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Ocelot was kinda rushed and looks bad but uhhhhh

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The Metal Gear Solid soundfont 🦌🎵

A bit more than one week ago, we celebrated MGS2's (best MGS game, best game story ever, absolute cinema) 23rd birthday, and only a few days ago MGS3's 20th birthday.

That's why I'm going to talk about ✨ neither of those ✨and focus on MGS1 - but first, a word about the saga's music. It goes without saying that the Metal Gear Solid franchise has an iconic soundtrack, and to me it falls into 2 categories (Metal Gear Rising being the edgy teen of the family that kind of does its own thing) :

Dramatic and cinematic emotional music that dictates the tone of the game (The best has yet to come, Can't say Goodbye to yesterday, Snake Eater. Sins of the Father...)

Quiet, suspenseful and stress inducing tunes, because yes, at the end of the day Metal Gear Solid is a stealth game. We are going to focus on those.

On one of my own songs, I wanted to create a contrast between loud imposing instruments and a more discrete section. As might be expected MGS1's influence was really strong on me, Intruder 1 comes to mind.

Silent and yet so omnious, mute and yet so expressive ; the Metal Gear Solid soundtrack is such a masterpiece I wouldn't be surprised if I weren't the only one to have these tracks automatically play in my head whenever I picture the idea of quietly and smoothly sneaking around a very dangerous place.

Naturallly, I wanted to immitate the feels that were conveyed through this soundtrack in the most faithful way possible, so I searched far and wide for a soundfont that would exactly mimick these tunes. How could a 1998 game have such thematically coherent and masterfully put music ? What could possibly be the DNA of the soundfont I was looking for ?

Legendary sound effects director, Kazuki Muraoka.

We have the evidence, we have the pictures, we know what was used to make these awesome tracks. When it comes to synths, Metal Gear Solid 1 used primarily a hardware Roland (which reminds me that I've seen one of those last Friday at the association I mentioned in one of my last posts ^^). In Japan, the standard synths for video game music back in the late 90s were the Roland JV synths, notably, the JV2080 ; those were used in Resident Evil 2, Final Fantasy Tactics and (probably ?) Metal Gear Solid. Finally, a lot of the original sounds used for MGS 1 came from the Roland SR-JV orchestral expansion board, and I think that's where most of the soundtrack''s soul comes from.

Turns out finding the exact same sounds was a bit tricky, if I recall correctly I ended up settling on an Ocarina of Time soundfont and using the violas as it turned out that N64 strings were pretty close to what I was looking for within Intruder 1.

MuseScore 4 saving my life (as usual) by having great soundfont support.

As I was doing some research for this post, I found out that 2 months ago, someone made an ACTUAL soundfont based on Metal Gear Solid, needless to say that I was quite surprised but at the end of the day I was already satisfied with what I did with my song and its violas, no need for a whole new soundfont change.

Well I guess that's about it.

And now you know the simple plot of Metal Gear bi-

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This was just an excuse to draw Eva (x)

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I convinced myself I’d gone insane when I read the dog tags in my first mgs2 play through at the end. Until I realized that was in fact what I named myself at the start of the game…. Solid snakes head shaking also makes this funnier

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this image is like a gay test

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realized i haven't drawn eva yet

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This creature

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just started peace walker immmm in love with both of them

also kaz drawing is from me seeing that his best base stat was cooking..

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Ocelings

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I want to take a nap not draw goodnight chat

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TW: SUGGESTIVE IMAGE

everyone mentions how Sniper Wolf, Quiet and The Boss have official art with their boobies out BUT NO ONE EVER MENTIONS THAT WE HAVE OFFICIAL ART OF MANTIS' PENIS!

MANTIS' COCK AND ASS!!!!

(Have a good day everyone ^^)

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mgs2

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uh oh where are they falling

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I don't think I'm gonna color these, but uhhh HAPPY HALLOWEEN DIAMOND DOGS!!

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metal gear fights