Bonus costumes:

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To use the bonus costumes, you must first complete the game once and unlock the "Extra Costume" option. Enter the following case-sensitive passwords and you will be prompted for that costume. Once entered, you can then equip them during game play. Note: Some codes are specific to the PAL and NTSC versions of the game.

Heather Shirt: HappyBirthDay
Onsen: I_Love_You
Block Head: PutHere2FeelJoy
Don't Touch: TOUCH_MY_HEART
God Of Thunder: GangsterGirl
The Light: LightToFuture
Transience: ShogyouMujou
Killer Rabbit: BlueRobbieWin
Royal Flush: 01_03_08_11_12
Golden Rooster: cockadooodledoo
Transform: PrincessHeart (Note: This is actually a key)
Zipper: Shut_your_mouth
13ème RUE = Suspense
EGM: EGMpretaporter
Game Informer: gameinformer
Game Reactor: SH3_Wrestlarn
Gamepro: ProTip
GameSpy: iaml33t
GMR: GMRownzjoo
IGN.com: IGN_pickleboy
OPM: SH3_OPiuM
OPS2: extra_thumbs
Play: sLmLdGhSmKfBfH
PS2RO: MATADOR
PSM: badical

Locked Door Passwords:

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The following case-sensitive passwords are for the locked doors at the official Japanese site for Silent Hill 3.

Room 106 : (this password always changes)
Room 209 : esytarlsrayt
Room 301 : chsyoins
Room 302 : welsbjbb
Room 303 : thokifjb
Room 304 : kyaoampd
Room 305 : csimuzpw
Room 306 : mezzossh
Room 307 : 120CGC

Douglas in underwear:

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After successfully completing the game once, highlight the "Extra New Game" option at the main menu and press Up(2), Down(2), Left, Right, Left, Right, Circle, X. Heather will sigh after you choose a difficulty and riddle level to confirm correct code entry. In some scenes when you see Douglas, he will be wearing his underwear.

Alessa costume:

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Successfully complete all ten extreme levels.

Extra options menu:

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Press L1, L2, R1, or R2 at the options screen to display an extra options menu

Beginner fighting difficulty setting:

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Intentionally die twice during game play under the normal fighting difficulty setting. The fighting difficulty setting can now be set to "Beginner" in the extra options menu.

Life display option:

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Successfully complete the game under the hard difficulty setting to unlock "Life Display" at the extra options screen.

Hint: UFO ending:

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Successfully complete game and unlock the Princess Heart costume and the Heather Beam weapon. The Heather Beam is a special weapon which you can only use if Heather or Cheryl is not holding any weapon. Defeat all monsters and Bosses using only the Heather Beam. Note: The "Monster defeated" counter should read 0 kills.

Hint: Possessed ending:

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Kill all monsters with any weapon except melee ones, preferably the unlimited sub machine gun (a special weapon).

Hint: Extra interactive scenes:

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To get extra scenes while playing the game, use a memory card with at least one finished saved game file from Silent Hill 2. New interactions with some objects and new scenes will now be available. These scenes are similar or with some type of reference to the previous game. For example, Heather trying to look for something stuck into the toilet in the mall.

Hint: Extra interactive scenes: (Part 2)

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After completing Silent Hill 2, use that same memory card while playing Silent Hill 3 to get flashbacks. The flashback locations are:

When you examine the second stall in the 1F ladies room in the mall.

When you examine the mail boxes across from Daisy Villa Apartments.

When you examine the poster at Haven's Night.

When you examine the small section of fence on the north side of the Brookhaven Hospital's Roof Area.

Hint: Death scenes:

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There are multiple areas in the game where special death scenes occur for your character if you trigger them.

In the hospital, allow yourself to be killed by the nurses. The screen will go black, and then it will show Heather lying on the ground, as a male doctor zombie shambles up, grabs and widely spreads her legs, and drags her off into the darkness.

At the final area, after Claudia kills Vincent and the exchange between Heather and Claudia ensues, equip a weapon and attack Claudia with it. Heather will then begin to bleed out and birth the "God". This is not really an ending, as it counts as a "Game Over", but is a gruesome ending nonetheless.

While in the subway, hop down onto the tracks and run all the way to the end of them, into the tunnel. Heather will be run over by the train, accompanied by nauseating sound effects.

When on the train, simply turn around and exit through the door in the rear of any car. Heather will be on the very end of the train. If you move forward towards the edge, a first-person cut scene will occur in which Heather falls from the train onto the tracks, and dies.

There are other death scenes located in specific areas throughout the game. Look for areas that seem significant (locations from previous games, for instance) and allow yourself to be killed.

Hint: Advancing to Extreme X easily:

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Defeating the final Boss on Extreme X is a nightmare. However, there is way to get around it. Do the Revenge ending repeatedly and you are on your way to Level X. The only Boss monster that you should encounter is the worm that resembles a mutated Johnson on Sundays. Beware, your only weapon during this quest is the slow, fairly strong Sexy Beam. Become familiar with using the Sexy Beam, use the True Heather Beam (R2 + X) on dogs and flying monsters, and use the Heather Ray (R2 + X(2) or Forward + R2 + X) on the giant monsters and the squirming little ones. Remember you can recover your stamina by exiting and reentering a room. Stamina is a must during this quest

Hint: Unlock up to ten Extreme Action Mode games:

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Finish the game in hard action mode to unlock Extreme Action Mode 1 (an increased difficulty mode). Finish Extreme Action Mode 1 to unlock Mode 2, etc. Continue doing this until you unlock the last one, Extreme Action Mode X. If you finish this last mode you will be rewarded with the God Of Thunder T-shirt.

Hint: Bookstore: Puzzle:

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When putting the books out of order, the solution is 4 5 2 3 1, under the normal action and normal riddle difficulty settings.

The solution under the hard difficulty setting is 8 3 5 2.

The solution under the easy difficulty setting is 8 9 6 4.

Hint: Brookhaven Hospital: Second lobby door password:

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The password is an easy math problem. The first digit is greater than the second digit. The second digit is the third digit multiplied by two. The third digit is half of the first digit. The solution is 8 6 3 4, under the normal action and normal riddle difficulty settings.

The solution under the easy difficulty setting is 4 6 3 9.

The solution under the hard difficulty setting is 4 8 9 6.

Hint: Brookhaven Hospital: Third lobby door password:

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For this, go to floor B, then to the storeroom . Go to the end of the room and take a photo of the bloody wall with a shelf near it. The solution is 4 7 5 6, under the normal action and normal riddle difficulty settings.

The solution under the hard difficulty setting is 1 3 2 8.

Hint: Brookhaven Hospital: Crematory puzzle:
The solution under the hard riddle difficulty setting is 9 2 7 1.

The solution under the normal difficulty setting is: 9 3 6 7.

Hint: Brookhaven Hospital: Suitcase on bed password:

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Look at the clock near the bed. The time is the password. For example, if the clock shows the 5h:6m, you would enter 0 5 0 6. The solution is 0 7 1 9, under the normal action and normal riddle difficulty settings.

Note: The clock should be read in military time. For example, if the alarm clock reads as 2:14 then it should be entered as 14:14 on the suitcase.

Hint: Brookhaven Hospital: 33rd floor lock password:

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After hospital changes to bloody mode, you can go to the 33rd floor. At the top of the room is a stony picture on the wall . This picture shows you the order of the digits. For example:

I is number of this bed is digit 1
II is number of this bed is digit 2
III is number of this bed is digit 3
IV is number of This bed is digit 4

Where the digits are indicate the number of beds that you see bloody. The solution is 8 2 3 7, under the normal action and normal riddle difficulty settings.

Hint: Brookhaven Hospital: Hidden ammunition:

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For sub machine gun ammunition, go to the hospital roof.

Hint: Subway: Vengeful ghost:

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When initially reaching the subway station, look for a cluster of vending machines for coins and tickets. On top of one of those machines is a newspaper telling of a man who was killed, presumably by accident, by a train. Later, once you begin descending levels, you will come across a stairwell that has an occult magazine lying on the ground. Read it, and it will describe how the ghosts of those who commit suicide or those who died by accident often come back to haunt the places of their death, and will either come to people for help or take revenge on them. If you read both of these articles and descend the steps, Heather will walk down to the subway track, and a small intermission sequence will ensue which has a ghost push Heather onto the train tracks. You must turn around quickly and climb back up, or you will be killed by an oncoming train. Note: That this occurred in the Extra New Game mode, and may not happen the first time through on Normal Game mode.

Hint: Order of tarot cards at the last door of the game:

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Arrange the cards as follows in the normal action and normal riddle difficulty settings:

Northwest position: Eye Of The Night
Northeast position: Moon
West position: High Priestess
East position: Fool
South position: Hanged Man

Arrange the cards as follows in the hard difficulty setting.

Northwest position: The High Priestess
North position: The Eye Of The Night
Center position: The Fool
East position: The Moon
Southwest position: The Hanged Man

The riddle is a problem with Roman numerals. The Priestess is number II (2) as read on the book about tarots. The Eye Of The Night is XXII (22). The Fool is 0. The Moon is XVIII (18). The Hanged Man is XII (12). Look in the book of drawings to see that XVIII can stay only in the east position (the last letter is I instead of L); XII is only in the southwest position; II is only in the northwest position; 0 and XXII have two places where they can stay. Swap them until you find their correct place.

Hint: Heather Beam:

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Kill 333 enemies. Playing through the game several times will achieve this.

Hint: Life Bar:

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Successfully complete the game under the hard action and hard riddle difficulty settings to unlock the "Life Bar" option at the extra options screen.

Hint: Never get tired:

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Equipping the Princess Heart or Transform costume will make Heather run long distances without getting tired. This is also useful for the Heather Beam weapon, since it depends on how tired Heather is.

Hint: Heather looking dead:

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Equipping the God Of Thunder costume allow Heather or Cheryl to look like one of the evil Heathers in the Amusement Park. When you get to the scene where Heather will "eat" her pendant, you will see some kind of lettering on her fingers.

Hint: Defeating the last Boss with less ammunition:

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Equip the handgun and fire two shots. Note: One should be fine, but fire two just in case. After Claudia bends over, equip the Maul (spiked mace) and do the overhead attack by pressing X hard. Since you will be invulnerable when Heather swings the Maul, Claudia will not hit you with her Retaliation smack. Note: Even though the swing is slow, Claudia will just wait for it.

Hint: Weapons:

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You can find a shotgun is in the subway and a machine gun in the hospital.

Hint: Special weapon locations:

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Once you unlocked the following Special weapons they can be found at their respective places:

Beam Saber: At the end of the hallway where you get the bookstore key; hanging on the door.

Flamethrower-In Helen's Bakery (where you get the tongs); on the counter.

Infinite Ammo Sub Machine Gun: Immediately after exiting out of the bathroom window (after the start of the game) go left; it is at the dead end.

Heather Beam: After obtaining it, you always have it. You can use it when no weapon is equipped.

Hint: Boost bullet adjust and bonus weapons faster:

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When you get to the church and are ready solve the children's room riddle (with the Tarot cards), save the game before you do so. Then, complete the game, defeat the Boss and get to the results screen. When you are done viewing your ranking, press X to see what bonus you were awarded. If you killed more enemies with a melee weapon, you will get a Beam Saber. If you shot more enemies, you will get an infinite flamethrower. Save the game in a new file -- do not overwrite your existing game data. Return to the main title screen and select the "Load" option. Load the saved game created before you killed the Boss. Kill the boss again and skip the credits. When you get to the results screen for the second time, the game will count you having completed the game a the second time (because you already have a completed game save data on you memory card). This is much faster than actually going through the game multiple times to get bonus weapons and increase your bullet adjust. Bullet adjust allows you to double the amount of bullets you can get from a single box, depending on how many times you completed the game. If you did this trick three times you can triple the amount of bullets you would normally get from a single box in very little time.

Hint: Silencer:

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After the sewer, go to the apartment 5F. You will see a room with a big hole. There is mattress near the hole. To the right of it is a wall that that has a light blue color section. Use a pipe to break the wall and get the silencer.

After you complete the game, go to the fifth floor in the construction building. Go to the room which has a big hole in the middle. There should be a wall that is lightly colored. Smash that wall to get a gun silencer.

Hint: Unlock the Flamethrower and the Beam Saber with just one game played completely:

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To unlock these two extra-weapons without having to play a new game from the beginning, save your game in the tarot-puzzle room just before the last Boss. When you finish the game, you will unlock one of the weapons (Flamethrower or Beam Saber). Save your results. After this, load that previous saved game and finish it again. You will now unlock the other weapon.

Hint: Unlock the Flamethrower, Beam Saber, and Unlimited Sub Machine Gun with just one game played c

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Finish the game and save your results. You should have at least one special weapon unlocked (Beam Saber, Unlimited Sub Machine Gun, or Flamethrower). Then, load your saved game again. Finishing the game the second time with the same save will unlock the Flamethrower (if you do not have it). Finish the game the third time, but kill the last Boss, Claudia, with only melee weapons such as the Maul or the Katana. After that, you will unlock the Unlimited Sub Machine Gun. Note: If you do not have the Beam Saber, then in the third time through kill the last Boss, Claudia, with long range weapons such as the shotgun or the sub machine gun.

Hint: Heather Beam firing modes:

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There are three ways to fire the Heather Beam. The Homing Ray is only usable when Heather is not wearing the Princess Heart costume, and can be done by holding X. The second one is The Psycho Ball, which is usable anytime and can be done by pressing X then pressing and holding X a second time. The third one is Heather True-Beam, which is only usable when Heather is wearing the Princess Heart or Transform costume, and can be done by holding X.

Hint: Setting the ammo multiplier:

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You can only set the ammo multiplier after successfully completing the game at least once. Then, press Select to go to the status menu, and go to the options menu. Press R1, R2, L1, or L2) to enter the extra options menu. You can now set the ammo multiplier to any value. The ammo multiplier will set the amount of any ammunition you pick by a multiplying its current ammo value to the number you set in the bullet multiplier extra option. For example, when you pick a magazine of 32 bullets for the machine gun, you will instead get 64 bullets when you set the bullet multiplier to 2X.

Hint: Ammo multiplier 5X:

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Finish the game once, then load your saved game again. Finish the game again nine times using the same saved game. When you start a new game or extra new game, enter the extra options menu. You can now set the bullet multiplier option to 5X. When you pick any ammunition, it will be multiplied nine times more than the normal amount.

Hint: Blood color change:

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You can change the color of the blood in the extra options menu. You can set the blood color to green, and when you get hit or attack a monster it will instead spill green blood rather than the usual red.

Hint: Getting Gold and Silver Pipes:

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In the place where you use the dryer to kill off some tentacles, walk to the water. Make sure you do not fall and press X. Answer the questions correctly to get it.

Hint: Claudia:

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When the intermission sequence between Claudia and Vincent is finished and Vincent dies, use the necklace on Claudia.

Hint: Die by getting pulled in water:

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After getting in the sewer, you should find a area with a door that has a warning sign next to it. Read the diary on the desk. It will have information revealing that a monster killed his friends and a little more on how to kill it. Save the game and go across the bridge without getting rid of it. A large tentacle will grab your leg and drag you in the water.

Hint: Clean bunnies:

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In the introduction at the Lakeside Amusement Park (nightmare), when you look at all the bunny costumes they are covered in blood. When you enter the gift shop, you can see that only the pink bunnies are covered in blood, and the rest are clean.