v0.06

A launcher before the game, the car window graphics fixed, and two pause menu fixes.

New

• Launcher: after a warning screen, Play and Options come before the game, with the game's own menu sounds.
  Options sets the resolution (720p, 1080p or the original 4:3) and the game threads, and saves them to sh3.ini.

Fixed

• Large triangles drawn over the car windows in the cutscene after the Missionary fight
  (#6, by Ligux01).
• Pause menu: the black box behind it is gone, so the game stays visible behind the menu text.
• Pause menu: Save and Load stayed greyed out when the game was paused during a fade-in (back from the save
  screen, after a load or a door).

Everything else is as in v0.05.

Known issues

• The FMVs are skipped.
• After the cutscene in the Office Building bathroom the screen can stay black: press a button to continue.
• The Konami and KCET logos and the credits are stretched on a wide screen.
• If it crashes, sh3-crash.log is written next to the NRO: please attach it to an issue, with your save
  (savedata folder) if you can.

Install

1. Put sh3-nx.nro in /switch/sh3-nx/ on the SD card, together with sh3.exe and the data folder from your
   own PC copy of Silent Hill 3, and an empty savedata folder. Updating from an earlier version: just replace the
   NRO; saves, settings and the shader cache are kept.
2. Launch it from the homebrew menu in title takeover mode (hold R while starting an installed game), not from the
   album.

Full instructions and controls: see the README.
No game files are included.

v0.05

ZL and ZR swapped to match sh2-nx.

Changed

• ZL is now the search view and ZR readies the weapon, as in sh2-nx. A savedata/key.ini saved by an older version
  keeps its old layout: delete it to get the new one (or change them in Options > Button Config).

Everything else is as in v0.04.

Known issues

• The FMVs are skipped.
• After the cutscene in the Office Building bathroom the screen can stay black: press a button to continue.
• The Konami and KCET logos and the credits are stretched on a wide screen.
• If it crashes, sh3-crash.log is written next to the NRO: please attach it to an issue, with your save
  (savedata folder) if you can.

Install

1. Put sh3-nx.nro in /switch/sh3-nx/ on the SD card, together with sh3.exe and the data folder from your
   own PC copy of Silent Hill 3, and an empty savedata folder. Updating from an earlier version: just replace the
   NRO; saves, settings and the shader cache are kept.
2. Launch it from the homebrew menu in title takeover mode (hold R while starting an installed game), not from the
   album.

Full instructions and controls: see the README.
No game files are included.

v0.04

New controls and a crash fix.

Changed

• Controls laid out as in sh2-nx: L / R strafe, ZL readies the weapon, ZR is the search view. A savedata/key.ini
  saved by an older version keeps its old layout: delete it to get the new one (or change them in
  Options > Button Config).
• Fixed a crash when breaking the white rubble wall with the silencer in the construction site (reported by
  Jlancaster94 on Discord). It was a callback that was only partly recompiled; nine others like it are fixed too.

Everything else is as in v0.03.

Known issues

• The FMVs are skipped.
• After the cutscene in the Office Building bathroom the screen can stay black: press a button to continue.
• The Konami and KCET logos and the credits are stretched on a wide screen.
• If it crashes, sh3-crash.log is written next to the NRO: please attach it to an issue, with your save
  (savedata folder) if you can.

Install

1. Put sh3-nx.nro in /switch/sh3-nx/ on the SD card, together with sh3.exe and the data folder from your
   own PC copy of Silent Hill 3, and an empty savedata folder. Updating from an earlier version: just replace the
   NRO; saves, settings and the shader cache are kept.
2. Launch it from the homebrew menu in title takeover mode (hold R while starting an installed game), not from the
   album.

Full instructions and controls: see the README.
No game files are included.

v0.03

Better crash logs, so crash reports point straight at the cause.

Changed

• sh3-crash.log now lists the last calls made by the thread that crashed. Before, every thread of the
  game wrote to one shared list, so the calls of the crashing thread were mixed with the others'.
• With log=1 in sh3.ini, sh3.log now names any file the game fails to open, which helps with
  "files are missing" problems.
• Fixed a crash when entering the area past the Hazel Street station stairs (a monster callback that
  was never recompiled; another one like it is fixed too).

Everything else is as in v0.02.

Known issues

• The FMVs are skipped.
• After the cutscene in the Office Building bathroom the screen can stay black: press a button to
  continue (reported by poyo575xd on Discord).
• The Konami and KCET logos and the credits are stretched on a wide screen.
• Little tested past the first areas. If it crashes, sh3-crash.log is written next to the NRO:
  please attach it to an issue, with your save (savedata folder) if you can.

Install

1. Put sh3-nx.nro in /switch/sh3-nx/ on the SD card, together with sh3.exe and the data
   folder from your own PC copy of Silent Hill 3, and an empty savedata folder. Updating from an
   earlier version: just replace the NRO; saves, settings and the shader cache are kept.
2. Launch it from the homebrew menu in title takeover mode (hold R while starting an installed
   game), not from the album.

Full instructions and controls: see the README.
No game files are included.

v0.02

Heather's hair, fixed in the real-time cutscenes.

Fixed

• Heather's hair in the real-time cutscenes was drawn as solid blocks with straight edges
  (#1, reported and tested by poyo575xd on Discord).
  The game keeps some of its textures as 8-bit paletted images (D3DFMT_P8), and the port expanded
  them for OpenGL with every pixel forced opaque, so the alpha mask stored in the palette was lost.
  Heather's gameplay model has solid hair, but her cutscene model is built from layered strands
  that depend on that alpha, which is why only the real-time cutscenes showed it. The palette's
  alpha is now honored, as on the GeForce-class cards the PC version was made for, and palettes
  are handled as Direct3D 8 does: numbers up to 65535 (they were cut to 256) and a texture is
  expanded again when its palette changes.

Everything else is as in v0.01.

Known issues

• The FMVs are skipped.
• The Konami and KCET logos and the credits are stretched on a wide screen.
• Little tested past the first areas. If it crashes, sh3-crash.log is written next to the NRO:
  please attach it to an issue.

Install

1. Put sh3-nx.nro in /switch/sh3-nx/ on the SD card, together with sh3.exe and the data
   folder from your own PC copy of Silent Hill 3, and an empty savedata folder. Updating from
   v0.01: just replace the NRO; saves, settings and the shader cache are kept.
2. Launch it from the homebrew menu in title takeover mode (hold R while starting an installed
   game), not from the album.

Full instructions and controls: see the README.
No game files are included.

v0.01

The first release of the Silent Hill 3 Switch port: the PC game's executable recompiled to native ARM64, no emulator.

What works

• From the title screen into the game: New Game, the opening, gameplay, the pause menu, inventory, options and Button Config.
• Widescreen 16:9 at 1280x720 by default (resolution=1920x1080 in sh3.ini for docked play), hor+ camera, menus and HUD in a centered 4:3 area.
• Nintendo-style controls (A to act, B to cancel / dash), remappable in Options > Button Config.

Known issues

• The FMVs are skipped.
• The Konami and KCET logos and the credits are stretched on a wide screen.
• Little tested past the first areas. If it crashes, sh3-crash.log is written next to the NRO: please attach it to an issue.

Install

1. Put sh3-nx.nro in /switch/sh3-nx/ on the SD card, together with sh3.exe and the data folder from your own PC copy of Silent Hill 3, and an empty savedata folder.
2. Launch it from the homebrew menu in title takeover mode (hold R while starting an installed game), not from the album.

Full instructions and controls: see the README. No game files are included.