At the recent PlayStation Showcase, Konami revealed that it is not only remaking Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater for modern platforms but that it will also be releasing a new compilation called Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 1.
The compilation will contain the first three Metal Gear Solid games (Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, and Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater), and comes nearly two years after the removal of the HD Collection from digital storefronts due to licensing issues related to the use of historical footage.
As spotted by Destructoid, it appears these aren't the only games the compilation will contain either, as a recent PlayStation store listing revealed the collection will also feature the 1987 MSX2 title Metal Gear that started it all, as well as the 1990 follow-up Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake.
The two MSX2 games were previously featured as a playable bonus in Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence in the mid-2000s, as well as in the Metal Gear Solid: HD Collection released in 2011, so it's not entirely surprising to see them included here. Nevertheless, it's great to have some confirmation about their inclusion.
Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 1 will go on sale later this year in Autumn 2023.
[source store.playstation.com, via destructoid.com]
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The two MSX2 games are still supremely playable.
However, so is Snake's Revenge, which never gets any love. Sure it's not canon, but it's a fun time with interesting ideas.
I wish more people had access to Snake's Revenge.
Come to think of it, Konami hasn't done much with Ghost Babel either (EU version was best since it had the radio play which was stripped from the US version).
@Sketcz Ghost Babel is at least referenced in MGS2, as a poster and with its mission briefings being referenced by the AI Colonel, implying that it alongside the MSX games, MGS1 and VR Missions are the VR simulations Raiden trained with.
MGS4 also had a reference in the description for the Five-SeveN gun for Snake, mentioning a mission in Galuade.
And IdeaSpy 2.5 (the Europe-exclusive radio drama) kept getting referenced in MGS2, MGS4 and Peace Walker.
I love Ghost Babel, I still have my PAL copy. You could argue it is semi canon but not important since it was a VR training mission for Raiden. For some reason I have never played the NES MG games. It would be cool if those games were included in some collections as bonus games.
What's weird is that Snake's Revenge was written in Japanese but never released in Japan. With the English translation being a poor one from Japanese.
And then it received a fan translation that translated the English translation back to Japanese.
It would be great if Konami could finally release the original Japanese script for Snake's Revenge.
The NES Metal Gear games are poor imitations of MG1 on MSX2, and easily the worst Metal Gear games not released on phones. I believe the NES games are worse than Survive.
That said, the DOS and C64 ports of Metal Gear NES are even worse. They are outright unplayable.
There was going to be a similar Amiga port but that was cancelled for unknown reasons. A fan eventually made an unofficial Amiga port of Metal Gear 1 based on decompiled source code for the MSX2 version. And it is really great.
I'm just waiting he would port the official Subsistence translation to the Amiga port (it only has the poor official European translation and the ancient fan translation), and hopefully Metal Gear 2 once it gets decompiled.
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