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Best Metal Gear Solid cheats & codes
The series that invented tactical espionage hid more in its margins than any wiki has ever collected: fourth-wall tricks, codec frequencies printed on the packaging, and boss fights that read your save file. Verified research covers 1 of the 3 titles below so far: 20 codes, 9 easter eggs, and 5 glitches, every entry cited.
- sections published
- 2,937
- facts grounded
- 3,563
- sources cited
- 1,661
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What's in the vault
Codes, cross-checked
20 GameShark codes, each one carrying the source it was verified against. Where a release shipped in more than one revision, the codes are tagged by revision so a working code is not filed next to a dead one.
Easter eggs and secrets
9 documented easter eggs, with the exact input or condition that triggers each. The myths that turned out to be real are separated from the ones that never were.
Glitches and exploits
5 glitches cataloged: what breaks, where it breaks, and whether the trick is reliable enough to plan a run around. Community-reported entries are labeled as such.
Covered in the canon
Original strategy guides for these titles: codes, secrets, glitches, easter eggs, and completion routes. They're open to Founding Members now.
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Metal Gear Solid
1998
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Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
2001
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Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
2004
SharkVault is the original-content strategy guide platform for the Top 500 classic and retro games, Atari through PS2, from GameShark Labs.
Questions
- Does SharkVault cover Metal Gear Solid?
- Yes. The Metal Gear Solid research covers 1 of the 3 titles listed on this page, and currently runs to 20 codes, 9 easter eggs, 5 glitches, and 12 boss encounters. Every entry names the source it was checked against. The research was last verified end to end on 2026-05-08.
- Are these guides copied from GameFAQs or wikis?
- No. Every SharkVault guide is original content written and fact-checked by GameShark Labs. The material behind this page is built on 44 distinct cited sources behind 64 individual verified entries, which is why entries carry citations that scraped community submissions cannot.
- How do I get access to the Metal Gear Solid guides?
- SharkVault is in invite-only beta. Join the waitlist on this page to request access; Kickstarter backers of The Compendium by GameShark Labs already have Founder access.