On the topic of the actual topic, by the by, I just managed to FINALLY set up the Silent Hill quadrillogy without emulators (mostly, SH1 needed it) in proper formats. They're surprisingly annoying to set up on PC with the exception of the ever popular Silent Hill 2 and, uh, checks notes Silent Hill 4, because that one's just on GOG and none of the others for some reason.
It's so funny cause as a person with previously no access to the games whatsoever outside of the HORRIBLE "Enhanced Edition" port my main interaction with Silent Hill has been countless deep dives into fan content and the fan wiki so I'm just running around SH3 currently going "oh my god it's him!!! the insane cancer!!! from silenthill.fandom.com!!!! hiiiiii" for the most part it's great.
https://www.reddit.com/r/silenthill/com ... st_way_to/ was the guide I used, pretty intuitive I just hadn't really gotten around to it.