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Gromit the Claymation Dog said:
This is pretty exciting. I remember a similar project a couple years ago that decompiled and reverse engineered Driver 2, also a PlayStation 1 exclusive. I’m really looking forward to what can happen with this.
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There's also that Syrup Emulation engine now that's being used for re-releasing PS1 games on modern consoles. Played Fear Effect 1-2 and Fighting Force with it and it seemed pretty solid.
 
I'm emulating SH2 on my phone and aside from some slowdowns my girlfriend is loving my playthrough. I am aiming for Leave but I explore all the lore I can so it's probably gonna be In Water for the 3rd time, but I'm hoping Leave since it's more beginner friendly and I've been healing a lot and killing most enemies.
 
Maniacal Foreigner said:
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Been watching a lot of his videos this week. They're interesting. Wish he wasn't such a SH fanboy and could take a step back. But interesting none the less. Enjoyable content.
Nameless One said:
I'm emulating SH2 on my phone and aside from some slowdowns my girlfriend is loving my playthrough
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WTF.

How well does Silent Hill 1 play on the steam deck emulators? I was thinking of playing through the series (Never finished 1). After watching the video above with a full speaker set up I noticed how much deeper the sound design was that on standard TV speakers. Do the steam deck's speakers pick up the full range or not? I know that's a weird question.
 
Kofi Drinka said:
Been watching a lot of his videos this week. They're interesting. Wish he wasn't such a SH fanboy and could take a step back. But interesting none the less. Enjoyable content.

WTF.

How well does Silent Hill 1 play on the steam deck emulators? I was thinking of playing through the series (Never finished 1). After watching the video above with a full speaker set up I noticed how much deeper the sound design was that on standard TV speakers. Do the steam deck's speakers pick up the full range or not? I know that's a weird question.
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Duck station should work out of the box. My shitty Motorola 2025 can emulate sh1 as smooth as my Galaxy FE 2024 but ofc not with certain CRT post process effects.

I've only played a steam deck for like maybe 15 minutes tops my whole life when my dad was around so I only played some dead rising at 960p or whatever.
 
Nameless One said:
I'm emulating SH2 on my phone and aside from some slowdowns my girlfriend is loving my playthrough.
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It's such a sadness that you think you've played Silent Hill on your fucking telephone! Get real!
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Maniacal Foreigner said:
It's such a sadness that you think you've played Silent Hill on your fucking telephone! Get real!
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Fuck you! Back then smartphones were absolute dogshit when it came to quality when DVDs were still a better option, he later retracted his statement and stated if you watch his films with headphones in the dark it's immersive too!!!
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She also has a slow ass laptop that probably can't even run half life 1 compared to my phone, and I don't have a computer anymore 💔
 
hello I wanted to ask as someone whos coming in at a very entry level to the series unfortunately, can someone pass along some links or some sort of good way to play it? when I initally saw some people playing the silent hill 2 remake it didnt look very scary and just wanted to ask what I should be doing to get the best possible experience for this series. I started with a pc port for silent hill 2 and found the game to be a bit awkward in its controls and mechanics which turned me off from playing it a bit, but I might end up going back to it at some point to give it another shot.
 
Lasagna4Dead said:
what I should be doing to get the best possible experience for this series.
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Find a way to emulate the first four games, and then play them. If the old controls cause you to bounce off, then just watch playthroughs on Youtube. Then pretend that nothing else "Silent Hill"-branded was ever released. Just because these games revolutionized horror in video games in 1999 and 2001 doesn't mean you'll enjoy playing them in the present.
 
Lasagna4Dead said:
what I should be doing to get the best possible experience for this series
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Remake sucks, avoid the HD Collection entirely.
SH1: Duckstation standalone, disable dithering (I couldn’t find the official compatibility list/configs but it shouldn’t be hard to find some from the community)
All PS2 SH games: PCXS2 Standalone
SH2: Set the controls to 3D mode (might be in other games, I can’t remember) configs
SH3: Avoid hard puzzle mode for your first playthrough configs
SH4: Avoid hard mode for your first playthrough, don’t listen to anyone who bitches about this one configs
Remember combat isn’t the focus of these games.
Easy difficulty is a valid way to experience the story and atmosphere if you hate the controls.
 
The Cheese Aisle said:
Remake sucks, avoid the HD Collection entirely.
SH1: Duckstation standalone, disable dithering (I couldn’t find the official compatibility list/configs but it shouldn’t be hard to find some from the community)
All PS2 SH games: PCXS2 Standalone
SH2: Set the controls to 3D mode (might be in other games, I can’t remember) configs
SH3: Avoid hard puzzle mode for your first playthrough configs
SH4: Avoid hard mode for your first playthrough, don’t listen to anyone who bitches about this one configs
Remember combat isn’t the focus of these games.
Easy difficulty is a valid way to experience the story and atmosphere if you hate the controls.
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Dithering in silent Hill 1 is good. Just slap on a great crt filter.
 
The Cheese Aisle said:
Ooh good point! I’m a crispy pixel enjoyer when I emulate so I go straight to disable dithering- I should try out filters and shaders sometime
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Dithering helped tie in more colors, not sure if they've made a workaround for true color or not but it was to blend colors.

The artifacts on modern screens are unintentional. It was better on CRT screens because it functioned almost like shading and blending as I said before.

I can live with its artifacts though. For more fun? Disable bilinear filtering, and Scaling, and set both to Nearest Neighbor for a crisp look. It is pixelated but not nearly as blurry as bilinear filtering. Looks decent on CRT filters but works best for modern screens. For 2d pixelated games it looks the best. Some 3d games benefit too, like the armored core trilogy for me.
 
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PS2 is. Game was built for it and STILL has the best fucking fog and sound effects due to the chipset. Greatest hits version aka v2.01 ROM on PCSX2 comes with the Maria scenario. Enhanced edition is good if you want 60fps and a better flashlight effect I guess, and 4k... but there's hacks for the PS2 version, also EE changes shit and put in retarded Easter eggs from other games in its final update as some fuck you or appeal to the reddit crowd. It's not the worst experience, it was my first playthroughs before its final update, but the PS2 version on software settings for emulation on a CRT is the way to go.


Best version of Silent Hill 4 would be the Xbox version if it wasn't missing effects. So PS2 is also the best lmao. Best version of 3 is the PS2 as well unless you like torturing yourself to set up and fix the shitty PC port. Notice a pattern? I think the tetralogy is a PlayStation 1/2 masterpiece until they're all decompiled and get native fan PC ports using the original code. Reminds me of how the GTA Trilogy is basically the best on PS2 in terms of effects retained, if you just want the vanilla game retained. There were reverse engineered ports that made the game a lot better though. It's odd how GTA and Silent Hill are the best when it comes to PlayStation 2 games compared to their other versions when it's usually the opposite, Xbox and even GameCube kicked the PS2's ass graphically when developers used the hardware to its advantage, but the porting process must have been messy.
 
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