METAL GEAR SOLID - Master Collection Version (PPSA14363)

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Title

METAL GEAR SOLID - Master Collection Version (PPSA14363)

Content version tested

03.000.000

AnyPS5 commit

• main 6ef5a1c4c9 (2026-10-22).
• The same main with fix(libSceNpTrophy2): return INVALID_TROPHY_ID for a trophy that is not in the title's data #9115 (a42182ef49), fix(agc): return a synchronous draw's render target memory to the image pool #9188 (c9a9831f7d), fix(agc): store only the bytes a synchronous draw changed in a linear color target #9202 (eab9f18d27) and perf(agc): write the draw profile reports through the asynchronous profile output #9373 (7824ae9bf7) merged.
• Earlier main commits with fix(libSceNpTrophy2): return INVALID_TROPHY_ID for a trophy that is not in the title's data #9115 merged, as noted per line.

System tested

Windows 11 26200, Ryzen 5 5600X, Radeon RX 6700 XT (gfx1031), WinLibs GCC 15.2.0, Release. The AMD driver is 32.0.21045.16010 (Adrenalin 26.10.1) for the 2026-10-22 runs, and 32.0.21045.5002 for the earlier ones on main 3e91c8edf5 and 2f161d4f33.

Furthest point

In game, with the four PRs above (main alone: logos)

What is shown

• On main it boots and presents frames, then stops at the title's first trophy query. The trophy file has IDs 0 to 18, and the title asks for 19:

  terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::invalid_argument'
    what():  sceNpTrophy2GetTrophyInfo: trophy 19 is not in /app0/sce_sys/trophy2/trophy00.ucp
  FATAL: abort() (SIGABRT)
  

• With fix(libSceNpTrophy2): return INVALID_TROPHY_ID for a trophy that is not in the title's data #9115 (on main 3e91c8edf5 and 2f161d4f33), there is no stop in 10-minute runs. The Terms of Use, the title screen, Game Selection and the launcher menus render correctly at 50-60 fps. So do METAL GEAR SOLID's (the PS1 game's) boot logos, opening and codec calls.
• With fix(libSceNpTrophy2): return INVALID_TROPHY_ID for a trophy that is not in the title's data #9115 alone, MGS1 runs at about 4-8 fps, with dips to 1.5-2 fps. About half of its draws go into three linear 3072x2048 RGBA8 color targets that no host import covers, so they are synchronous: each reads its target from guest memory and stores it back, 17-21 ms per draw. At that speed, Snake does not get to move within 10 minutes.
• With all four PRs on main 6ef5a1c4c9 (2026-10-22, one 600 s run, scripted input, no local changes), MGS1 reaches gameplay: the launcher, the Start Menu, MGS1's title, SELECT GAME LEVEL, the opening and the codec call, then the Dock with the radar and the opening credits, from about 250-280 s on. There is no stop in the run.
  • The launcher runs at 55-60 fps. The opening and codec run at 17 fps, the Dock at 18-21 fps.
  • Movement was not tested.
• With local changes, not PRs, MGS1 plays at the Dock at 59-60 fps: the targets are imported, and they are stored back less often than after every draw. VR Missions plays too. On those builds no other stop was found in the launcher, the Master Book, Options, MGS1 or VR Missions.
• Input works through APS5_PAD_INPUT_FILE.
• Audio plays. In MGS1's PS1 part at 17-21 fps it sounds choppy. The title's one AudioOut port (48 kHz, 8 channels, 256 samples per buffer, fed by sceNgs2SystemRender) gets 1.000 s of audio per second there, and its queue never empties, so that queue is not what drops. The cause is not known yet.

Current blocker

• The trophy stop: fix(libSceNpTrophy2): return INVALID_TROPHY_ID for a trophy that is not in the title's data #9115.
• MGS1's speed:
  • fix(agc): return a synchronous draw's render target memory to the image pool #9188 returns a synchronous draw's render target memory to the image pool.
  • fix(agc): store only the bytes a synchronous draw changed in a linear color target #9202 stores only the bytes a synchronous draw changed in a linear target.
  • Together they take a synchronous draw from 16-50 ms to about 1.8 ms. On equal content, aligned by guest flip count, MGS1's boot logos go from 10.7-21.4 to 30.3-52.8 flips/s.
  • AGC: storing a resident linear color target after every draw keeps PPSA14363's PS1 games at about 10 fps; without it they run at 60 #9217 asks which store-back rule is acceptable for resident linear targets, with the local numbers. MarcZX10's answer there: keep the store guarantee, and speed up the synchronous path.
• Frame-time measurement: perf(agc): write the draw profile reports through the asynchronous profile output #9373 and perf(agc): write the frame-dump log line through the asynchronous profile output #9602 move APS5_PROFILE_DRAW's draw reports and the frame-dump log line to the asynchronous profile output. As synchronous writes to stderr, they added hitches of up to 208 ms.

How it was run

• tools/unwrap_self.py on eboot.bin and each sce_module/*.prx, then relinker --windows --registry --sce-module-path <unwrapped dir> eboot.elf eboot.exe.
• Confirm is circle. The Terms of Use take circle on Confirm, then down, right and circle on Agree.
• Frame rates come from APS5_TRACE_SUMMARY_EVERY=10 with a warm shader cache.

AI-assisted testing and report: yes, Claude Code.