Metal Gear Solid

[slimmyslim]

I can't switch cd's for some reason. Ive tried all the cd plugins and settings but nothing works. Ive tried iso's as well. Can someone send a savestate or memory card save or give suggestions for fixing this?

[Betamax]

In order to switch disks you must press esc to exit to the emu's gui, then use the change disk option located in the file menu.

[Kane]

You tried pressing Esc, then clicking on change CD?

[slimmyslim]

Yes ive tried that but after i do that it goes back to the game screen and says click start to continue. Then it says checking then the screen fades to black and then nothing happens.

[RF]

I found the same problem in FF8 after inserting the next disc it went black, fortunatly it saves the game, then asks you to insert a disc. So all i did was exit, insert the new disc, then keep on going. Should be the same for MGS?

[Marcis]

I have the same exact issue as a matter of fact.

And I've played ff8 and ff9 and switched disc form the gui without any trouble.

I use clone cd images though since it's much faster so could that be related ?

While on mgs though I have some fmvs that stutters so much that I can't even understand what they say anymore and it makes the scenes skip. some cutscenes are also all blury and I think they're the cause of teh sound skipping.

I'm playing on my laptop (AC 97 sound and Intel DVMT-based graphics chipset).

I'm using the internal epsxe plugin for sound with the spu irq hack enabled and the pete's d3d 1.63 with the following options.

Plugin: Pete's D3D Driver 1.1.63
Author: Pete Bernert
GFX card: Intel(R) 830M Graphics Controller-0

Resolution/Color:
- 640x480 Fullscreen - [16 Bit]

Textures:
- R8G8A8A8
- Filtering: 0
- Garbage collection: on
- VRam size: 8 MBytes

Framerate:
- FPS limit: on
- Frame skipping: off
- FPS limit: Auto

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 3
- Framebuffer texture: 3
- Framebuffer access: 4
- Alpha multipass: on
- Mask bit: on
- Advanced blending: software

Misc:
- Scanlines: off [0]
- Unfiltered FB: off
- Dithering: on
- Screen smoothing: off
- Full vram: on
- Game fixes: off [00000202]


As for my cd-rom plugin I switched form the internal w2k one to pete's (i'm on win XP) but it doens't seem to change anything.

If worse comes to worse, could I send someone my savegame just before the stairs to disc 2 and someone could cross me over to disc 2 and sva eagain and sned it back to me so I could load directly from disc 2 please ?

I'm using epsxe 1.52 btw.

[RF]

I have no clue, im not that great on that stuff. Although could you post your PC Specs, or include them in your sig like mine.

[fivefeet8]

Originally posted by Reichfuher
I found the same problem in FF8 after inserting the next disc it went black, fortunatly it saves the game, then asks you to insert a disc. So all i did was exit, insert the new disc, then keep on going. Should be the same for MGS?

That doesn't work with MGS.. It doesn't let you save when you change disk.. You need to press esc, choose change disk, then continue, then press start... that's what I did and Now I am on disk 2..

[Marcis]

yup I did that but the screen stays black after pressing enter.

if anyone has a svaestate or somehting right at the begining of disc 2 it'd be appreciated.

I didn't give up to torture either so if your save game could be the same it'd be really nice of you if you could send it to my e-mail (the__gamer@yahoo.com).

thanks.

[slimmyslim]

That help? Still can't figure it out.

[lxphantomxl]

I got Metal Gear Solid to work Perfectly! I mean perfect!

My Computer Specs are:

AMD ATHLON XP 1800+ WIN XP 196 SDRAM ATI RAGE 128 PRO (old video card) Creative SoundBlaster PCI (old aswell) 40 Gig Hard Drive HP CD Writer 9100 32x read.

(For easiest configing use EPSXEcutor) My Settings:

Video

Plugin: Pete's D3D Driver 1.1.62


Resolution/Color:
- 400x300 Fullscreen - [32 Bit]

Textures:
- R8G8A8A8
- Filtering: 0
- Garbage collection: on
- VRam size: 0 MBytes

Framerate:
- FPS limit: on
- Frame skipping: off
- FPS limit: Auto

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 4
- Framebuffer texture: 2
- Alpha multipass: on
- Mask bit: on
- Advanced blending: hardware

Misc:
- Scanlines: off [0]
- Unfiltered FB: off
- Dithering: on
- Screen smoothing: on
- Full vram: on
- Game fixes: off [00000000]

Sound

Pete's DSOUND Audio Driver 1.15

General Settings:
-Volume - Loudest

XA setting:
- Enable XA Playing [on]
-Change XA Speed [off]

Misc:
-1. High Compatibility
-SPU IRG - wait for CPU action [Valkyrie Profile and MGS [on]
-Enable developer debug mode [off]

CDR
-Internal W2k CDR


Options :

-Bios: SCPH 1001


Sound Settings :
-Enable Sound [on] (duh)
-Enable CDDA [on]
-Enable MDECXA [on]
-Enable SPU IRQ hack [on]

Country Settings
-Country : (NTSC for North America, PAL For Europe and Japan I believe)

Misc. Settings:
-Autoload PPF Files [off]

Comman Line:

-CMD line: (leave blank)
-Start ePSXE GUI [on]

CDROM Settings:
-CD Letter: (Depends on you)

Internal ePSXE cdr Plugin options:
-Read Subchannels [off]
-Cache subchannel M3S file to disk [off]
-Cache subchannel LG 8520/21/22b [off]


I hope I was able to help all my fellow Die-Hard MGS fans, because I know what it is like to eat, breethe and sleep MGS. I have some screen shots too!







I pretty much get like 54 frames per second, and 24 in Codec Sequences, though it doesn't cause lag, and the sound and facial movements are in tune aswell ^^ No skipping here!