Introduction | Cassette Tapes MGS V: TPP Guide
Last update: 14 April 2017
Cassette Tapes are collectibles that you can gather when completing missions. On the tapes, you will find music, monologues of the heroes from the game or recordings of interrogations. All the cassette tapes can be played on your IDroid.
Below, you will find tables with all the regular, as well as special cassette tapes that can be found when exploring the game world. You will not find here the cassette tapes that are obtained automatically, for example by progressing in the main campaign.
Regular Cassette Tapes
Note - when it comes to tapes with songs, follow the music to find them.
NAME | HOW TO OBTAIN |
204863 | Search guard post number 13 in Africa. |
A Phantom Pain | Search Wakh Sind Barracks in Afghanistan. |
All the Sun Touches | Search Munoko ya Nioka Station in Africa. |
Behind the Drapery | Search Da Wialo Kallai in Afghanistan. |
Dancing with Tears In My Eyes | Search Ditadi Abandoned Village in Africa. |
Dormant Stream | Search guard post number 14 in Afghanistan. |
Friday I'm in Love | Search Lufwa Valley in Africa. |
Gloria | Search Nova Braga Airport in Africa. |
Heavens Divide | Complete one of the optional objectives in mission 30 (Skull Face). The tape is in OKB Zero base. |
How 'bout Them Zombies Ey? | Search Bwala ya Masa in Africa. |
Kids in America | Search Da Shago Kallai in Afghanistan. |
Love Deterrence | Search Da Ghwandai Khar in Afghanistan. |
Love Will Tear Us Apart | Search Central Base Camp. |
Maneater | Search Lamar Khaate Palace in Afghanistan. |
MGS Peace Walker Main Theme | Search the quarantine zone in mission 43. |
Midnight Mirage | Search Bampeve Plantation in Africa. |
Nitrogen | Search Serak Power Plant in Afghanistan. |
Only Time Will Tell | Search Eastern Communications Post in Afghanistan. |
Planet Scape | Search guard post number 13 in Afghanistan. |
Quiet Life | Search Mfinda Oilfield in Africa. |
Quiet's Theme | Locate the tape left by Quiet at the end of mission 45. |
Rebel Yell | Search Mountain Relay Base in Afghanistan. |
Ride a White Horse | Search guard post number 12 in Afghanistan. |
She Blinded Me with Science | Search guard post number 18 in Afghanistan |
Snake Eater | Search guard post number 21 in Africa. |
Take on Me | Search Yakho Oboo Outpost in Afghanistan. |
Take the D.W. | Search Da Smasei Laman in Afghanistan. |
The Final Countdown | Search Qarya Sakhra Ee in Afghanistan. |
The Tangerine | Search guard post number 24 in Afghanistan. |
Too Shy | Search Kiziba Camp in Africa. |
True | Search Kungenga Mine in Africa. |
You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) | Search guard post number 08 in Africa. |
Unique tapes
Unique tapes are ones that affect the game world directly. After activating such tape you can distract the enemies or improve your aim. Every tape from this category can be used only once, but after you use it, you can go back to the place where you found it and collect it again.
NAME | HOW TO OBTAIN | EFFECTS |
Afghanistan Music | Search Wakh Sind Barracks in Afghanistan. | Puts nearby enemies to sleep. It only works in Afghanistan and only if the alarm was not raised. |
Afghanistan Soviet Soldier | Search Qarya Sakhra Ee. | The alarm stops when enemies stop seeing the hero. Works only in Afghanistan. |
Bear | After catching a bear, you have to go to the appropriate cage in Animal Conservation Platform. | Bears run from the hero with a slight delay (makes is easier to catch new species). |
Bird | After catching a bird, you have to go to the appropriate cage in Animal Conservation Platform. | Birds flee from the hero with a slight delay (makes it easier to catch new species). |
Central Africa Music | Search Bampeve Plantation in Africa. | Puts nearby enemies to sleep. Works only in Africa and only if the alarm was not raised. |
Central Africa PF Soldier | Search Nova Braga Airport in Africa. | The alarm stops when enemies stop seeing the hero. Works only in Africa. |
Goat | After catching a goat, you have to go to the appropriate cage in Animal Conservation Platform. | Goats flee from the hero with a slight delay (makes it easier to catch new species). |
Horse | After catching a horse, you have to go to the appropriate cage in Animal Conservation Platform. | Horses flee from the hero with a slight delay (makes it easier to catch new species). |
Paz's Humming | Meet with Paz in Medical Platform in Mother Base. | Allies from the Extract the Wandering Mother Base Soldiers missions don't run away from the hero which makes it easier to Fulton them. |
Quiet's Humming | Raise the Bond level with Quiet to 60 and play any mission with her. | Improves your aim in first person view. |
Soldier with Stomachache | Search Da Wialo Kallai in Afghanistan (the tape is inside a toilet). | The enemies stop searching for the hero when you hide in a toilet. |
Wolf | After catching a wolf, you have to go to the appropriate cage in Animal Conservation Platform. | Wolves flee from the hero with a slight delay (makes it easier to catch new species). |