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[Steam] Download older versions of the game
Updated 1 year ago by Valyssa0

Please consider visiting the wiki article for this guide for a better experience.

THIS IS NOT PIRACY! YOU NEED TO OWN METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN ON STEAM TO BE ABLE TO DOWNLOAD IT!

You will need:

Get DepotDownloader and place it in a directory with enough space for the game (roughly ~29 GiB) cause it'll be downloaded there. Then, unzip the contents of depotdownloader-x.x.x.zip and follow the next step.

First things first you'll need TPP's game ID (287700) and a Depot ID. There's two depots, one for the English version and one for the Japanese version. The depots matter because we'll need different manifest IDs for each version. For speedruns, it comes down to preference as no one version has any documented advantage over the other. You can find all the game versions on SteamDB.

Depot ID / Depot Name 287701 - MGS V: THE PHANTOM PAIN [ENG] 287702 - MGS V: THE PHANTOM PAIN [JPN]

Then we have the game versions. We've selected four specific game versions that are used in speedruns, 1.01 and 1.02. Pay close attention to what version you want to download because there are specific manifest IDs for both the English and Japanese versions of the game.

Manifest ID / Version 1169535579591939527 - [ENG] Version 1.01 4417492996718580012 - [JPN] Version 1.01 4095171774592044207 - [ENG] Version 1.02 4847445065221007922 - [JPN] Version 1.02

With the game ID, depot ID and Manifest ID we can finally download the game trough DepotDownloader. Open PowerShell on DepotDownloaders' folder and type the following (replace the “[ ]” with the corresponding information):

dotnet DepotDownloader.dll -app [game id] -depot [depot id] -manifest [manifest id] -username [your username]

After that it will ask for your Steam user password and then download the depot.

Example (this will download the English v1.01 version of the game. Remember to replace “[your username]” with your actual username):

dotnet DepotDownloader.dll -app 287700 -depot 287701 -manifest 1169535579591939527 -username [your username]


Deprecated Version of the Guide:

Guide on how it works here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=889624474 All versions of the game are listed here: https://steamdb.info/depot/287701/manifests/

If you want to download 1.01 (the release version), use this command in the Steam console: "download_depot 287700 287701 1169535579591939527" For version 1.02, replace the final string of numbers with the following: "4095171774592044207". This version should be a bit improved, but as far as I know didn't patch any glitches that are used in the speedrun. This is also the final version before the Weapon Customization Glitch was patched.

-Original Guide By: Valyssa0 -Edited By: WizardHwK