Metal Gear Solid: Tactical Espionage Action

New Clothes for Snake

To wear a tuxedo, beat the game twice on the same memory card slot (play over your last game.) The third time you start up the game Snake will remove his thermal suit in the elevator and be clothed in a tuxedo.

Cut-Scene Collection

Simply complete the game and look in the Special menu for a collection of all the cut scenes throughout the game.

Fun with Psycho Mantis

A. Before you go up against Psycho Mantis(one of my favorite parts of the game), save several Konami games to your memory card, and he'll talk about how you like that/those particular game(s). When I was playing, he talked about how I liked Castlevania. For a while, I wondered what the hell was going on!

B. When playing Psycho Mantis, you must plug your contoller into the second slot. This makes the task of beating him much easier as he cannot read your mind now.

C. Twice while you're fighting Mantis the screen will go completely black and the word "HIDEO" will appear. This is just a little gag the maker of the game, Hideo Kojima, put in.

Defeating Liquid

You must fight Liquid Snake five times in this game. Two are kinda tricky and the others are fairly easy. But all will be that much easier with this little guide on defeating Snake's evil twin.

A. The first time you face Liquid will be when you're repelling down the side of the building. This part is very easy. Just keep pressing the X button to jump off of the wall and repel down. You'll touch the gas a few times, but you probably won't get shot. No matter what, you'll make it down without too much struggle.

B. The second time is a little bit harder. Now he's in a Hind D. You must take cover in between the two buildings and come out when you see he's about to come back up. Look at your radar for help. When he comes up, change to the Stinger and shoot him once. Then change back to something else and take cover behind the two buildings very quickly.

C. The third time is the hardest. He's no inside of Metal Gear! However, he can be defeated without much struggle. But you MUST stay close to him. I don't mean right between his legs, but very close. This is because when you are close he can't shoot his missiles, which are the only dangerous weapons he has. He also has a laser and regular bullets. Get close to him and wait until he shoots his laser. Dodge it and immediately change to the Stinger and get off a shot at the thing on his left shoulder. After a few shots there will be a cut-scene and you'll have to go after him again. The same strategy is required. If you do accidentally get far enough away from him for him to shoot some missiles, don't worry. You can hear them coming a mile away, and as long as you're not too far away from him, you can just run straight toward him and the missiles won't hit you. Just remember, he shoots his missiles in pairs of threes, so don't think you're safe if you see one of the missiles land and not hit you.

D. The fourth time is only hard on the highest difficulty settings. Now you're fighting Liquid hand-to-hand. Just get off some punches and get the hell out of the way when he starts to duck. Your final blow that takes all the life out of him must be enough to knock him off of Metal Gear or he will get back up and gain a bit of life back. And you must defeat him in under three minutes.

E. This is the last battle of the game, and it's not to hard. Now you're in the back of a jeep and you've mounted one mighty gun. Liquid is following fast behind you in a jeep of his own. You need to shoot in first-person mode and don't stop shooting until you get to the end of the tunnel. Enjoy the end of the game! Be sure to watch all the way through the credits for an interesting ending and your final time and ranking.

Frustrating Mei Ling

Call Mei Ling several times and listen to what she has to say, but don't save. After a while, she'll get mad and stick her tongue out at you.

Embarassing Meryl

Stare at Meryl in first-person mode for a long time and she'll start to blush and ask you what you're doing.

Torture Room

At Ocelot's Torture Rack, don't submit to get the "Good" ending and go ahead and submit to the torture to get the "Bad" ending.

Fun at the Torture Room

After the whole torture ordeal, crawl under the bed while the guard is there and he'll ask what the hell you're doing. Start punching and kicking and he'll tell you to shut up. When he goes to the bathroom, you can use the ketchup to get out by laying down and quirting some ketchup to make it look like you're bleeding, or eventually, the Ninja comes and saves you.

Getting Special Items

To get the bandana: Beat the game and get the "Good" ending. To get the good ending you can't submit to the torture. At the end, Meryl will give you a bandana. This gives you infinite ammo when you're wearing it.

To get the stealth camouflage: Beat the game and get the "Bad" ending. To get the bad ending you must submit to the torture. At the end, Otacon gives you his stealth suit. Now you're invisible to all the bad guys except bosses when you wear it!

To get the camera: After acquiring the level 6 keycard, go back to the Armory and go to the room just before the room where you fought Revolver Ocelot. There is another bombable wall you can blow up with your C4. Inside is the Camera and some other goodies. But watch out for the gun surveillance cameras. Anyway, with the Camera you got, you can now take pictures and if you take pictures of certain things, there will be a "Ghost" image of one of the game's developers. Here are the locations of all of the game's "Ghost" images:

1.Kojima: Otacon lab (the picture
                                               frame to the right) 
                                            2.Matsuhana: Hallway of corpses
                                               (outside Otacons lab) 
                                            3.Sato: Comm Twr A (roof destroyed
                                               by a Hind D missiles) 
                                            4.Nakamura: In Meryl's blood pool
                                               (where she is sniped) 
                                            5.Shinkawa: Deep in Sniper Wolfs
                                               hallway behind the second pillar 
                                            6.Uehara: Edge of elevator (the one
                                               were the ravens are) 
                                            7.Negishi: Sewage waterfall 
                                            8.Mizutani: When fighting Metal Gear 
                                            9.Korekado: Men's retroom 
                                           10.Sasaki: Picture frames in the
                                               Commanders room 
                                           11.Sonoyama: Torture machine 
                                           12.Toyota: Container in the middle of
                                               Raven's warehouse 
                                           13.Kozyou: Behind the watertank-like
                                               structure in the Canyon 
                                           14.Shimizu: Wolf dog cave (first
                                               crawling point) 
                                           15.Kaneda: The mirror located in the
                                               Women's restroom 
                                           16.Fukushima: Heliport,looking out to
                                               sea from cliff 
                                           17.Takade: Ninja room,glass atedga 
                                           18.Fujimura: Elevator,in the Comm Twr
                                               B complex 
                                           19.Shikama: Electic floor 
                                           20.Kimura: MG underground base,tip of
                                               of Metal Gear 'srailgun 
                                           21.Kobayashi: Rock in canyon 
                                           22.Okajima: Maggots of the real
                                               DARPA Chef in cell 
                                           23.Nishimura: Next to Baker's corpse 
                                           24.Mukaide: Reflection in wolfdog cave
                                               puddle 
                                           25.Onoda: Where Baker is tied up 
                                           26.Kitao: Decoy Octopus (fake
                                               DARPA chief) corpse 
                                           27.Yoshimura: Dead end ofair duct 
                                           28.Hirano: Elevator (Comm Twr B)
                                               deep in the shaft of top level 
                                           29.Muraoka: Water in cargo dock 
                                           30.Ishiyama: Heliport top of building 
                                           31.Ito: Inside elevator to tank hangar 
                                           32.Jerem Blaustein: Sniper Wolfs
                                               corpse 
                                           33.Yoshioka: Bridge on the third floor
                                               of the the blast furnace 
                                           34.Mori: Lowest point of elevator
                                               (Comm Twr B) 
                                           35.Kinbara: Darck area of stairs 
                                           36.Tougo: End of boiler room (in Blast
                                               Furnace where the stemeam is) 
                                           37.Makimura: Hidden armory store
                                               room behnd the weakened wall) 
                                           38.Kutome: Observation room 
                                           39.Tanaka: Heliport,sleeping soilder 
                                           40.Shigeno: Heliport,security caera by
                                               staircase 
                                           41.Yamashita: Tip of nuke warhead in
                                               nukestorage room 
                                           42.Kobayashi: Johnny Sasaki holding
                                               cell, near DARPA chief 
                                           43.Scott Dolph: Way down in the dark
                                               from the walkway between Comm
                                               Tower A and B