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You worked on the port of Metal Gear Solid?! OH MY GOD THIS IS SO COOL!

Edit: Looking it up you might have worked on a larger amount of games than I thought. Very awesome nonetheless. https://www.mobygames.com/game/company:99/from:1998/platform...

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Thanks!!! Yes it was MGS - the deal was with our studio to do the port from PSX -> PC and since Microsoft was the publisher, part of the deal was for Konami to port Age Of Empires (1? 2?) to PSX.

It was Age Of Empires 2, I had a EU copy. I bet there are some interesting stories regarding that port, too.

AFAIK the user interface for the win9x version was drawn using native GDI windows library, and yet the PS2 version, using a completely different rendering framework and architecture, sported the very same appearance, font glitches and all. I wonder if they actually wrote an emulation layer around that.

The AoE2 PS2 version actually had half-decent USB keyboard and mouse support. Back then USB keyboard/mice were very uncommon (it was all PS/2) but when we tried it, it actually worked.

You’re also my hero. I remember being like… 13 and seeing a copy of MG:S at the store… for PC! I will freely admit it, I hid the copy behind the most boring games on the shelf, and came back and bought it a week later, it was still safely hidden. I distinctly remember the clerk that I paid was quite irritated, almost as if they couldn’t find where I hid it so they could buy it themselves.

In any event, that game, and that port, were a part of my childhood that I will always remember.

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