Food Zip
History
Some history of the food zip. For the ladder skip, scroll down.
2020 - May 31st
first instance of animation glitch by Apel - PS2
The original intend was trying to find a way to skip the Pain without usind the death pill.
2021 - January 13th
recreated food zip by PlatonicGuy in Swampland
2021 - May 2nd
Lab Skip by Apel
2021 - June 13th
Dremuchij North food zip done by Major Zero
2022 - April 10th
new zip variant found in Fury fight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zLrsfNr8AQ
Horizontal application of the same zip
2022 - April 12th
Ladder Zip by Apel
Food Zip to skip the ladder by Apel
done on RPCS3
Recreation on actual hardware: PS3 Super Slim - JP PSN HD version
Xbox hardware can't use this setup, further testing needs to be done
Apel found this clip on April 18th 2022
To do - Series S/X:
- have items set up prior just like on PS3
- go into the backpack
- remove dmic
- remove grenade
- add 3 food items
- start to get out of the menu
- hold food item in hand with R2
- add stun grenade
- add smoke grenade
- add magazine
note: consistency varies
How To Video
Pre-requisites
- have 3 food items
- have 1 empty magazine
- before entering the room you want to execute the zip in
- Equip the DMIC, any grenade, any pistol and the knife, in this order
- go into the area where you want to execute the food zip
- make a save
- Hard reset (recommended for EN US and EN EU versions)
- (Hard reset on JP ver. 1.02 might not be necessary, proof: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGEdhauyDPg)
Doing the glitch
- Load the game and unequip the DMIC and equip any 3 food items
- Go to the spot next to the ladder, face the west wall and point the camera downwards
- Hold R2 and equip the food item (any of the 3)
- Start running forward in a slight right angle and pause the game
- Equip the magazine and the DMIC, unpause, don't let go of forward
- if snake has enough space to T-Pose: Snake will T-Pose and start going backwards, but you will continue to hear his steps
- The camera will zip up
- Roll forward as soon as you can see the railing, or else you'll fall from too high up
- Done
Reliability
- It's technically multisegment only because doing food zips in a full game run is extremely inconsistent, leading to freezes/crashes
- the PS3 HD JP version 1.02 is less prone to freezing/crashing
- the PS3 HD EN version 1.00 is inconsistent despite doing the same setup for the zip effect, leading to more crashes
- doing the zip with not enough space surrounding snake leads to crashes, notably if snake touches the wall in t-pose state the game instantly freezes
Routing Notes
for Very Easy
- to grab an empty magazine, best to empty the mag on the roof guard in the ocelot unit fight
- to grab the one additional needed food item, you can knife the snake in the cave going to the pain in the “vent” part
Further things to look into
- There are other positions to successfully launch Snake from (see compilation here)
- cancelling the fall damage would be ideal to not miss the timing when to roll