91 responses so far ↓

• 1 Kaidon // Jul 1, 2008 at 11:27 pm

  mine dose it a lot but only when trying to go online. i got the disc with question mark in the top left corner. ihave to turn the console off also

• 2 shadowbair // Jul 2, 2008 at 10:38 pm

  i just got the game and it keeps freezing in the first cut scene

• 3 Drebin // Jul 3, 2008 at 8:28 am

  Take better care of your 300$ investment.

• 4 Kaidon // Jul 3, 2008 at 3:47 pm

  hasnt got anything to do with taking care of it. What do you think we do? throw it at the wall or something.

  What an idiot

• 5 Beholder // Jul 4, 2008 at 3:30 am

  I have experienced the same problem with MGS4 both times in the Downtown section of Act1. Had to reboot and the PS3 would not recognize the MGS4 disc.
  I waited a few hours and came back and it did load, but the same ? on a disc icon came up in the upper left of the screen at almost the same point in the map.

• 6 BrockO // Jul 5, 2008 at 4:59 am

  Yes, MGS4 has now killed both of my PS3s. The first was six months old and had been used heavily. The second was just out of the box and never used for anything else. The first is on it’s way back from Mexico right now and I guess the second will be on it’s way to Mexico shortly. I can’t believe more people are not seeing this issue. Both of mine were 40gb versions. I think MSG4 taxes the system resources more than any other game. One thing I noticed was that it took forever to save MGS4 during a BBE run while also downloading demos at the same time…something I never had a problem with before.

• 7 DrinkT // Jul 5, 2008 at 11:42 am

  i get the same trouble mgs has basically fucked my ps3, i dunno wtf to do ive read wipingit of all data fixes it or u need to just send it off,help pls?

• 8 Kaidon // Jul 5, 2008 at 7:17 pm

  I dont know if they would repair it for that? go to http://community.eu.playstation.com/playstationeu/?category.id=55 and contact them. I only get the problem when i try to load MGO. Dosent happen all the time but it shouldnt happen at all. i dont have recipts for it either. If your ps3 is still under warranty they should repair it for you.

  Let us know what they say. I’m considering contacting them just incase it gets any worse? I dont like the way updates and games can effect a £400 console. Customer support are very helpful and if they do replace it you will have it delivered at your door step in a couple of days

• 9 Kit Rivera // Jul 8, 2008 at 1:48 pm

  Yup that just happened to me a few days ago after playing MSG4. At first the game keeps hanging up then comes back. After continued use, it gets worst, the next day my PS3 freezes up and does not read any type of disc anymore.

  Ive read that some have been successful after reformatting the PS3, but if it does not work, then your screwed as I am!!!!

• 10 MAC // Jul 8, 2008 at 4:33 pm

  I reloaded the default settings 3X. I made sure my online sttings were turned off. I actually bought the game, returned it got a new game, and then even rented a game from blockbuster. I had the same problem all the time- the screen would either freeze in game play or when I finish a level the game returns to the playstation boot up screen. alled the company they told me that is was NOT a hardware problem, my other games play fine.

• 11 anonimo // Jul 8, 2008 at 8:29 pm

  I keep having the same problems also and it seems that this game messed up my ps3. now i can’t play anything without it freezing. I reformatted my ps3 and it worked for a bit then it started doing it again the same day.

• 12 D-Money // Jul 9, 2008 at 3:36 am

  Wow i’m really sorry to hear you all have had issues. I have 40 GB PS3 and haven’t had any problems. I’m on my 5th playthrough of the game as far as completing it. Honestly this is the first i have heard of any freezing problems seriously

• 13 Nynja // Jul 9, 2008 at 5:37 pm

  Been playing the game since release and only locked ONE time, while playing MGO.

• 14 kan // Jul 9, 2008 at 11:24 pm

  I’m in Act 2 near Vista House and my PS3 freezes after the cut scene with the bulldozer clearing the path….

  i tried to replay it from the same save pt but no luck.

• 15 willchill // Jul 10, 2008 at 4:31 am

  At lease yall can play it. The majority of the time mines want load its just a black screen. Does anyone else has this problem?

• 16 badger of doom // Jul 10, 2008 at 9:58 am

  sometimes when loading MGS i get flashing white screens and corrupted graphics. I have to reboot the system and then it’s fine. other than that i’ve had no problems so far (touches wooden desk and looks to the heavens) :)))

• 17 Chris // Jul 10, 2008 at 10:28 am

  My MGS4 disc destroyed my blueray drive.
  It doesnt recognise any discs at all.

  possible spoiler below..

  VAMP fight couldnt kill him took me hours about 6 to get there and no middle save either.
  Will have to do Shadow Moses again, thats not to bad .

  end of spoiler….

  Still got to phone them up to get it fixed.

  Made a back up on a usb drive.

  But havent bothered to update to 2.41.

• 18 Зрн Варнык // Jul 11, 2008 at 10:56 am

  MGS4 ruined my PS3. I was on my second playthrough and the game froze. I figured the system simply froze so I turned off the system. I got to the start menu of MGS4 and the game froze again. I left the system alone for several hours and cleaned the disc. Now when I put the MGS4 disc in the system doesn’t react at all. But now all my other games freeze without fail.

  I am currently in contact with sony about getting my PS3 replaced. I know I am not the only person this has happened to and I believe Sony must be held responsible. If MGS4 works for you, great I am happy for you. But if you are going through the same problem I suggest you, too, demand Sony fix the problem.

• 19 Grant // Jul 12, 2008 at 6:47 am

  I managed to finish the game fine with no freeze up’s or crashes. The one thing that was a bit odd was during the boss fight of Screaming Mantis. Mid-fight it looked light the game rebooted itself. I got the Konami and Kojima title cards just like you do when you first load up the game. Then, after the Kojima title card, I was thrown back into the boss fight. Anyone else get this? What the hell happened?

• 20 Carlos // Jul 12, 2008 at 8:14 am

  I bought a 80GB PS3 a week ago just to play MGS4. I finished the game once, and now when I was playing it again (from the beginning), it got stuck in the “now loading” screen just before the cut scene where the laughing octopus appears for the first time (at the end of Act 2)

  I tried everything to solve the problem. Reinstalling the game data, reseting the PS3 to factory settings, etc. It always gets frozen in the same point (the other game saves I had work fine, only the ones were the laughing octopus/beaty appear fail).

  I just SOLVED the problem! Seems that it was the firmware version. MGS4 worked fine with firmware 2.20 (the MGS4 disc upgraded my PS3 to 2.20 when I first installed it), but seems that the problem appeared when I manually upgraded to 2.36 (about 2-3 days ago). Now I have just upgraded again to 2.41 and MGS4 is working fine again!

  Hope it helps someone else!

• 21 magikdodo // Jul 12, 2008 at 3:27 pm

  Same thing here, my bluray drive is fried and i’m screwed as its a USA PS3 but i reside in the UK.

  Here’s a video i made:
  http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=RkylBYOpCJQ

• 22 EDUBPBF@AOL.COM // Jul 13, 2008 at 5:10 pm

  I CANT HEAR MY MGS4 ON THE CUT SCENES

• 23 Carlos // Jul 13, 2008 at 9:15 pm

  I’ve been playing MGS4 with no problems after I upgraded the firmware from 2.36 to 2.41.

  However, today I noticed that the “disc ?” icon appeared for 1/2 a second while MGS4 was loading the next cut scene (after I killed the crying wolf).

  Maybe the bluray drive is already dying? Maybe it’s due to overheating? and I have only played only 30-35 hours so far

• 24 Mark // Jul 14, 2008 at 12:33 am

  hey Grant i think that’s part of the game? seems like something Kojima would do. have you played MGS2 and MGS3? they had gameover screens but it didnt actually mean game over.

• 25 Ali // Jul 15, 2008 at 3:20 am

  I got my PS3 a few month after launch the 60GB version and I have only ran into one problem and that was while playing Heavenly Sword it froze up, I restarted the console and it worked fine.

  Sony doesn’t spit out shit I know that for a fact. I am not a fanboy as I own both 360 and PS3 but I favor the PS3 due to processing capabilities.

• 26 gfadgas // Jul 15, 2008 at 3:31 pm

  i bought the ps3 mgs4 bundle and played it or like a week and beat the then i tryed playing it agagin and it froze then i got the little disc and questionmark image on the top left corner and after that my ps3 wnt play anything

• 27 PSN: Destroyer995 // Jul 17, 2008 at 11:56 pm

  Wow, I’m on my 2nd runthrough getting the bandana and stealth camo (I havent been alerted ONCE and didnt kill 1 person and I’m already almost done with act 1… I’m like a legend :P)

  But wow, alot of people are having problems. Iv’e even played like 50 MGO matches and not ONCE have I been disconnected… Well, I bought my PS3 2 days ago anyway (15th)… I’d best be careful not to F*ck up my game then…

• 28 Jason // Jul 20, 2008 at 5:08 pm

  Just fired up MGS4 to give it another chance, I have played my ps3 maybe 20 times since I bought it 8 months ago. Tried to load the online game and it wont load..I just get a question mark and a disk flashing..and it wont load for like 10 minutes so I just power it off. POS! Really upsetting for an expensive system like this to be that way, now from what I am reading it looks like a pre-cursor to my ps3’s blu-ray dying. Great. I wont buy another if it dies. Cant even play it online right now…it blows!

• 29 COPYRIGHT // Jul 21, 2008 at 10:17 am

  Maybe Sony should rename their console…CantPlayStation.

• 30 Chao_ie // Jul 21, 2008 at 2:52 pm

  A disc with a flashing “?” at the upper left corner of my LCD TV over a frozen MGS4 (R1) Act3. My PS3 is well maintained. It has cooling fan galore, so to prevent it from accumulating heat. I dont over used it.
  —-> Now they say that my BDL is dying!
  —-> Did the Old Snake died?

• 31 Tap McD // Jul 22, 2008 at 1:14 am

  I just called Sony about the issues listed above. I have the exact same problem: Game ran fine till Act 2, then showed disc question mark icon in top left corner then game froze, and after reset no discs can be read by PS3. Sony says they haven’t even heard of this problem. I called local gamestops and wal-mart for possible recalls, but no luck. I simply can’t believe that Sony has not heard of this problem yet. Going to send PS3 back, but what to do with 60$ timebomb!?

• 32 Dopeheadz // Jul 22, 2008 at 5:21 am

  Too much firmware updates these days…PS2 don’t need updates and it is the best console ever made. Games only deserves patches to fix bugs and PS3….once you update your firmware,there is a chance you may brick your console!cuz my warranty has already been expired….*od da** m*fu**

• 33 stryker1 // Jul 24, 2008 at 7:40 pm

  I picked up mgs4 as soon as it came out I was on my 8th play through when the 2.40 patch came out and since then I cant play for longer than 5 mins then I get a lil disk icon in the left corner this only happens on mgs4 so lame.

• 34 Ralphy // Jul 28, 2008 at 12:19 pm

  I think it myt be something to do with either the size of your ps3 (40 gb, 60 gb,) or the nationality of it im a 60 gb from great britain and mgs4 and mg0 works perfectly apart from lag on mgo where the screen occassionally freezes which means a re-boot im sorry to hear about yur problems especially considering this is such an awesome game. peace guys.

• 35 ANEL // Jul 29, 2008 at 2:49 pm

  I have experienced the same thing as magikdod with MGS4 and it messd up the whole XMB i cant play games i cant watch videos cant se my friends list and a lot more but the blu-ray player i not dead and i can go online but i cant even restor my PS3 system WHAT A HELL AM I GONNA DO NEVER THOUGHT THIS COULD HAPPENED TO A PS3.

  MY ASS PS3 A MONSTER MACHINE.

• 36 Dereke // Jul 31, 2008 at 3:07 am

  I have only one problem with MGS 4. Every time i go to play MGO, the game just resets and goes back to the PS3 screen. I bought my PS3 the day it launched, (60gb), and I bought MGS 4 the day it released. I have played through the game like 9 times and have basically everything in the game, but I have never been able to play online or even been able to get to the screen that allows you to install MGO. I called Konami’s support line and they gave me some run around story of a corrupt file during initail install of the game. They said the only way to fix the problem is to delete everything MGS 4; I’m not goin to do that so i asked them if they were gonna release an update to patch these problems or if they would be resolved via PS3 update…. of course they had no idea….anyone else ever have this problem?????

• 37 Circlestrafe // Aug 5, 2008 at 10:36 am

  MSG4 destroyed my son’s PS3. Called Sony, got a prepaid shipping label and box from UPS. 2 week turn around, he’s got it back and it works fine. Needless to say, he can’t and won’t be playing MSG4 on it. Way to go Konami!

• 38 Joey D_2501 // Aug 8, 2008 at 11:32 pm

  The problem for me started when i had to download the update for Metal Gear Online. It was the latest one after the new expansion pack was released. After the installation, it automatically restarted the console. When i restarted the game the dreaded question mark icon appeared after the Konami and Dolby logos etc. Then nothing, so i tried to restart the game again and a corrupt data logo appeared in the XMB where the disc logo usually appears.
  Ever since then, my PS3 refuses to load any PS3 format discs, DVDs seem to work ok and a few of my PS1 discs… I’ve tried deleting game/save data…I’ve tried formating the hard drive and restoring factory settings etc. Nothing Works!!

• 39 Jason // Aug 10, 2008 at 2:19 pm

  Ok…well I posted here earlier about my problem with the flashing disk and question mark at the top left corner of the screen upon trying to play mgs4 online and my system freezing. Well I called tech support and they claimed this was the first time they have heard of this, the tech did anyway. So he made me reset factory settings…connect directly wired cable modem…delete the MGS4 patch i had and try again..did all of that and then when it tried to download the patch again it kept freezing up with the question mark and disk error. It finally loaded and then when I tried to play it online it kicked me back into the XMG. So I called them back and they made me do a thorough format..losing all information on the machine. That took a couple of hours..and now I am sitting in from of my tv with the same problem…I am going to call them again today and I think they are going to ship it in for repair. Ill keep everyone updated.

• 40 Dereke // Aug 11, 2008 at 6:00 am

  Its been awhile, but I finally deleted everything MGS4 from my PS3, and noting…… Reinstalling the game doesn’t do anything and niether will reseting your PS3 to factory settings. DO NOT wipe your PS3 and start everything from scratch….. It will not work; I have no clue as to what Konami did with some of the copies of MGS4, but there ARE PROBLEMS w/ MGS4. Anyone that contacts them will here the same thing….. delete, restore, re-install, blah, blah, blah…. The only thing that is getting me frustrated is the fact that Konami wont release an update for the game itself to fix these problems. Why not?, Assasins Creed and GTA 4 did it….. I just don’t understand them. I love Sony, I love Konami for the MGS series, but they’re gonna loose a huge fan base because of these problems…. Niether company has many problems at all, but the ones they do have just happen to be very big problems that are costing thier dedicated fan base money, even after they’ve spent all of it getting the system and games they desired….. I truely hope Konami will send an update to patch these problems, everytime I talk to them they seem to know exactly where the problems are, but they can’t even manage to release an update to fix these mass problems… I don’t get it! All I can say is keep calling and emailing them, eventaully they’ll do something before its to late, maybe its to late already…. only time will tell.

• 41 Jason // Aug 11, 2008 at 8:59 pm

  Well Sony told me to call Konami, because I reformatted and restored and did everything to no avail. They said if Konami doesn’t have an answer that sony would send me a repair box and see if it is on their end. I have a suspicion that it is not Sony, because why would all my other games, Grand Tourismo and Singstar play well online and offline with no problems? Im not sure what to do?

• 42 Shanx // Aug 13, 2008 at 2:35 pm

  Hey Grant i got the same thing too! But i don think that this is a part of the game, like Mark said (i have the MSG2 ‘n 3 too)

  BTW, in the same fight against the Screaming Mantis, u got too a black screen with a “Hide01″ message on the left corner??? =\

  Ps: I sent today a e-mail to Konami support looking for a answer for this “BUG”… i hope that they answer me soon…

• 43 Richie // Aug 17, 2008 at 3:51 pm

  Wow! I can not believe everyone is having the same problem as me. I didn’t think that the PS3, or MGS4 for that matter, would do this. I just got a used PS3 a few days ago and a used MGS4, and have been playing it fine until the beginning of Act 3, then it just gave me the infamous question mark disk thingy. It sends me back to the XMB and where the disc icon usually is, it says; “Corrupt Data”….That doesn’t make any sense? How can a disk running beautifully with ZERO scratches just suddenly freeze and stop working. All my other games and DVD’s work fine. I’ve tried everything I could think of. And I found this thread and did what everyone else could think of. Nothing. Apparently it’s pointless to call Sony or Konami for help since they’ve never heard of this problem/bug. It’s not that hard to do research, I’m sure they have a computer right next to them and are able to click and type into google.

  I haven’t tried the firmware thing yet because I don’t have the internet working for my PS3 yet and I never had it hooked up in the first place. For some reason the wireless is being stupid and I can’t get that working. I don’t know if I’m doing it wrong or not. My Wii’s wireless worked right out of the box brand new and I’ve never had problems with my Wii. Isn’t the PS3 supposed to be powerful? I guess it’s more of a computer than a console.

  KOMANI NEEDS TO FIGURE OUT THIS PROBLEM BEFORE PEOPLE STOP BUYING PS3’s and MGS4 COPY’S. Doubt it though but you never know. They’ll hear us complaining sometime. Right fucking now would be nice, I would like to finish my favorite game. I’ve never had problems with my PS2. Yeah sure some glitches here and there and DVD’s won’t work anymore although plays all games fine, but nothing like this bullshit.

• 44 Shanx // Aug 18, 2008 at 1:58 pm

  lol, i got the disk mark icon 1 time only, my problem is other, but yes, is useless send e-mails to Konami because they don ANSWER >=[
  I hope that another development studios like Capcom with ur RE5 don make any mess on the game!

• 45 DL // Aug 25, 2008 at 7:02 pm

  I just got my 81 GB PS3 and have only played games a handful of times (I got it to play movies mostly and stream content off my computer). But after my third try at MGS4, the Bluray drive crashed and the PS3 wouldn’t play movies or games anymore.

  I reformatted the drive, and that didn’t work. I then installed FW update 2.42 and now I can play movies.

  I don’t think I”m gonna try playing MGS4 anymore.

• 46 PatenZ // Aug 27, 2008 at 3:36 am

  WELL WELL WELL.. no reply from Konami hey Shanx, that’s hard to believe isn’t it.. a big company like that, charging us (it’s fans) big bucks for a game and then when it fails to deliver what its was sold to us to do (that’s a breach of the trading act) we don’t here a peep out of them. They are behaving like some dodgy investment company which has fled the country with our hard earned $!! Anyway,. i have the same probs as mentioned above (thank god it’s not the “?” but i get booted back to the XMB every time i try to run metal gear online from the in game menu. Emailed konami.. no response, called playstation “we haven’t heard of this”.. (whatever). I’m going to try get my hands on a mates disk (his mgo works fine) if that doesn’t work, i’m demanding a replacement console from (that’ll hurt em a little at least) maybe after enough replacements, they’ll get us a patch to fix this so everyone can play mgo.. just as was made to believe when purchasing the game originally!

• 47 Jason // Aug 27, 2008 at 8:57 pm

  Well now my problem is that every time I try to go online to play mgs4 I get kicked into the xmb as well. Sony told me to call Konami..I called Konami they told me to take the disk to a friends house (problem is I don’t know anyone with a ps3) and see if it does it on theirs, if it does who knows, if not he said I would know it would be my faulty ps3. I haven’t been able to check it out though, and it sucks…Sony already told me if I didn’t get a satisfactory response from Konami they would try to fix whatever may or may not be wrong with my ps3. *Deep Sigh*

• 48 BrockO // Aug 27, 2008 at 10:11 pm

  No problem getting a response from Konami or Sony for me…Sony replaced both of my PS3s. Here is what Konami had to say:

  Dear Brock

  Thank you for contacting Konami Support.

  The issue you experienced might indicate a corrupted file from the installation file or saved data.

  As a possible solution, please go to your PS3 hard drive and delete all the MGS4 files present, once you have done this, please try to reinstall the game.

  If this does not work, please return to the retailer you purchased the game from and request an exchange, make sure you test the game at the store before you bring it back home.

  We appreciate that you took the time to write in with your feedback We are constantly working to make our games a better gaming experience for all our users, and in doing this your comments and opinions are very valuable to us.

  If all of the above does not work, please contact Sony at 1-800-345-7669 as this might indicate an issue with your console

  Unfortunately, there is not much information we can give you, however, we can confirm that games cannot ruin hardware.

  Regards,
  KDE-US, Customer Support
  support@konami.com

• 49 PatenZ // Aug 28, 2008 at 2:45 am

  That’s Konami’s standard response they give to any problems people are having with the system.

  it’s been 4 days for me since i emailed them, they haven’t even sent me there “standard response” yet.

  funny thing is.. friends disk works fine!?!

  ps: i have more luck playing on / off line when console is laying down (as apposed to standing up) which pretty much means just like my ps2 after playing san andreas.. seems like MGS’ heavy disk reading has put my laser out of wack!

  that’s prob the case for most with drama’s

  for those with the black screen and crash back to XMB when attempting to select metal gear online from the in game menu if believe this to be the reason of problems;

  1; poor quality or production of disks.

  2; heavy reading of same (poor quality) disk

  3; resulting in your laser becoming out of wack

  possible fix: try replace disk (if possible) / lay console down.

  if this works for anyone out there, please post as we may have an answer we can share round.

• 50 DL // Aug 28, 2008 at 9:29 pm

  Like a fool, i rolled the dice and decided to try playing MGS4 again. It crashed. Now even reformatting the drive didn’t work. Sony was very quick to respond and it will be on it’s way to sony repair soon.

• 51 The_Snowy // Sep 7, 2008 at 9:22 am

  I am aussie and have neve had this issue
  the only isue i have is psn will sign out whilst playing online
  The_Snowy is my name on PSN
  add me if you have any questions

• 52 ray // Sep 29, 2008 at 1:53 pm

  Shanx, the Hideo1 is apparently part of the game and a tribute to a fight with psycho mantis in an earlier game. I feel like an idiot, I thought my ps3 was overheating and I was searching online for problems- lol.

• 53 Ozzy // Oct 17, 2008 at 12:46 am

  Have just picked up this problem. Seems as though it has happened between firmware updates 2.40 - 2.50. When I first bought the game I was able to play it right through, twice. I have been playing Battlefield: Bad Company for the past two weeks with no problems at all. Then, the other day I bought Batman Begins on Blu Ray and noticed that the disc would skip and freeze at certain parts through the movie, even crashing the system. I thought that this may be due to the disc requiring a firmware update. The next day 2.50 is released. I updated immediately and the problem has not gone away, in fact it seems to be getting worse now. However, Battlefield still works fine, as do other games, even PS2 games.

  Many people are having similar issues after updates between 2.40 and 2.43, this is apparent from the amount of posts on various forums describing my exact problem. This is so for consoles that are both brand new and out of warranty.

  My console is now out of warranty, I think it’s about 15 months old now. Since I live in South Africa, Sony distributes the consoles through an agent and I’m just dreading to phone and get the bullshit run around and standard denial blurbs from the service department. I am now f$@%ing fed up with Sony. I have had similar just out of warranty failures with their products consistently for the past ten years now. DVD players, digital cameras, Playstation 2’s and AV equipment. It is very disappointing and disheartening to have to spend hard earned cash for products that just manage to scrape through the warranty period with no problems only to fail when you have no legal recourse. This plain sucks!

  I think time to get an XBox 360 and try other brands of electronics. Sony seems to just make the same crap as everyone else nowadays. Chinese tossers are flooding the planet with crap and reputable companies are destroying their once decent brands by outsourcing to China in order to cut costs, yet they still have the cheek to charge us a higher price for their products purely because of the brand name. It used to be because they made better stuff. The joke really is on us though for lapping up the shit they throw at us.

  The electronics of yesteryear lasted decades and were worth forking out for. I really am frustrated now.

  Any ideas? Maybe class action lawsuit against Sony?

  And by the way I look after my gear fanatically, so don’t give me that crap about “look after your stuff better” because this shit will also happen to you holier than thou types. What you gonna say then?

• 54 Shanx // Oct 17, 2008 at 8:05 pm

  Lol this end of week i’ll try play MGS4 again…I said at Aug 18 that i got the disk icon mark once, n’ i don play the game for a long time after this…
  Now i want play the game again, the other games that i have works fine, no one show this problem!

  I ll play and if i got the icon again i will delete all MGS4 files n ‘ll install again…my firmware is 2.41

  Ps: the PS2 emulation of 2.41 is better then old versions?

• 55 Grumat // Nov 8, 2008 at 4:59 am

  I just updated my PS3 because it said it was required to play online, now everytime i want to go online i just gwet a black screen and have to manually restart the system. I think it is just the update but still not shure. Sony has been avoiding my complaints so im getting nevouse. this hunk of metal is really expensive!!! help

• 56 Eirwan // Dec 3, 2008 at 4:05 pm

  i am 13 from malaysia.. i bought a 80gb core pack ps3 on the 16th of november 08 with mgs4..I updated my ps3 to 2.52 no prob until today..played msg4 until he meets drebins on the cutscene it stopped and the icon shows on the tv..I ring sony and they ask me to send them my ps3 2moro.. Warranty still have 12 months

• 57 ssskom // Dec 22, 2008 at 3:53 pm

  mine froze up after finishing the round where you have to play MGS1 back again at shadow moses. I had a black screen and the console just froze. Actually at that point I felt that Ive been spending way too much time playing that the console became too hot & I decided to stop. The next morning, I tried to load the game, it froze again when I cleared the MGS1 part but I decided to wait. A few minutes later (around 15-20 minutes), the game resumed and everything was fine again. I continued to play the game until where liquid uses the outer heaven. Hope I can finish this game without having to experience the freezings again. BTW mine is the 80 GB version (non backward compatible)

• 58 MistaX // Jan 15, 2009 at 5:18 pm

  This is so lame. I love MGS and I was sailing through it, in a few days I got to the (last level I think) level with the battleship cutscene. i kill everyone, go to the Mantis boss. Hurt her, then “Konami Error” screen pops out for 2 secs. Back to game. I cant hurt anyone , shoot everything i got then i die. Its impossible. I restarted the game, same issue. I uninstalled the game, installed, started again, same issue. I don’t know how the hell the story ends and Im right at the end, I could sense an awesome twist in the story, instead I got an error that makes it impossible to pass the game. Lame. Konami, PS3, whoever has a hand in this, get it sorted, I love the game but its not showing any back.

• 59 syringe // Jan 16, 2009 at 9:13 pm

  To MistaX, i hope you realize that’s part of gameplay and you’re suppose to inject yourself with the syringe.

  anyways, i’ve played through multiple times and now have the same problem as everyone else. won’t load game content. i think my other games still work but will need to test and determine if i should send back as my ps3 is still under warranty.

• 60 dan // Jan 19, 2009 at 6:48 pm

  when i try to go online on MGS4 the game just quits if u know anything please tell me thank u

• 61 alex // Jan 20, 2009 at 1:56 am

  i had the same problem but, my ps3 doesnt read blu ray disks any more!!! the interrogation script apeard while i was in act5 and them boom, not even my other games worked, already tried to boot ps3 but still its not working, can any1 help me out???

  tks

• 62 Steffen // Jan 28, 2009 at 6:20 pm

  METAL GEAR SOLID 4 ruined my ps3 also. fucking dick game. im so pissed.

  im glad to hear im not the only one with this shitty problem.

• 63 Another pissed off PS3 owner // Feb 3, 2009 at 9:35 am

  It’s been how many months now?
  Why the f*ck hasn’t Konami issued a patch for this yet?

  That’s it.
  I’m gonna open up my goddamn PS3 and try cleaning the lens. I’ll update everyone asap. Hopefully this’ll get rid of that “?” mark in the corner problem.

• 64 Seemo // Feb 7, 2009 at 4:37 pm

  yep it does

• 65 Marcus // Feb 10, 2009 at 12:31 am

  I see alot of people having the same problem as I have.

  When I try accesing MGO from the MGS4 main screen, the screen goes black, and nothing happens. I push the PS button and quits the game, nothing happens, so I need to turn the console off.

  this started happening with me in december, I hadnt played the online mode since august.

  hope someone has something to add for me

  and btw, if I delete the game data from the game data utility, will it also take out all my save data?

• 66 Another pissed off PS3 owner // Feb 10, 2009 at 2:11 pm

  Hello everyone. It’s me again, Another Pissed Off PS3 Owner.

  Sorry bout the late reply. I just HAD to finish up MGS4 before continuing with my life. ;D

  That’s right. I found a solution to the “?” disc icon! (at least for my console). Opening up the PS3 was a pain, and rubbing the heck out of the lens with a camera-cleaning solution did nothing. Every other dvd, blu ray movie, and game worked with the ps3, and I had a hunch it wasn’t a hardware problem.

  All I had to do was go to Network Settings and disable everything there (media and internet connections). VOILA. I didn’t get a SINGLE freeze through my complete playthrough.

  I’m too scared to go online with the PS3 anymore, but the single player game was well worth it. I recommend everyone out there with the “?” problem to simply disable its internet connection. Hope this helps!

• 67 zooks // Feb 20, 2009 at 3:23 pm

  I keep getting freezes on MGS4 and my PS3 even when there is no game inside. Pixelated corrupt graphics with white/green colours.

• 68 Reidiculous // Feb 23, 2009 at 3:40 am

  Same exact problem, i put in mgs4, played it once, tried to play again and it froze, then system didnt even recognize that there was a disk in the console, and now none of my games work. is there any recall or anything? I would rather not pay 150 to send the ps3 in, but it looks like thats what i have to do.

• 69 marcus // Feb 23, 2009 at 3:07 pm

  I got it to work a couple of hours after my post.
  I just cleaned the disc with a soft tissue, then put it in and voila!

  Strange that it was because of the disc being dirty when the singleplayer mode played flawlessly since the release of the game :S

• 70 Brian // Mar 7, 2009 at 5:31 pm

  My MG4 headset has been ‘kicking’ me off of games on Rainbow Six Vegas 2 and its made me pretty angry, has anyone had any problems on other GAMES besides MGO4? I need help!!

• 71 DANo // Mar 7, 2009 at 7:30 pm

  just got mgs4 today and I tryd goin into the metal gear online and it just sends me back to the ps main screen every time WTF any one else having this problem?

• 72 Robson // Mar 13, 2009 at 1:12 am

  “it just sends me back to the ps main”

  The problem is caused by data corrupting possibly due to a peripheral being connected during install - back up latest save - delete all save games, game data and main install, disconnect all peripherals - restart - reinstall and your good to go. Worked fine for me.

• 73 Zak // Mar 17, 2009 at 7:24 am

  MGS4 PS3 Played the game and finished it on normal. Playing it again on hardest setting and when I got to Act 4 “End”, I can hear everything going on but there’s no picture. It’s a blank screen. Anybody had any problem like this or does anyone have a solution?
  Thanks.

• 74 Conor // Mar 21, 2009 at 11:37 pm

  I used to get the MGO XMB problem, too. I just kept trying it and it started to work… eventually.
  I’m having the “?” thing for the second time now though. First was the main eight min install. The second one is the Act 3 installation screen. About 3% through or something stupid like that it crashes!
  I’m going to try doing the internet connection thing tomorrow…

• 75 Chips // Mar 31, 2009 at 11:03 pm

  fu**! this is b/s! whats a man gotta do to play mgs4? i think im restoring my ps3… its worth a shot… still… this is b/s!!

• 76 Cafesito // Apr 12, 2009 at 12:17 am

  towards the end of shadow moses…act 4 i think…when liquid boards the outerhaven ship the game will freeze during the cutscene and show the disc reading icon in the top left of the screen.

  it happened about 3 times in a row. the first time it caused my system to reboot automatically. the next two time the game would just freeze while trying to read the disc.

  i by-passed this problem by skipping that cutscene and a few othe cutscene after that.

  now playing the game for the second time always skipping any cutscene.

• 77 Pfft // Apr 12, 2009 at 4:56 am

  Shanx your comment further up about the hideo 1 thing happened to me too. But shortly after it appeared it went away.

  Also, I get the disc ? icon when it says “Special Thanks to” in the credits.

  It’s annoying.

• 78 poppasmurf // Apr 14, 2009 at 10:45 pm

  Alls well now just got a new PS3., The problem doesnt lay with the game at all. GTA had the caused same too.

  It is the cost cutting cheap bluray drives SONY have used in the building of the PS3.
  They fail due to over use in MGS.
  Some fail because they are dirty.

  I’m now on my 3rd run through on BIG BOSS EXTREME? excellent game.

  Hideo appears on a blank screen in the Mantis fight, so does a revamped logo of Konami into Kojima.

  Anyone for dolls?

  Anyone for Drebin camo?

  So to fix the problem either get your drive fixed by SONY or pay about £60 to get a new one fitted yourself.

  Enjoy PS3.

• 79 willflo1 // Apr 26, 2009 at 7:05 pm

  yep, same thing with my ps3. Dead after starting act 3. No discs read.

• 80 Franic18 // May 30, 2009 at 11:59 pm

  I have a problem with MSG4, but at the installation process, Snake just freeze and it stays at 19%. I don’t know what to do.

• 81 Conor // May 31, 2009 at 6:22 pm

  Franic18, just keep on trying. It worked for me and most people.

• 82 Franic18 // Jun 1, 2009 at 12:15 am

  Hi, I got it installed finally, took me a few tries. But after the very first three movies, that Otacon tells you to go north, I go to the point of my radar and there’s supposed to be a cutscene there, so I went in, and the game froze again, so I re-installed it, and it still gives me the same problem. Is that normal?

• 83 Franic18 // Jun 1, 2009 at 12:25 am

  I have no problem whatsoever with Metal Gear Online.

• 84 Conor // Jun 1, 2009 at 5:22 pm

  @Franic18

  No, this is not normal…
  You should consider getting a new disk or continually re-trying.
  Best of luck.

• 85 the use to mgs4 fan // Jun 2, 2009 at 10:01 pm

  i came home and my ps3 was acting weird i thought no prob so i restared it to play mgs4 this stupid icon apears an ? on a disc every time it freezes and it almost unplayable now

• 86 Dylan // Jun 3, 2009 at 6:16 am

  I just went to game data utility and deleted MGS4 and re installed it i kept my old saves and i can still use them, but now it works perfectly fine.

• 87 Angry MGS Fan // Jun 14, 2009 at 11:27 am

  I’ve had MGS4 since its launch date, and up until now everything’s worked just fine. I’ve played through single player a good 20 times and i have over 130 hours between two characters on MGO. Then just a couple of days ago when i tried to go on MGO, it took 20 minutes just to get to the start screen the time in between was spent looking at a black screen…wtf? Then it got worse as the days came, 30 minutes, 40 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours then i started looking for a solution.

  I heard delete game utility, so i did. Nothing. In fact now, when i try to load MGO, i get kicked back to the XMB…im really pissed.
  I mean, i bought a ps3 solely to play MGS4 and MGO. Thats $660 f*cking dollars down the drain. Thats pretty much my life’s savings granted im underage and don’t have a job (kinda sad on my part huh?).

  Thanks a ton konami. You can check “bankrupting a 15 year old kid” off your evil list of ways to screw people.

• 88 Robson // Jun 15, 2009 at 7:18 pm

  Angry MGS Fan -

  You have corrupted save data on you hard drive - back up your save games - delete everything on you hard drive related to MGS - all saves and game utility - reboot PS3 and reinstall - you can then try copying one of your back up save files back to your hard drive - I had exaact same fault as you.

• 89 Arunkun // Jul 23, 2009 at 11:01 pm

  Ok, this is what’s happening with me, I hope someone can help me.

  Act 2, Just after the cutscene when Snake shoots vamp in the head, Naomi jumps on drebins’ truck thing, then you drive off in it.

  As soon as Drebin breaks through the gates and the cutscene ends, the games just crashed and I go back to the main Ps3 screen. No, not the MGS main screen, the PS3 MAIN SCREEN.
  Ive done the level countless times now. Bit every time I get up to that cutscene, the same thing always happens.

  Im playing on Naked Normal, 80Gb Ps3, I dont overuse the Ps3 and I have plenty of space left.

  Any ideas guys and girls?

• 90 Chris // Aug 2, 2009 at 1:54 am

  When I load up to Chapter 2 then the installing thing shows up and the random quotes showing snake smoking when it gets to 85% it does the disc-?and ive been taking good care of it(because it my brothers)and now every single time i can play Chapter 1 but then after Chapter 1 this thing happens any1 have any answers?

• 91 Arunkun // Aug 18, 2009 at 9:04 pm

  Hey Everyone. It’s Arunkun again. ^^
  My apologies, I was playing Solid Normal, not Naked Normal.
  Also, I have fixed my problem.
  It seems the data crashes have something to do with the installation of the game.

  My remody for a MGS problem:
  Install the game again. If this doesnt work, Install the game again with another disc.

  It worked for me.

  Chris - Delete your MGS data on your PS3, get another disc and re install.

  If that doesnt work. Go complain. =] Lol

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