0.3 beta

The 0.3 beta release of the Silent Hill 4 randomizer, for the GOG version of the game.

Fixes/changes/new features since the last version:

• Many crash fixes involving the enemy randomizer
• New items and weapons if extra content is enabled
• Randomizer settings moved into the "Option 3" menu if the option for it is enabled in the ini file
• Random damage
• New player models
• Random player models now appear in cutscenes
• Support for setting a fixed seed to use for the randomizer so you can get consistent randomized runs
• Added "The Fog Approaches", a just-for-fun option to add dense white fog to most rooms

Known Issues

• During the first encounter with the Sniffer dogs in Subway world, a frozen enemy with no collision might appear
• During the Andrew DeSalvo ghost hallway in the Water Prison, the animations may become very glitchy. This will persist until you leave the room
• Certain enemies (such as Wall Men) do not get randomized due to instability that can occur when randomizing them
• If you do not put the randomizer_x.bin files inside the /data/ directory, you will appear invisible, certain menus will appear white, and the game may be prone to crashing
• If playing as an Eileen model, she will still use Henry's SFX
• Randomized player models inside of cutscenes will appear very corrupted. A future version will have a toggle to disable randomizing player models inside of cutscenes for those who wish to avoid seeing this
• The new weapons can not be charged and make no SFX
• When playing as an Eileen player model, she has no collision with the actual Eileen
• Eileen healing items may not heal Eileen in the final boss. Using a Holy Candle on Eileen to "lock in" the healing before the final boss may work around this
• Standing idly for too long in certain rooms may cause the game to crash
• The new weapons do not have play any sound effects and do not have a charge attack

If you are only interested in restoring hauntings, make sure that everything but RestoreHauntings is set to 0.

0.2.1 beta

The 0.2.1 beta release of the Silent Hill 4 randomizer, for the GOG version of the game.

Fixes/changes since the last version:

• Temporarily removed randomizing Buzz spawns (the bird/flying bug enemy) since this significantly lowered stability. Buzz enemies have weird angles in their hardcoded spawn positions, leading to a crash when the enemy moves into an invalid animation state caused by being spawned in at these angles. I am investigating fixing this issue properly so Buzz spawns can once again be randomized
• Added a "randomizer" subtitle to the main menu to let you know when the randomizer is actively running. Requires a new file inside of /data/, so make sure you copy all the files from the ZIP otherwise your main menu will be completely white!

If you are only interested in restoring hauntings, make sure that everything but RestoreHauntings is set to 0.

0.2 beta

The second release of the Silent Hill 4 randomizer, for the GOG version of the game.

This version of the randomizer features:

• Randomized enemy spawns - you never know what is going to be in the next room
• Randomized weapon/consumable item pickups (the Torch is unaffected due to being tied to story progression)
• Randomized player model, play as Henry, Eileen, or Nurse Eileen
• Restores the "cut" hauntings from the PS2 version
• Easy configuration via an .ini file

Fixes since the last version:

• Fixed the crash in certain rooms
• Improved the randomness of most things

Use the Ultimate ASI Loader, rename the DLL to dsound.dll, then extract the contents of the .7z into the Silent Hill 4 game directory. You should end up with a /scripts/ folder and a couple new files inside /data/. Then go into the /scripts/ folder and modify randomizer.ini to enable/disable the features that you want.

If you are only interested in restoring hauntings, make sure that everything but RestoreHauntings is set to 0.

Initial beta release

The first release of the Silent Hill 4 randomizer, for the GOG version of the game.

Automagically randomizes all enemies so you can encounter nurses on Forest world and other wacky things. Also randomly gives you one of three player models, default Henry, nurse Eileen, or regular Eileen.

Use the Ultimate ASI Loader, rename the DLL to dsound.dll, then extract the contents of the .7z into the Silent Hill 4 game directory. You should end up with a /scripts/ folder and a couple new files inside /data/.