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Konami might have finally set down the Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Vol 1 to focus on releasing Metal Gear Solid 4 from its PS3 prison, but modders continue chipping away at the PS2-and-earlier era Metal Gear games. MGSHDFix, whose mission statement is to repair broken visual bugs, fix crashes, and generally give the older Metal Gears a bit of a spitshine, has got a big new update. Now is the era of MGSHDFix 5.0 (actually, 5.0.1. There was a hotfix).

"We've got performance improvements, massive vanilla loading time reductions for MGS2, loose .MP3/.WAV/.OGG/FLAC soundtrack loading for MG1/MG2, WIP raw mouse input support, and loads of new restoration and bugfixes", writes author Afevis Solmunko.

There are, to be honest, way too many fixes to properly delve into here, so I recommend either checking the patch notes out yourself or taking the mod for a spin in your preferred Metal Gear.…