Psycho
Mantis reading the player's Memory Card :
A guide of Konami games detected by the game, and the specific
comments they activate.
By AceNoctali
(Updated
on June 1st 2011)
You know, something I really love in MGS 1 is the Psycho
Mantis fight, and more specifically how he can detect saves of
Konami games in your Memory Cards.
But no matter how hard I search on the web, it seems there
wasn't a lot of research on exactly which games trigger all of
his specific lines... So I went and did experiments with all
of the Konami games I own.
First of all,
PLEASE
NOTE THIS EXPERIMENT WAS MADE ON THE
JAPANESE VERSION OF THE ORIGINAL
MGS 1, on PS1.
The other versions of MGS have a different set of games Mantis
can detect.
For the
Japanese-only Integral version list,
click HERE.
I do own the French version of MGS 1 as well, but I only own a
whooping three PAL Konami games: Lethal Enforcers,
Ronin Blade, and
Silent Hill. I thus hardly can do anything with that for
that version.
As for the U.S. version, I don't own it (and I don't own any
U.S. Konami games either), sorry.
You'll also note I'm far from owning all Japanese Konami games released
on PS1. As such, my guide is incomplete: it lacks several
Mantis comments, such as the ones on Action, RPG,
and Sports games. If you own the original Japanese version of
MGS, and JPN-Konami games not listed in the guide, and are
interested in contributing to the guide, please don't hesitate
contacting me with a PM at
my Youtube
account, or at
TV Tropes.
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Without further addo, the guide.
Here are the Konami games I used in the experiment:
*
Dance Dance Revolution (1st game)
*
Detana Twinbee
Yahoo Deluxe Pack
*
Gradius
Gaiden
*
Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodius
*
Lightning Legend: Daigo no Daibouken
*
Mitsumete Knight
* Mitsumete Knight R: Daibouken Hen
*
Policenauts
* Policenauts Private Collection
*
Snatcher
*
Susume Taisen Puzzle Dama
*
Tokimeki Memorial: Forever With You
* Tokimeki Memorial Taisen Puzzle Dama
* Tokimeki Memorial Taisen Tokkae Dama
* Tokimeki Memorial Private Collection
* Tokimeki Memorial Selection: Fujisaki Shiori
* Tokimeki Memorial Drama Series Vol. 1: Nijiiro no Seishun
* Tokimeki Memorial Drama Series Vol. 2: Irodori no Love Song
* Tokimeki Memorial Drama Series Vol. 3: Tabidachi no Uta
* Tokimeki Memorial 2
* Tokimeki Memorial 2 Substories Vol. 1: Dancing Summer
Vacation
* Tokimeki Memorial 2 Substories Vol. 2: Leaping School
Festival
* Tokimeki Memorial 2 Substories Vol. 3: Memories Ringing On
* Tokimeki Memorial 2 Taisen Puzzle Dama
* Tokimeki no Houkago
*
Twinbee Taisen Puzzle Dama
With all of those games' saves combined in two Memory Cards
(1),
here are the comments Psycho Mantis gave me:
(1) Minus
Policenauts Private Collection, which doesn't have a save
system and thus can't have a save block to include in a Memory
Card
* You seem to like Tokimemo!
* You seem to like Policenauts!
* You seem to like Kojima's works! (Kojima: Thank you for your
continued support!)
* You seem to like games made by KCE Japan!
* You seem to like Adventure games!
* You seem to like Romance Simulation games!
* You seem to like Arcade games!
* You seem to like Konami games!
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So, starting from that, I made various experiments, by using
an empty Memory Card and adding various combinations of saves.
From those experiments, I deduced the following:
Here
are the conditions needed to trigger each of those comments:
Mantis' comment |
Conditions to trigger the comment |
You seem to like Tokimemo |
Due to a lack of Westerners owning, and having played
Tokimeki Memorial games, there's quite a bit of
misconception on how to trigger that one, thinking that
you just need a save from the original Tokimeki
Memorial: Forever with you (which I'll refer to "TM1"
from now on for simplicity's sake) to trigger it.
Actually, you need saves of AT LEAST TWO different
Tokimemo games to trigger it, and it's not
needed for one of them to be one of TM1: any
combination of two or more of the 8 compatible
Tokimemo games will do the trick. See below for the
list of those Tokimemo games.
|
You
seem to like Policenauts |
This one is easy, just have a save data of
Policenauts.
|
You
seem to like Kojima's works |
To trigger it, you must have save data of both
Policenauts and Snatcher.
I tried to replace one of those saves with one from
Tokimemo Drama Series: Nijiiro no Seishun and
Irodori no Love Song (two games Kojima worked on as
one of the Drama directors): didn't work. Only
Policenauts and Snatcher together will
trigger that one comment.
|
You
seem to like games made by KCE Japan |
You need at least two games Mantis detects as
made by KCE Japan to trigger this comment. See the next
chart below for a list of those games.
|
You
seem to like Adventure games |
You need at least two games Mantis detects as
being of the Adventure genre to trigger this comment.
See the next chart below for a list of those games.
|
You
seem to like Romance Simulation games |
You need at least two games Mantis detects as
being of the Romance Simulation genre to trigger this
comment. See the next chart below for a list of those
games.
|
You
seem to like Arcade games |
You need at least two games Mantis detects as
being of the Arcade genre to trigger this comment. See
the next chart below for a list of those games.
|
You
seem to like Konami games |
You need at least three games Mantis detects as
being made by Konami to trigger this comment. See
the next chart below for a list of those games.
|
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Now,
the list of games that trigger each specific line:
Mantis' comment |
Games triggering the comment |
Tokimemo |
* Tokimeki Memorial: Forever with you
* Tokimeki Memorial Taisen Puzzle Dama
* Tokimeki Memorial Taisen Tokkae Dama
* Tokimeki Memorial Private Collection
* Tokimeki Memorial Selection: Fujisaki Shiori
* Tokimeki Memorial Drama Series Vol. 1: Nijiiro no
Seishun
* Tokimeki Memorial Drama Series Vol. 2: Irodori no Love
Song
* Tokimeki no Houkago
|
Policenauts
|
* Policenauts |
Kojima's works
|
* Policenauts and Snatcher |
KCE Japan games
|
* Policenauts
* Tokimeki Memorial Drama Series Vol. 1: Nijiiro no
Seishun
* Tokimeki Memorial Drama Series Vol. 2: Irodori no Love
Song
|
Adventure games |
* Policenauts
* Snatcher
* Tokimeki Memorial Drama Series Vol. 1: Nijiiro no
Seishun
* Tokimeki Memorial Drama Series Vol. 2: Irodori no Love
Song
|
Romance
Simulation games |
* Mitsumete Knight
* Tokimeki Memorial: Forever with you
* Tokimeki Memorial Private Collection
|
Arcade
games |
* Gradius Gaiden
* Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodius
* Susume Taisen Puzzle Dama
* Tokimeki Memorial Taisen Puzzle Dama
|
Konami
games |
* Detana Twinbee Yahoo Deluxe Pack
* Gradius Gaiden
* Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodius
* Lightning Legend: Daigo no Daibouken
* Mitsumete Knight
* Policenauts
* Snatcher
* Susume Taisen Puzzle Dama
* Tokimeki Memorial: Forever with you
* Tokimeki Memorial Taisen Puzzle Dama
* Tokimeki Memorial Taisen Tokkae Dama
* Tokimeki Memorial Private Collection
* Tokimeki Memorial Selection: Fujisaki Shiori
* Tokimeki Memorial Drama Series Vol. 1: Nijiiro no
Seishun
* Tokimeki Memorial Drama Series Vol. 2: Irodori no Love
Song
* Tokimeki no Houkago
* Twinbee Taisen Puzzle Dama
|
Konami games Mantis won't detect
(due to being made after MGS's release in end 1998) |
* Dance Dance Revolution
* Mitsumete Knight R: Daibouken Hen
* Tokimeki Memorial Drama Series Vol. 3: Tabidachi no
Uta
* Tokimeki Memorial 2
* Tokimeki Memorial 2 Substories Vol. 1: Dancing Summer
Vacation
* Tokimeki Memorial 2 Substories Vol. 2: Leaping School
Festival
* Tokimeki Memorial 2 Substories Vol. 3: Memories
Ringing On
* Tokimeki Memorial 2 Taisen Puzzle Dama
|
Konami games Mantis won't detect
(due to not having a save system, so no save data to add
in a Memory Card) |
* Policenauts Private Collection |
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A
few final personal comments on that experiment:
* After further research on the Japanese web and personal
experience from the various Konami games I own, it looks like
there is no "You seem to like Shooting games" and "You seem to
like Puzzle games" lines: Shooting Games and Puzzle Games were
apparently lumped into the general "Arcade Game" genre.
* However, I'm surprised Twinbee Taisen Puzzle Dama
and Tokimeki Memorial Tokkae Dama aren't detected as
"Arcade games", like Tokimeki Memorial Taisen Puzzle Dama
and Susume Taisen Puzzle Dama are; same for Detana!!
Twinbee Yahoo! Deluxe Pack, not counted as an Arcade Game,
while Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodius and Gradius Gaiden
are.
* I know Mantis has comments for Action, RPG, and
Sports games genres as well, but unfortunately I don't own
games that would allow me to trigger those comments, such as
Castlevania, Suikoden, Twinbee RPG, and
Jikkyou
Powerful Pro Yakyuu. T_T
Hope you enjoyed the guide!