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Didn't realize how hard MGS4's Disc Swap joke hit until I backed it up (programming.dev)
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The Clip if you've never seen it before.

Recently I've been archive my PS3 library of games, and I just finished backing up MGS4. Normally a third party PS3 game is between 7-12GB, however MGS4 is 33GB. To play MGS4 on a 360 you'd need like 4-5 DVD's depending on how they compressed it.

Didn't realize how large games were back even a decade ago.

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[–] diemartin@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I had the luck of having it when I was a kid. It did blow my mind.

Two of the parts that come to mind that need a guide are contacting Meryl for the first time, and the Psycho Mantis fight.

Tap for spoilerMeryl was tedious because her codec frequency was printed "on the back of the CD case", not an item in-game, but literally the case where the game came in. Due to rampant piracy in my country, it was hard to get it in a case with the back cover, so my solution was to try every frequency.

Mantis has two ways to kill him. You either have to swap the controller to port 2, or shoot at a bust of him. Which one you can use depend on difficulty IIRC.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I think the commander dude gives you hints if you keep losing a particular fight though. He'll get explicit about the trick for Psycho Mantis!

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 7 hours ago

You have to pester the colonel on the codec like 3 or 4 times until he gives the idea to plug the controller on slot 2. The first few times I got past Mantis thanks to infinite ammo and health, brought to me by Gameshark 🦈. If you keep shooting the FAMAS, a shot will occasionally hit Mantis. He dodges explosions, so Grenades, Nikita and Stinger don't work.