It’s playable with WINE, but just don’t die!

The installer runs smoothly, I can hear the background music while installing. I installed MGS with complete option. When the installation is done, I clicked on Play Game, screen flashed, and left me at 640x480 desktop.

I logged out, and run again. I ran on VR mode again, it told me last time was crashed, so will run in Software Rendering mode. It runs, but I only saw a pink screen after two companies’ logos and heard the music. I then found out hitting the ESCAPE key can get me to the main menu. It is 320x240, so I switch to 640x480. I restarted again because of no sound after switched, I have sound but I still pink screen.

However, the normal game is working now. It’s in 640x480, everything works except you can’t die. I saw few reports on WINE AppDB, death causes crash (there are others can crash). I tried 4 times, two with Emulation of Virtual Desktop option of WINE. All crashed. Last screen is

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPkHA8e-6SBN1tKfAXNYRZpVC6p3g_toucKMZSh5BGgCXXYpb_0Bysoa45DrfQ408LSIYeBYYdu_FrTwgBbZQQAt5Nhz1ln4dXXsoxPDDnd744tdRiNm13q93fuYogGiilygLkCbg0MIo/s800-r/Last+vision+from+Solid.png

Last vision from Solid’s eyes.

Don’t die, or restart the game and load save.

I use Ubuntu 8.04 amd64 with WINE 1.0.0-1ubuntu4~hardy1 package. No no-cd crack needed. That doesn’t matter if it plays with or without Desktop Effect, I have no problem about that at all.

Now I need to read the manual of this game. 640x480 looks really old…