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This week we show you where to find all 12 of the hidden cassette tape locations throughout Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes. Finding the locations of certain tapes will not take too long, but some will require you to complete various Side Ops as well as beating everything on Hard. If you are having a difficult time with the harder setting, try collecting the tapes on an easier setting, and getting more comfortable with the required task before upping the challenge.
Chico’s Tape 1
Mission: Intel Operative Rescue
Unlock: Complete the Side Op.
Chico’s Tape 2
Mission: Main story
Unlock: On a desk in the watch tower. This will require you to enter the Administration compound and find a ladder perpendicular to the wall, that will be attached to some scaffolding supporting a catwalk. Simply climb up the ladder and make you way to the tower at the end of the path to find the tape.
Chico’s Tape 3
Mission: Main story
Unlock: Automatically collected after rescuing Chico.
Chico’s Tape 4
Mission: Main story
Unlock: After rescuing Chico, a prisoner set for execution will appear in the P.O.W. camp by the porta-potties. You need to extract him to unlock this cassette tape.
Chico’s Tape 5
Mission: Main Story
Unlock: Enter the Admin compound from the West and find the staircase leading up from the boiler room. Directly behind you, as you go ascend the staircase, will be an alley with dumpsters. The first dumpster on your left will have sandbags on top of it and the cassette. This item must be picked up before rescuing Chico.
Chico’s Tape 6
Mission: Eliminate the Renegade Threat
Unlock: You will need to locate the Armory building. It is a white structure, with a red door that looks like a portable (non-grounded building) located along one of the paths. If you look at your map, it is located on the south side of the compound in the center, by the Tetris looking shape, across from the triangle, near the anti-air turret.
Chico’s Tape 7
Mission: Destroy the Anti-Air Emplacements
Unlock: Located in the cell where Paz is during the main mission, you will find a new prisoner who you must rescue.
Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes
Mission: Main story
Unlock: Directly behind where you find Chico, will be another cell with the tape.
Agent’s Recording
Mission: Classified Intel Acquisition
Unlock: Inside the Admin building’s central control tower where you found Chico’s Tape 2.
Classified Intel Data
Mission: Classified Intel Acquisition
Unlock: After obtaining the Agents Recording from the control tower, go back to your contact and interrogate him. He will tell you of another tape being held by a bald soldier, that you will find by the boilers. Simply interrogate him two times and he will drop the tape.
Classified Tape
Mission: Deja Vu
Unlock: Found near the cave along the cliff-side from where you found Chico.
Zone of Enders: 2nd Runner
Mission: All
Unlock: Complete all missions on Hard.
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