Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker demo available now

by Griffin McElroy { Sep 24th 2009 at 12:15AM }

If you weren't able to make the trip to Japan for the Tokyo Game Show this year, don't fret -- not only do we have you covered on the hot news scoop front, but IGN managed to snag a downloadable copy of the co-op enabled, TGS-exclusive (well, formerly TGS-exclusive, we guess) Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker demo for the PSP. Just make sure you've got the latest firmware, download the file from the acronymed gaming news site, unzip it and place it in your PSP's "Game" folder, and enjoy.

If, while enjoying, you also happen to kick ass, you might even get a high enough ranking to unlock a special wallpaper for your Sony handheld. Finally, we have incentive to do something other than make cardboard box fortresses.

Tags: demo, kojima, konami, metal-gear, metal-gear-solid-peace-walker, peace-walker, tgs-2009, tokyo

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Solace @ Sep 24th 2009 12:17AM

latest FW? aww shit

Alton Brown [ XBL: LordToastington, Soon-To-Be-PSN: OrIsItAltonBrown] @ Sep 24th 2009 12:18AM

GIT YO TOWELS READY; IT'S ABOUT TO GO DOWN!

Solace @ Sep 24th 2009 12:23AM

yeah well not for me I'm on 5.03 OFW damn

Alton Brown [ XBL: LordToastington, Soon-To-Be-PSN: OrIsItAltonBrown] @ Sep 24th 2009 12:24AM

Did you hack it, or are you just unable to upgrade?

Solace @ Sep 24th 2009 12:37AM

it's official for a reason

ShadowflareXIII @ Sep 24th 2009 12:53AM

!

(Downloading!!)

BananaBoat @ Sep 24th 2009 1:04AM

Need...play demo....must...fight...urge....upgrade....firmware.....happy with....current....firmware....imports....gahhhhhhhhhhh

!

Jawmuncher (PSN & XBL:Jawmuncher) @ Sep 24th 2009 1:34AM

:/

it's playable on 5.01 no need for 6.00 I can confirm

BananaBoat @ Sep 24th 2009 1:40AM

@Jawmuncher

Thank you good sir

Solace @ Sep 24th 2009 1:45AM

you fucking liar says 5.51

BananaBoat @ Sep 24th 2009 1:47AM

Stop playing with my head ><

Jawmuncher (PSN & XBL:Jawmuncher) @ Sep 24th 2009 1:50AM

Sorry my bad I meant 5.51 don't even know how I pressed 0.
But hey thats better than 6.00

5.51 Update
http://www.softsailor.com/news/4482-psp-update-551-available-for-download-now.html

Surfaced @ Sep 24th 2009 2:08AM

still not sacrificing my 5.03 CFW

Sly (Now with less shake, more bake!) @ Sep 24th 2009 6:03PM

i've got 5.0 CFW. dang. i really wanna play this.

Dustin @ Sep 24th 2009 12:18AM

Its cool. I didn't understand anything, since its all in Japanese. when you get to the actual gameplay, man. This game is the biggest reason why we need a 2nd nub.

Alton Brown [ XBL: LordToastington, Soon-To-Be-PSN: OrIsItAltonBrown] @ Sep 24th 2009 12:23AM

Is it good?

ZaxCG2 @ Sep 24th 2009 1:00AM

My guess is that its suffering from the usual PSP shooter game illness?
Whats it called?
I believe its OH-MY-GOD-THESE-ARE-4-BUTTONS-NOT-AN-ANALOG-STICK-HOW-DO-I-AIM-itus.

sc00by_y00 @ Sep 24th 2009 12:24AM

I am downloading this right now. thanks for the heads up.. Ive bricked my psp I think thought ..

Side note:
Isnt sony's main conference meant to kick off in 10 minutes time ? 1:30 pm japanese time ?

johnnynumber5 @ Sep 24th 2009 12:32AM

As far as I know they already had their keynote. Not sure if they have a conference in addition to the keynote, though.

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/09/23/joystiq-live-sonys-tokyo-game-show-keynote/

sc00by_y00 @ Sep 24th 2009 12:34AM

http://www.gtplanet.net/sony-press-conference-at-tgs-2009-liveblog/

this is the actual main conference that previous one was just kaz's keynote this is the proper one, from what I have been reading..

sc00by_y00 @ Sep 24th 2009 12:40AM

http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/699454/Tokyo-Game-Show-2009-Sony-Press-Conference-Liveblog.html for a different feed

copa @ Sep 24th 2009 12:41AM

John Laydon just announced no Gran Turismo 5 until 2010.

sc00by_y00 @ Sep 24th 2009 12:48AM

YouTube!
Photo Mode: Photo Drive, Photo Stage
GT TV: Improved UI, export of videos to PSP, and progressive downloading.
I'm loving the cross-compatibility with the PSP version.
The private rooms were one of the most requested features.
Kazunori is saying it's the most significant advance in photo mode in years.

GT5 Sounds so freaking awesome.. March 2010 for japan they didnt mention a worldwide release or have they ?

Metal Beard Solid @ Sep 24th 2009 12:24AM

Huh.

IGLAW @ Sep 24th 2009 1:11AM

ShadowflareXIII @ Sep 24th 2009 2:24AM

Whose footprints are these?!

dnlkk94 @ Sep 27th 2009 1:34PM

Just a box...

BLipp18 @ Sep 24th 2009 12:26AM

it plays almost like resistance retribution. nub move, face buttons move camera, l aims, r fires

dpad down makes you crouch, right is weapon select, left is item select

johnnynumber5 @ Sep 24th 2009 12:33AM

Thats a good thing!

RKN @ Sep 24th 2009 12:51AM

The textures still look better than on Modern Warfare for the Wii. I went there.

Wardo @ Sep 24th 2009 12:55AM

I don't see why you felt the need to go "there" in this article.

RKN @ Sep 24th 2009 1:21AM

Sorry Mr. Mustang. :(

Wardo @ Sep 24th 2009 1:58AM

As long as you learned your lesson.

...MINISKIRTS!

Night Elve @ Sep 24th 2009 12:58AM

Downloading it :)

Chris Miller @ Sep 24th 2009 1:05AM

Stupid requiring an update >< I will not give up my custom firmware, even for something as awesome as this. I'll wait till either they hack this firmware or the game comes out (at which time the firmware version should have been long hacked)...not that I could play it anyway since the screen on my psp just friggin' DIED. *sigh*

Jawmuncher (PSN & XBL:Jawmuncher) @ Sep 24th 2009 1:45AM

Ummm people on the forum I post at have said you can play on CFW.
Just thought I'd let you know

Chris Miller @ Sep 24th 2009 1:47AM

Wait...which firmware does the demo require you to update to then?

Jawmuncher (PSN & XBL:Jawmuncher) @ Sep 24th 2009 1:51AM

5.51
(Not 5.01 like I accidentally said)

Meghterb @ Sep 24th 2009 5:28AM

Just played it, the game is different than the previous PSP MGS titles. Everything in the game is cool but I didn`t like the idea of rotating the camera with the buttons, I guess they had their excuse, the PSP has only one analog .. Gonna get this game for sure though.

Lurkero @ Sep 24th 2009 8:26AM

Kojima FTW

stormtrooper190 (IcelandTerrorist) @ Sep 24th 2009 12:12PM

how the hell do i do this! the file is a winRAR file and i that is the file that needs to go in the GAME file. but it keeps telling me that its ether currupt or damaged and cant do that.please someone help me?

IcelandTerrorist (stormtrooper190) @ Oct 3rd 2009 5:54PM

i see nobody wants to help me. :(

oberon! @ Nov 6th 2009 9:54PM

you need to extract the folder contained in the rar file, and put it
into your GAME folder inside your PSP

(the folder contains two files, a .DAT and an EBOOT.PBP)

IcelandTerrorist (stormtrooper190) @ Nov 8th 2009 8:09AM

i found that out aventually and when i do it theres no .DAT and no EBOOT.PBP files in it after i wove it in the psp.

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