Note: You MUST pick up the box here if you plan on doing Conveyor Belt Route.

• When Raiden reaches the third black line on the floor coming from the south, do an aerial into prone to pickup the claymore. Coolant-rise right after that.

Note: You MUST pick up the box here if you plan on doing Conveyor Belt Route.

This guide will only focus on the standard strategy for Fortune. Please refer to the MGS2 Boss Fight: Fortune page for more advanced strategies and information on the fight.

Tap R2 to bring out the M9 and avoid the claymores here. Using the box to avoid the claymores can be useful.

Possible Damage cancel setups and Dpad paths

This guide will only focus on the standard strategy for Fatman. Please refer to the MGS2 Boss Fight: Fatman page for more advanced strategies and information on the fight.

• NG: Ames will always spawn in the same position, which is spot #14 on the photo below.
  

• NG+ and NG++: Ames can spawn in 20 random positions and the game determines this the moment the player enters the Shell 1 Core, B1 Hall for the first time.
  

This guide will only focus on the standard strategy for Harrier. Please refer to the MGS2 Boss Fight: Harrier page for more advanced strategies and information on the fight.

This guide will only focus on the standard strategy for Vamp 1. Please refer to the MGS2 Boss Fight: Vamp 1 page for more advanced strategies and information on the fight.

• The best position to stand when spraying is the black line to the top of the fire. A good audio cue is when the phone begins to ring.
• The visual cue to stop spraying at the fire is when the black smoke appears.

• When Emma gets past the thin part of the bridge, let go of her and head to the southern door.

This guide will only focus on the standard strategy for Vamp 2. Please refer to the MGS2 Boss Fight: Vamp 2 page for more advanced strategies and information on the fight.

This guide will only focus on the standard strategy for Tengu 1. Please refer to the MGS2 Boss Fight: Tengu 1 page for more advanced strategies and information on the fight.

This guide will only focus on the standard strategy for Tengu 2. Please refer to the MGS2 Boss Fight: Tengu 2 page for more advanced strategies and information on the fight.

This guide will only focus on the standard strategy for MG-Rays. Please refer to the MGS2 Boss Fight: MG-Rays page for more advanced strategies and information on the fight.

This guide will only focus on the standard strategy for Solidus. Please refer to the MGS2 Boss Fight: Solidus page for more advanced strategies and information on the fight.

Skip the cutscenes after finishing off Solidus and the cutscenes after the credits sequence. Time will end at the Score Screen and Rank will be shown after that.

• HD Edition (PlayStation 3): On this version and platform, sometimes the credits can lock up (called a 'Credit Freeze'). Unfortunately, this means a run that has this can NOT go on the leaderboards as it has no score screen.
  

• Sons Of Liberty: The rank screen will NOT show your final rank. For Rank 1, a score screen with a time of 3:00:00 or less, 8 or less Saves, 0 Continues, 3 Alerts, 0 Kills, and 0 Rations, and no special items used is enough for the leaderboards to consider it a Hound Rank.
  

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