M79 grenade launcher has been redrawn to look like its counterpart in reality, rather than the MP5 it had previously been.

The long-standing flashlight tile error has been corrected, and the issue with the remote missile menu icon has been corrected, too. These items will no longer have missing pieces in the equipment and weapon menus.

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Name: Metal Gear MSX + Style (as in baked bread)

Function: Improvement

Author: Mister Xiado

Version: 1.0

Date: 20180808

Tools used: FCEUX for effecting hexadecimal changes, YYCHR and JASC Paint Shop Pro 7.04 for tile and sprite redraws, LunarIPS for extracting the IPS from the hacked ROM.



This hack for Metal Gear (NES) corrects the numerous spelling, grammatical, and punctuational errors that were present in many early NES titles. In addition to these changes, several errors resulting from a rushed port, such as the wrong location given for the EOD suit, have been corrected.

Background tiles and palettes have been changed to more closely match the MSX original, barring any changes that would cause unintended chaos, as POWs and equipment pickups share a single palette.

The title screen has been changed to be more like the original, including a translation of the original logo style, albeit parallel, rather than the original canted alignment of the title.

Enemy grunts have been given their old uniforms, as pale yellow made for poor urban and jungle camouflage.

The M79 grenade launcher has been redrawn to look like its counterpart in reality, rather than the MP5 it had previously been. As a firearms collector, I could not allow this to remain uncorrected.

The long-standing flashlight tile error has been corrected, and the issue with the remote missile menu icon has been corrected, too. These items will no longer have missing pieces in the equipment and weapon menus.



There appears to be a bug in the game code, where electric floor control panels become broken sprites for the mine detector after that equipment has been acquired. This does not affect gameplay, beyond making it a bit difficult to determine what to hit with the remote missile.



All existing save states and passwords will work with this hack, as no addresses in the ROM have been changed. Be advised that save states may play havoc with the game palette, so use of passwords is recommended.



How to use this hack:

I recommend copying the original Metal Gear ROM to a new location, or to a new filename in the same location, and using LunarIPS to bind the hack IPS file to the ROM.



No-Intro Name: Metal Gear (USA)

(No-Intro version 20130731-235630)

File SHA-1: 9AAA7C001465311AE79D84644AA5FCE1F9766860

ROM SHA-1: 2783BEF3CC207E9BF57A65EEA5AB9B68E2214AF0



Thanks to:

Konami of the past, for sabotaging this port of Metal Gear with a 90 day development cycle, and a demand to make the game "as different as possible" from the MSX original.

Jonesy, for leaving Metal Gear Faithful in Narnia. If it is ever released, it will bring more to the table than this hack.

No-Intro Name: Metal Gear (USA)
(No-Intro version 20130731-235630)
File SHA-1: 9AAA7C001465311AE79D84644AA5FCE1F9766860
ROM SHA-1: 2783BEF3CC207E9BF57A65EEA5AB9B68E2214AF0