Download Merry Gear Solid 2: The Ghosts of Christmas Past
It is strongly recommended that you have completed Merry Gear Solid: Secret Santa. A summary of that game can be found in the Previous Ops section of the main menu.
Download Version 1.2 (79 MB)
Download Version 1.2 Patch (3 MB, updates 1.1c to Version 1.2)
1.1c introduces a fix for the first boss, which makes the boss work as intended (the earlier versions have a debug-related error that skips directly to the boss’s defeat).
Also, please redownload this if you are getting messages about the Toast even though you don’t have it yet.
December 26th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
[...] After 3 long, terrible, head splitting agonizing months, Merry Gear Solid 2 is finally released! [...]
December 26th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
I feel for you, BUT HOORAY
December 26th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
Congratulations!
December 26th, 2009 at 5:38 pm
HEY WHAT IS THIS I CAN’T DOWNLOAD I BLAME YOU
December 26th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
[...] The Ghosts of Christmas Past acaba de ser lançada. Um dia atrasado, mas tudo bem. Vão jogar. AGORA! (…Se tiverem condições de baixar um arquivo de 79 MB. Dublagem, pessoal. Dublagem.) [...]
December 26th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
My antivirus keeps rejecting this file as high risk.
It only makes me want to play it more though.
December 26th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
FINALLY! Now you can get back to work on the Underside!
December 26th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
Now work on the Underside!
December 26th, 2009 at 6:08 pm
Oy, the man has only been working on it for an eternity. Do you want him to curse you?
December 26th, 2009 at 6:15 pm
you said pasphrase not passcode
December 26th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
@Jacob — there are far worse things wrong with the game, haha.
December 26th, 2009 at 6:20 pm
Okay, just mentioning it to you
December 26th, 2009 at 7:58 pm
Major bug fighting the Ghost of Christmas Present. I’m told to use the toast to get past, but I’ve entered the arena WITHOUT TOAST. Pulling a soft restart only lets me load to the start of the boss fight, so I can’t get out and find this toast.
December 26th, 2009 at 8:01 pm
I had the same bug as Matt above, I then started a new game to get the item, but it loaded the character on top of the outer savin’ sign in the bottom left of the first screen in the game.
December 26th, 2009 at 8:02 pm
Agh, i’m sorry! that’s a typo in a file! i’m uploading an update right now.
December 26th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
Ahaha, just finished, that was amazing.
December 26th, 2009 at 8:45 pm
Just played it through start to finish. Took me about three hours counting a few short breaks in the middle. Very good, enjoyed it thoroughly. This was the Christmas present I was hoping for.
The only criticism I have is that during the boss “battles,” if you ask Otacon enough, he just spells out the solution for you. If you could have made it slightly more subtle that would have been preferable, but it works well enough.
5/5, now get to work on Merry Gear Solid 3 for next year
December 26th, 2009 at 8:48 pm
@meepy — that’s more a compatibility thing — i just wanted to make sure that user accounts that, for example, might not be able to change system settings, etc. could still complete the game (^:
December 26th, 2009 at 8:52 pm
Yeah I kind of figured that, I know what it’s like to run on a non-administrator account in Windows. There isn’t much you can do or change, and changing the time falls into that category.
December 26th, 2009 at 9:15 pm
GAH 404 ERROR! =(
December 26th, 2009 at 9:19 pm
@hyper emerson: uploading a bugfix — the first boss battle was a lot shorter than it was supposed to be due to a debug feature that i forgot to take out :^X
it’s fixed now.
December 26th, 2009 at 9:20 pm
Open the download link as a new tab and refresh it repeatedly.
December 26th, 2009 at 9:27 pm
“Cannot load StingReplace.mfx” NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
December 26th, 2009 at 9:29 pm
God 78 MB compared to 1?!? Big improvement… playing now
December 26th, 2009 at 9:47 pm
Pretty damn amzing game well made, no very well made.
December 26th, 2009 at 10:52 pm
How do you save?
December 26th, 2009 at 10:58 pm
@partiboyy — it autosaves at the start of each level.
@dave no kami — it MAY have to do with mscr dlls… unfortunately i don’t have the source to stringreplace.mfx so i don’t know what dlls it requires!
December 26th, 2009 at 11:03 pm
thank you sooooo much it is a gr8 game
December 27th, 2009 at 12:47 am
Is there something missing for the second boss? I swear I feel like the most daft player alive, there’s no solution past dragging in the package.
December 27th, 2009 at 12:57 am
@Matt: You have the package… account for your assailant and put it in the proper place.
December 27th, 2009 at 2:12 am
Goddamnit wth were your testers doing? let me betatest next time!
Just kidding. The game is superawesome. Truely impressive!
December 27th, 2009 at 8:13 am
[...] Merry Gear Solid 2: Ghost of Christmas Past è un fantastico freeware/parodia di Metal Gear Solid by Arthur ‘Mr. Podunkian’ Lee! [...]
December 27th, 2009 at 11:02 am
A-W-E-S-O-M-E! The only thing else I could have even asked for is to lower the volume in game, but i can do that on my comp! Overall, great game, better than the early MGS games it was based on!
December 27th, 2009 at 11:35 am
@contra — testers? what testers?
December 27th, 2009 at 11:46 am
What program did you make this game in? I might beable to find a fix, I am running it in Ubuntu’s Wine after all…
December 27th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
Finally!
December 27th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
Awesome, just awesome…
Thank you very much! It was an amazing experience, and one of the best gifts this year
December 27th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
[...] Gear Solid 2 has now been patched to version 1.2. A small, 3MB patch is also available for download to patch any version to 1.2 (I think!). [...]
December 27th, 2009 at 7:23 pm
Christmas has changed. Its no longer about happiness, joy & well-wishing. Its an endless series of commercialized gimmicks, created for the sole purpose of selling more stuff. Christmas – and it consumption of cash, has become a well-oiled machine.
Christmas has changed.
But really, this was an awesome game. Wouldn’t mind if you made the game music available outside the game. Can’t wait until next year.
December 27th, 2009 at 7:42 pm
I think you deserve at least a good night’s sleep after this. Maybe a million of those. I don’t mind the lack of updates to The Underside now that I see what you’ve been working on in its stead.
December 28th, 2009 at 1:15 am
@Kevin
The music in in a folder in the game’s directory.
December 28th, 2009 at 3:12 am
haha awesome game mate, i’m a big fan of bad puns
December 28th, 2009 at 9:44 am
I’m still trying to find a fix for Stringreplace.mfx! I waited for this for so long!!!
December 28th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
somebody posted a fix for the stringreplace thing on the indiegames.com comments thing
December 29th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
Yay! It’s finally out! Sweet!
December 29th, 2009 at 5:35 pm
One word: AWESOME!!
December 30th, 2009 at 1:26 am
how do i patch da game
December 30th, 2009 at 9:29 am
I have just downloaded it, may be passed 30%, I hope I haven’t accomplished more yet as the game is simply amazing. Two thumbs up and an all absorbing thanks for such a great present.
December 30th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
@aircon — extract the file to the same directory as your old install, and overwrite all files.
December 31st, 2009 at 7:00 am
Crap you made me sad… Wait he isnt dead..
Still one of the best games i ever played. Thank you verry much for it!
December 31st, 2009 at 1:52 pm
Now i really want to play the Ebeneezer Eve Incident.
January 1st, 2010 at 7:36 pm
[...] Merry Gear Solid 2: Ghost of Christmas Past is a fan-made tribute to a popular series of stealth espionage games, created by a developer who has a clear understanding and respect for canon material. Many of the tools used on the field have been renamed and redesigned with the Christmas theme in mind, but the way these equipment are handled will feel very similar to their original counterparts. [...]
January 5th, 2010 at 8:33 am
[...] Alle Veteranen dürfen sich erneut mit Glitzern in den Augen in die Welt der weihnachtlichen Heimlichkeit stürzen, mit verbesserter Grafik, tollen neuen Features und einer deutlich längeren Spielzeit. Worauf warten Sie also noch? Schultern Sie den Rentierkopf, entsichern Sie ihre Blitzlichtkamera und bahnen Sie sich ihren Weg durch dieses rundum grandiose Spiel. Die schöne Zeit, sie geht doch allzu schnell vorbei, und bevor Sie der alltägliche Trott wieder fest im Griff hat, gönnen Sie dem Kind in Ihnen noch ein wenig Spass mit Merry Gear Solid 2: The Ghosts of Christmas Past. [...]
January 5th, 2010 at 3:15 pm
We demand that you make the Prequil “The Ebeneezer Incident”
January 5th, 2010 at 11:49 pm
[...] Reviews At a Glance: Genre(s): Stealth/Action Link: Announcement here. Download here. Difficulty: Medium Warnings: None really, unless you still believe in Santa in which case… [...]
January 6th, 2010 at 12:07 am
@dave no Kami:
Please no, it would be wonderful to do something other than play Mr. Podunkian’s games with my life.
January 6th, 2010 at 11:21 am
http://screwattack.com/blogs/Fat-Penguin-Reviews/Merry-Gear-Solid-2-Review
Mr. Podunkian, you’ll be glad to know that i gave your game an 11/10! sort of… well, at least i spread the word. or tried to
congratulations for the game, its the most kickass thing ive seen this year (lol), make more, PLEASE.
January 6th, 2010 at 12:59 pm
Am I the only one getting problems with this from the anti-virus?
It’s saying that it’s acting suspicious.
January 6th, 2010 at 3:19 pm
@l — i’ve heard other people having the same problems, but i don’t know what’s causing it. it’s definitely not a virus — it must be some of things the game does while it’s running, maybe? for instance, checking your computer clock, or maybe it has to do with some functions that it uses that check file names? besides that, i have no idea why your antivirus is getting a false positive.
January 12th, 2010 at 12:21 pm
I love the game and its music!
would you mind uploading the music files as mp3? i can’t play it separately on my com 
January 22nd, 2010 at 3:00 am
I don’t want to play this anymore! I can’t beat even the first boss!
January 23rd, 2010 at 8:02 pm
The game is good, but it has a large gap in new material in the 2nd third. You endure 2 large backtracking sections which are devoid of any cutscenes, after the loads at the start and end. What’s really a waste is having the Tadpoles show up only once: come on, have a patch which introduces them during the big backtracking to the roof. Possibly dig up some unused material for some cutscene over there, especially concerning the Ghost of Christmas Past (or a pretender of him).
January 29th, 2010 at 3:07 pm
how do you beat the ghost of christmas yet to come
January 29th, 2010 at 5:48 pm
otacon should tell you. (and if you for some reason don’t have the ability to defeat him this way, just call him 10 times on the codec)
February 15th, 2010 at 12:28 am
Oh… my… gawd…… Is S****** N*** Jr.? Because, if so, YOU ARE FREAKING BRILLIANT!!!!!
10/10 man. You got some skills in game creating.
March 2nd, 2010 at 10:03 pm
Got an “LUA” error? There’s no sound either.
March 3rd, 2010 at 4:01 am
ventkazemaru — have you extracted the files properly, retaining their original directory structure?
March 4th, 2010 at 10:23 pm
OH You have to extract the files from the zip first?
March 11th, 2010 at 12:01 pm
dosn’t work….Lua error
March 26th, 2010 at 10:33 am
Backtracking…….. UGH.
March 27th, 2010 at 11:23 pm
I can’t seem to extract the file with the game in it. It keeps on telling me to “Insert the last disk of the Multi-Volume set…”. What do I have to do?
April 14th, 2010 at 5:52 pm
Oh boy, The ending just made me squeal like a fan boy. But I was digging around the files and found something…interesting. Tell me, is there an alternate ending or easter egg if you can get through the game with out getting caught once or any special conditions like that?
April 14th, 2010 at 6:12 pm
yep — i don’t really remember the exact details, but there’s a second elevator in the final room of the game (the one with the missiletoe), and if you can reach it, collecting a minimal number of items (i believe it’s the holey sock only), that second elevator opens up, and lets you skip directly to the end of the first act.
for a real challenge, try to get through the game with minimal items, and no alerts. it can be done — i’ve done it twice! (but you should try to figure out the rooms beforehand, as some of the rooms have very specific ways to do them)
April 17th, 2010 at 9:52 pm
Ah, Well thanks for confirming my hunch. Is there any kind of FAQ or special walk through for this game? I would really like to get to this second elevator now.
April 18th, 2010 at 7:48 am
well, most of the levels can be completed through trial and error. one of the most difficult ones in my opinion is the line of guards that you typically use a box to sneak past. for this room, you’re gonna have to knock so that a couple of the guards get distracted away from the rest of them. with luck, you should be able to pull away JUST enough guards to be able to just barely make it through.
besides that, the best advice i can give you is that knocking plays a very very very big role in this sort of a run. experiment a bit, and see what you can and can’t do in terms of distracting the guards. also remember that you can “chain” knocks together — by which i mean, you can knock to distract a guard, and then run to a different location and knock again, which will cause the guard to stray even further from his original location. i’d suggest you try to do this without the stipulation of having to do it with no alerts to begin with. i’d only suggest you try a no alerts run after you’ve really mastered the game.
April 23rd, 2010 at 9:58 am
Hm…So if I can reach the missletoe launcher using only the holey sock, (and no alerts) then that should (in theoretically) unlock this second elevator then?
May 6th, 2010 at 8:39 pm
I love this gave! I first learned about it when I watched the DeceasedCrab video about it, so I thought I’d give it a try. Now please work on the Underside!
May 12th, 2010 at 1:08 am
My save file got deleted just because I exited it. I thought it has auto-save…….
June 2nd, 2010 at 7:36 am
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June 10th, 2010 at 4:08 am
Great! I only wish the first game worked as well. (No sound, skips codec dialogues. Some other games done with the same game creation suite have similar problems, mind you.)
July 17th, 2010 at 2:49 pm
Brilliant game, be good if you could port it to some other systems (GP2X, Wiz, Dingoo etc.), would be great to play this amazing game on the go.