# 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.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/cutarev/sh3-nx>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/cutarev/sh3-nx/blob/ff483a6f95b94a4f7924f6fbe4cb47169f2adb98/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/sh3-nx/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/sh3-nx/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/sh3-nx/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/cutarev/sh3-nx/blob/ff483a6f95b94a4f7924f6fbe4cb47169f2adb98/README.md>

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