It appears that PC gamers may be able to play Metal Gear Solid 4 sooner than expected. Last week, the RPCS3 team released a new version of its Playstation 3 emulator that could boot MGS 4. Fast forward a week and a new version is now available, fixing almost all of the game’s graphical issues.
Going into more details, kd-11 has fixed the depth issue which caused geometry to flicker in and out as well as being able to see through walls/characters. Moreover, the shadows are no longer black thanks to kd-11’s latest fixes.
Now while this latest WIP build resolves most of the graphical glitches, the team does not list the game as “Playable” yet. According to them, the game is currently unstable.
“Firstly, you may have difficulty going ingame. Some users have had varying success with either the v1 or v2 updates for this game. As such, it may be worth trying to update/downgrade your game version if you experience issues. The game also suffers from quite poor performance on most hardware, and may require some users to use the SPU ASMJIT Recompiler for extra stability instead of SPU LLVM. However, Asmjit does break the audio, so we recommend trying SPU LLVM if its stable for you. There is also an issue where sometimes you will just fall through the ground. And finally, it seems like some chapters simply don’t work but we can’t completely confirm that yet.”
The build with these changes can be found here. As this build is a Work in Progress, there are currently issues with a few other games, so it may be best to limit testing with this build to MGS4 for now.
The RPCS3 team has also released the following video, showing MGS4 running in the latest version of the PS3 emulator.
Enjoy!
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Konami bad
konami reeetarded more like it, metal gear survive? Shut down sillent hill? Slot machines?
Although Konami also upsets Jim Soyling so every cloud has a silver lining!
PS3 exclusive…even newer Sony console cant play this game,but PC owner can?
this game never went BC for ps4?
No..you can only play it through PSNow..
So PS4 gamers still can’t play MGS4 natively because their only option is to stream it via Sony’s PS Now paid subscription service. LMFAO, as the console kiddies say!
#PCMR
“So gamers still can’t play MGS4 natively because…”
you cant play it natively because sony,ps3 and apple products are literally tied into the story and voiced dialogue. theyd have to renew contracts to use ipod from apple which would cost alot and remove all the ps3 and dual-shock controller references and stuff plus more. they wouldnt just be able to port it and be done with it.
*EDIT* Not sure if i misread or you change it but I originally read that as PC gamers not ps4
Okaaaaaaaay
that’s not an argument
So have all those changes to the PS3 game been made for the version of it currently available to PS4 gamers via PS Now?
no because it isnt a new version. its just the ps3 game streamed.
“Not sure if i misread or you change it but I originally read that as PC gamers not ps4”
You misread it because I didn’t edit that part of my comment. I note that you’ve since edited your reply so as to misquote me, though.
“ahem”
time for konami to cash in on the MGS HD Legacy Collection for PC and all platforms.
The emulation looks great!
Konami has a choice. collect nothing from emulation.
or collect money from a legacy collection on all platforms.
either way pc gamers are going to play this one way or another.
i finished metal gear 3 on a emulator, its highly playable, used mouse for aiming too, not great but neither was the ps2 controls.
The actual gameplay sections in the first two acts were pretty good but Acts 3 and 4 were 90% cheesy cutscenes. Yet again a disappointing Kojima game, I wish he would just go and make movies as that is clearly more his interest.
dont play his games then they apparently arent for you
“boo hoo hoo too many cut-scenes!” its kojima, its what you get.
Oh grow up.