Konami might have finally set down the Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Vol 1 to focus on releasing Metal Gear Solid 4 from its PS3 prison, but modders continue chipping away at the PS2-and-earlier era Metal Gear games. MGSHDFix, whose mission statement is to repair broken visual bugs, fix crashes, and generally give the older Metal Gears a bit of a spitshine, has got a big new update. Now is the era of MGSHDFix 5.0 (actually, 5.0.1. There was a hotfix)."We've got performance improvements, massive vanilla loading time reductions for MGS2, loose .MP3/.WAV/.OGG/FLAC soundtrack loading for MG1/MG2, WIP raw mouse input support, and loads of new restoration and bugfixes", writes author Afevis Solmunko.There are, to be honest, way too many fixes to properly delve into here, so I recommend either checking the patch notes out yourself or taking the mod for a spin in your preferred Metal Gear. We can call out some of the big ones, though. For example, want to play Metal Gear 2 as Mel Gibson? No? Well that's a shame, bucko, because MGSHDFix 5.0 provides an option to restore that game's MSX2 sprites. "Yes, you can finally experience Mel Gibson fighting Sean Connery as Kojima intended," writes Solmunko. Also in the OG MGs, there's now an option "to make doors automatically check your inventory for keycards (how MGS2 keycards work)", which frankly sounds blasphemous to me.We're keeping track of all the Amazon Prime Day PC gaming deals hereMore practically, the latest version of the mod boasts that it dramatically cuts down loading times in MGS2. "We've greatly sped up level loading by adding a new system that prefetches a list of all the assets for all the rooms that are directly connected to the current stage you're in… Speedrunners have reported that this new prefetch system has shaved upwards to 5 minutes off of the elapsed realtime from their runs". On Linux (and thus, Steam Deck) specifically, Solmunko says this can "reduce level transitions load times by 4~6 seconds for every room you go into". Plus, MGS2 and MGS3 now have limited support for raw mouse input in third-person, with support for first-person hopefully coming in MGSHDFix 5.1.0.All good news, in other words, and it's nice these classics are now released in a way that lets fans do this kind of loving work for as long as they like.2026 games: All the upcoming gamesBest PC games: Our all-time favoritesFree PC games: Freebie festBest FPS games: Finest gunplayBest RPGs: Grand adventuresBest co-op games: Better together