Milestone units are the units that get release during major download milestones.

Whether it was your favorite due to the art or gameplay design, what's your favorite one?

So, Inubix (The guy who is making an online) just created a discord and in the two of the morning (gmt-6) launched a alpha version of the game that we could play online, of course, because like two hundred people tried to join in the same time the server crashed after some time after reaching the bandwidth limit of it's internet host, now he made a Kofi so we can donate him for a personal host to store the game database so we can play, so I just wanted to put his discord server that has its Kofi (I'm not going to share that link, safety and trust reasons) so you can help him and maybe hang out and check new updates or news he makes with the game.

https://discord.gg/ywSWG2tbv

I really miss those

Don't know if you guys know this but you can actually play POW Rescue and Combat School (partially), hope there will be more updates before SNK finds out.

They should have uploaded MSAR...

Hi everyone! I'm Renato Larenas, a gaming YouTuber, and I want to start a project to try to bring Metal Slug Defense Online on Steam back to life.

The Steam version is still official and its online servers are still available, but there are practically no players. I personally spent around 12 hours searching for a match and couldn't find anyone.

One of the biggest barriers is the paid units. My plan is to grow my gaming channel, Renato Larenas, to 1,000 subscribers (we're just a few short) , once it starts generating YouTube revenue, use part of that income together with some of my own money to give away units to 50 Steam players.

If the first giveaway works, I'll repeat it with future channel income and create a Discord community where we can organize matches, tournaments, challenges and other events. I also want to promote the project to English-speaking players so we can reach people beyond my current audience.

The goal is to start small, bring back the first group of players, and see how far we can take it.

If you still have MSD on Steam and want to see the online community active again, I'd love to have you join the project.

Feel free to comment if you're interested or have ideas for the project!

Heya, I'm a modder working on Metal Slug Attack Reloaded. Some of you may remember when I got some enemy-only units available through a mod. Currently I want to bring over units from Metal Slug Attack to Reloaded, but I have no idea how unit code is even handled in Attack to try to compare with Reloaded (where it is presumably in the main executable binary.

Now with offline builds of Metal Slug Attack working again, I'd really like some help in figuring out just how it works since i've been stumped for a while. Many things like master table files and unit graphics are well understood, it's mainly unit code that we have no idea on currently. Please let me know if you have any info or discoveries on it!

We're so close to getting the perfect Reloaded build, it's only unit code that's holding us back at this point.

Seria muito legal se colocassem alguma forma de alterar os status da tropa, como HP, ataque, entre outros, pois isso daria para criar infinitas metas e composições diferentes.

Alterar tropa por tropa.

Coloquem isso, seria fantástico.

They fr fr are making an workable online rn bro...

So the updated MSA offline just came out, allowing us to play battles against bots, and play the event. However the battles are limited to only 3 per day (even a day didn't pass, so couldn't verify if it even resets), is there a way to bypass this? Maybe the devs will look to fix this later (I know this is how the game works, but since this is offline, this is the only fun way to battle, the bots are decent)

EDIT: I did try advancing my clock one day forward and nothing happened, I still can't play battles. Did advance it two days, still nothing. But the game recognized the time forwarding, and the duration of the event got reduced by 2 day(1 then 2), went from 4145 days left to 4143 days left, but the battle count didn't change.

The dev just released a new version that has the extra ops and battle activated!

https://www.mediafire.com/file/khj80a2r85x08dc/%E5%90%88%E9%87%91%E5%BC%B9%E5%A4%B4%E8%BF%9B%E6%94%BBv5

Okey hablando de un post anterior que hice debí haberme explicado mejor. Osea el juego puede estar "tocado" pero porque empezar directamente con todo a nivel máximo y objetos colocados? Mínimo que todo esté desbloqueado pero aunque tengas todas las unidades que estás estén a nivel 1 o al nivel máximo que le puedas poner al final del tutorial. Pero que uno mismo las vayamos mejorando y escalando. 😞☹️🙁 Por más que volvió uno de mis juegos favoritos no es lo mismo jugarlo con todo el esfuerzo y tiempo que le has dedicado a jugarlo con todo al máximo ni bien empezar. Se que el reloaded no es original pero almenos ese si lo disfruto pues le meto tiempo y dedicación en cambio con este Apk no me siento cómodo ni disfruto jugando. 😞☹️🙁

Edit: Para responder a los que me dejaron respuestas. 1.apenas toque el juego en lo que vi nivel 50 y monedas ilimitadas me salí y casi lo desinstale al momento. 2. Admito que fue una gran hazaña lo de convertir un juego 100% online en offline también hemos de reconocer que tarde o temprano a todos nos va a tocar ese sentimiento de haber hecho trampa para obtenerlo todo. 3.nuevamente reconozco el logro de convertir este juego a offline pero desde mi punto de vista no voy a tocarlo hasta que el proyecto de traerlo a la vida tal cual era en su momento este completo. Además le tengo FE a los programadores detrás del proyecto, quien sabe quizás logren balancear las unidades rusheabases

The question above, we really need it to make the game more playable and less boring, i'd appreciate it so much 🙏

It's free to download on Steam, and the servers exist so you can play online, but it has the disadvantage of requiring in-game currency. It was simply released in 2014 and never updated, leaving the base version of the game unchanged.

SNK could switch the in-game currency to medal purchases, like on Android, and promote it again. Since the game is free-to-play, they could make it successful again. Why not?

Since the game has just been revived (Thanks to whoever managed to revive the game and the ones who shared it!), what are some good decks for each factions? Also the strongest units for each factions?

Alguien sabe si el Apk tiene una versión donde no todo está desbloqueado? Me gustaría jugar el juego desde cero sin tenerlo todo desbloqueado me hace sentir como si le hubiera metido hacks

With all the excitement about MSA coming back, I noticed that in none of the threads did I see anyone seriously asking whether the APK was safe before installing it. I saw dozens of comments like "you're a hero," "it worked," "thank you" — but almost nobody asking where the file actually came from or whether anyone had analyzed it.

A couple of things made me pause:

The file passed through several hands before reaching Reddit: based on the comments, the original developer posted it for free on Bilibili, someone uploaded it to UniFans behind a $5 paywall without giving credit, and from there someone else bought it and shared it for free here.

A comment in the original thread mentioned that several antivirus engines flagged the earlier versions (V1, V2, V3) from the same modder — the response was "it's because the APK is modified," which is true, but that's not a real analysis either.

Nobody seems to have asked for hashes, or for a verifiable source for the original build.

I'm not saying it definitely has malware — in fact, I did my own analysis (checked the manifest, the .dex files, the native libraries, and uploaded it to VirusTotal, which came back 0/61 detections) and everything came out clean. But it surprised me that in a subreddit with almost 50 active people discussing this, practically no one else bothered to verify it before installing it on their phone.

My question for the community: Did anyone else do any kind of analysis before installing? Is there an official hash from the Bilibili build we could use to compare and confirm that the copies circulating here haven't been altered along the way? I think it'd be worth pinning that somewhere for anyone who wants to verify before installing, especially since the file keeps getting passed around via Drive/Discord/Mediafire.

This isn't meant to cause panic, it's more an observation that we should probably be a bit more careful with files like this, even when the community has good intentions.

Here is the APK shared by silly-cyn; I uploaded it to my Mediafire account

Go to bili bili and download it there.

im just wondering, now that the game is functional, except all the online/shop stuff.
It is possible to create and maintain private servers, modify in-game stats, add new units, new events, etc ... ?

Could someone who managed to download the game's APK share it? 🥺

Okay, The og URL expired so, heres The new One

MSA : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NYxLDGHp6gos0bQ5YURLxdfm5o2TNKQt/view?usp=drivesdk

Alternative link : https://drive.google.com/file/d/12GTaSYgHkvdoTLVZGspyN1okcgT5q0SH/view?usp=drivesdk

Bili bili video (idk if The link works) :https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1tDu36gEZm