High quality versions of Metal Gear art being made available by Konami
Good news for Metal Gear fans! Over the last couple of weeks, Konami has started releasing high quality versions of Yoji Shinkawa artworks on Reddit. Reddit user KonamiUSSocial (community manager Benjamin Kinney) wrote:
Following up on the community’s request to put out some higher quality versions of Shinkawa-san’s work though the years. These will be .png at 150 DPI. I will be spreading them out, I have a few folders worth we are sorting through.
Note: the images below are resized and compressed. To get your hands on the full quality version, simply click the images you want and it’ll take you to Konami’s upload on Reddit.
This post will be updated as more pieces are released (last updated December 14th).
Source: Reddit
I have never seen the first art. It looks great. Is this from Ground Zeroes?
Unfortunately he didn’t provide any more details on it. Here’s the original Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/metalgearsolid/comments/560ql7/yoji_shinkawa_art_part_1_of_many/
first one is from MGS1 it’s in one of the artbooks
Do you know which one exactly? The Art of MGS 1.5?
it was made for a shinkawa expo thingie that happened around the 25th aniv celebration, actually this artwork was used as a booklet front cover
it seems to be of MGS mobile
http://www.metalgearsolid.be/mgsm_im.html
Holy shit! Those arts are AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Time to bookmark this post I suppose.
just bookmarked
The second one is my favorite so far. So much depth/impact with so little. You can really feel it.
Haaaahhh… Thanks Nyxus, what a d.mn oldo in this last one !!
For my fav one, I am hesitating between the 1st, 2nd and 4th ones..
Solid Snake <3
best or nothing
I could spend an eternity sitting around watching these drawings.
So minimal yet so expressive
I think Yoji has the most minimalist / expressive ratio I ever seen.
Edit : And without exaggerating.
Hello everybody. You are the best MGS comunity out there!
Was wondering if a fellow russian (if there is one here) would care to lend me a hand in a quick translation issue. Thanks!
Not Russian but thanks for the good words. What’s your issue exactly ? Hope just a sentence and not a whole book ! ;D
I’m trying for a week (no exageration) to find a file on the internet, and the >only< place i found it is on a russian forum, but as far as i can tell, i have to be registered to be able to download it. The registration is smooth sailing up till the robot "question" x_x
What are you trying to access ?
I want to get this http://4pda.ru/forum/dl/post/6012172/mame_libretro_armeabi-v7a.so.zip
from here http://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=423822&st=1880#entry38920447
What is the exact resource you want to access ? Please describe.
Well, this is the tricky part. I am trying to find the Mame2014 core for an android os emulator named Retroarch. It’s named something like “mame2014_libretro_android.so”. If you are familiar with Windows M.A.M.E emulator, you might know what i mean. So, this 2014 version was online around the first half of 2015, but since then it was updated to the latest (2016) version which i don’t need (i have it but it is twice as slow).
I asked in numerous places, including the Retroarch developers, but all of them seem to have kept only the updated version (and a couple of others, 2003 and 2010, which i have).
2014 is the version that has the compatibility and (hopefuly) speed i need. Becoming a registered user on that forum would be excellent in my endeavor 😀
Mmm, looks tricky indeed, I suppose you already inspected this page : http://libretro.com/forums/archive/index.php?t-5662.html
If not, which version of android are you using ? If 6 or 5, have you tried to link to this one : https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5HuG10h5HbnREJNT29YeGZhWkk/view?pli=1
Some are stating that chmoding the core to 777 may let retroarch read it.
Good luck !
hey, you are very nice person to take so much of your time and investigate 🙂 Thank you.
Yeah, i actually posted on that thread a while back. Sadly that version of the core is 1.incompatible with my stable version of the Retroarch/os firmware and 2. Is an update of the actual version i am looking for (the one in the russian forum) and it is unplayable on pretty much anything out there atm.
So..i sill need a russian, but …”no russians” it seems 😉
Hey buddy no worries I like tech issues and emus, I am just sorry you are still stuck.
Ha I see, you may have tried as well to investigate why recent versions are so slow ?
Have you tried as well to watch adb’s output and possibly check if you could spot related warnings or error messages, while executing the latest mame ?
I have to go, but will try to check if I can find some further info.
In the mean time, try to post your exact HW and SW setup specs.
I am sure there must be a way to either build from source or find a built version of the lib you are after.
Good luck.
Well, the hardware is a rooted Samsung Galaxy S4 (quad version) on a 4.3 JB (most stable/fast S4 rom in my experience), which runs everything pretty well for it’s class (full speed for most arcade hardware around the 2k era).
This new revisions of the core however, are slow because sometimes after the 0.140 – 0.150 Mame versions, they really stopped adding any kind of performance hacks, so…brute force is the only way to handle them.
Building is an option, as it is how they are all made, but sadly it is waaay out of my skill set.
I’ll keep digging myself as well 🙂 Thanks again and have a fruitful day buddy.
Not saying it is finger in the nose neither but it may be a lot more simple than you think. Try to provide me with the exact revision you need and I’ll try to build it for you.
After browsing MAME archives, I see many 2014 revisions but not sure now since you said your issue appeared between 0140 and 0150. Fact is that 0139 is from 2010.
Let me know, since I have the tools ready here I am giving a shot at whether I can build the 0153 which is the first published in 2014.
Will post you the procedure if I am successful.
Edit : MAME’s archives : http://www.mame.net/oldrel.html
The actual revision i’m looking for, is the first one that supports the Cave CV1k drivers. To my knowledge, 0.153 is indeed the first one that has them fully enabled. So i’d say i’m 99% sure that’s the one.
I greatly appreciate your help man, but I really hope it does not take too much of your time!
Hey buddy, relax,I love playing with those. I think I grabbed, a mame libretro 0153 source revision.
Tried to build it with MSYS2 / MinGW64, but probably missing a couple of clues. Will try with Cygwin too. MSYS is usually cool, but if I can not build with Cygwin, at least, I found a 0153 source depot. Worth few other shots with MSYS, since libretro advise it but Cygwin is another handy track for targeting your proper android sdk-18 (4.3 JB) along with according ndk compilers.
Keep you tuned.
Here is the 0153 source I found:
https://github.com/MrAsir17/mame-libretro
You sure know your stuff man 🙂 Fingers crossed!
Won’t promise anything but it should build. At least you have the sources in worst case. Will try to dump you the corresponding binary. At worst if I can’t, maybe the git owner can post you a *.so. Would be cool to be able to build it ourselves… Just tested retro and thanks to you and it looks awesome ! Love this XMB like menu.. ;D
yeah, it’s amazing stuff! It’s like a trip down the memory lane.
Damn it, i’m old :))
Still no luck finding a built core. Very anxious to see how it turns out 😀
Could not try much lately (sorry dude), but will keep you posted.
If it works, I’ll build as well de-facto 0152 & 0151 so you can make sure what exactly happened.
Again, not promising anything but at least if the *.so links, I’ll drop you a line.
No rush man. Do it at your own pace.
I’ve been messing with some overlays and shaders. Man, they work amazingly with the sprite based graphics!
This is very good news. Started to build the whole libretro here (xD) and guess what, most cores are perfectly building but mame’s ones… 🙁 Wanted to see if at least I could build 0159, replace the code base with 0153’s and try to rebuild, but yet the compiler fails for different reasons on 0159. After digging a bit, most are indicating to build with MinGW but it dumps me a whole set of different errors (probably some paths are not correctly set).
So I am glad you could find a solution. Just keep me tuned in case 0151 is finally not suitable, and I’ll try to play again with this toolchain (I leave it as is on my PC anyways).
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Great stuff man! Yeah, apparently Mame was always tricky to build for android. Headaches all around ^_^
I’ll test the core on my sister’s Note 3 as well, next week when she comes home. If it’s close to full speed, maybe the .153 build it’s worth a try. I’ll keep you tunned.
I really appreciate all your effort man. A sincerely thank you!
My pleasure, did nothing actually, you found your lib alone. Just drop a line if needed so / when you have info.
Best
Yo, you went full tech support on him haha
I am mad, did not tried an once this week-end (just scratched my balls… :D). Would like to help him more but his sh.t is an exotic one.. ;D Not clear if there is a solution but will give it another real shot. ;D
If I fulton the puppets are they going to be mb staff or they just die? Because I never kill them.
More Solid Snake, less Raiden please.
Only one is raiden man
https://mobile.twitter.com/Kojima_Hideo/status/793293652999057408
https://mobile.twitter.com/HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN/status/793319606496571393
I rike it!
LOVE MGS art 😀 Now I really wanna buy art books that were made for the series. Gotta find them.
We have some articles on some of them if you want some more info:
MGS1: http://www.metalgearinformer.com/?p=26505
MGS2: http://www.metalgearinformer.com/?p=27265
MGSPW: http://www.metalgearinformer.com/?p=13952
MGS4: http://www.metalgearinformer.com/?p=226
EXCELLENT. I’ll give them a look. The games have each had their own unique art but think I will most likely go for MGS4 first since it is my favorite Metal Gear after all hehe – love that game so much. They really need to put this art in a museum. Thanks again, really appreciate it 🙂 Still gotta play MGS V – hopefully I can get the Definitive Experience soon.
New Mass Effect Andromeda CG trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPkv7DmeM1A
<3 just saw it
Such beautiful art…
Is mgsv going to be “compatible” with ps4 pro? Maybe it could look as the pc version.
So far Konami has not said anything about a Pro patch, so it doesn’t look like it’ll support it (also tried asking Peeler directly via Twitter but to no avail). Kind of strange as you’d expect this game to support it.
Technically speaking, to have MGSV support higher res on pro would be a heavier move for Konami than having a HDR patch for regular PS4 (I think). Although as any big group, if Survive is to support 4K on pro, why not patch MGSV as well ? I hope they will consider all options instead of just readying all for only 1080p and without HDR.
Is it actually confirmed that Survive will support 4K resolution on consoles and PC? I don’t remember that.
MGSV in 4K will look worse than a 1080p version. If the game is not designed around 4K, it’s not the same. Not sure that Konami wants to spend some additional money for 4K visual content
“Is it actually confirmed that Survive will support 4K resolution on consoles and PC?”
Never said I knew it, was just wondering.
“MGSV in 4K will look worse than a 1080p version.”
I have to respectfully disagree. It will look more sharp, so I agree the surface will look less tessellated, however the edges will still look thinner so the overall impression will still benefit some added value. Better something sharper than nothing.
Remember HD-Cols, the meshes are not that obviously more heavy but it is still fun to see sharp surfaces.
“Not sure that Konami wants to spend some additional money for 4K visual content”
Perfectly in sync with your interrogations, here.
Sharper? Yeah, probably a bit if it is not upscaled. I remember when Bioware showed Mass Effect: Andromeda for the first time. You could look it 4K at youtube and they really made some special effects for 4K. Can’t actually describe it, but there is indeed some difference in a good way. I have 4K monitor and I played Battlefield 1 in 4K and it actually looks worse than a 1080p version. The game needs to be developed in that resolution. It’s a huge step up. Almost at the level of SD-HD era of games.
You are right, if a 4K port just limits itself to a post-rendering up-scale, then all fall into unacceptable BS, and some studios have indeed this annoying tendency.
I think new GPUs are starting to get a bit more ready for truly less resolution-dependent rendering techniques with smarter usage of the geometry pipeline, but yeah, nothing will beat customization for few more years.
Also there are some other factors such as the artistic quality of the shapes. Some games benefits of higher modeling quality (like KP’s) for their meshes so simply changing the output resolution may work better for them than others. But sharpness is not free of other small satellite problems such as higher aliasing which may have a substantial cost to adjust at the end.
They could probably go for full 4K if they drop the framerate to 30fps. Otherwise, they’d need to upscale.
At the very least, releasing an HDR patch would be nice. Knowing Konami, though, they’d probably try and make you pay for it.
“They could probably go for full 4K if they drop the framerate to 30fps. Otherwise, they’d need to upscale.”
Are you sure ? PS4 Pro have a another full PS4 GPU next to normal mode. I guess MGSV @30 fps would be something too, like on PC’s because I guess only rare ones can sustain 60.
“At the very least, releasing an HDR patch would be nice. Knowing Konami, though, they’d probably try and make you pay for it.”
We’ll see, but would look cheesy, other studios are patching to HDR on regular PS4s for free. But yeah, Konami… If they really want to stay in AAA biz they have to follow the rules..
Agreed, nothing is less sure..:/
TGA info coming tomorrow.
https://twitter.com/thegameawards/status/793561042701783041
Thanks, I may check what they have to propose ! ;D
HK was locked out from his MGSV award a year ago, and Mark Hamill was supposed to give him. All was properly staged, but Konami surprised us in the worst manner. Geoff had the very guts to to let us all know the reason (impressive). I sense a real balance in the force for this TGA.. 😀
I think I like the 3rd picture the most, the one with Meryl, for some reason it’s the most nostalgic for me.
I voted for Ray.
Fav metal gear.
I can’t pronounce its name without getting vietnam flashbacks thanks to a horrible jj Abrams Mary Sue character
Boo !!! xD Metal Gear “REY” !
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Regarding the new poll, I think I love them in this order :
1 – REX
2 – RAY
3 – SALY
4 – ZEKE
5 – TX-55
6 – D
Off Topic:The dialogue at times is cringey from gator and the CGI is bad but the trailer was epic the other times
What do you people think?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q8fG0TtVAY
I like the logo’s soundtrack. Everything else looks decent.
The dialogue is cringey a bit, but.. Whatevs. Gal Gadot is a good wonder woman.
I hope it delivers. I want to check it out at the cinema.
Yeah, we are pretty lucky to have her playing this role. Was not simple to bring such “badassness” to this character and Gal is very charismatic.
She was trained in the military so I guess that’s why
CGI is a bit unfinished but the movie is gonna be released in Jun so I hope WB fixes it up
Also why is Warner Bros obsessed with extended cuts?
Lotr and potter had good extended cuts as well as hobbit’s r-rated cut but for DC, they’re just sending awful theatrical cuts and then using the original cut as DLC or a game of the year type crap
Early trailers always have a lot left to fine-tune, no worries.
“for DC, they’re just sending awful theatrical cuts”
Man of Steel was pretty fair though..
For Lotr, the whole prod was intended to be that long and contiguous. In fact the real movies in such cases are the extended versions, proposing often over an hour more sometimes.
Other than that, most extended cuts are just full versions of movies that may have been slightly truncated (~10-20 mns) here and there, targeting a larger casual / less hard-core audience in theaters for easier box-office competition.
In both cases, it really depends on the initial script length.
Long scripts re-insure me… For instance, they rarely go over 150 mns if the movie is nuts (can happen tho).
Well man of steel didn’t have any extended cuts
Right, but was saying that the cuts were not “awful theatrical”.
I believe they kept most of them because probably almost nothing could be really taken out. This one is pretty long, looks itself already like an extended version.
Yeah
It was her theme from BvS aka a bad movie which had a kickass score IMO even tho compared to other zimmer works , it is …eh
Yeah I really love her theme and the electric cello with the distortion like an electric guitar
Yes you heard me right…A Fucking kickass heavy metal CELLO
Such a lust for detail!
https://youtu.be/8dmsoJ7IsiM
Welp it’s fake so to say. Kinda surprised edepot would trick their viewers like that.
Know I feel dumb. He was smart though…
What’s fake ?
I didn’t but many others did it. Plus the sudden edit at the ending makes it pretty obv.
I see.. THX for the info, I won’t try then… Weird indeed..
Most of these I’ve already seen elsewhere.
Well they aren’t new, so…
Interesting how the mind works. lol
But the res is very cool here. Would love more, but 150 dpi is a nice start for a cool poster !
I just found an fob with a nuke and didn’t know the nukes are always in the command platform. I invaded the support platform T_T
Good effort anyways ! Keep the moral man !
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