Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Mark Green Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Metal Gear Solid bug? Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 16:22:50 +0100 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 29 Message-ID: <37B4384A.97960DDC@reading.ac.uk> References: <37B1EAEC.6719585@easynet.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: ssfmse3.rdg.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en Philip Gooch wrote: > > OK, only got around to buying MGS recently. Second-hand copy from > Computer Exchange. But I wonder if I've got an 'early' edition or > something (comes with an extra CD with a lengthy demo of Silent Hill) > Anyway, I'm about to do battle with Psycho Mantis when the console > bleeps, the screen goes black with the word HIDEO appears in green in > the top left hand corner. This is held for a few seconds at which point > it returns to the game (which has 'jumped' a bit - Psycho has now moved > to a different place). Anyway, everything is back to normal, and I'm > gradually giving him a beating, when, having got him cornered and giving > him a hammering, the same thing happens! When it returns to the game, > Psycho is off somewhere else again (so I never get to finish him off). > Finally, when it gets to the point where I have to stop Meryl from > shooting herself, the game steals one of my rations! > Needless to say, I haven't managed to defeat Psycho Mantis yet because > it appears the game is cheating or has a bug. Anyone else had this? > Maybe I should take the game back. The "HIDEO" bit is a really strange meta-joke. The idea is that Psycho Mantis is changing the channel on your television set, putting it onto the video channel, so that he can get out of the way while you're distracted. To make this even more confusing, they then made it display "HIDEO" instead of "VIDEO" as a pun (Hideo is Hideo Kojima, the director of the game) How to beat him? Well, it's a meta-joke, and it refers to a meta-puzzle..