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Name: | Silent Hill |
Console: | Playstation (PSX) |
Release Date: | 1999 |
Publisher: | Konami |
Genres: | Action-adventure, Horror, Puzzle, Third-person Shooter, Survival horror, Action, Psychological horror |
Silent Hill is a survival horror video game for the PlayStation published by Konami and developed by Team Silent, a Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo group. The first installment in the Silent Hill series, the game was released in North America in January 1999, and in Japan and Europe later that year. Silent Hill uses a third-person view, with real-time 3D environments. To mitigate limitations of the hardware, developers liberally used fog and darkness to muddle the graphics. Unlike earlier survival horror games that focused on protagonists with combat training, the player character of Silent Hill is an "everyman". The game follows Harry Mason as he searches for his missing adopted daughter in the eponymous fictional American town of Silent Hill; stumbling upon a cult conducting a ritual to revive a deity it worships, he discovers her true origin. Five game endings are possible, depending on actions taken by the player, including one joke ending. Silent Hill received positive reviews from critics on its release and was commercially successful. |
There are two components for playing a psx Silent Hill rom on your PC. The first component is the emulation program which can imitate the psx OS and software.
The second component is the Silent Hill rom itself to play on the emulator.
Step 1: you can start by downloading a reliable and bug free emulator. We’d suggest Retroarch – it’s open source, fast and one of the most frequently updated.
Once you have finished downloading Retroarch, extract the downloaded .zip file to a location, for example your Desktop. After, double click the RetroArch-1.7.5-x86-setup.exe file in order to start the emulator.
Your emulator will now be ready to play Silent Hill rom. But now you’ll need to find the correct ROMs online. A ROM is essentially a virtual version of the game that needs to be loaded into the emulator.
Step 2: return to Retroarch and hit File > Open. Navigate to the downloaded .exe file and double click it to open it. The game will now run on the emulator and you can play the game freely.
Tip: Saving games on an emulator functions a little differently. The integrated save system will not save your progress.
Instead, you’ll need to click File > Save State and then choose an empty slot. You can save your progress in whatever point you like within the game, not only on the official checkpoints offered by the game.
When playing in the future and you want to continue from your saved state, you can use File > Load State to load up the game from exactly where you last saved it.
Emulator | Console | Platform | FileSize | Emulator |
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EPSXe | Playstation (PSX) | Android | 5.5MB | Download |
Go PSX 1 | Playstation (PSX) | Android | 6.2MB | Download |
PSXeven 0.19 | Playstation (PSX) | Windows | 0.7MB | Download |
SSSPSX 3.34e | Playstation (PSX) | Windows | 0MB | Download |
Mednafen 1.21.3 | Playstation (PSX) | Windows | 7.5MB | Download |