This mod aims to improve the overall audio quality of Silent Hill 3 on PC, by porting the Ps2 Audio to PC.
The audio quality in the pc port of Silent Hill 3 on Pc is subpar to say the least. Audio is converted incorrectly due to oversights and unique nature of these sounds. Under normal circumstances converting a sound to a new format is just that and it plays fine without issue. But due to the PS2’s unique nature the playback speed of these sounds could be changed in real-time from what the original speed is.
This creates entirely new sounds on the fly. This technique is also used in Silent Hill 2. When it came time to port this game to pc the porting house simply converted the sounds from .vag(Sony’s preprimary format to wav and ADX respectively) without going back and adjusting the playback speed of each sound individually. This oversight leads to sounds not playing at the right speed or pitch or some sounds being lower pitched then they should be. Going forward these sounds would be used for the Xbox port of the game as well as the dreaded HD Collection which is a conversion of a conversion of a conversion (PC>Xbox>Xma/atarc3) Furthermore the sounds of the PC version are also highly compressed compared to their PS2 counterpart leading to a muddy sound. This is most likely because the game had to fit on CD-ROM. However the files for the cutscenes and background music are actually copy pasted from the PS2 version byte for byte. And are already converted to ADX and AHX properly. SO the only issue that was left to fix were the in game sound effects.
The Pc Version of Silent Hill 3 uses wav…. Yes regular wavs and ADX files for it sound effects. A small little fix by Pscyho-S initially fixed the pitch for a lot of the sounds but the compression still remained.
So I extracted all PS2 audio using some old python scripts and set out to recreate the sounds perfectly. The result is this little project I put together alongside the Silent Hill 2/3 HD Collection Voice Packs. I hope you all enjoy! If you have any issues feel free to contact me.
Thank's again for this :)
You're welcome
Looks like the subway might play the wrong cutscene audio or crash the game outright. I'm gonna be pushing a full update on the site tomorrow night. Stay tuned.
Version 3.0 is now live. A Clean install is highly recommended.
Here's the changelog for this new update as mentioned before a clean install is highly recommended.
- Fixed Subway crashes and renamed the events correctly.
- Fixed Loops for various events which were left in by the original team Silent. I.E Claudia's first meeting cutscene, The cutscene where heather gets pushed onto the Subway tracks.
- General Cleanup.
I am sorry but I can't stand using "Reloaded II" I take it there's no way this works without it?
I'm sorry T_T It straight up doesn't. Alot of stuff breaks due to the length of the audio files (Especially sound effects being hardcoded in the exe) Using Reloaded II the file sizes get modified dynamically. Pretty much the same way the Silent HIll 2 Enhanced Edition handled it. Unless someone creates a simple dll like that we're stuck with Reloaded II for the time being.
I've been having the same problem some other users have already complained to you about. Your archived 7zip file doesn't load in Reloaded II, and I still have ModConfig.json and everything. Please help.
I can't add the mod in Reloaded II, how do I fix it?
Please elaborate does adding just not work?.
Windows Defender gives a "Znyonm" trojan warning with this.
It's a false positive, The file is 100% save only WAV and ADX files are in it.
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Update is now live, It contains a fix to minimize footstep audio bugging out and updated Readme's and docs with updated links for Netcore
Update is now live, It contains a fix to minimize footstep audio bugging out and updated Readme's and docs with updated links for Netcore
When I try to do the setup it tells me that "Message: Operation did not complete successfully because the file contains a virus or potentially unwanted software." any way to fix this?
hello I saw your videos about comparing the game with then without the mod and didnt know which one is the mod, is it the one with low audio or loud audio?
Edit: I need to know because I installed the mod and I feel that the audio is very loud and penetrating my ear, is this like the original ps2 audio?
HI there! the one with the "loud" audio is what it was like on the PS2