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
Several versions of Metal Gear Solid 1 were released, both
worldwide and format-wise. The original guide was dedicated to
the original Japanese MGS 1 version; here, the Psycho Mantis
game detection experiment was done on
THE
INTEGRAL VERSION OF MGS, released
in Japan only, on PS1.
Metal Gear Solid Integral has a slightly different list
of quotes Psycho Mantis tells, as well as a modified and/or
updated list of games he can detect compared to the original
JPN version of MGS.
Indeed, Integral was released in April 2000 (the
original JPN MGS 1 was released in September 1998), so several
important Konami games were released during this time gap; and
Integral used the US version's voice cast, while
apparently not asking Doug Stone, the US voice actor of Psycho
Mantis, to dub new lines for Japanese-only games and game
genres that had lines in the original JPN game.
Like in the original JPN MGS list, you'll note I'm far from owning all Konami games released
on PS1. As such, my guide is incomplete: it lacks several
Mantis comments, such as the ones on Action, Adventure,
Fighting, RPG, and Sports games. If you own the Integral 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 like Arcade games!
* I see that you enjoy 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 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.
|
| I see
that you enjoy 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 |
| Arcade
games |
* Dance Dance Revolution
* Gradius Gaiden
* Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodius
* Susume Taisen Puzzle Dama
* Tokimeki Memorial Taisen Puzzle Dama
|
| Konami
games |
* Dance Dance Revolution
* Detana Twinbee Yahoo Deluxe Pack
* Gradius Gaiden
* Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodius
* Lightning Legend: Daigo no Daibouken
* Mitsumete Knight
* Mitsumete Knight R: Daibouken Hen
* 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 |
* 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:
* The game detection system in that version is really strange.
At least in the original Japanese game, there was a simple
logic: Psycho Mantis can't detect any Konami game released
after Metal Gear Solid's release on September 3rd, 1998
(the farthest chronological game I own, and thus present in
the original list, that can be detected was Tokimeki no
Houkago, released on July 16th, 1998).
But in Metal Gear Solid Integral, some games that were
released before Integral's release in April 2000 can't
be detected by Mantis, while others can! For example,
Tokimeki Memorial Tabidachi no Uta, and Tokimeki
Memorial 2, released in April and November 1999
respectively, can't be detected, while Mitsumete Knight R
and the 1st Dance Dance Revolution, released in
November 1998 and April 1999, are detected!
* Some of the game genres' lines were visibly deleted in
Integral. I used the exact same list of Konami games, and
the "Tokimemo", "Policenauts", "KCE Japan", "Adventure games",
and "Romance Simulation games" that appeared in the original
game aren't present in Integral.
However, according to
this GameFAQs thread, there IS a "Adventure games" line in
the U.S. version. Since MGS Integral is based on the
U.S. version, the line may still be here; but it definitely
can't be triggered by Policenauts, Snatcher,
Nijiiro no Seishun, and Irodori no Love Song,
unlike in the original JPN game.
* Seeing that Mitsumete Knight R got a promotion as a
detected Konami game, and that Dance Dance Revolution,
another game in that case, can be detected as an Arcade Game
on top of that, I wouldn't be surprised to see Mitsumete
Knight R being one of the games triggering the "You enjoy
role-playing games" line. But until I get my hands on a second
Konami RPG (like Suikoden 1 or Twinbee RPG), I
can't tell for sure.
Hope you enjoyed the guide!
