[FKW'07]Silent Hill 2 Screencap Thread

boojiboy7 · Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 2:14 am

OK, so my plans for SH weekend fell through, due to a lot of shit having to get done and my own creeping terror at the games. However, Adils (as I will refer to you because I am lazy and because everyone gets a nickname sooner or later), you have done some awesome stuff here.

And yeah, pijai, I am with you on the sheer terror of these games.

EDIT: PAGE 3 MOTHERFUCKERS.

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Hmmm, maybe. I'd need to know if I could use it on my Mac, and if there was appropriate video-capture software.

EDIT: What? Where'd your post go?
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boojiboy7 · Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 3:34 am

dude, that VHS SH2 shot is like the creepiest awesome thing I have seen all day.

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Oh by the way Adi you got everything I was looking for! Thanks! Now I even know there's a pin in the alleys!

Adilegian · Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 8:13 pm

Excerrent. The deluge resumes.

I've got—God—224 screencaps from the Hospital alone, so I'm going to be selective on what I post in the thread, for the sake of my bandwidth. No worries about missing out on anything, though. I'll upload a .zip file with all this stuff as soon as I get 'em done.

There's another picture I'm dying to get that I forgot about. The HOLE text actually changes when the time turns to Dark Silent Hill, and it's creepy.

So! Hospital.

^^^ INFOMATION lol

Next time: Silent Hill After Hours, Silent Hill Historical Society, and the Toluca Prison.
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Adilegian · Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 10:51 pm

Okay. Two parts to this one. Silent Hill After Hours shows the town after the Hospital. There are nurses in the streets (oh God), darkness viscerally seems to encroach upon light, and there's a lot more of the transformations we saw during the Dark Silent Hill scenes from the first game. (Wire-mesh grates for floors and stuff.)

^^^ That red symbol on the front looks like it's supposed to be the Recycling insignia, but I don't think I've ever seen a red version of it. As it appears on the trashbin, it looks like a cross between the Recycling and Biohazard insignias.

Which might be useful to have in the right circumstances.

^^^ I offer this lonely wall as a way to approve of my nickname and Boojiboy's new signature.

^^^ I think this says H. M. N. CORPORATION.

^^^ This is very scary to me for personal reasons.

^^^ This is the entrance to the area that connects both halves of south Silent Hill since James can no longer go back through the apartment areas.

^^^ This is just great. I love how scarily erotic they made these monsters pose. It makes me think of a street hooker... and it also makes me think of Michael Jackson's Moonwalker videogame.

^^^ *cries*

^^^ I really like the attention given to the shadow of the CAUTION sign here.

^^^ OBEDIENCE DIE!!

On my way out to the Historical Society, I took some recaptures of the roadside billboards.

^^^ Text at the bottom of the billboard reads: "The Storys of the Truth."

pluralistic reality(ies) lol

Text below the billboard title reads: "The Early Day of 'Toluca'." Kinda cute, because it's got the quotation marks around the name Toluca as they would have appeared around the name in katakana.

^^^ I think this is a nice touch. One of the roadside billboards has been knocked on its face.

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Adilegian · Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 10:56 pm

More Silent Hillery.

The file names here all read "HistoricalSociety," but that's mainly because I was too lazy to change the names once I realized I had gotten into Toluca Prison.

As promised, I paid extra special attention to the Satanist's cell. Here are all the pictures from it.

^^^ Anyone else see the scary faces in the bricks to the immediate right of the window? (Also slightly further away to the left.)

Shooting Puff the Magic Dragon.

^^^ THIS is the door that scared the bejesus out of me.

And that's it for the Historical Society and Prison! Oh, I remember that there was a pretty big hubbub over the presence of ButterCake in Silent Hill 3, and I found a box of it in SH2. Here's a large screen cap of it in the Prison.

http://www.adilegian.com/Images/SH2/ButterCake.jpg

The Buttercake box is in the lower left hand corner.

EDIT: Made this one a link because it's effin' huge.
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Adilegian · Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 3:08 am

Oh snap.

Just got my copy of SH2 for the PC. Time to get some textures.
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Why isn't there a poster of this that I can put on my wall?
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Those shots of nighttime cars are close to terrifying to me. The building with the bay windows and the letter, also. It's almost smothering. It's like the air has turned to syrup, looking at them.

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these things -- they're basically the closers from SH3, right?
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Yeah. They were just kind of thrown into the third game, like everything else.

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Man, I still remember going down those really long stairs, and the having to jump down those holes... Just the feeling of going deeper and deeper in, with no way to go back...

Those holes....

Adilegian · Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 4:31 am

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I had a Silent Hill-related dream a few months ago.

In it, I was under a curse that caused me to see pyramid head executioners hovering in different places, a few inches or a few feet above the ground. They were all unarmed with their heads and limbs hanging down, similar to the ghosts in Silent Hill 4.

They would sometimes appear in closets and in dark corners that I wasn't looking at directly, and when I'd look out a window I'd see that three or four of them floated above each house or building, usually at the corners of the roof. Other people were similarly cursed, and we we were trying to find a cure somehow before all of the executioners woke up. No one knew whether the curse made us see illusions or whether they were real and only we could see them.

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Why is it that Brookhaven always has a art project as a puzzle?

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Adilegian · Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 12:46 am

Texture files on the PC version of the game are cracked. (Well, I used a program that someone had written several years back. But anyway! All of Silent Hill 2 lies naked before me.)

Sample:

^^^ All of the items as they appear in the menus.
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Adilegian · Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 1:49 pm

Got some things that might interest a few of you....

^^^ The raw texture file for the Pyramid Head painting.

^^^ The inmate billboard from Toluca Prison. Looks like they just copied something from Alcatraz.

^^^ The menu in the dining hall.

^^^ The texture file for the wall with the occult symbol on it. This is probably going to be the most direct image we can get of it.

^^^ The other wall.

^^^ Texture file for the Pyramid Head engraving on the front of the scaffold.

^^^ I have no idea where this face appears in game. It makes me think about Josie from Twin Peaks.

^^^ Images used on the hidden paintings deeper in the Silent Hill Historical Society.

I'm going to build a small library of the signs and junk seen around town.
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Loki Laufeyson · Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 1:56 pm

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This thread has convinced me to find and play this game. I look forward to sleepless nights. :)
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Adilegian · Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 10:54 pm

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Hey guys

Shapermc · Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 12:02 am

Man :( I was just going to post what someone else had done that a friend found for me:

But I guess you already did that. . .

Anyways, I'm glad that you grabbed the other side of that prison cell, I really wanted to know what that was. Any chance of blowing them up, cleaning them up and then deciphering them?
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Adilegian · Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 12:45 am

Adilegian · Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 12:47 am

Quick housecleaning note here: in order to free up some space on my server (and reduce the load on my bandwidth everytime someone checks the thread and reloads the images), I'm going to take down the images I've already posted and zip them for future download.
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Adilegian · Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 11:38 pm

Adilegian · Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 1:04 am

Here are my shots from the Labyrinth. I'll try something new for the remainder of the gallery images. After I post the screencaps from a given area, I'll post any of the texture files I've got if they seem relevant.

In one of the labyrinth paths, James can actually enter a room considered Pyramid Head's residence. It's unexpectedly clinical.

James has the Great Knife equipped on that last shot.

I'm interested in the three carcasses in the room. I wonder if they're intended to represent James, Angela, and Eddie. Though Pyramid Head himself doesn't seem to visit Angela or Eddie, I guess this could be considered the locus of the Force of Punishment within Silent Hill.

Here are some textures from PH's room.

Here's the texture image for the rotating cube's face:

James gets the wire cutters from the snapping circuit board after he visits Maria. The texture for the circuit board itself is surprisingly detailed, considering how small it appears on-screen.

Here are some textures from the hallway and room from the boss fight in Angela's Room.

And then there's this strange piece of machinery located in the room model file. I have no idea what this was intended to be!

Maybe it was supposed to appear as the operating mechanism for the sexualized pistons in the walls?

I don't know what exactly happened to Maria, but part of her face looks weirdly reptilian. Here's the character texture. (It's classified as an item in the game, I guess because she just lies there.)

I like the ground textures in the graveyard a whole lot.

I really like the textures of the hallway leading up to Eddie's area. You can see bulletholes dripping blood in the wall as the hallway gets bloodier.

AND THAT'S IT. Whew.

Next up: Boat Launch. After that comes the Hotel.
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Adilegian · Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 6:30 pm

Adilegian · Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 6:47 pm

I’ve spent the past five hours tutoring students and reading War & Peace. I’m English’d out. Time to bring this thread one step closer to glory.

The boat trip!

This is really interesting to me. The picture in the historical society showed that the loading dock was the back of the Prison, and the Boat Launch definitely appears on the map behind the Historical Society. So we can assume that the Prison actually existed, and that James took an Otherworld path that utilized both the Prison’s abandoned memories and James’ own confusion (manifested as the Labyrinth).

I’m guessing that, in reality, he didn’t go much farther than a few rooms after he met Eddie by the corpse. I mean, I’m pretty sure that Eddie didn’t go through James’ labyrinth, but through his own path. It makes sense that the meat locker wouldn’t be very far away from the mess hall, so I expect that the Labyrinth was wholly James’ creation, while the Prison was the creation of the town.

I thought it was also interesting that James couldn’t see Eddie’s manifestation of Silent Hill, whereas he could see Angela’s flames. I suppose this might be due to the fact that James empathized with Angela. Both of them were there with the intention of accepting punishment for what they did: James came to the town in order to kill himself, and Angela... well, she recriminates herself harshly to the extent that she blames herself for getting raped by her father.

Eddie, on the other hand, is much more extroverted. He’s pretty damn prepared to attack others as a way of dealing with his anxiety.

On second thought, perhaps Eddie’s version of Silent Hill wasn’t influenced by any particular element—water for James, fire for Angela—but simply decorated with bulletholes and blood. I also now suspect that all of his slayings were symbolic suicides, since he always dramatizes the pleasure he gets from killing another person by pressing the barrel of his pistol to his temple and then “killing himself.”

Here’s the texture file for these signs and junk.

And here are some more texture files picked out of the environment model files.

Some background wall textures, along with textures for the fountain statuary.

Here is a tree texture file that includes a strange desert landscape. I don’t recall having seen this in the game.

And here’s a texture of the front of the church that James enters when you get the Rebirth ending.

Someone posted a YouTube video showing some exploration of that island on foot using a camera hack for the PC version. Obviously, the island isn’t a proper gameplay environment, since it’s just a dramatic set for the end scenario. Still, kinda cool!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxvF2_QbbKQ
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Whence did Eddie get the pizza?

Also, is it possible to find that island in the middle of the lake? I always search for it.

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I guess no. would be interesting if you could though.
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