Hello, I am interested in a piece I think is Lost Media: Silent Hill: Play Novel while the play novel is not lost itself, there was a "DLC" (Though back then DLCs were not really prevalent) that talked about a boy named Andy, who was the neighbor of the Mason family. I have not been able to find a lot of information on it besides a couple of scenes from the game, plus the description of a guide that supposedly went over it online. There were a couple scenes of the game released on Youtube
theres also a transcript of some of the choices and description online in the following website:
Post by LoneWolf Moonlight on Jun 8, 2017 4:13:45 GMT
Hi there. I checked the Silent Hill Wiki, and yes, this is indeed DLC which you could download via cellphone in that time. There were four scenarios named for the seasons (Spring, Winter, Summer and Fall). I honestly didn't check, but apparently there's an online playable version of the Spring scenario in this URL:
Hi there. I checked the Silent Hill Wiki, and yes, this is indeed DLC which you could download via cellphone in that time. There were four scenarios named for the seasons (Spring, Winter, Summer and Fall). I honestly didn't check, but apparently there's an online playable version of the Spring scenario in this URL:
alchemillahospital.net/online-shpn/
Also here's the wiki articles about Play Novel, as well as the Andy character:
silenthill.wikia.com/wiki/Silent_Hill:_Play_Novel
silenthill.wikia.com/wiki/Andy
Wow, the seasons part I had known prior, and I had also checked the wiki but I was not aware parts of the player novel had been posted on Alchemilla Hospital, I thank you for this!
Post by LoneWolf Moonlight on Jun 19, 2017 0:06:36 GMT
Hey there, I don't know if you're still interested in this, but I decided to look for a bit more of info about this piece of "DLC". I found this post on a argentinian forum where a user hacked the Silent Hill Play Novel ROM to check if he could find (and hopefully rip) Andy's scenarios from it. It seems that the original game does NOT have this info in its files, which means that it was 100% downloadable, however, it seems that the game files do have some info about Andy's scenarios in them:
For starters, Silent Hill Play Novel has a collection of "cards", which you gain after completing the game. There's a total of 32 cards: 16 for Harry, 12 for Cybil and 4 for Andy (one for each scenario). Of course, Andy's cards aren't normally accesible without the DLC, but the cards themselves are in the game's files, here are the links for each one of them:
Also, this user discovered in some russian forum that the game also contains the original URL where you could download the scenarios. Of course the link is dead (the service died in 2002), and I put the URL on the way back machine to see what happens, but the farthest is goes is to 2013. Although this is pretty much useless, I'll leave it here for the sake of reference:
Post by LoneWolf Moonlight on Jun 20, 2017 21:04:24 GMT
I found a .sps file which unlocks every card in the game (including Andy's), is kinda like a gameshark of sorts, however, like I said on my previous post, the scenarios themselves are NOT in the game files, so that's the only way we can get those 4 cards. Here's the link:
With that said, I read that the way the scenarios were downloaded into the cartridge was that they were downloaded as a save file, which means that it is NOT completely impossible to get, is just a matter of finding a cartridge which still has the scenarios downloaded and extract the .sav file, however, what are the odds of finding a cartridge with the scenarios build in? This game only came out in Japan which makes it rare enough, but on top of that, not many copies were sold, and the scenarios were available for download for only around a year before the service shut down, so... yeah, the chances of getting these are pretty slim, not to say 0
I actually had access to a rom dump of this, but its impossible to access the mobile mode so I don't think any rom will have these portions.
"This is somewhere Rogue thought of as home..." "You don't think of yourself as Rogue?" "Sometimes. Sometimes not. She’s in here. Somewhere...She can barely make herself heard. Too many voices. Most of them shrieking or pleading. She’s trying - but she’s not holding together all that well’" Rogue and Sam, UXM #200
Yep I have never played it since I can't read the language so I do not know much about it. It's too large to attach here though.
"This is somewhere Rogue thought of as home..." "You don't think of yourself as Rogue?" "Sometimes. Sometimes not. She’s in here. Somewhere...She can barely make herself heard. Too many voices. Most of them shrieking or pleading. She’s trying - but she’s not holding together all that well’" Rogue and Sam, UXM #200
"This is somewhere Rogue thought of as home..." "You don't think of yourself as Rogue?" "Sometimes. Sometimes not. She’s in here. Somewhere...She can barely make herself heard. Too many voices. Most of them shrieking or pleading. She’s trying - but she’s not holding together all that well’" Rogue and Sam, UXM #200