METAL GEAR SOLID: MASTER COLLECTION Vol.2 BONUS CONTENT (PPSA24040)

[THEMANnt]

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Title

METAL GEAR SOLID: MASTER COLLECTION Vol.2 BONUS CONTENT (PPSA24040)

Content version tested

01.200.001

AnyPS5 commit

Unmodified main aff1f7190dbbe2449630335dc38962a5b048f24b, built in Release. No extra PRs or local source patches.

System tested

• Windows 11 Pro, build 26200
• AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D; 32 GB RAM
• NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti, 16 GB VRAM; driver 616.92
• MinGW-w64 GCC 15.2.0

Furthest point

Startup / graphics initialization. No title screen, menu interaction, or gameplay verified. The log contains flip submissions before the abort; the last visible screen was not captured, so first-frame presentation is not confirmed.

What is shown

The executable and all five bundled sce_module libraries convert successfully. Launch then aborts after 4.25 seconds with an unsupported graphics-state error. FPS, audio, input, save reload, and extended play remain unverified.

The original kernel.flexibleMemorySize: 0 no longer blocks startup on this main snapshot: the runtime configures 448 MiB without a metadata override. The remaining failure is the same graphics error encountered in the earlier test with the separate memory-initialization fix.

This report concerns only the Bonus Content application identified by PPSA24040; it does not establish compatibility for the other Metal Gear titles in the collection.

Current blocker

[memory] configured flexible memory: 0x1c000000 bytes (448 MiB)
[gpu] driver failure: depth, stencil or conditional color writes is unsupported (register 0x200 = 0x00000777)
[videoout] presentation failed: depth, stencil or conditional color writes is unsupported (register 0x200 = 0x00000777)
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error'
  what():  depth, stencil or conditional color writes is unsupported (register 0x200 = 0x00000777)
FATAL: abort() (SIGABRT)

The process exits with 0xC0000409. The memory watchdog did not terminate it.

Searched discussions, issues, and PRs by title ID and the reported error; no matching tracking issue or proposed fix was identified. No workaround or additional PR was applied. Implementation investigation can be tracked separately in an issue and linked here.

How it was run

Converted the executable and bundled modules using the same main build:

relinker.exe --windows --windows-diagnostics --registry "source/normalized/eboot.bin" "runtime/metal-gear-bonus.exe"

Launched metal-gear-bonus.exe from its runtime directory, with game assets under app0, main-build libraries under libs, and the original sce_sys/param.json retained.

APS5_PAD_INPUT_FILE pointed to an unused diagnostic input path; no scripted inputs were sent. No tracing or profiling switches were enabled. A background memory watchdog remained active. The run ended on the logged graphics exception rather than a timer or watchdog limit.

[thuanquang]

@THEMANnt #7659 should get the Bonus Content past this stop. Your draw tests depth and stencil (DB_DEPTH_CONTROL 0x777) in a context that never wrote DB_Z_INFO or DB_STENCIL_INFO. Those two registers now start at their clear-state value, 0 (no depth or stencil plane), so the draw renders without a depth target instead of throwing. I don't have the title, so I could only check it with unit tests. If you can run #7659, the next stop would be useful to know.

[THEMANnt]

Tested #7659's patch 05b1428ec6f8f2472bbf9184b13d69975f86bc2f on the same main baseline as the report, aff1f7190 (local cherry-pick ee254ee72; test-only context conflict resolved by retaining the baseline tests and inserting this PR's new case).

It gets PPSA24040 v01.200.001 past the reported stop. The log now says:

[gpu] always-pass depth/stencil state is rendered without a depth target (DB_DEPTH_CONTROL=0x00000777)

The main menu / bonus-content selection is displayed and the window is responsive. A window-title sample reports 59.94 FPS. The original game inputs and converted executable are byte-identical to the failing baseline; only libSceAgcDriver.prx differs among runtime libraries. Original game metadata retained, without overrides.

agc_driver_graphics and agc_driver_pm4 pass. Windows 11 Pro build 26200, Ryzen 7 7800X3D, NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti 16 GB, driver 616.92, GCC 15.2.0, Release.

Audio, save reload, and extended stability are now manually verified. No next blocking exception was encountered in the tested session. The recorded run lasted 468.23 seconds and exited naturally with code 0, without watchdog intervention. Coverage of every individual bonus item was not specified; these results apply to this Bonus Content application, not the other Metal Gear titles.

[thuanquang]

@THEMANnt thank you, that's the confirmation the PR needed. I've added your run to #7659's description.