Cut PS2 Content From GOG Version of ‘Silent Hill 4: The Room’ Has Been Restored [Video]

Way back in 2020, Konami decided to give some love to Silent Hill 4: The Room fans with a re-release of the game on GOG.com (which is currently on sale with a 30% discount until April 3). Last week, GOG announced that Silent Hill 4 had been added to its GOG Preservation Program, which not only brought several improvements to the 2004 title, but also the restoration of content that was included in the original PlayStation 2 version.

For those unaware, GOG.com recently started its Preservation Program with the goal of ensuring classic PC games remain playable on modern systems, long after their developers had ceased support. The program includes over 140 titles, with many of them sporting improvements such as support for gamepads, modern OS support, stability fixes and more.

In the case of Silent Hill 4: The Room, when the game was ported to PC, several of the game’s hauntings were removed. The hauntings mechanic involved spirits trying to take over various objects in your apartment. When GOG brought the game back, the missing hauntings still remained as such, leading to modders employing their own fixes.

However, with Silent Hill 4 being added to the GOG Preservation Program, the GOG devs have reimplemented the missing content, along with more quality-of-life improvements. According to Adim Ziółkowski, the technical producer at GOG, it wasn’t clear why Konami removed the hauntings in the first place. However, they were still in the code. “So to fix it, it was a matter of finding those lines of code and re-enabling them.”

You can check out the news regarding Silent Hill 4: The Room being added to the program, alongside Fallout 2, Monolith’s F.E.A.R. Platinum, Vampire: The Masquerade – Redemption, the Alone in the Dark trilogy and more in the video below.

Big thanks to Time Extension for spotting this one!

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