Disaster Report w/ 3D spatial sound 🎧 (Sony S-Force HRTF audio)
Channel: I Drink Lava - 3D Game Audio
Date: 2020-03-04

USE HEADPHONES ONLY with any virtual surround like Windows Sonic turned off. Best HRTF effects at 0:12, 1:00, 2:49, 4:40, 18:41, and 19:30.

Up next for the PS2's 20th anniversary celebration is Irem's Disaster Report (or 絶体絶命都市 in Japan) with Sony S-Force headphone HRTF. Until I played this game, I thought S-Force just used garbage HRIR data like the Xbox's Sensaura APU did. To my surprise, Sony S-Force could actually sound decent when the programmers wanted it to. The rear audio is actually audible and you can even hear elevation effects in action!

There's just one catch: the spatialized audio sources are extremely limited. How limited? Try one sound source at a time. Yeah, really. You have this cinematic action-adventure game where bridges and buildings are collapsing all around you, but the only sounds that are in 3D are random helicopters, idle truck engines, or cicada noises. You and your companion's footsteps also seem to be spatialized, but it's still disappointing. It's very clear when the various destruction SFX are in stereo or mono (12:30).


HRTF grade:
C+

Settings:
Windows Control Panel: Stereo
Internal Resolution: 1920x1080
Interlacing: None (none of the options fix the blurry image, unfortunately)
Bilinear Filtering: PS2
Interpolation: Catmull-Rom (PS2-like/slow)
Module: 1 - XAudio 2 (Recommended)
Audio Expansion Mode: Stereo (none, default)
In-Game Speakers: Headphones (did PS2 even have a headphone jack?)

Links:
https://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/News/Press_Archive/200103/01-015E/

Credits:
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