Series Documents
Here are some
script/text dumps from the Metal Gear series, documentation on
the script systems for the games (for interested developers,
translators or whatever), and there are some text files that I've
made for my own notes and just for personal edification
concerning the Metal Gear series. Each one is just some noted
facts and theories I jotted down while thinking about the games
after playing them. I just thought since I had them anyway that
I'd upload them for anyone who's interested. Some of this can be
considered Spoiler info so read at your own risk.
On the Text
Dumps: Some of these texts are already available elsewhere in
part or in whole as transcripts made by other individuals. I
prefer a straight dump over a transcript becuase it guarantees
accuracy. All the scripts available here are primarily for
reference purposes which is why I don't include hex addresses or
other data with the finished product. Of course, if you want to
download them rather than just view them, right click the
hyperlink and select 'Save Target As...'.
Script/Text
Dumps:
Metal Gear Japanese Script |
Dump of the original Japanese
script of Metal Gear. It's a UTF-8 text file. It can be
viewed with any modern text editor (such as Notepad for
Win XP) as long as Japanese text display support is
installed on your system. |
Metal Gear UK Script Developer Documentation
|
My dump of the United Kingdom
script of Metal Gear for MSX2. It's also hosted on
Gamefaqs.com. The UK localization only included 86 of 155
messages from the original Japanese game and is not
really considered canon. Updated to
version 1.3 on 8/21/05. (Redump) |
Metal Gear Remix Script Developer Documentation
|
The script we used for the Remix
project, version 1.9. Its a faithful translation of all
155 of the original game's messages from Japanese to
English. Good for reference for those who might be
interested in such things. Script from version 1.0 |
Metal
Gear (Subsistence) Script |
The Metal Gear Solid 3:
Subsistence version script for Metal Gear. A messy dump
almost devoid of formatting and zipped becuase geocities doesn't like the file. |
Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake Japanese Script |
Dump of the Japanese script for
MG2. Mostly done, but I still need to identify the
ideographs used by the game in Windows' Character Map.
Since I'm not a Japanese speaker/writer this will take
too much time if it's not for some purpose. (I'd be
poking through a few hundred ideographs, trying to find a
match for the 128 ideographs used by the game, while not
being familiar with them at all) In other words, if
there's someone out there that wants a dump for a project
rather than just idle curiuosity, contact me via email
(which is at the top of the News page) and I'll consider it. |
Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake Script |
Dump of Takamichi Suzukawa and
Maarten ter Huurn's version 1.2 fan translation script.
Includes both parts of the script, an Item list, and the
Item descriptions. |
Metal
Gear 2: Solid Snake (Subsistence) Script |
The Metal Gear Solid 3:
Subsistence version of the script for Metal Gear 2: Solid
Snake. As with the Metal Gear one above this is a quick
and dirty dump. It's zipped becuase geocities doesn't like the file. |
Metal Gear Solid Miscellaneous
Text |
Dump of Metal Gear Solid's
Previous Operations, biographical data from the Briefing
section and Mission Logs. |
Metal Gear Solid Subtitles Script |
Dump of Metal Gear Solid's
cutscene subtitles. Coming Soon. |
Metal Gear: Ghost Babel Script Developer Documentation
|
Put off indefinitely. If you're a
programmer and want to do a custom decoder for the
script, utilize the Documentation here to get a leg up
and go for it. I don't have the interest at this time to
learn the programming techniques I'd need to do it. (My
forté is in the area of assembly hacking rather than
straight win32 programming.)There is a dump of the script
in the documentation archive, but it includes the extra
pointer data and is only partially legible. |
Fan
Documents (by myself):
Metal Gear Series |
This text lists all the 'Metal Gear'
games. Includes the ones that aren't considered part of
the main series, indicates which ones I have, includes a
plot premise synopsis, and some hypotheticals raised by
the games. Spoiler information included. |
Metal Gear Chronology |
This is the chronology of the entire Metal
Gear series. This information comes from the games
themselves, manuals, and the various bonus features for
some of the games. Spoiler information included. Updated
8/6/05. |
Who are the Patriots? |
My work-in-progress theory about the
source and nature of the Patriots, the group introduced
in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. Source
information from that game as well as the transcript of
The Document of Metal Gear Solid 2 and a few other
sources. I'm not the first to think of this theory.
Artemio Urbena is the first one to mention it to my
recollection. Since he focused primarily on the ending
and its meaning in general I thought I'd go a little more
into the nature of the Patriots' physically and
historically. If you haven't read Artemio's ending analysis for MGS2, then I
recommend it whole-heartedly since my shabby text pales
in comparison to it. Note: my text
doesn't include any information from MGS3 and hasn't been
revised since the release of that game. It's a bit
outdated.. |