Personally, I was more likely to buy games when they came in the larger boxes.
The manuals and extras were just more appealing when the boxes were big enough to hold something substantial.
Now that the boxes have shrunk, in most cases there's essntially no difference between the downloaded version and the retail one when it comes to the product you get (not counting special edition sets, those are still worth paying for in many cases).
It's floating about on the torrent sites, and will be included with the special edition DVD (the one that's been completed for years but got caught in red tape, and may not see release for a very long time, if ever).
Actually, from what I've been able to find out, Opiate, Undertow, and Ænima were all recorded, mixed and mastered in analog. Lateralus was recorded partially in analog and partially in digital (Maynard's vocals and any needed punch-ins were done in digital), but was mixed and mastered in analog. It's also likely that the digital stuff was done at higher then CD levels of quality.
For Lateralus, whether the CD or vinyl is better does end up coming to preference regardless, as it's a picture disc (albiet a very well made one), meaning it's slightly noisey compared to normal vinyl (normal vinyl doesn't have the pops and crackles, at least not if it's clean, well cared for and you have a turntable that doesn't suck), but the other three releases sound far better on vinyl. There is also something to be said for the large size of the art.
On a related note, you can even get their entire catalog on vinyl (while, all the albums, we still don't have Salival, their DVD/VHS + CD Video/Live/Outakes collection. Hopefully we'll at least get the music from that on vinyl in the future; as amusing as I would find a Laserdisc + Vinyl release in this time period, I doubt it will happen).
Thus the properly bit; the NES version isn't the same game as the MSX version, any more then Dracula X - Chi no Rondo (PC-Engine) and Castlevania - Dracula X (SNES) are the same game; though the difference in quality in the case of the Metal Gear versions isn't nearly so extreme as in that example, being that both the MSX and NES versions are good games.
Metal Gear Solid is the third game in the series actually. The first two were Metal Gear & Solid Snake for the MSX. They weren't released (at least properly) outside of Japan, but they have been translated by fans and can be played via emulation.
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Personally, I was more likely to buy games when they came in the larger boxes.
The manuals and extras were just more appealing when the boxes were big enough to hold something substantial.
Now that the boxes have shrunk, in most cases there's essntially no difference between the downloaded version and the retail one when it comes to the product you get (not counting special edition sets, those are still worth paying for in many cases).
It's floating about on the torrent sites, and will be included with the special edition DVD (the one that's been completed for years but got caught in red tape, and may not see release for a very long time, if ever).
Actually, from what I've been able to find out, Opiate, Undertow, and Ænima were all recorded, mixed and mastered in analog. Lateralus was recorded partially in analog and partially in digital (Maynard's vocals and any needed punch-ins were done in digital), but was mixed and mastered in analog. It's also likely that the digital stuff was done at higher then CD levels of quality. For Lateralus, whether the CD or vinyl is better does end up coming to preference regardless, as it's a picture disc (albiet a very well made one), meaning it's slightly noisey compared to normal vinyl (normal vinyl doesn't have the pops and crackles, at least not if it's clean, well cared for and you have a turntable that doesn't suck), but the other three releases sound far better on vinyl. There is also something to be said for the large size of the art.
On a related note, you can even get their entire catalog on vinyl (while, all the albums, we still don't have Salival, their DVD/VHS + CD Video/Live/Outakes collection. Hopefully we'll at least get the music from that on vinyl in the future; as amusing as I would find a Laserdisc + Vinyl release in this time period, I doubt it will happen).
Thus the properly bit; the NES version isn't the same game as the MSX version, any more then Dracula X - Chi no Rondo (PC-Engine) and Castlevania - Dracula X (SNES) are the same game; though the difference in quality in the case of the Metal Gear versions isn't nearly so extreme as in that example, being that both the MSX and NES versions are good games.
Metal Gear Solid is the third game in the series actually. The first two were Metal Gear & Solid Snake for the MSX. They weren't released (at least properly) outside of Japan, but they have been translated by fans and can be played via emulation.