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Editions & platforms
| Edition | Platform | Differences & notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2001/2002 · PS2 | PlayStation 2, Xbox | Released in Europe as Project Zero. Focuses on the Western PS2 campaign, with Xbox notes. |
Edition, camera and supplies
This guide follows the first Project Zero, released in Japan as Zero in 2001 and Europe as Project Zero in 2002. Key room names use the labels found on the western PS2 map. The Xbox Special Edition adds ghosts and its own Fatal mode.
The filament glows blue for clues and hidden spirits and orange for threats. With a blue signal, pan slowly in the viewfinder until the capture circle also reacts. Photograph the sealed door first. Many seal ghosts can only be captured after you reveal their clue.
Save cameras refill Type 14 film to 30 shots. Keep Type 74 and 90 for late fights. Spirit points improve camera range, charge speed and maximum charge. A Stone Mirror protects against one fatal hit. You can carry one at a time.
Keep a hostile spirit framed to charge your camera. The short window just before an attack lets you take an especially strong shot. Use the stun after a hit to reposition. Rooms with several exits give you room to move, although a pursuing ghost can follow you through a door.
Prologue · Mafuyu at Himuro Mansion
Start in the Entrance, pick up the film and take the Rope Hallway to the Fireplace room. Climb to the balcony and inspect the notebook. Bound Man is the tutorial fight. Keep him framed and charge the shot. Head downstairs and back through the Rope Hallway to finish the prologue.
For the spirit list, shoot through the low lattice in the Entrance to capture Child Behind. Other spirits briefly appear on your first pass through the Rope Hallway and at the Fireplace balcony. Angry Man is a hidden subject in the Fireplace room.
Night 1 · Camera, hand mirror and Storeroom
Miku picks up the Camera Obscura in the Rope Hallway. In the Fireplace room, inspect and photograph the wall where the ghost vanishes. The opening behind it leads to the Lamp Hallway. Enter the Library, open the cupboard and take the recorder. The adjoining Kimono Room introduces the first Koji Ogata fight.
Photograph the mirror stand in the Kimono Room. The image shows the lion mask in the Fireplace room. Retrieve the red hand mirror from it, fit it to the stand and take the Brass Key. Use it on the balcony door above the fireplace. A room adjoining the Tatami Room has a save point. The Walkway leads downstairs to the Storeroom and the Burial Room.
Photograph the sealed door in the Burial Room. Unlock the Storeroom on the lower Walkway with 1312 in the western release and photograph the area beneath its ladder. Return to the unsealed Burial Room door and cross into the Cherry Atrium.
Night 1 · Waterwheel, Narukami Shrine and Buddha altar
Photograph the two sealed doors in the Cherry Atrium. Take the open door past the Moon Shrine into the Abyss and photograph the waterwheel. This unseals the Doll Room. Photograph the spirit by the dolls and fend off Crawling Girl. The newly accessible door at the atrium leads to the Stairway, where the lighter is in front of the mirror.
Return to the Abyss and light the dark lantern beside the jetty. Take the Black Carving. Reach the Fish Tank Room via the Stairway, defeat Tomoe if she is still there and open the backyard door with 3669. Follow the Forest Path to Narukami Shrine and use the Black Carving to solve its sliding lock.
Pick up the tape from the shrine pedestal and defeat Takamine. Back onto the porch if you need space. Search beside the torii post for the Headless Buddha and complete the altar. Kirie's touch ends the night in this scene.
Night 2 · Well, Demon Mouth and candles
Photograph the wall sealing the secret door in the Doll Room. Go through the Cherry Atrium and Burial Room to the Rubble Room and photograph its north door for the well clue. Return across the atrium to the Stairway. The sealed Stairway door points to the space below the stairs. Photograph the hidden spirit there, then continue through the Fish Tank Room.
Open the backyard door with 2611 in the western release. Inspect the well, defeat Girl in Well and take the Blue Carving. Use it on the first sliding door in the Rubble Room. Photograph the second door at the far end of the Corridor, collect the Purple Carving from the rocks at the end of the Abyss jetty and open the way to the Demon Mouth.
Descend both ladders in the Demon Mouth, examine the large gate and photograph the stone where the man appeared. After the Blinded fight, the clue points back to the candles in the Burial Room. The candle puzzle yields the Demon Tag Scroll. Use it on the Doll Room wall to open the route to the Kimono Room.
Blinded reacts to movement. Stay still while lining up the camera and wait for the opening. If she disappears, she may reappear directly behind you. Use the viewfinder quick turn.
Night 2 · Bronze Key, Kagome Doll and five masks
From the Kimono Room, go through the Library and Lamp Hallway to the Fireplace room. Defeat the child spirit for a mirror fragment. Photograph the sealed balcony door and then the ghost high in the Rope Hallway. Return upstairs and photograph the safe in the small study off the Tatami Room.
Photograph the sealed upstairs door in the Walkway, then capture the spirit in the wall crack in the lower east corridor. The Bronze Key is in the Koto Room beyond the unsealed door. Open the study safe, follow the spirit to the Observatory, then inspect the object below the cherry tree in the atrium and defeat Yae.
Put the correct Kagome Doll into its display to get the Angry Mask. The direct route to the Entrance runs through the Burial Room, Walkway, Grand Hall and Rope Hallway. Use the Angry Mask at the Entrance and take it back after passing through. Collect the Joyful Mask and Sad Mask in the Hidden Pass and recover the Happy Mask from the Mask Room.
Use the Happy Mask to reach the Square Garden. Collect the Gold Carving from the monument and unlock the Buddha Room. Take the Reflection Mask, fight Munakata and return all four face masks to the Mask Room pillar. The Reflection Mask opens the way to the Blinding Mask. Back at the Demon Mouth, fight Munakata and then Blinded on the bottom level. Use the Blinding Mask at the large gate and examine the body in the Banned Path. Kirie's touch starts Night 3.
Night 3 · Four priests and the Master's Seal
Follow the Banned Path from the Demon Mouth to its end and defeat the group of People Killed. Return to the Rubble Room. Photograph its sealed exit and capture Crushed Woman in the rubble near the save point. Step out and back in if she does not appear after the clue photo.
In the Cherry Atrium, photograph the Moon Shrine door. At the Buddha Room altar, collect the ceremonial ropes, bind the four statues in order and pick up the Teal Carving. Defeat the Himuro Family Master and open the Moon Shrine with the carving. Open the cabinet front and photograph all four sides.
Defeat the Headless Priests at the Cherry Atrium standing stones, at the end of the Abyss jetty, by the Square Garden monument and near the backyard well. Use 1347 at the Fish Tank Room door to reach the backyard. A detour to Narukami Shrine is worthwhile if you need Type 90 film.
Match the four symbols at the Moon Shrine and photograph the raised panel. Follow the blood trail through the Burial Room and Walkway into the Grand Hall. Defeat the Family Master again. Use his Master's Seal at the cabinet and climb down into the Moon Well. Picking up the fragment beside the Rope Maiden ends the night.
Final Night · Kirie's hairpin and the Hell Gate
Pick up the sheet music by the photos near the gramophone and use it at the koto. The attic route leads past two openings and over the rafters to the Dungeon. Look for Type 90 film on the rafters and a Stone Mirror on a side branch. Enter the cell through the hidden panel and collect Kirie's hairpin and the mirror fragment.
When Kirie appears, run through the open exit, down the main staircase and onto the Cherry Atrium porch. In Xbox Fatal mode, you must defeat the Armored Warrior in the Abyss to reopen the Moon Shrine.
Climb down from the Moon Shrine to the Moon Well and use Kirie's Hairpin at the mummy. Save there for the last stretch if your difficulty allows it. Cross the Hell Bridge and go through the Rope Altar and Baptism Path to the Hell Gate. When the Rope Altar maiden teleports, back up and aim down to find her.
Examine the gate-facing side of the stone pedestal. Equip Type 74 or 90 for Kirie, keep your distance and shoot when the fully charged capture circle signals the opening. Kirie remains dangerous after the fight. Turn around first, collect the last fragment beside the pedestal and place the mirror on the gate-facing side.
Endings, Battle Mode and spirit list
Story details & possible consequences
On Normal, Mafuyu stays with Kirie while Miku escapes the mansion. The same ending applies to versions with Easy. On Nightmare, both siblings escape. The Xbox Special Edition's Fatal mode unlocks a photo ending that also shows Kirie reunited with her lover.
Save Clear Data after the credits. This opens Battle Mode and the spirit list and lets you carry over camera equipment. On PS2, clear the 20 Battle Mode missions to unlock Nightmare. Completing Nightmare also opens chapter selection.
The spirit list contains 108 entries on PS2 and 119 on Xbox. Completing it unlocks the Zero camera function. Save before cutscenes and new areas if hunting for fleeting subjects. Listen for static and look for the blue filament to find stationary subjects.
Optional detours provide film and extra subjects. Visit the Rubble Room in Night 1 for Blinded Woman, and revisit Narukami Shrine in Night 2. Type 90 film awaits there in Night 3. In the Final Night, Kirie's Love and Burdened Man can be seen from the Abyss jetty.
Red hand mirror and Brass Key
Night 1 · Kimono Room and Fireplace
The mirror stand points to the missing item.
Show solution
Step 1
Photograph the empty mirror stand. Return to the Fireplace room and retrieve the red hand mirror from the lion mask.
Step 2
Fit the mirror to the stand and take the Brass Key from the open compartment. It unlocks the Fireplace balcony door.
Storeroom code 1312
Night 1 · Walkway → Storeroom
The date of the Strangling Ritual is December 13.
Show solution
Step 1
Enter 1312. On PS2, 0 is at the top and the digits run counterclockwise. Xbox uses Arabic numerals arranged clockwise.
Step 2
The confirmed input for the Japanese PS2 release is 1213.
Burial Room talisman
Night 1 · Burial Room and Storeroom
The door photo shows the storage area.
Show solution
Step 1
Photograph the talisman on the Burial Room exit. Open the Storeroom on the lower Walkway.
Step 2
Aim under the ladder to photograph Seductress. The Burial Room door now opens into the Cherry Atrium.
Waterwheel and dolls · two door seals
Night 1 · Cherry Atrium, Abyss and Doll Room
The wheel and dolls point to two successive clues.
Show solution
Step 1
Photograph both sealed doors in the atrium and go to the Abyss. Capture the spirit at the waterwheel from its left side.
Step 2
Enter the Doll Room off the atrium. Photograph Child Onlooker in the corner by the dolls. This opens the second sealed door, leading to the Stairway.
Dark lantern and Black Carving
Night 1 · Abyss and Stairway
The dark lantern's photograph shows the same lantern lit.
Show solution
Step 1
Photograph the unlit lantern near the jetty for the clue if needed. Pick up the lighter in front of the Stairway mirror.
Step 2
Use the lighter on the lantern and take the Black Carving. It fits Narukami Shrine's sliding lock.
Backyard code 3669
Night 1 · Fish Tank Room → Backyard
The ritual clue asks for the maiden's time in isolation, in days.
Show solution
Step 1
Enter 3669. On PS2, 0 is at the top and the digits run counterclockwise. Xbox uses Arabic numerals arranged clockwise.
Step 2
The confirmed input for the Japanese PS2 release is 3669.
Black Carving sliding lock at Narukami Shrine
Night 1 · Narukami Shrine
Each tile belongs over its matching background symbol.
Show solution
Step 1
The Black Carving comes from the lantern beside the Abyss jetty.
Step 2
Number the positions with 1 at upper left and 2 at upper right, 3 and 4 on the lower left and right, and 5 at the bottom.
Step 3
Select these positions in order: 3 → 4 → 5 → 1. Each move slides the chosen tile into the empty space.
Five Buddhas at the Narukami altar
Night 1 · Narukami Shrine
Place each statue by its damaged body part.
Show solution
Step 1
Defeat Takamine and find the Headless Buddha by the torii outside the shrine. Add it to the four figures and photograph the recesses.
Step 2
Facing the altar, put the headless figure at top center. Put the figure with the damaged left arm at upper left and the damaged right arm at upper right.
Step 3
Put the figure with the damaged left leg at lower left and the damaged right leg at lower right. Take the mirror fragment.
Sealed Stairway door
Night 2 · Stairway
The ghost is hiding below the stairs.
Show solution
Step 1
Photograph the door at the end of the corridor. Return to the foot of the staircase and capture Vengeance in Wall. The door now leads to the Fish Tank Room.
Backyard code 2611
Night 2 · Fish Tank Room → Backyard
The Blind Demon Ritual took place on November 26.
Show solution
Step 1
Enter 2611. On PS2, 0 is at the top and the digits run counterclockwise. Xbox uses Arabic numerals arranged clockwise.
Step 2
The confirmed input for the Japanese PS2 release is 1126.
Storeroom code 7925
Night 2 · Walkway → Storeroom · optional
The Blind Demon Ritual states the maiden's minimum age in years, months and days.
Show solution
Step 1
Enter 7925. On PS2, 0 is at the top and the digits run counterclockwise. Xbox uses Arabic numerals arranged clockwise.
Blue Carving sliding lock in the Rubble Room
Night 2 · Rubble Room → Corridor
Each tile belongs over its matching background symbol.
Show solution
Step 1
Photograph the Rubble Room door. Examine the backyard well, defeat Girl in Well and take the Blue Carving.
Step 2
Number the positions with 1 at upper left and 2 at upper right, 3 and 4 on the lower left and right, and 5 at the bottom.
Step 3
Select these positions in order: 4 → 1 → 3 → 5 → 2. Each move slides the chosen tile into the empty space.
Purple Carving sliding lock to the Demon Mouth
Night 2 · Corridor → Demon Mouth
Each tile belongs over its matching background symbol.
Show solution
Step 1
Photograph the door at the end of the Corridor. The Purple Carving is in the rock pile at the north end of the Abyss jetty.
Step 2
Number the positions with 1 at upper left and 2 at upper right, 3 and 4 on the lower left and right, and 5 at the bottom.
Step 3
Select these positions in order: 3 → 4 → 5 → 1 → 3 → 2 → 4. Each move slides the chosen tile into the empty space.
Red candles and the Demon Tag Scroll
Night 2 · Burial Room
The red candles must be lit at the end.
Show solution
Step 1
Examine the gate at the bottom of the Demon Mouth, photograph the stone and defeat Blinded for the candle clue.
Step 2
Count the six Burial Room candles from left to right. Select 4 → 2 → 5 → 4. One candle is selected twice.
Step 3
Take the scroll and use it on the Doll Room wall to reach the Kimono Room.
Fireplace balcony seal
Night 2 · Fireplace and Rope Hallway
The clue photo shows the Rope Hallway ceiling.
Show solution
Step 1
Photograph the Fireplace balcony door. Go back to the Rope Hallway and aim at the beams until the capture circle reacts.
Step 2
Photograph Vengeance. The balcony door to the Tatami Room will open.
Bronze Key and Tatami Room safe
Night 2 · Tatami Room, Walkway and Koto Room
The safe photo shows a key. A door seal blocks access to its location.
Show solution
Step 1
Photograph the safe in the small study off the Tatami Room. Photograph the sealed upstairs door in the Walkway.
Step 2
Take the stairs by the mirror and photograph Girl Hiding in the wall crack in the lower east corridor. Enter the newly accessible Koto Room upstairs and collect the Bronze Key.
Step 3
Open the study safe with the key and follow the spirit to the Observatory.
Kagome Doll and Angry Mask
Night 2 · Cherry Atrium and Doll Room
The photo shows an extra doll covering her eyes.
Show solution
Step 1
Inspect the object beneath the cherry tree, defeat Yae and photograph the western shelf in the Doll Room.
Step 2
Choose the back-right doll from the opposite display. Place it in the missing spot on the western shelf and take the Angry Mask.
Four face masks and the Reflection Mask
Night 2 · Entrance, Hidden Pass, Mask Room and Buddha Room
Four masks belong on the pillar. The Reflection Mask is used to pass through doors.
Show solution
Step 1
Hang the Angry Mask at the Entrance. Enter the Hidden Pass and take it back from the other side. Take the Joyful Mask at the end of the passage. Enter the Mask Room through the Sad Mask door and retrieve that mask from the other side as well.
Step 2
Inspect the Happy Mask on the pillar and defeat Blinded. Use the Happy Mask to enter the Square Garden. Find the Gold Carving, solve the Buddha Room's sliding lock and collect the Reflection Mask.
Step 3
Retrieve the Happy Mask from the garden door on your return. Inspect each pillar face to mount Angry, Joyful, Sad and Happy. Miku places each mask on its matching side.
Step 4
Use the Reflection Mask to open the south door, retrieve it from the far side and enter the unsealed Blinding Room in the Hidden Pass.
Gold Carving sliding lock to the Buddha Room
Night 2 · Square Garden → Buddha Room
Each tile belongs over its matching background symbol.
Show solution
Step 1
Photograph the double doors. The Gold Carving is at the stone monument in the middle of the garden.
Step 2
Number the positions with 1 at upper left and 2 at upper right, 3 and 4 on the lower left and right, and 5 at the bottom.
Step 3
Select these positions in order: 4 → 3 → 2 → 5 → 4 → 3. Each move slides the chosen tile into the empty space.
Blinding Mask at the Demon Mouth gate
Night 2 · Blinding Room and Demon Mouth
The stone to the right of the gate needs the ritual mask.
Show solution
Step 1
Take the Blinding Mask from the altar in the Blinding Room. Return to the atrium via the Lamp Hallway, Library, Kimono Room and Doll Room.
Step 2
Go through the Burial Room and Rubble Room to the Demon Mouth. Defeat Munakata, descend both ladders and fight Blinded after inspecting the spot on the right of the gate.
Step 3
Use the Blinding Mask there and enter the Banned Path.
Crushed Woman door seal
Night 3 · Rubble Room
The clue photo shows a rubble pile.
Show solution
Step 1
Photograph the sealed exit door. Aim into the rubble near the save point until the capture circle turns blue. Step out and return if needed.
Step 2
Capture Crushed Woman and take the newly unsealed door to the Burial Room.
Backyard code 1347
Night 3 · Fish Tank Room → Backyard
The Calamity record gives the number of souls lost.
Show solution
Step 1
Enter 1347. On PS2, 0 is at the top and the digits run counterclockwise. Xbox uses Arabic numerals arranged clockwise.
Storeroom code 1312
Night 3 · Walkway → Storeroom · optional
The lock again asks for the date of the Strangling Ritual.
Show solution
Step 1
Enter 1312. On PS2, 0 is at the top and the digits run counterclockwise. Xbox uses Arabic numerals arranged clockwise.
Ceremonial ropes on the four Buddha statues
Night 3 · Buddha Room
The ritual names both arms first, then both legs.
Show solution
Step 1
Photograph the Moon Shrine door and collect the ceremonial ropes from the Buddha Room altar.
Step 2
Use the map order northwest → northeast → southwest → southeast. That corresponds to right arm → left arm → right leg → left leg.
Step 3
Take the Teal Carving from the altar and defeat the Family Master.
Teal Carving sliding lock at the Moon Shrine
Night 3 · Cherry Atrium → Moon Shrine
Each tile belongs over its matching background symbol.
Show solution
Step 1
The Teal Carving is behind the rope puzzle in the Buddha Room.
Step 2
Number the positions with 1 at upper left and 2 at upper right, 3 and 4 on the lower left and right, and 5 at the bottom.
Step 3
Select these positions in order: 1 → 5 → 4 → 2 → 3 → 1 → 5. Each move slides the chosen tile into the empty space.
Four priest switches at the Moon Shrine
Night 3 · Moon Shrine
Each Headless Priest supplies a symbol for one side of the cabinet.
Show solution
Step 1
After the sliding lock, open the cabinet front and photograph all four sides. Defeat the priests by the Cherry Atrium stones, at the end of the Abyss jetty, at the Square Garden monument and near the Backyard well.
Step 2
Using map directions, select switch four on the west side, three on the north, two on the east and one on the south.
Step 3
Photograph the panel that rises at the front. Follow the blood trail to the Grand Hall, defeat the Family Master and use his Master's Seal back at the Moon Shrine.
Koto sheet music and attic stairs
Final Night · Koto Room
The music is near the photographs by the gramophone.
Show solution
Step 1
Examine the photos, take the sheet music and interact with the koto. Use the revealed opening and climb to the attic.
Kirie's Hairpin at the Moon Well
Final Night · Dungeon and Moon Well
The Rope Maiden's remains have a spot for a missing object.
Show solution
Step 1
Take the hairpin from the Dungeon cell and escape to the Cherry Atrium porch.
Step 2
Climb down from the Moon Shrine and use the hairpin at the mummy opposite the ladder. This opens the door to the Hell Bridge.
Holy Mirror at the Hell Gate
Final Night · Hell Gate
The Camera Obscura holds the last fragment.
Show solution
Step 1
Start the encounter on the gate-facing side of the stone pedestal. Use powerful film and wait for the fully charged opening.
Step 2
After the cutscene, turn away from Kirie and run to the pedestal. Take the gleaming final fragment beside it and use the restored mirror on the gate-facing side.
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Sources & editorial date
Independently written game guidance. The following sources support quest routes, mechanics and edition notes. Editorial date: 12 November 2026.
- GameFAQs · PS2 campaign and camera guide (Chozo_Abigaba) ↗gamefaqs.gamespot.com
- GameFAQs · PS2 and Xbox walkthrough (J_Williams) ↗gamefaqs.gamespot.com
- GameFAQs · puzzle sequences (Rally_Vincent and NuConcept) ↗gamefaqs.gamespot.com
- GameFAQs · Japanese PS2 differences (Maul) ↗gamefaqs.gamespot.com
- Fatal Frame Wiki · ending conditions ↗fatalframe.fandom.com
- Fatal Frame Wiki · spirit list and version differences ↗fatalframe.fandom.com
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