How To Play Original on Modern PC

[mdesaleah]

https://enhanced.townofsilenthill.com/SH2/

Reminder, you can play the original vision of the story, dialogue, and gameplay all on a modern PC.

video below contains story spoilers, so do avoid it if you're new.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1VKvED76WQ

(a "making of" video of the original game when it released by the devs who made it.)

[mdesaleah]

Reminder: 3 and 4 also have old PC versions that work as well.

[Tracido]

Publicado originalmente por mdesaleah:

Reminder: 3 and 4 also have old PC versions that work as well.

4 works perfectly fine on GOG, though and at 4K. If they had the decency to remaster the PC versions of 2 and 3 with reverse engineering, we'd have them, too.

[mdesaleah]

Publicado originalmente por Tracido:

Publicado originalmente por mdesaleah:

Reminder: 3 and 4 also have old PC versions that work as well.

4 works perfectly fine on GOG, though and at 4K. If they had the decency to remaster the PC versions of 2 and 3 with reverse engineering, we'd have them, too.

Yep.

4 on GOG even allows you to mod it to restore “missing hauntings” that used to be PS2 only.

The Enhanced Edition of 2 already is a remaster of the old PC port but by fans. Since we know Konami would never bother.

And 3 actually doesn’t need much other than a steam006 patch that you place in really quickly

[Maximizer]

And there are guides how to launch it on Linux!

[mdesaleah]

Added a "making of" video interview by the original devs of SH2.

Really good resource showing the original intentions. Like how Angela in the original was always meant to sound older than she actually is due to how she was affected before the game starts. Its the little things in the original version that really add up.

[mdesaleah]

Publicado originalmente por Maximizer:

And there are guides how to launch it on Linux!

The more people who can have access to the originals, the better.

This applies to all games really, but especially games that are never getting ported "officially" because the new devs believe their remake is a replacement.

[ingi]

I no longer install games like that on newer hardware. I know from my own experience and I learned from it. The last game I played was a bit older and I really enjoyed playing it when I was a child. Was Indiana Jones and the Tower of Babel. The game is from 1999 and is practically no longer playable on newer hardware. It constantly caused problems and after that it was almost impossible to start. Thank God I got my money back. This game was practical or rather is hardly playable under Windows 11. I would have had to run it on a virtual machine to be able to play it at all.

[mdesaleah]

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I no longer install games like that on newer hardware. I know from my own experience and I learned from it. The last game I played was a bit older and I really enjoyed playing it when I was a child. Was Indiana Jones and the Tower of Babel. The game is from 1999 and is practically no longer playable on newer hardware. It constantly caused problems and after that it was almost impossible to start. Thank God I got my money back. This game was practical or rather is hardly playable under Windows 11. I would have had to run it on a virtual machine to be able to play it at all.

Thats a shame.

But in this case, the fans have kept the classic SH games available working on modern hardware. Its not an "if" SH2 works, it WILL work due to the Enhanced Edition.

[ingi]

I'm currently downloading the original silent hill 2 file. If I can't run it on my computer, for some reason or something else, that requires me to reinstall my operating system, (I hope not) then I'll uninstall the application again and look forward to October.

[mdesaleah]

^You do need to follow the instructions for the Enhanced Edition patch on their website I linked, but following them is pretty quick and simple. Especially compared to other patches for other games where its more manual instead of automatic.

[ingi]

The file cannot be executed for me. It always appears that a file was not found. That's why I won't try any further now.

[Doktor Mandrake]

It's my preferred way to play the originals these days

[mdesaleah]

Publicado originalmente por Doktor Mandrake:

It's my preferred way to play the originals these days

There’s also a decompilation of SH1 being made as well.

So imagine the mod potential of a PC SH1.

[DarthHunt51734]

Honestly this seems better than getting this remake anyways.

[mdesaleah]

Publicado originalmente por DarthHunt51734:

Honestly this seems better than getting this remake anyways.

Yeah. I don’t really see a point in a remake that removes what people like in the original game.

And with fans keeping the original up to date for modern hardware, it’s odd to want a different interpretation that misses out on the little details