Case study

Silent Hill 3: a native Nintendo Switch port

sh3-nx is a native Nintendo Switch port of the PC version of Silent Hill 3, release v0.06. The x86 executable is statically recompiled to C and compiled for ARM64. Direct3D 8, DirectSound, DirectInput, and kernel32 are reimplemented on SDL2 and OpenGL.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
Evidence class: C2 code & docs, no demo or download

Stars: 41
Last commit: 2026-10-22
Language: C

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Observed: Code, documentation and a download method observed; no demo found.
Checked: 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

The player supplies the PC game. The port is built for sh3.exe of 3,338,240 bytes, SHA-1 aa2aca6dba19bf510c9c2e92eefdc15e98266581.
The README names no license.

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BibTeX

@misc{sh3-nx,
  title = {{Silent Hill 3: a native Nintendo Switch port}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/cutarev/sh3-nx}},
  url = {https://github.com/cutarev/sh3-nx},
  urldate = {2026-11-07},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/sh3-nx/}}
}

Plain text

Silent Hill 3: a native Nintendo Switch port. https://github.com/cutarev/sh3-nx (accessed 2026-11-07). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/sh3-nx/

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README.md GitHub · cutarev/sh3-nx · Revision ff483a6