Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Fix

This is a fix that adds custom resolutions, ultrawide support and much more to the Metal Gear Solid Master Collection.

Games Supported

• Metal Gear 1/2 (MSX)
• Metal Gear Solid 2
• Metal Gear Solid 3

Metal Gear Solid 1 / Metal Gear 1/2 (NES)

• For Metal Gear Solid 1 and the Vol 1. Bonus Content (MG1/2 NES), using MGSM2Fix is recommended.

Features

• Custom resolution/ultrawide support.
• Experimental 16:9 HUD option that resizes HUD/movies (MGS2/MGS3).
• Borderless/windowed mode.
• Mouse cursor toggle.
• Mouse sensitivity adjustment (MGS3).
• Correct gameplay/cutscene aspect ratio (MGS2/MGS3).
• Launcher skip (see ini to configure).
• Skip intro logos (MGS2/MGS3).
• Adjustable anisotropic filtering (MGS2/MGS3).
• Increased texture size limits (MG1/MG2/MGS3).
• Fixed water surface rendering (MGS3). See PR #71 for a breakdown of the issue.

Installation

• Grab the latest release of MGSHDFix from here.
• Extract the contents of the release zip in to the the game folder.
  (e.g. "steamapps\common\MGS2" or "steamapps\common\MGS3" for Steam).

Steam Deck/Linux Additional Instructions

🚩You do not need to do this if you are using Windows!

• Open up the game properties of either MGS2/MGS3 in Steam and add WINEDLLOVERRIDES="wininet,winhttp=n,b" %command% to the launch options.

Configuration

• See MGSHDFix.ini to adjust settings for the fix.

Known Issues

Please report any issues you see. This list will contain bugs which may or may not be fixed.

MGS 2

• Strength of post-processing may be reduced at higher resolutions. (#35)
• Various visual issues when using the experimental HUD fix. (#41)
• Prerendered camera pictures are black. (#60)
• Vector based graphic effects (such as rain) do not get scaled up at higher resolutions. (#90 & #96)

MGS 3

• Strength of post-processing may be reduced at higher resolutions. (#35)
• Various visual issues when using the experimental HUD fix. (#41)
• Vector based graphic effects (such as rain) do not get scaled up at higher resolutions. (#90 & #96)

Screenshots

Metal Gear Solid 2

Metal Gear Solid 3

Credits

@emoose & @cipherxof for contributing fixes.
Ultimate ASI Loader for ASI loading.
inipp for ini reading.
spdlog for logging.
safetyhook for hooking.