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68.45.180.241 wrote: The canon is really a mixture of both. They used the TTS audio while keeping most of the original version's cutscenes for flashbacks.

I think we should put TTS aside in these theories and focus on PS1 version of MGS. The reason is that TTS is probably noncanonical. Yes it was supervised by Kojima Productions and Kojima but in the end he didn't like it. When TTS was produced it's script was probably going to be corrected one. But because in the end this game didn't turn out as good as he thought he would probably refer to PS1 version. It's recuring issue with Kojima - he prefer first versions of games in the series. TTS didn't appear in HD Collection and won't in incoming Legacy Collection. Yeah it leads to longtime discussion about Portable Ops's canonity. But bear in mind that PO was confirmed by Kojima to be in canon, levels from PO were in PW's online mode and there were references to PO in other MGS's official promotional materials. Because of that we shouldn't disbelief that reasons for not including PO in these collections are something other than Konami's laziness to make HD port and lack of Kojima's directly involvement while production. On the other hand we have The Twin Snakes that wasn't made by Konami, there were never references to TTS in other games promotional materials (all of them were always to PS1 version) and Kojima says that he don't like it. While overall story of TTS is canonical the Solid's abilities during cutscenes are way to different from how he was shown in other games. They make him almost different Solid Snake. So yeah because of these reasons TTS is out of canon and Kojima probably won't refer to this game. It's funny that from the start of TTS development Kojima insisted on all of those changes (Silicon Knights and Kitamura wanted to create faithful remake) and after the game was released he ditched it. And if a game isn't in Kojima's personal canon it's out of canon. Because of that I don't think that we should focus too much on changes that TTS introduced to the series.

Here is a quote from the interview where Kojima says about TTS

http://www.gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=196715