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October-November 2005
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11/02/05 |
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Real
New Movie Photos
Real
photos from the Silent Hill movie have appeared on Yahoo!
Movies and IGN
Film Force. Thanks to Silent One for the heads-up.
And yes, I made sure they're legit FIRST.
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Webmaster is a Moron!
Well
this afternoon, I read an e-mail with a photo of
Jodelle Ferland as she appears in Kingdom
Hospital. Having never seen the ABC movie, I got all
hyped thinking it was a Silent Hill Photo and posted it as such in a
blaze of idiotic speed and now I have to consume many pounds of humble
pie and apologise for any broken hearts I caused.
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After
posting it, I realised I'd seen that Pinata-Like doll somewhere
before... I'd grabbed a photo like it months before for a line
up all the Silent Hill Film's cast. Then I recalled that I'd
grabbed it well before shooting even began!
So
there you go. Sorry. I promise not jump the gun again without
some research first... But you gotta admit it is pretty Silent
Hillishly cool. |
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10/15/05 |
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First
Silent Hill: Centralia Photo
News
was first broke at Bloody-Disgusting.com, wound it's
way to the Letter From Silent Heaven Community (a
forum prematurely put to rest) and onto our corner of bandwidth.
Just
for fun, here's a little grain filter & image grading mockup...
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Silent Hill Timeline Preserved
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One has e-mailed us about the site he's just started called,
Silent
Hill Tears.
It
features the Silent Hill Timeline that was once well known and
renowned at Nursery Cryme. He's also added
extra images to each date entry and as if that weren't enough
he also has the same timeline in French! Silent One
promises more content and changes to the site as time goes on
so be sure to check it out. I'm glad one at least on part of
Nursery Cryme still lives on...
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10/11/05 |
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Silent
Hill Fansite Decline?
Geez...
Another one bites the dust.
First
Silent Hill Heaven goes, then Nursery Cryme...
It seems like a cool-off period for Silent Hill fandom on the web
as the maintainers of these fantastic sites can longer afford to host
or devote time to them anymore. I was going to include the link to
the forum post where Nursery Cryme's webmasters announced their shutdown,
but as of now it also looks like the Silent
Hill Heaven Forums have gone down too.
I'm
not trying to spread any unfounded rumors here, the site just says
it's currently unavailable. They could come back. Yet with
current trend of more and more of the top fansites disappearing, I
can only cross my fingers and wonder.
Nevertheless,
here's a warm hearted 'Thank You' to the
Makers of those sites for the many years great content they gave us.
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Lost
Memories in French
The call for more languages has been answered, and Silent One
alerted us to this site:
http://demetrium.net/LM2/
Run
by Silent Fulang, the site is translating The Book of Lost
Memories little by little into French.
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10/05/05 |
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Book
of Lost Memories in Spanish
I've
been asked by Silent Hill fan Fernanda from Brazil if we
could translate the Book of Lost Memories into Brazilian Portuguese.
As I myself have no lingual skills other than English (and I'm sure
others would even call that into question) and the fact that most
of our translators have only so far been fluent in Japanese, there
are no plans at this time for a Protuguese edition of the site...
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Yet, be
happy! Or Seja feliz! I did a little web searching
and have come across a site similar to wallofdeath's
that has the book translated into Spanish. Not exactly Portuguese,
I know... but I believe there are enough similarites that it
would be easier to read than English or Japanese.
Head
over to http://cronicas-sh.webcindario.com/
for the Spanish translation of what appears to be the full Book
of Lost Memories.
Also,
if anyone ever comes across this material translated into any
other languages, by all means please let us know! We'll be sure
to post a link to it.
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Get
More Booth Than You Ever Wanted
It's
been pointed out to me that Gamestop's
Silent Hill 4 page has and still does carry a video tour
of the booth. Billed as, "Ryan Bowling takes you on a tour of
SCEA's booth on display at E3 2004," you can stream it for free,
or pay an exorbiant subscription fee for the privilege of downloading
it... Thank you Gamestop for making me feel less exclusive.
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Old
News Made New Again
Call
it retro Silent Hill news...
Back
in May 2004 I posted photos I took of Konami's Silent Hill 4 booth
on my annual trip to E3 on the Silent
Hill Heaven Message Board. It made a big splash back
then and I have to admit I got to feel like dorky, big-shot, "insider"
for a week or two but the post was later lost in a forum purge along
with all the photos.
So,
because I've never seen photos of the booth elsewhere and just for
the preservation of a cool piece of Silent Hill History (and because
I miss being a dorky big-shot) I thought I'd post the photos once again
here on the site:
The booth was made up to resemble a section of Henry's apartment
from the game with TVs, PS2s, and Xboxes all set into the various
nooks and crannies for playing the demo. Most of the pictures are
video camera screen caps so I apologise for the graininess.
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A
couple of shots of the booth from the front. The fluorescent light
in the faux kitchen were orginally blinking but it was giving people
headaches so they soon stopped it. |
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Of
course there was the infamous chained door and an equally frightening
E3 goer hogging the demo station next to it. |
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Back
in the kitchen, one of the cooler demo stations had a PS2 controller
coming out of the sink drain. |
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The
only playable areas were sections of the Forest, Prison, and
Building worlds... When you could shove your way into playing them. |
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The
backside of the booth, not far from the Metal Gear Soild 3 display. |
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Some
suited business dudes struggle to understand the "appeal"
of survival horror. |
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Some
wise guy thought he was going to beat me in posting screen caps.
Hah! |
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You
don't want to know the things that kitchen countertop has endured... |
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The
living room area had more consoles & TVs for playing. The poor
fellow standing there was a Konami rep who had to answer a million
qeustions he didn't know the answers to... Come to think
of it he didn't know very much at all beyond the release date. And
he was off on that too. I suppose he was just there to make sure
nobody tried to yank off the refrigerator door handle as a sovenier. |
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I
don't know if anyone remembers or not but after E3 there was a video
online featuring 3 minutes of gameplay footage from the forest
level. It was soon infamous for being taken down a few days later,
but not before I saw it and realized it was the same footage that
was shot right next to me by this video crew! Ah, the geeky memories... |
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Grand
Re-Opening!
The
new look is finished, all the new content is available, and all this
before the promised launch date of October 1st! A big thanks goes
out to Dr.Loomis for super fast Photoshop work on those Book
of Lost Memories pages.
He
completed pages 82 through 113 so be sure to check them out! While
all the major content from the original Japanese book is now on the
site, there's still a few more lesser sections that we'll upload in the future.
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9/15/05 |
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Site
Begins Facelift, Webmaster Gets Headache
Or
maybe just a sore mouse arm...
I
finally started making a site layout that don't look like poo. At
least that's what I'm hoping for. Each section has it's own immidate
link now, so no more tedious scrolling to get them.
The
explainations and background info on each section can now be found
on it's own
page along with site credits & contact e-mail...
And of course you can now check back here on the news page to see
if we've actually done anything constructive lately.
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Translated
Memories Welcomes New Contributor
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Mike
a.k.a. Dr.Loomis on the Silent Hill Heaven Fourms has
graciously taken up the task of helping to complete the text replacements
for the remaining pages in The Book of Lost Memories. |
His volunteering is a welcome load off my back and his work looks
great. Plus it means we might actually have the whole "Fugue"
section of the book finished soon.
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New
Book Pages Added / Old Book Pages Updated
New
pages are up in the "Book of Lost Memories" section:
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1
•Louge
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•Louge
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Minor
text corrections have been made per Wallofdeath's request to the following
pages:
•Series
Over View
•History
of SH
•History
of Alessa
•SH1 Characters
•Sh1 Creatures
•SH2 Story
Preview
•SH2 Characters
•SH2 Creatures
•SH3 Creatures
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