2009.11.25 has a new exclusive Silent Hill: Shattered Memories gameplay video. The video shows the scene in the cafe with Harry meeting Cybil for the first time which was already presented in some other gameplay movies, only this time it features a sexy style Cybil. The interesting thing is that although the appearance of Cybil is different, she still acts like a stern version of the policewoman.
By the way, if you wait some time after the video ends, you can hear the whole conversation with another more friendly type of Cybil. Silent Hill 2 and 4 trial versions. 2009.11.15 Mark Pricskett, an artist from Philadelphia, wants to share his scale model of a street from Silent Hill.
'The facades were store bought but much of the rest is scratch-built. Harry, Cheryl, Romper, Pyramidhead and many of the exterior and interior objects were moulded from clay. Every floor in every building has some detail with the bottom floors having the most.
The building names are all from the first game (Annies Bar, Andy's Books, 30 Records). The Cafe even has the 'save' notepad and the radio on the table. Total time to build was about 50 hours. There are 2 health drinks sorta hidden about.' Check his amazing work in the Fan Projects section. Want to share a Silent Hill related fan work too?
Then send us. Silent Hill: Shattered Memories - first review. 2009.11.12 BradyGames is going to release a Silent Hill: Shattered Memories Official Strategy Guide for all platforms (Wii, PS2, PSP). The release date is scheduled for December 1. The product description on reveals more information on the game - don't read further if you want to avoid spoilers: - Comprehensive Walkthrough - Guide Harry Mason through the dark streets of Silent Hill as he tries to find his daughter and save her from a living nightmare.
Therapy Sessions Revealed - Realize the truth behind Dr. Kaufmann’s therapy sessions: how it changes the game and how it creates a Psych profile on you.
Discover All the Memento and Echo Locations - Every Memento location exposed; move with purpose through the harrowing streets of a waking nightmare. Know when to stop for an Echo location and when to run for your life. Unlock All the Endings - Learn how to achieve all the endings, even the secret UFO finale. Silent Hill: Zero re-released.
2009.10.15 The story of Silent Hill: Shattered Memories release date's change has its continuation. Konami officially clarified that the title is now shipping in February 2010 across Europe. Retailers autumn dates were guesstimating. 'It's out in Feb, but has never been officially confirmed as anything else. A few retail sites put a loose November date on it, but we never officially ' Not quite clear if this date applies for the North American release too.
Source: Silent Hill: Shattered Memories delayed till December? 2009.10.04 It's only a couple of weeks since we've got a confirmation that Roger Avary is going to write a script for Silent Hill 2 and now we have news that Avary is sentenced to 1 year in jail and 5 years of probation for a drunk-driving accident that took the life of a passenger in his car. The accident occurred in January 2008. It was reported that Avary was driving over 100 mph when his car crashed into a telephone pole. After initially pleading innocent last December, he pleaded guilty in August 2009 to gross vehicular manslaughter and drunken driving. It's not clear yet how Avary's sentencing will affect Silent Hill 2 filming planned for the next year. Silent Hill: Shattered Memories - screenshots from TGS 2009.
2009.09.16 The of Silent Hill Shattered has been updated with 9 new screenshots from Wii. Also we've got a bit more information on the bonus pre-order soundtrack - the album is expected to include not only new pieces of music, but also some arrangements of older tracks. And finally, Silent Hill: Shattered Memories is confirmed to be present at Tokyo Game Show 2009 where Konami will present Wii and PSP versions of the game. The show starts on September 24, so expect more news soon.
Source:, Silent Hill: Homecoming not coming to Japan. 2009.09.11 After the long period of uncertain situation about Silent Hill Homecoming's release in Japan the game's confirmed that the release of the title in this country is cancelled. The announcement states: 'Please look forward to future titles in the series' with a date 2009-10-30 below which is a probable date for Silent Hill: Shattered Memories release in the region. Silent Hill: Homecoming was released in North America in September 2008 and in Europe in February 2009. Source: Silent Hill: Shattered Memories Soundtrack with preorder. 2009.08.19 A media update straight from Gamescom 2009. First of all it's 14 brand new Wii screenshots including 5 which demonstrate the Psych Profile by way of example of different Cybils and Dahlias and 9 screenshots of the PSP version.
Secondly, we've got a new trailer which is in fact a reworked trailer from E3 2009 with new scenes. The interesting thing is that the vocal song in this trailer sounds like if it's not sung by Mary Elizabeth McGlynn. Could it be a different singer or just some sound post effect?
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories - boxart. 2009.06.04 We had quite a lot of Silent Hill: Shattered Memories updates on E3 2009. First of all, a lengthy 20 min footage from the Wii demo was shown (avoid watching it if you don't like spoilers). Also there are ten new screenshots from the Wii version. And finally a version for PlayStation Portable was revealed via a short gameplay video and ten screenshots.
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories - E3 2009: Demo Walkthrough - Update: A new trailer featuring vocal theme: Silent Hill: Shattered Memories teaser trailer and new screenshots. 2009.05.22 Core Gamers interviewed Takayoshi Sato, a member of the famous Team Silent and a person who was in charge of designing the characters and cinematic visuals for the first two Silent Hill games. In the pretty lengthy interview Sato-san talked about how he began working for Konami, the first game he worked on - Sexy Parodius, his moments of glory - Silent Hill and Silent Hill 2, why he left Konami afterwards and came into working on serious games. Read the interview on the site or alternatively in the new Creators section. Silent Hill 3 Special Edition. 2009.05.17 Silent Hill 3 Special Edition is a fan made DVD by Jer.
'This is not the game, nor is it some nonexistent second sequel to the movie. This is, in fact, a professional quality capture of the game, formatted to DVD video. The entire plot line is present, as well as many extras that you can't see unless you play it through several times. So burn this to a DVD and watch it on your big screen!
Please see the readme in the ISO for more information. This is the first of what I hope to be many similar projects. If you are a fan of the series, give it a try! Contact me at to let me know what you think of my project.'
Download Silent Hill 3 Special Edition (you may leave your responses there as well). Visit for more information and screenshots. Silent Hill: Shattered Memories producer interview. 2009.05.05 has published a new interview with Silent Hill: Shattered Memories producer Tomm Hulett.
In the interview Hulett talks about the decision to recreate the story of the first Silent Hill game and not producing a completely new story. He also calms down the hardcore fans by saying, SH: SM will not fit into the canonical Silent Hill timeline and take place in its own universe similar to the Silent Hill movie and comics. Besides that developers are not gonna exploit Pyramid Head as opposed to the infamous Silent Hill: Homecoming. Read the full interview here: Scarlet - Silent Hill: Homecoming resource viewer. 2009.04.21 has been completely updated.
Now you can find there a detailed information on the game characters and creatures with combat strategies, detailed walkthrough with all puzzles' solutions, complete list of in-game weapons, items and memos, descriptions of endings and extras as well as helpful instructions how to achieve a ten star ranking. Special thanks to Andrew Haffenden aka Conquerer for letting use his wonderful Silent Hill 2 FAQ. In addition to this, in the section you can find various Silent Hill 2 videos, which you can either download or watch on our newly created. Join us and watch videos from past and present Silent Hill games. Silent Hill: Shattered Memories previews and interviews. 2009.04.10 A recent Konami event brought us some coverage of Silent Hill: Shattered Memories.
An IGN journalist visited company's California office and watched a 15-minute demo of the game. Read the preview full of delight. He also game's lead designer Sam Barlow, director Mark Simmons and Konami producer Tomm Hulett. In addition to this IGN. Here's a summary of facts in the article from: - Harry has crashed on the side of the road while in a snowstorm - Harry’s daughter is missing, and he sets off into Silent Hill to find her - game kicks off with in a psychiatrist’s office where we hear of a new patient arriving.
After that exchange, we see Harry fall from his car into the snow just after his crash. We then flash back to the office with the psychiatrist talking to this new patient - camera is first person during the office segment. You can look around while the psychiatrist talks - you must fill out a psychiatric profile - when asked questions by the psychiatrist, you can wave your Wiimote up and down/left to right to answer - after this exchange you flash back to the accident with Harry calling for his daughter - almost every decision you make impacts the game.
For example, if you first choose to look at your map or a girlie calendar on the wall, the game makes note of this decision - an example of early changes: as you fill out your profile, the game will present you with different situations. When walking through town, you might see an open bar or an open diner. 2009.04.02 Silent Hill for Wii is confirmed (according to the information on the developers the project is also being developed for PSP). The newest issue of the Nintendo Power magazine features a detailed article on the new installment with screenshots and interviews with Akira Yamaoka (yes, he's composing the music for the project) and design team members Mark Simmons, Sam Barlow and Tomm Hulett.
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As explains producer Tomm Hulett: 'This is a reimagining of the first Silent Hill. It’s not a remake or a port. That’s an important distinction. It really feels like a new game. The characters play different roles, things don't necessarily happen in the same order, and the story is taken in lots of new directions.
You still play as Harry Mason, you're still looking for your daughter, and you'll see familiar elements, but they're all twisted to betray your expectations.' Here are some brief details from the article: - Game story will depend a lot on your actions and decisions. You may see or not some scenes, meet characters in different places, and even the look of monsters will vary for different players. There will be new characters in the game like a psychiatrist Dr. Control Stick is used to steer the hero's movements while Wii Remote is used to aim the flashlight.
There is no combats - you can only escape from the monsters. During the getaway you can barge through doors, climb over fences, jump through windows, and so on.
You can also barricade doors behind you. In addition to this you can use flares to frighten monsters off. There's a way trough every locked door. The only tool in the game is Harry's cell phone used for map access, taking pictures, writing notes and making phone calls. And here are the scans of the magazine article: Climax's next-gen Silent Hill PS3 prototype.
2009.02.28 As revealed, Climax USA was working on a Silent Hill demo for PS3. However, Konami decided to hand the development of a next-gen Silent Hill to Collective (now Double Helix). Later Climax USA was closed during the development of Silent Hill: Origins, which was given to the UK branch. Go through the following link to see the images and watch the video from this early tech demo. The demo's protagonist is Travis from Silent Hill: Origins, however it doesn't mean they would keep him in the final project.
Patch coming for Silent Hill: Homecoming. 2009.02.26 'VG247 understands that UK developer Climax is working on a Wii remake of an the first Silent Hill.
Konami has declined to comment on the talk. Few specifics are known as yet, but apparently motion control’s been included for torch functions. The first Silent Hill, designed by Keiichiro Toyama, was released for PlayStation in 1999. Climax is working on two Konami games, as shown on the firm’s website. The remake is the Wii and PSP project you can see there. A 360 and PS3 game is also in the works for Konami, but this is an “original ground breaking next-gen game,” according to a Climax job posting. Climax was unavailable for comment at the time of writing.
You didn’t see us here, right?' Source: Silent Hill: Homecoming European website launched. 2009.02.18 Konami have launched Silent Hill: Homecoming for European release of the game.
The site contains some standard information regarding the game, promotional media as well as a competition with a chance to win an iPhone 3G and other prizes, but what's really interesting is a nicely designed Alex Shepherd's official game diary which includes a lot of background information for the Silent Hill Homecoming events as well as for the universe of Silent Hill in general. Silent Hill Homecoming is due for release in Europe on February 27 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC. (pdf 47 mb) Interview with Akira Yamaoka. 2009.01.30 have arranged an in-depth interview with the famous composer about the reception to the latest installment in the series, his ambitions for the future and the challenges ahead for the Silent Hill franchise. Yamaoka-san talked about his approach to Silent Hill Homecoming soundtrack, collaboration with the US development team and stated his opinion why Homecoming was not so successful. He also mentioned that a commercial CD or iTunes release of Silent Hill Homecoming soundtrack is still under consideration (the soundtrack is currently available only as a limited CD edition via GameStop).
Liminality II: Okaeri. 2009.01.11 'O kaeri (jap.) - 'welcome back'. Liminality: The Silent Hill Inspired Album is series of albums inspired by works of Akira Yamaoka and Silent Hill. The project is sort of Broken Notes successor and is created by Liminal Recs net-label's musicians. By this moment 2 albums were released: Liminality - The Silent Hill Inspired Album (Sep 2007) and Liminality: Revision (Jan 2008). Today we are glad to present a new chapter of the series - Liminality II: Okaeri. This compilation also features trip-hop, ambient, piano compositions e.t.c.
All that we love Akira Yamaoka works for.' Liminality II: Okaeri is available for download on the page in the Music section.
So I regularly get contacted through PM's or specific threads about how to get the Silent Hill 2, 3, and 4 running on a PC with widescreen and a less amount bugs. Thus, I figured I might as well make a thread as a guide to it, especially when one considers the fact that Konami has completely mishandled the console HD collection with the inexcusable bugs and abhorrent changes to the original material. As such, this is also an attempt at preserving some of the best games of the medium's history. Special thanks go out to all the excellent people who did the various Widescreen hacks, FOV values, and so on (Angular graphics for sh2 fix+corrected fmvs, nemesis2000 for the SH4 fix, emoose for SH2proxy, Squizzy for the original SH2 fix, Rope, whoever made the SH3 FOV tool, etc.). Where to get these excellent Team Silent games on PC? Unfortunately Konami lack many standard brain functions and haven't released the PC versions of the games through digital distribution (I could imagine Konami don't want the potential licensing and royalty issues of the voice actors once again by re-releasing the PC versions).
This is a shame, as the used copies goes around anything between $20 to $120 on Ebay or Amazon, depending on the quality. However, you might get lucky and get a copy of either game for a lower price. Guide to the PC versions: The games are handled differently in how to get a proper non-4:3 aspect with whatever resolution you want. I will go through each game in 3 posts below the OP, in order to make the instructions more readable.
If you have any corrections or suggestions, I'll add them whenever I have the time to do so. Emulating the PS2 versions through PCSX2 Alternatively, if one is completely deterred by the complexities below and lack of port quality from PS2 to PC, then it is also possible to emulate the PS2 versions through PCSX2 and depending on your region. The hacks have to be placed in the cheats folder and you have to remember to Enable Cheats in PCSX2 in order for the FOV hack to work. So far I've only seen FOV hacks for SH2 and SH3 for PAL and NTSC versions, while the Japanese version have FOV hacks for all three PS2 games. However, be aware that emulating them through hardware emulation (i.e. Higher resolution than 480p) will cause several glitches, such as missing shadows, unplayable FMVs, and other bugs. Custom Steam Icons for use at your leisure I have also made some Custom steam icons for those who want shortcuts into their Steam library.
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These are in the game-specific post. Antialiasing for Nvidia users. Silent Hill 2: The ultimate fix is here - Widescreen Fix + Fog Fix + Wine3D fix + Cutscene fix - Installation Guide here: Demonstration video: Results (no noise filter):.UPDATE. Angular Graphics' widescreen corrected FMVs Code:. Silent Hill 2 PC FMV Widescreen Enhancement Pack v1.0. by NeoGAF's angular graphics Drop the data folder to your C: Program Files (x86) Konami Silent Hill 2 (or equivalent) directory and overwrite.:) Steam icons Xpadder profile by InfiniteNine. Silent Hill 3:.
Install the game. Download and throw the two files into the main SH3 folder. Edit the sh3proxy.ini to your liking. SH3proxy features (wow!):. Setting arbitrary video mode without conflict with the game's settings. Setting arbitrary horizontal FOV (field-of-view) angle. The engine no longer relies on resource paths in Windows registry.
Silent Hill 2 references can be unlocked without having to complete the game. Safe mode warnings are disabled. Fixes white border around game window on Windows. Disabling Depth of Field effect. Disabling black borders during cutscenes. Setting arbitrary shadow resolution Results: /QUOTE Steam Icons Xpadder profile by InfiniteNine. Differences between the original PS2 versions and the ported PC versions: The Silent Hill PC ports are not incredibly stellar and 4 is probably the worst of them.
So this list is only a work-in-progress, as the differences I can remember off the top of my head are thus far: Silent Hill 2: Soft shadows The volumetric fog in the PC version is more simple and less fluid than the PS2 version. Example: PC fog PS2 fog (through PCSX2, no FOV hack) Silent Hill 3: PC version allows for 4096x4096 internally rendered textures, but I imagine it is only a select few, as many of the textures still are identical to the PS2 version. Depth of Field effect remains at the original PS2 resolution, thus creating a jaggy DoF effect in the PC version. Otherwise it's probably the best port.
Silent Hill 4: Cutscenes run @ 15 frames per second. So far I haven't encountered a solution to this problem.
Post-processing filters, such as the noise-efect or the crackled hair on the camera when encountering a ghost, is missing from the PC version. Object-blur is bugged and thus creates a hazy look to cutscenes These bugs are no longer relevant after nemesis2000's SH4 fix. Realtime shadows are pretty bad though. Originally Posted by Stallion Free Nicely done. SH4 with a proper widescreen solution makes for a compelling replay.I thought the same thing, until the 15FPS cutscenes made the replay unbearable.
Unfortunately I can't play my PS2 copy in widescreen yet, due to lack of a FOV hack. Originally Posted by faceless007 Good guide. Should mention that for SH2, you need to set the resolution in the in-game options to 640x480 for the respatch to work.Good suggestion, Faceless007. I remember you telling me about it some months ago, thanks for reminding me again:).
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You're too kind, randomwab. Thanks for making my day even better:) Remember when playing SH4 that the cutscenes are in 15FPS, the post-processing filter seems to be missing, and the blur in cutscenes is bugged. The PCSX2 version seems to be fine, but (so far) cannot be run in 16:9. Originally Posted by Stallion Free So I wrapped up a couple of the games I had been working on and set up SH2 again for a replay because of this thread. I really dig my 360 pad setup in Xpadder for the game.
I basically just delete all the joystick entries in the game, screenshot the keyboard bindings and then use that screenshot as reference for setting up a profile that I think will work well/is similar to the console bindings. It's a damn shame we will never get 'HD' re-releases with this kind of image quality:Stallion Free, do you think you could make your Xpadder profile available (or send it to me)? Then I can include it in the SH2 post.
Originally Posted by EasyD You say 'PC version allows for 4096x4096 textures' but I'm pretty sure that's actually the internal resolution. I notice no difference in textures, but the overall IQ improves the higher it's set.Like I mentioned, I wasn't saying that the source textures themselves were 4096x4096, but that they were able to be rendered internally in that particular resolution. I apologize if that wasn't clear.