10 Things You Didn't Know About MGS1 

Bonus: If you set the sound to mono and ask for advice during the Hind battle, you will be mocked because you don't seem to have a stereo TV...

If you read and listen to the MG1&2 recap text and cassettes in the main menu before starting a new game, Snake will have a lot less questions at the beginning sections of the game.

If you contact Master Miller once you heat the PAL key card you get this conversion: Master Miller: The card changed shape? HURRY to the control room! That's the last key. Solid snake: Master, I never heard you so excited? Master Miller: ..... I discovered this while finishing it a few hundred times wondering how Master Miller codec conversions intel.

After the elevator at the start, Snake will also mention VR training if you played the VR missions before starting a new game.

The alternative scene of meeting Meryl without the SOCOM should have been the default. Grabbing the barrel of her gun makes the point much better

I have been a fan of the game since 98... I never knew about some of those. The parachute one shocked me.

Also if you get in the back of one of the 3 trucks in the game with a Card Board Box A,B,C a soldier will come out and bring the truck to the location written on the box. Faster way to travel to different locations in the game..Example you can travel from the snowy field where you fight sniper wolf the 2nd time to the Helipad at the beginning of the game in seconds then to the warhead disposal facility right after or vice versa

Thanks for not ruining the textures with filtering like the majority of mgs1 videos. Its supposed to look pixelated like this

The thermal goggles are your best friend in this game it even works better in the dark cave than the night vision goggles

I've played the metal gear games countless times over the years and i'm still finding, seeing and hearing things i never found before. There were a couple on here i never even knew about. One i found out was if you call mei ling and choose not to save a few times, eventually she stops talking to you and you can see her poking her tongue out

The love that went into this game. It truly is a masterpiece.

These old games are works of art. 90s were some of the best period in huma history.

About quarter of century after the release date, after beating the game couple dozen of times, after occasionally reading and watching trivia about less known content in first Metal Gear Solid, there's still something new for me. Thanks for the video!

You can also beat Snipe Wolf in the Snowfield with the stinger. You can end the fight quite quickly with the Bandana and just spamming missiles haha.

In the demo version of the game, the SOCOM-less version of the Meryl cutscene always plays whether you have SOCOM or not. When I played the full version of the game after that I was surprised by the different camera angles and different music.

I remember there were 2 additional secrets with the Revolver Ocelot boss battle. The 1st is if you blow up the wall that lets you into the area where you have the boss battle but you stand there, if you go into first-person view you can see Kenneth Baker (thanks for correction). If you shoot your gun he can actually die, Revolver will shout YOU IDIOT. The 2nd is the same outcome but during the boss battle itself.

I discovered all these as a child...minus the sneaking suit. I've got one, when you go to meet the Darpa Chief for the first time, go see Meryl as per usual then climb back down the ladder. When you go back up, check on her again and she'll be doing a different exercise. Do it three times and she will be pant-less.

So I just found this out tonight on the psycho mantis boss aside from changing your controller port 1 to port 2 you can also use your thermal goggles so he can’t hide from you when he disappears like it never occurred to me to try this

Incredible, I played the original MGS1 on PS1 when I was 17 years old and I'm still learning new things about the game :)

If you watch the very first video in the briefing section from the menu, and then exit out without selecting the next one, Snake will say he doesn't want to do the mission and the colonel blackmails him.

You forgot the diffrent cutscene when snake enters the air duct and then sees two solidiers talking with each other on the tank hangar level if you get spotted before they will mention about a new intruder killing 12 people referring maybe to Gray fox but if you have 0 alerts before reaching the cutscene they will not mention it !!!

To avoid the wolves you could equip the handkerchief Otacon gives you because it smells like sniper wolf

Holy shit, this takes me back. I always remember when I was a kid and discovered that parachute in the snowfield. I was the coolest guy in my class when I told everyone about it. This was in the release year, some of us had only the demo disc and few of us had the game. We were all playing the game for the first time... Good times... Fuuuck I'm old now.

Crazy I remember playing this with my dad when I was a kid. I never knew about these secrets

Always did the dog piss on the box trick hahaha beat this game a million times as a kid!

In the Japanese version of the game, if you haven't killed anyone or tranqed them during the whole game, except for bosses, you actually patch Sniper Wolf up and she survives her encounter. She still doesn't go for Otacon though.

Here is another one. During the Psycho Mantis figth, most people change the port, but you can beat him attacking him 8 times, he dodges every attack but the 8th attack will ALWAYS hit, Punches and Guns only.

I appreciate that despite how old these games are, you still put a spoiler warning. I've played this game millions of times but there's lots of new players thanks to the collection. Awesome video btw, I didn't know some of these

MGS1 is one of my most favorite games ever!

fine you got me, ive never noticed that damn parachute after sniper wolf fight

I used to play MGS 1 all the time, but the parachute thing i only discovered after finishing MGS 4.

Integral's 140.66 frequency plays sweet MSX>PS1 tunes three of them for their respectful rooms. Having UniROM equipped has been a blessing to play it through around the region-lock

I clicked on this expecting nothing new but you just showed me all kinds of things i missed! Awesome video, thank you :)

Solidus always sounded weird to me. I get they was trying to relate it to the states of matter solid, liquid n gas but I think they should have gone with the fourth state, introducing Plasma Snake 😅

I never seen the parachute scene until about my 100th playthrough years after the games release

Did you know that the steath camo has two perks and not one hehehe the second perk is when camo is active only on the og Metal Gear Solid, when active you can go though the lazers with out tripping the lazers it is a really nice trick but only works in that area , there is a second lazer area but that area is scripted for them to trigger an alert and you can't use that trick there.

Every MGS game has tons of secrets, until someone discover something new. I thought I saw everything from MGS1, but I was wrong. I only knew about #1, #4, #5, #6, #8 and #10. So thank you for sharing, you earned my sub.

very cool mate, great video. I'm half way through the game again right now so good timing :)

What I find interesting, with the idea of these games being developed in a way that they don’t entirely have to be played how they were expected, there is no failure prompt for using weapons with in the nuclear storage facility, because once you’ve gotten the sniper rifle, which is the only weapon I think you can use in that situation, by actually forcing The player into a prone position, there is no like alternate cut scene even though you are warned not to use weapons during that segment, and you are stripped of the ability to do so. I get it something that the player would probably not think to do, but I still find it interesting that even though they give you ultimate cut scenes for such specific Scenarios, I find it funny that it’s lacking one for that specific one

Once you get Sniper Wolfs handkerchief, you can also use that to mitigate the angry wolfs.

mgs 1 is probably my favorite game of all time, been playing it since i was like 12 years old. soo many playthroughs and never knew some of these details. thanks for the video!!!

The thing I found crazy was the different lines Psycho Mantis would say to you, depending on what games you had on your memory card, how often you saved and how many alerts you'd triggered. That felt really unique at the time and was a great addition IMO.

I'll admit, didn't know a couple of these. Amazing how much detail there was to these games.

When entering the missle warehouse if you look directly down besides the missiles you can see the floor under the missle warehouse if you go to the corner at the bottom of the stairs you will see a air duct the air duct can be opened which leads you into the floor seen directly under the missle warehouse

i already knew everything in the video, but it was really entertaing nontheless! thanks for the nive and professional video bro!

Wow this was a cool video. Thanks for sharing. I thought I knew absolutely everything about this game until today 😂

I’ve been playing this game since 1998 and didn’t know some of those. Amazing video mate!

Amazing video, thank you for making me relive my childhood. :) Love from Portugal

You can actually see Meryl after Decoy Octopus died in the cell before the next cutscene if you carefully peek out the door

I think I knew about the pissed cartboard but I'm not sure, maybe I'm mixing it with the handkerchief you get from Otakon that belonged to Sniper Wolf. If you have it the wolves don't attack you. I know I saw both the Otakon and Meryl ending but I don't remember Ocelot mentioning that the president is Solidus and he's the third one :/ Damn... I admit it, you won, I can't say for sure that I knew at least 1 of these and I thought I know a lot about this game.

In the docs theirs weak spots in the wall were you use c4 to blow a hole in the wall theirs several secret rooms like this with trap floors you can find c4 Socom bullets for your gun and rations

After all this time this is the first time I found out about the parachute. Wow. This game had SO much packed into it.

I can't believe I never learned about that parachute or heard that dialog

Back when I played this on my (Japanese) PS1, I bought a copy of “Suikoden” just to hear Psycho Mantis mention it

After all these years. I thought I knew about most of these interesting things. Everything in this video was a revelation except the wolf peeing on box trick and the 2 Endings. Thank you so much.

I played all the MGS games as they came out. Still have all the disks and working consoles to play them on. Considering if I should get the new collection, going to wait on the reviews!

I first played the game on a JamPacked demo disc from Wal-Mart when i was a kid. I found one particular secret that i haven't heard anyone discover yet, if you pick up the Socom, travel to the floor where the Darpa Cheif is located, and then go back to the truck where you found the pistol, the Nikita missile launcher would then be there. We had so much fun with this, the demo would end once you climbed out of the vent in the Darpa Chief's cell, so we'd have fun playing with the guards and discovering new things just within that small section of the game. Excellent video, such an excellent game to still find out new things this many years later. I had my daughter play the game for the first time, and she somehow missed the thermal goggles, so when the time came for her to have to dodge the lasers on the way out to the mine field i was truly stumped, because i always would use the thermal goggles, so i looked up the alternative way and discovered that you could see the lasers if you have snake smoke cigarettes, which I'm sure some players picked up, but was still fun to learn something new.

Whoa!! Some of these are really new to me! I can’t believe there are still things in this game i don’t know about ha wow

I did not know about the parachute! Very cool

I know that MGS 3 and 4 had a lot of little details, but I had no idea this game did as well.

When you finish all the vr missions from the VR musings disc, you will see a diagram of metal gear ray

One of the videos where I've spent more time in the comments than actually watching, great stuff!

I already know all that details in the game except the Meryl infiltration suit. Good video.

I've been playing matel gear solid on and off for years and I didn't know half of them tricks/ Easter eggs Thanks matey

Never knew that parachute thing 😮

I knew all of this except for the SOCOM custom scene! That was cool ❤

Extra secret: if you follow Meryl to the ladies room, and get to her booth within three seconds, she will be in her underwear in the following cutscene

And you’ll be able to see metal gear ray designs after beating the vr missions

It's clever for them to hide secrets that require the player to lose in order to find them.

8:34 - 8:39 The Cyborg Ninja a.k.a. Gray Fox actually almost looks like Spider-Man with that special color scheme.

Ocelot will also mke a comment at beginning of torture scene when you press r2 or l2 about you not having your items. It os also interesting that the camera will lwaus change when you kneel next to a body. Yhere are lots of cool camera angles that kojima put in, it is interesting to find them all or the cool ones.

The copy I had of MGS, back in the day. I could never play the game on a completed save. The game always crashed after the rewards😢 I never knew about the alternative cutscenes ie prison and Ocelot. The parachute I recently learned about is a awesome detail. As for the noisy floor? If I remember correctly the pulling of a grenade of any type and holding it had the same effect and you also move slightly quicker I believe. Cool vid.

25 years?? I played this when it first came out. I was 24 That means I’m…f’n old.

Im surprised you didn't include Vulcan Raven criticising you for "killing his friends" if you kill any of the ravens on the elevator ride. Or Meryl's two underwear scenes.

I find post credit audio scenes somewhat eerie, especially mgs2's post credit audio

There's a bit in the elevator with the ravens before getting to Vulcan Raven. If you call Otacon, Snake will ask "Why are there crows here?" but if you call Miller (Liquid) first he will explain that these are ravens. Then when you call Otacon the dialog will change from crows to ravens.

Freaking awesome video! Cool stuff!

1:00 I've always used the Nikita strat.

Awesome secrets. Awesome game. Awesome video

After fighting psycho mantis when exit the room entering the mountain caves the near end of the first pathway walls has a weak spot to your left and to your right use c4 and find rations in the wall and socom pistol bullets

Did you know when exiting the elevator to your left next to the security camera room there is a drive threw which leads to the floor under the missile storage room when you look from the left and right of the missiles on the floor you can see threw the floor also there is a second entrance to the floor there is a air vent at the bottom right corner under the stairway which you can crawl in and enter the floor beneath from the ceiling ?

Love the MGS series. A bit of lore, one reason why the DARPA chief Donald Andersen knew of Ocelot was because Mr. Anderson was Signet in MGS 3: Snake Eater. Also Dr. Clark was Para-Medic.

Now I want to replay metal gear solid 1&2 after watching this video my brotha there were a few facts I knew and a few I didn't know

i know 8 of them but meryls sneaking suit detail is so great

oh wow, this game. we modded my ps1 and copied this game after borrowing it from a guy we knew on campus. my room mate played through it several times. he had this snow man suit, and a tuxedo, lol. he just kept playing over and over. i could never get into it, but watching him play it so well was fun

Thats how I met Meryl. I knew there was a chance at the pistol before this part but I never found it. Also, this was just a couple days ago. Still on my very first play thru

The digital booklet that comes along with the remastered version mentions this tactic for the Sniper Wolf battle and I am so glad for that. I would have hated another sniper fight with her.

If you get the box and go in the nuclear storage facility theres an animation where the box tips over if you die to the gas wearing it when spotted.

I played that game so much I knew all of those. These secrets were also out in gaming magazines. That’s how we found out about some of them.

IVE PLAYED THIS GAME 25 TIMES, IVE NEVER NOTICED #2 WITH THE PARACHUTE!! THANKS DUDE!! WOW I CANT BELIEVE IT

I just love the Original Mgs1 played it so many times simply for the story, I only ever saw a play through of Mgs2 once and I hated it, Mgs3 is sorta hit-and-miss for me but kinda fun

I've probably beaten this game 20 times with a mix of endings , but for the live of me didn't remember there being anything about solidus in the ending. Weird

it's was nice memory in 2001 my first game console ps1 and stay favorite to replaying it in new collection

I never knew of the meryl sneaking suit

I remember using that tip with the cardboard box and wolf pee back in the day

I honestly had no idea about the parachute. Damn I love this game

I didn't take that long getting to the elevator, and still got that dialogue.

I own Twin Snakes and the OG PS1 version. I find myself playing the OG version more for some odd reason. I love Twin Snakes for the MGS2 playstyle but something about the original keep drawing me back.

You forgot that you can use the Cardboard box to transport snake around the base by placing him the back of the truck and choosing a box that fits the destination you wanna go to. So for instance, if you are in the nuclear storage facility, you can travel back to the helipad by choosing box A(helipad) After a while a guard will come by and say: Is that really all there is to load? To the helipad then. And thus you will be able to short travel between 3 different places, Helipad, Nuclear storage Facility and the Snowfield.

If you used a controller with a turbo button during the torture scene on the ps1 version (only version i had) you would get dialogue about cheating and you would blame be basically insta killed