________________________________ | Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops| | Secret Character Guide | | Written by phoenix009 | |________________________________| _ / \ /\ / \ -- /___/ /________ |.^.\_/ (@) |________\ /\____ \________ _/ \\ \ \ // / __/_ \\ \ \// / / \ || \ ^ ^\/\/\_/___/ | . // ___ \^ ^ \_______/_____/__/\_ . . . /(*)\ \ \_____/ \ ________|;: : : /___ / //\ \____ /\_/ . . . \\^^/ // \ O/.\ \_|___ \\/ //____\ o|./ _\ \______________// \______\ \._\_/ /______________/ \___________/ __ ___ __ __ _____ _ __ __ __ __ __ __ |__ |__| |__ | | /_\ | |__ | | |__| | |__ |__ __| | |__ |__ __|__ / \ |___ | |__| | \ |__ |__ ___| _______________________________________________________________ ______ _____ ___ __ __ ___ __ ______ ||___| ||__|| \\ // || || ||__|| || || ||\\ || ||___ \ ||_ || || \// ||_|| || || || || || \\ || || || ||_| ||__|| /\\ ||_|| ||__|| ||__|| || \\|| ||___|| || ||__|| // \\ || || ||__|| ||__|| || \|| ||___|| --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Table Of Contents [1] Intro [2] Updates [3] Characters [4] Common Trouble Spots [5] Hacked character Info [6] Rumours [7] Legal [8] Closing [9] Credits -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [1] Intro I decided to write this guide to help people obtain unique characters without the use of a password where possible. While some are easy to obtain, others are not so obvious and require specific steps. I hope this guide helps you recruit the team you desire. There are some minor spoilers so read at your own discretion. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2] Updates Version 1.10 - Added more detail to Raikov and Paramedic. Also added character stats. Version 1.11 - Fixed some grammar and spelling mistakes. Also expanded info on Gene and Cunningham. Version 1.21 - Added more stat info such as careers and fixed life and stamina. Also added common trouble areas section. Version 1.31 - Added two new sections. They are Hacked Character info and Rumours section. Also figured out stamina cap. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [3] Characters Please note that some characters will only be unlocked on a subsequent play through and others require you to save your game and turn off your PSP and reload the game. Some also require you to be at a certain point in the game and have no outstanding reports. Some even require other special conditions. I will outline those in the section to follow. Also stats are based off of those my characters have. + Cunningham + Stats: Unique Item - Laser Career(s) - Arms Specialist and Quarterback Life Min - 140 Life Max - 200 Stamina Min - 220 Stamina Max - 320 Life Password Min - 140 Life Password Max - 200 Stamina Password Min - 220 Stamina Password Max - 320 SNS - 30 Handgun - B Submachine gun - B Assault rifle - A Shotgun - A Sniper rifle - C Heavy weapons - S Knife (CQC) - B Throwing weapons - A Traps - A Technical skill - C Medical skill - C Method: You must stamina kill him and beat the game before January 1st, 1971 on any difficulty. I suggest playing on easy and using stealth camo. Also make sure to have a good spy team deployed to avoid using aborts and wasting time waiting for them to give you reports. Restarting does not effect your time limit only aborting does. + Elisa + Stats: Unique Item - None Career(s) - Chemist and Doctor Life Min - 60 Life Max - 120 Stamina Min - 200 Stamina Max - 300 Life Password Min - 60 Life Password Max - 120 Stamina Password Min - 200 Stamina Password Max - 300 SNS - 90 Handgun - A Submachine gun - A Assault rifle - B Shotgun - B Sniper rifle - B Heavy weapons - C Knife (CQC) - A Throwing weapons - B Traps - A Technical skill - A Medical skill - S Method: Acquire a medic level of 80 and beat the game. On the next play through save the game and reload your PSP. She will then join your party. In order to obtain a medic level of 80 you will need high ranking medics. I personally had 2 level S medics and the rest level A. I managed to obtain one S from the hospital and the other through AP scan. The hospital will give you lots of level A staff. + Eva + Stats: Unique Item - None Career(s) - Spy and Deliveryman Life Min - 80 Life Max - 140 Stamina Min - 250 Stamina Max - 350 Life Password Min - 80 Life Password Max - 140 Stamina Password Min - 250 Stamina Password Max - 350 SNS - 50 Handgun - A Submachine gun - A Assault rifle - B Shotgun - B Sniper rifle - S Heavy weapons - C Knife (CQC) - B Throwing weapons - C Traps - B Technical skill - A Medical skill - A Method: Make sure you put spies in the town, guest house, and western wilderness. After you get Sokolov head to the Silo Entrance. You will receive a call from Campbell about a spy report even though there was none. Head for the top left corner and interrogate the officer. He wears green and is by the rpg ammo. There is a bridge there. He will mention a man with twirling revolvers. You will then get a report from the town about a government official that is there at night time. Head to town at night. Go to the north east side of town and interrogate an official in a blue suit. He'll mention a man with revolvers at the airport. Go to the airport. On the third floor there will be a guard. This is the same room you interrogated the blue politician. Interrogate the guard and he will give you a frequency of 141.23. After you leave you will get a report about a government official at the guest house. Go to the north east room in the northwest building of the guest house and interrogate the man in the blue suit twice. You will get a report about another government official in the western wilderness. Now go to the basement in the western wilderness and capture the official in the blue suit. Now go to the security base. In the North West building there will be a set of lockers. Open them and your character will mention the frequency numbers. Go to the X in the middle of the communications base. Eva will call you to meet up at the airport. Wait 6 days. The easiest way to do this is to go to a place and exit and use the wait feature. Now go to the airport and you will get a call from Campbell. Head to the top of the airport where you interrogated the politician in the blue suit. You will get a call from Eva telling you her plane will crash. Now you will get a report about Eva being spotted in the western wilderness. Go to the basement of the western wilderness and rescue Eva. She is now on your team. * Must have no outstanding tasks. * Must not capture the politician in the blue suit at the airport. You can only interrogate him, but do not recruit him to your team. AP scanned politicians are ok to have in your party. * Must have beaten Null for the second time. + GA KO + Stats: Unique Item - None Career(s) - Athlete and Scout Life Min - ? Life Max - ? Stamina Min - ? Stamina Max - ? Life Password Min - 90 Life Password Max - 150 Stamina Password Min - 220 Stamina Password Max - 320 SNS - 50 Handgun - A Submachine gun - B Assault rifle - B Shotgun - C Sniper rifle - A Heavy weapons - C Knife (CQC) - B Throwing weapons - A Traps - S Technical skill - A Medical skill - B Method: Currently the only known method is by password. Input !TRAUMER to unlock. + Gene + Stats: Unique Item - Bowie Knife Career(s) - Doctor and Politician Life Min - 110 Life Max - 170 Stamina Min - 330 Stamina Max - 430 Life Password Min - 110 Life Password Max - 170 Stamina Password Min - 330 Stamina Password Max - 430 SNS - 50 Handgun - A Submachine gun - B Assault rifle - B Shotgun - C Sniper rifle - A Heavy weapons - C Knife (CQC) - S Throwing weapons - A Traps - A Technical skill - A Medical skill - A Method: You will need to recruit 200 soldiers before you beat the game. Once you have recruited 200 you have to go and face Gene. You must beat him by stamina kill. Please note that you do not have to get 200 soldiers in one play through. For instance you can get 80 on the first, and then 120 on the second, and then go fight Gene and you will unlock him. My method of recruiting soldiers consists of going to the airport and alarming the guy outside. Then run back to the truck. A bunch of guys will start shooting at you close to the truck. Stealth camo helps a lot to take these guys down. Once you knock them all out with your mk22 and the alarm mode (after caution preferably) stops drag all the soldiers back to the truck. Using this method I get about 8-9 soldiers each time. Not only that but most are fox soldiers which are good for online. Keep repeating until you get 200 soldiers. It is possible to obtain soldiers through other methods. Ap and GPS scanning will count towards the 200 count. I imagine that real combat online and the trade function work toward the 200 but I have not had a chance to personally test it out yet. Also note that you can only have 100 soldiers at a time. This includes Snake and Jonathan so really you only have 98 free slots. In order to make more room you will have to discharge some. Simply select the soldier menu (the one where you can view their weapons and careers), and press triangle. From this menu select comrade discharge. Any prisoners you have in prison will not count towards the 200 so make sure to wait until they get transferred over to rookie stage. When you gain 200 soldiers and stamina kill Gene start a new game. Save the game and reload your PSP by turning it off and then turning it on again. Now load your game and it will say a new soldier was found. Gene is now in your party. + Major Zero + Stats: Unique Item - None Career(s) - Politician, Quarterback, Rescuer, and Deliveryman Life Min - ? Life Max - ? Stamina Min - ? Stamina Max - ? Life Password Min - 55 Life Password Max - 115 Stamina Password Min - 260 Stamina Password Max - 360 SNS - 25 Handgun - B Submachine gun - A Assault rifle - A Shotgun - A Sniper rifle - A Heavy weapons - B Knife (CQC) - B Throwing weapons - A Traps - B Technical skill - B Medical skill - B Method: At this time it is known that Major Zero can only be obtained through the use of a password or by having a saved file of Metal Gear Solid Digital Graphic Novel on your PSP. The password is 1+2-3 + Naked Snake + Stats: Unique Item - ? Career(s) - ? Life Min - ? Life Max - ? Stamina Min - ? Stamina Max - ? Life Password Min - ? Life Password Max - ? Stamina Password Min - ? Stamina Password Max - ? SNS - ? Handgun - ? Submachine gun - ? Assault rifle - ? Shotgun - ? Sniper rifle - ? Heavy weapons - ? Knife (CQC) - ? Throwing weapons - ? Traps - ? Technical skill - ? Medical skill - ? Method: At this time it is known this character is only obtainable through hacking. If you obtained one through Real Combat online he is hacked. + Null + Stats: Unique Item - Machete Career(s) - None Life Min - 130 Life Max - 190 Stamina Min - 400 Stamina Max - 500 Life Password Min - 130 Life Password Max - 190 Stamina Password Min - 400 Stamina Password Max - 500 SNS - 60 Handgun - A Submachine gun - S Assault rifle - A Shotgun - B Sniper rifle - C Heavy weapons - C Knife (CQC) - S Throwing weapons - B Traps - A Technical skill - B Medical skill - C Method: Defeat him by any means and on your next play through save and reload your PSP and he will be in your party. + Ocelot + Stats: Unique Item - None Career(s) - Spy, Arms Dealer, and Gambler Life Min - 100 Life Max - 160 Stamina Min - 300 Stamina Max - 400 Life Password Min - 100 Life Password Max - 160 Stamina Password Min - 300 Stamina Password Max - 400 SNS - 60 Handgun - S Submachine gun - A Assault rifle - B Shotgun - B Sniper rifle - A Heavy weapons - B Knife (CQC) - A Throwing weapons - B Traps - A Technical skill - B Medical skill - B Method: After you recruit Sokolov and Eva head to the Ravine. Campbell will call you and tell you to use the communication device and the frequency 141.23 to establish a connection. Head to the second floor cave on the north side of the Ravine and pick up key C. Now go to the X on your map. You will get a call from Ocelot. Now you have to beat the game and start a new file. Once you save reload your PSP and he will join your team. * Must have no outstanding tasks. * Must not capture the politician in the blue suit at the airport. You can only interrogate him, but do not recruit him to your team. AP scanned politicians are ok to have in your party. * Must have beaten Null for the second time. * Must beat game before character joins. + Paramedic + Stats: Unique Item - None Career(s) - Chemist, Doctor, and Nutritionist Life Min - 45 Life Max - 105 Stamina Min - 100 Stamina Max - 200 Life Password Min - 45 Life Password Max - 105 Stamina Password Min - 100 Stamina Password Max - 200 SNS - 20 Handgun - A Submachine gun - B Assault rifle - C Shotgun - C Sniper rifle - C Heavy weapons - C Knife (CQC) - A Throwing weapons - C Traps - B Technical skill - B Medical skill - S Method: First place spies at the hospital. Before the rail bridge mission go to the communication base and contact Paramedic. The communication area is the x on the map. You will then get a report about Paramedic being spotted at the hospital. Head for the blue bars on the map in the north section of the hospital on the first floor to rescue Paramedic. She will now be on your team. * Might have to clear some reports first. + Python + Stats: Unique Item - LN G Career(s) - Quarterback and Scout Life Min - 120 Life Max - 180 Stamina Min - 300 Stamina Max - 400 Life Password Min - 120 Life Password Max - 180 Stamina Password Min - 300 Stamina Password Max - 400 SNS - 40 Handgun - C Submachine gun - A Assault rifle - S Shotgun - A Sniper rifle - C Heavy weapons - B Knife (CQC) - B Throwing weapons - S Traps - A Technical skill - C Medical skill - C Method: Stamina kill him on any difficulty and he will join your party. + Raikov + Stats: Unique Item - None Career(s) - Athlete and Artist Life Min - 90 Life Max - 150 Stamina Min - 300 Stamina Max - 400 Life Password Min - 90 Life Password Max - 150 Stamina Password Min - 300 Stamina Password Max - 400 SNS - 30 Handgun - B Submachine gun - B Assault rifle - A Shotgun - S Sniper rifle - A Heavy weapons - B Knife (CQC) - A Throwing weapons - A Traps - B Technical skill - C Medical skill - C Method: First place spies in the town. Right before you rescue Snake you will get a report about a map detailing the Western Wilderness. Go to the town and in the north east building there will be a red and black secret document with the map to the western wilderness. Now place spies in the western wilderness. Go to the Guest house and rescue Snake. After you rescue Snake you will get a report about a handsome soldier in the Western Wilderness. Head to the prisoner room at the bottom of the Western Wilderness. Raikov will be standing there and you will recruit him. + Roy Campbell + Stats: Unique Item - ? Career(s) - ? Life Min - ? Life Max - ? Stamina Min - ? Stamina Max - ? Life Password Min - ? Life Password Max - ? Stamina Password Min - ? Stamina Password Max - ? SNS - ? Handgun - ? Submachine gun - ? Assault rifle - ? Shotgun - ? Sniper rifle - ? Heavy weapons - ? Knife (CQC) - ? Throwing weapons - ? Traps - ? Technical skill - ? Medical skill - ? Method: At this time it is known this character is only obtainable through hacking. If you obtained one through Real Combat online he is hacked. + Sigint + Stats: Unique Item - None Career(s) - Arms Specialist and Engineer Life Min - 70 Life Max - 130 Stamina Min - 200 Stamina Max - 300 Life Password Min - 70 Life Password Max - 130 Stamina Password Min - 200 Stamina Password Max - 300 SNS - 10 Handgun - B Submachine gun - B Assault rifle - B Shotgun - B Sniper rifle - B Heavy weapons - S Knife (CQC) - B Throwing weapons - B Traps - A Technical skill - S Medical skill - B Method: After you rescue Snake, contact Sigint at the Comm stage, there will be an X in the middle of the map. Place spies in the town and then rescue him after you get the report about him. + Sokolov + Stats: Unique Item - None Career(s) - Elite Engineer Life Min - 40 Life Max - 100 Stamina Min - 100 Stamina Max - 200 Life Password Min - 40 Life Password Max - 100 Stamina Password Min - 100 Stamina Password Max - 200 SNS - 10 Handgun - C Submachine gun - B Assault rifle - B Shotgun - C Sniper rifle - A Heavy weapons - B Knife (CQC) - B Throwing weapons - B Traps - S Technical skill - S Medical skill - B Method: Make sure you have spies in the harbour and the plant. Wait until you get a report about left over parts used to offload metal gear. Then go to the bottom floor of the harbour where you first found the colonel and the crate with the metal gear parts. At the bottom floor Ghost will contact you about retrieving the Saturn V blueprints. Now make your way to the Power Substation and head to the building where you laid the time bomb. There will be 2 guards here, and one of them you will need to interrogate. I believe it is the one closer to the back entrance of the building. He will give you a frequency of 145.61. Now proceed to the Silo entrance and head for the X on the map. It will lead you to a locked door to a building in the northeast section of the map. Campbell will give you a call explaining that you need to use a code to open the door. Stand in front of the door and input the frequency 145.61 you obtained from the guard. Run in and grab the black and red secret documents. You will receive a report from the plant telling you to rescue someone. Go to the plant and go inside the main building. Climb the stairs and go inside the small room between the 2 sliding doors by the tech guy in the blue suit. Sokolov will be standing there and he will be recruited. * Must have beaten Null for the second time. * Might not be able to recruit politician at the airport * Might not be able to have outstanding tasks. I did and was still able to get him so it might depend. + Teliko + Stats: Unique Item - None Career(s) - Nutritionist and Athlete Life Min - 65 Life Max - 125 Stamina Min - 280 Stamina Max - 380 Life Password Min - 65 Life Password Max - 125 Stamina Password Min - 280 Stamina Password Max - 380 SNS - 40 Handgun - S Submachine gun - A Assault rifle - A Shotgun - B Sniper rifle - A Heavy weapons - B Knife (CQC) - B Throwing weapons - B Traps - B Technical skill - C Medical skill - A Method: Make sure to place spies in the guest house. Then wait until December 16th 1971. You will get a report about a women in a strange dress at the guest house. Go to the guest house and head to the right hand side of the north west building and you will find her on the second floor. Now drag her back to the truck. She will now be in your team. * Might have to have no outstanding missions * Might have to wait till second Null fight to obtain. + Ursula + Stats: Unique Item - None Career(s) - Chemist Life Min - ? Life Max - ? Stamina Min - ? Stamina Max - ? Life Password Min - 60 Life Password Max - 120 Stamina Password Min - 200 Stamina Password Max - 300 SNS - 100 Handgun - A Submachine gun - A Assault rifle - B Shotgun - B Sniper rifle - B Heavy weapons - C Knife (CQC) - A Throwing weapons - B Traps - S Technical skill - A Medical skill - S Method: At this moment it is known that instead of getting Elise you sometimes get Ursula for having a medic level of at least 80. Otherwise you will have to input the password PK +ESP. Note at this time it is known that you can not have both in your party at the same time. + Venus + Stats: Unique Item - None Career(s) - None Life Min - 60 Life Max - 120 Stamina Min - 250 Stamina Max - 350 Life Password Min - 60 Life Password Max - 120 Stamina Password Min - 250 Stamina Password Max - 350 SNS - 65 Handgun - A Submachine gun - A Assault rifle - A Shotgun - A Sniper rifle - A Heavy weapons - A Knife (CQC) - A Throwing weapons - A Traps - A Technical skill - A Medical skill - A Method: Make sure to place spies at the power substation. Then wait until December 8th 1971. You will get a report about an alien invasion. Now go to the power station and head to the north west corner. She will be walking outside of the door to the main building knock her out and drag her back to the truck. She will now be in your team. * Might have to have no outstanding missions * Might have to wait till second Null fight to obtain. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [4] Common Trouble Spots These are common things people overlook when attempting to get a character. If these tasks are not fulfilled, you may not get the report you need or the info from an interrogation. 1. Outstanding Tasks - This is a big one. In order to obtain certain characters you must not have any outstanding reports from your spy unit. This means every report must have a red complete message next to it, before you can receive new reports or events allowing you to unlock the characters. This includes getting every gun reported found, every prisoner that needs to be rescued, ect. 2. Not Being Far Enough in the Game - If you find you can not get the character you want because your spy unit is not giving you the proper reports or whatever the case may be, then proceed further in the game. In fact I recommend that you beat Cunningham and attempt to get your characters before the final fight with Gene (if applicable eg: Paramedic you need to get sooner). At this point in the game you will have no outstanding missions to interfere with you unlocking a character. 3. Not Enough Spies - You do not have enough spies to get the report you need. To solve this only put people that actually have spy attributes (Spy, surveyor, ect.) in the location they need to be deployed. Also make sure you have max spies (4) deployed in the area you need to get your report from. 4. Not Starting a New Game and Reloading your PSP - For some characters you can not unlock them until your next play through. You need to complete the tasks necessary to unlock them in your current play through then beat the game and start a new game off of the same file that you just beat. Now play until you can save. Once you save your new game, exit and turn off your PSP. Turn your PSP back on and load your game. It will say a new soldier has been found. The character you were working on getting will be in your party. 5. Not Having Enough Room in Your Party - You will not be able to unlock a character if you have a full party of 100 units. Try discharging some to make room then saving your game and reloading your PSP again. Now that you have enough room the character you want should join your party. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [5] Hacked Character Info Hacked characters are regular characters that are edited. Their appearance and sometimes stats are altered. The characters can be made to look like Naked Snake (Snake you start out with that has no shirt and camo pants. He will only look like this in single player not online as of now), or Roy Campbell. Also the Japanese exclusive camo soldiers (basically regular soldiers with colourful patterns or logos of stores in Japan I believe) are hacked because no one with the North American version has the GPS attachment for the PSP to legitimately obtain them as of now. Players will change the look of regular soldiers to look like camo soldiers. If you are going to use or make hacked characters please do the community a favour and only use them in single player. If you are planning to use the camo soldiers online then please use their intended stats which can be found online through various sources such as message boards. Please note I do not have the resources (proper firmware) to produce hacked characters so I can not help you obtain them. The only thing I can suggest is asking around, because there are currently some save files with them, or perhaps someone else can assist you. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [6] Rumours Ga-Ko: It has been rumoured that using or producing 100 Ga-Kos will unlock this character. MGS4 Snake: At this time it is not possible by any means to obtain this character. Ursula: It has been rumoured that if you obtain a medic level of over 80 with the second number being odd (eg: 83, 87, 93) you will obtain Ursula assuming you don't already have Elisa on your team. I have tried this by discharging Elisa and beating the game with both a medic level of 83 and 99 and I did not unlock Ursula, but rather got Elisa back. So I think it is safe to say this is not the case. I have yet to try all odd numbers, but I think this is simply not the case. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [7] Legal Copyright 2007 Bart Romanowski Feel free to use this on your own website or for your own use as long as it is not altered in any way and advance written permission is obtained. Do not use parts of this guide for your own guide without consenting for permission first. Do not use this guide for profit. All trademarks and copyrights contained in this document are owned by their respective trademark and copyright holders. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [8] Closing If there is anything that is incomplete, an error, or anything else you wish to point out (such as easier methods to obtain a character), please email me at [email protected] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [9] Credits Thanks to the following people that made this guide possible Bubbatrop Delriach Emperorwon GenomeSoldier66 Shadys_Back Signeti sil3ntw0lf Vokkan For help with passwords and some characters. end_of_eden For letting me know the stamina cap so I would not give up due to boredom trying to obtain it. Konami Kojima Productions For production of Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops. --------------------------------------------------------------------------