QSound
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QSound is a sound enhancement system from QSound Labs to create 3D audio effects from a stereo source.
The system was used in several Capcom CPS-1 titles and in most, if not all CPS-2 and CPS3 titles as well as several console games and some non-CPS system Capcom arcade games such as Battle Arena Toshinden 2.
Electronic Arts, Activision, Microsoft Game Studios, Sega, Virgin Interactive, TDK Mediactive, Bullfrog Productions, and Lionhead Studios have also used the technology.
While the system is mainly known for its use in video game titles, the first QSound chip used for that purpose was not created until 1991, while QSound had been created in the 1980s and has been used in everything from screensavers to television programming. Several 1990s music albums were also mixed using QSound (see below).
[edit] List of known games using QSound
All games on the CPS-2 arcade system. Notable games include
- Alien vs Predator (Capcom)
- Darkstalkers
- Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom and Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow Over Mystara (Capcom)
- Eco Fighters (Capcom)
- Marvel vs Capcom (Capcom)
- The Street Fighter Alpha series (Capcom)
- Super Gem Fighter (Capcom)
- Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo (Capcom)
- Super Street Fighter II (and all variations) (Capcom)
- X-Men: Children of the Atom (Capcom)
- Vampire Savior: The lord of Vampire (Capcom)
Other games to use QSound
- Adventures of Lomax (Psygnosis)
- Battle Arena Toshinden 2 (Capcom)
- Beasts and Bumpkins (Electronic Arts)
- Black and White (Lionhead Studios)
- Bob Bondurant's High Performance Driving (Fathom Pictures)
- Cuba-10 (Activision)
- Dawn Patrol (Empire)
- Dirt Racer (Accolade)
- Diskworld 2 (Perfect Entertainment)
- Dungeon Keeper 2 (Bullfrog Productions)
- EA Sports Football Manager 2 (Electronic Arts)
- Ecco the Dolphin (Sega; Sega CD version)
- Eternal Champions: Challenge from the Dark Side (Sega)
- F1 Championship Series 2000 (Electronic Arts)
- FA Premier League Football Manager ‘99 (Electronic Arts)
- FIFA Soccer Manager (Electronic Arts)
- Formula One series (Psygnosis)
- From Dusk Till Dawn (Gamesquad)
- G-Police (Psygnosis)
- Hyperblade (Activision)
- John Madden Football (Electronic Arts)
- Nihilist (Philips Media)
- Outwars (Microsoft)
- Populous: The Beginning (Bullfrog Productions)
- Populous 3 (Bullfrog Productions)
- Resident Evil 2 (Capcom)
- Ring of Destruction (Capcom)
- Rival Schools (Capcom)
- The Punisher (Capcom)
- Sonic CD (Sega)
- Space Circus (Infogrames)
- Speedster (Psygnosis)
- Spycraft (Activision)
- Star Gladiator series (Capcom)
- Starship Titanic (The Digital Village)
- Street Fighter EX series (Capcom)
- Street Fighter The Movie (Capcom; console version)
- Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri (Looking Glass Studios)
- Track Attack (MicroProse)
- TNN Outdoors Bass Tournament ‘96 (Dream Weavers)
- Warriors of Fate (Capcom)
- Zork Nemesis (Activision)
[edit] List of albums known to have been mixed in QSound
- The Adventures of MC Skat Kat and the Stray Mob by MC Skat Kat (1991)
- Amused to Death by Roger Waters (1992)
- Broken China by Richard Wright (1996)
- The Immaculate Collection by Madonna (1990)
- Pulse by Pink Floyd (1995)
- The Soul Cages by Sting (1991)
- Spellbound by Paula Abdul (1991)
