Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune (Retrospective + Documentary)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ค. 2024
- Here it is. My Magnum Opus Is Complete. This documentary / Retrospective covers everything from Pre-Maximum Tune Games, to the re-launch of Maximum Tune in North America. Enjoy.
IMPORTANT LINKS TO CHECK OUT:
WMMT NAC: / wmmtnac
WMMT 4 Website: wanganmaxi-official.com/wangan...
maximumtune.org
www.replaymag.com/bandai-namco...
Gab: gab.ai/coffeelover239
Twitter: / ocoffeelover239
My Discord Server: / discord - เกม
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If I walk into an arcade and I _don't_ see any Wangan cabinets, my ass'll be straight turning 180 degrees and walking out.
if an arcade dosent have wmmt then is boring
There needs to be an Xbox and PS4 Port of all the Maximum Tune games
I wish there would be, but I don't think it will ever happen. Closet thing we have is Fast Beat Loop Racer GT on Steam, in addition to all the Tokyo Xtreme Racer Games.
@@coffeelover239 you could get Initial D and Wangan Midnight for the PS3 and PSP on Amazon.
You're right, even initial d doesn't have english version in ps1 until ps3, include WM in ps2 and ps3
@@coffeelover239 you should try, wangan midnight on the PS2. it's the OG maxi tune you could say down to the sounds
Yeah it’s not happening, Bamco would prolly lose quite a bit of money
1) I thank you sir for getting me to relive my memories since WMMT2 in half an hour.
2) I thought China being a version late and blocking google was bad, didn't know North America had it so much worse.
Even china got wmmt4, wmmt5dx and wmmt5dx+ update but they skip wmmt5
Us North Americans only got 5DX+ this past January
China got wmmt4 a year before USA got wmmt 5( sad that china had the option to transfer 3dx+ cards over while USA couldn't cuz skip a version)
I can't wait to update my local copy of the Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune location directory to show WMMT 5 in Southern and Northern California. (I'm a frequent poster on that website.)
When Maximum Tune 5 came back in the States, I got into the Wangan Midnight franchise by watching the anime series and reading the manga itself. When MT5 was released, they changed the logo of each Maximum Tune games to remove the Wangan Midnight logo and renamed Wangan Midnight R to just “Midnight R”.
I'm honestly just glad this game has returned. I played a lot of 2 in Canada back in 2006 and have always had trouble finding machines to play when I came back to the states after college. Thank you for raising the awareness and greatness that this racing game brings. It's my absolute favorite arcade racer hands down. Well done on highlighting a lot of the iterations.
For those what's this game is running on
NAMCO SYSTEM ES1 - Runs on a ArcadeLinux (e,g Debian or Ubuntu like from the Asia-Pacific Version)
NAMCO SYSTEM ES3 - Runs on Microsoft Windows Embedded Standard 7 (On Japanese Version)
Great work! When I first saw WMMT, I wasn't sure what to think at first. Plus, I thought I couldn't handle the loud noise in the game unlike the way I can nowadays. When I started playing it for the first time at Brunswick Zone Homewood (they're out of business now), it drew me right in! I couldn't get enough of the Tuning Card system, the official soundtrack, the story mode, and the feel of the game itself! It became my favorite racer to date! Then the years went by and I felt my location stuck me and other fans with the middle finger; they replaced it with these Fast and the Furious cabinets which instead of cards, you had the option to customize your cars and use a number password to store it. Honest to say, remembering your number password is a chore because you might have to start over on the off chance that you might forget it. That said, between WMMT and FATF, I'd be more than willing to give the former more of a shot with the BANAPASSPORT card. I find it more easier and more fun to store your car memory that way instead of having to keep it by number password.
Here's the timestamps.
Prologue - 0:54
Chapter 1 - 2:15
Chapter 2 - 4:09
Chapter 3 - 5:22
Chapter 4 - 8:15
Chapter 5 - 11:53
Chapter 6 - 15:16
Chapter 7 - 16:15
Chapter 8 - 19:41
Chapter 9 - 21:06
Chapter 10 - 23:12
Great documentary, very much information given! In my opinion you can be glad to get any arcade cabinets in the USA at all. A main reason for me to visit Japan every year is to play those awesome arcade games. In my home country arcades were never present at all :(
I been playing since i was 12 im 14 now thanks for sharing this journey for all of us
Heeyyy!! You used my video footage!! That's all good, I haven't played Maximum Tune in a while, but haha that's so awesome seeing my video footage in your channel XDDDDDDD
Good to know.
Glad the NA is back on the high way! Greetings from thailand.
Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune was my arcade machine when I still had an arcade to go to.
I was going to the arcade for MvC2 or Soul Calibur, but WMMT was the game i was actually semi-good at. I still have my old progress card (pink with the three ladies on it) somewhere in one of my old wallets.
Good job, man!
Wangan Player from Asia, Philippines here. Greetings to America 😊
I've been playing MT5 for about one year now and. I've been addicted to it since. I just would love to get the 5DX upgrade for starters. So I can earn dress up parts for my Toyota 86. I've even wanted to do the same for the BMW M3.
After seeing the new features like the Stamp Sheet. North America could use more love for MT5, including the game not being region locked.
Been dying to play one of these
Yes I'll bet you have, and you'll get that chance soon.
Round 1 is opening near me in the spring they will hopefully have it. I did play Initial D arcade but still waiting on this one. I like that they have 6 speed shifters
You're luck you're getting a Round 1 near you. There's no current plans for a Round 1 near me.
Yeah I do feel very lucky for this. it was announced a year ago and I've been dying waiting for it! The next closest one is about 3-4 hours away.
Same, this isn't available in Europe, the game looks too good to turn down, I would even import an Aussie cabinet just to play it if i had the money
Some other changes to MT5 NA when it was released:
The logos when selecting BGM have been altered to remove Wangan Midnight from the name with Wangan Midnight R being simply renamed Midnight R.
The Toyota Celsior (Lexus LS) and Toyota Aristo (Lexus GS) were removed from the North American version of 5 which has Gatchan Sasaki and Mrs. Sasaki's car being replaced with a Crown Athlete and Chaser tourer V respectively.
be happy, things that was good in 5 have been removed or modified in DX for example there is only three extreme maps now and also you all it is is backwoods but u see KMS etc.
Maxi 4 was so big in Australia and now 5DX+ is still going strong
In indonesia its like the forgotten games since in the release of WMT4 even after WMT5 released on 2014 almost 70% the arcade cabinet are Already WMT5 or still on WMT3DX+😅
Fast forward to January 12, 2022.
Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 5DX+ (now known simply as: Maximum tune 5DX+) eventualy released in North America and the changes are as followed:
Both Honda NSX (NA1 and NC1) were portrayed by the Acura brand with the S2000 being the only Honda car in this version although it is unobtainable.
The Toyota Soarer (Lexus SC) was removed from the North American version.
Great video man, I just started getting into the series and really want to play the games but unfortunately have not seen any of them in my town of Dallas TX. Just Initial D arcades
Thanks. Dallas, TX has a couple places to Maximum Tune 5. Both of them are Round 1 Locations. One Grapevine Mills, and the other at The Parks Mall at Arlington.
@@coffeelover239 yeah thats where i first plat wmmt5 2 days ago
My Round1 had Maximum Tune 5 but it’s always packed and I could never play it. Fortunately for me, there was Maximum Tune 3DX+ at the far back of all of the cabinets and played that. I really enjoyed my time playing it.
Now, I usually play the Tokyo Xtreme Racer games as they’re as close to Maximum Tune as you can get.
Most arcade in Asia has like 12-16 cabs of maximum tune
Finally, Maximum Tune 5 is out for NA!
But only on Round 1 amusement and bowling.
And only a few locations of that place is available.
So I have to drive about 160+ miles to dallas to play this game.
Thanks, Bandi.
FUCKING THANKS! Hopefully MT6 will be more around in the states.
It's been out since earlier this year. Also, it's not only at Round 1. Some smaller independent arcades have it , but those are few and far between.
coffeelover239 From where I live, only Arcade UFO in Austin have MT3DX+ and the rest is dry... Maybe I have to look harder? Because I went to a lot of arcades and the best thing I found was a triple screen F355 challenge in main event. Sadly its needs a bit of work to do... 4th gear on the stick seem to not stay in place and the paddles flap around every time you turn the wheel...
Oh yea, I see cadence!
I don't think you will find much. I've been to Arcade UFO before. At least, you would have a shorter drive to Dallas, the only city in Texas with WMMT5 period. That still pisses me off.
Great. It's in the States. Now let's bring it to the UK!
fast forward to today where the most hype racing game release of 2022 is a NA port of wmmt 5dx+
Awesome video man I'm from Malaysia btw now asia/other have wmmt5dx+
My local RoundOne actually has the original cabs IIRC.
UK player here, first played the series with MT5 on teknoparrot, thought I'd drop in my opinions here.
I honestly couldn't care less about dropping the wangan midnight from the title since the first three localised games had the Japanese logos, meaning the only english was "midnight maximum tune" which sounds a lot worse than just "maximum tune". Also over here the situation is even worse, we're still stuck on MT3 and even then most of those cabs are gone or have been replaced with dead heat. It sucks that Namco seems to have abandoned the US with MT6 and 6R but hey maybe something's going on that I don't know about.
The video itself was really nice to watch and informative since I didn't actually know about the WMMT NAC beforehand.
I just got obsessed with Wangan Midnight these past few years now i play wmmt 6 and 3 at home lol and i got the full anime show
wan "gan" ?
Had no idea Wangan had a North American release. I do miss playing Wangan 3,4 and 5 in Japan.
tl;dr at the bottom of the comment.
Wangan Midnight R adds a bonus feature where if you turn the wheel while starting the game you get the choices of all Character Cars instead of stock untuned cars , it has no limits unlike the PS2 version where Character's Car is restricted to only Devil Z & Blackbird.
Other than that the game is pretty much the same as the Wangan Midnight with minor optimization and bug fixes.
Strangely enough the cabinets my arcades used to have an issue where whenever Rivals blows their engine, the game will start to stop loading chunks of the map ahead which cause invisible roads.
Fun fact : Wangan Midnight R is still missing RUF cars but if you choose to play as Devil Z, in the final stage you'll still race Akio in his S30 but strangely Blackbird's /Tatsuya Shima's theme plays.
Tl;dr : Wangan Midnight R is the same game as Wangan Midnight with playable Rival tuned cars.
Heads up, 6th game was announced a few months back. Porsche is joining the car list for real.
This game is good to for north America remembering 240z was popular in America during oil crisis
The video you showed for WMMT4 is from WMMT5 or more, because the car rank was SSSS and that was only available in WMMT5 and more
Now there's gonna be WMMT6, gotta wait a year because I'm in Indonesia.
I at least like that in 5dx they added Lamborghini’s to the game which I hope to play if they get it in Washington state.
In usa/canada version of wmmt, there is no wangan midnight in the title, the gear shifter and bana passport reader change places, the machine looks different than my country or asia, the update in usa/canada is late.
Damn so does Canada also have the updated cabinets or still stuck with wmmt 3/3dx+? I'm bored of going to Toronto to play the old shot when I'm in Singapore playing 5dx+
Canada got 5 as well.
New update. Japan is releasing WMMT 6R Australia might get it by the end of this year.
awesome video! shame scamco is too lazy to release wmmt5/maxi5 here in Europe...
I still have my banapassport card with my Evo 5 and R32 GTR I also have the wmmt 3dx+ ost on it
Yo man. Awesome collection of data for the series. While some of your Japanese Pronunciations are a bit off, your passion will never die. Much like the rare 3DX Entry Theme, You have two options...you give up, or keep trying. Keep on trying sir. See ya on the Ghost Battles!
That's actually the select theme with those lyrics. But thanks.
Meanwhile in Australia. WMMT 6 baby!!!
Count yourselves lucky.
Same here in new Zealand and growing
WMMT3 was the one i played
We have maxi 5 here in montreal downtown arcade 2000
I wish I had the foresight to get a memory card when I used to play this game T.T
Sadly, we can't play 10 outrun battle from level 1 level 10 in all stage since WM 4
Weird thing is, even if i'm in asia. I've never seen a wmmt4 cabinet in arcades, it just randomly skips from 3dx+ to 5dx
I can't believe that people in NA or EU have a craze with this game. cuz ME TOO XD
Namco now releasing 6RR in japan in November 17 while Asia/Oceania servers in December. I hope that Namco just doesn't forget about America.
Speak of the devil for the America version...
@@brandonng1660 But now you guys have 5DX+ isn't it?
@@mixd_dayo 6RR on us, I'm from Malaysia together with Asia/Oceania.
@@mixd_dayo yeah we have 5dxplus, waiting for midnight tune 7 😅
I known wangan midnight by anime and manga, i didn't knew there was a game
Best childhood anime racing games
Maximum Tune
Initial D
Daytona USA 2
Truck Kyousoukyoku
At least Bandi Namco actually cares! Damn you sega!
Man you must've been creaming when those upgrade kits came through for 5DX+ lol
Yeah...About that. There's no point of the kits when the city you live in doesn't even have any vanilla MT5 anywhere.
Shima actually rides Porsche 911 964 Turbo, not a RUF CTR.
He know that,the problem is since 1996, EA have the ownership of Porsche car in videogame,meaning only EA game can have Porsche, RUF is a custom car company that is know for buying Porsche body and chasis, the made custom engime and put in it, making RUF product a viable stand in
Well... I guess we are getting 5DX+ in January 2022 after all. 🥰
Yep. That was nice.
What's the bgm at chapter 6? 😁
Select (Maxi3 Version) from Maximum Tune 3
Minor nitpicking on how to pronounce Japanese. After its been romanized, you pronounce it as phrases of Constanent + Vowel combination. So Hakone would be Ha Ko Ne.
(13:14) what's the song? I've been trying to find it, but i sadly had no luck. So do you know?
Isaac M. The Final Countdown from Maximum Tune 4
After that song. 13:16
Actually, during the Terminal Showcase, that's the Terminal version of the Maxi 4 Entry.
Same song minor differences :P
sweet thanks dude
It took a LONG while but finally, we got our wangan back. It's just a shame that it's mostly restricted to R1s since D&B are jerking people around and the 3 locals in Canada.
Actually, D&B is doing another location test. One in Woburn, MA. The other in San Diego, CA.
hopefully they'll get the game this time around and not dick around.
Dude, interesting story. Now I'm completely beyond to play this arcade series because this series brings me to my curiosity. Yes, I've played the first one when I was 9, and I sucked at it because arcade racing games are not my speciality to drive with a steering wheel, it was heavy for me. Now that I've aged, I can go out to arcade stores in Canada to play the availability of Maximum Tune cabinets. Glad to hear your story.
But I have a question: Why Maximum Tune is not ported to home consoles?
Glad to see you're interested in the series. As for you question, I'm not sure why it was never ported to home consoles.
Home consoles = Less profit.
24:41 THERE'S NO WANGAN MIDNIGHT IN THE TITLES WHY?!
Wangan Midnight has never had an official release in the US, so the games are released under the title of just “Maximum Tune” but all the Wangan Midnight characters and story are still in the game
Now the future, 6RR.
Also, nice video. Hope you got back against your cat's tongue.
Thanks. I did.
28:59 Sorry For Game Over
This shit is popular in Philippines too
How did you get the game for home use?
One Man On Fire I don't think he did
I didn't. The only way I could get the game is buying an old Maximum Tune cabinet, which I would like to acquire the game at some point, but sadly, it will take me a while to do so.
One Man On Fire there no way u get new ver cabinet
except like 2-3dx+ u could find it on Internet for sale
5DX+ out in your area?
Out in the states, not in my city.
I really like this game, but I am not sure how much better the arcade version is. I have to emulate 5 on PC because my area has 0 arcades with this game.
What about Europe though? Any word on 5, 5DX or 5DX+ coming to European territories? We got fans across Europe too, who here lives in Europe and wishes to see WMMT 5 onwards in across the region?
No word for 5, 5DX, or 5DX+ coming to Europe at the moment. Sorry.
coffeelover239 I guess we just gotta hope and pray for it to come to Europe, in the meantime, I could try faffing around with emulators...
ayye im from the philippines.If i play in the us can i still use my bana pass there?
You can use the pass itself, but the data will not be available in the US because the servers are different.
Well in here indonesia wangan midnight its so fuckin popular
BNAA dropped the Wangan Midnight name due to licensing reasons.
I doubt it. If whoever had an issue had an issue with it, they would have shut it down before the first game even came out.
coffeelover239 that's what I heard. They lost the rights only to use the Wangan Midnight name, as the characters and designs are similar.
Not similar, it is the exact same characters and designs expect for any use of the Wangan Midnight name.
in china we also r confined to our own server.... and we only have wmmt4 :(((( sadd
When is america getting wmmt6rr 😞
We have wmmt5dx+ here in Asia
I know. I follow the game very closely. I wish we could be caught up with you guys.
I don't play the game, but I always watch people play it after work hours.
Really entertaining to watch skilled players face against each other.
There's even a 10-year old here who leaves older players in the dust every time he plays.
And I don't mean casuals, im talking about some of the more experienced wangan players in our area.
:3
Which part of Asia are you in? I'm in southern China mainland, not too far from HK and we only have WMMT4 here.
Speculative Dude Reviews Malaysia
Cool, Thanks.
7:31 It's actually pronounced as "Ha-ko-ne", not "Ha-cone".
Choongie Studio LITE no its ha-ko-nae
Hey maximum tune 5 I try a card to save my cars and they where sold out
I was disappointed to hear only 4s soundtrack was used for maximum tune 5 NA, I'm so used to hearing avatar of speed for the first race.
I thought China was bad enough because we got Wangan 5DX at the start of 2018, and since I just got into the game it's the first one I have. But... It seems that both Wangan 4 and Wangan 3 was available in China and there's no vacuum time that nobody can play it.
Lol fakers. You havee that speed driver copy right? Lol. Play that instead!
Zepphora Igoy
My local arcade got Speed Driver 4. But that's not a thing to be loled about, because it's just a game, and not the only game to choose from. I choose Wangan because it looks cooler, and I can drive in city rather than circular racing tracks.
Also I don't even know why you are calling me "faker" when I didn't say anything fake.
i play wmmt5dx plus
24:05 not only NA’s MT5 run in ES1,so does Asia version
MT5 on ES3 is only for Japan version which got interfaces update
Asia got ES3 interfaces upgrade in 5DX but still using ES1 system,we start using ES3 system when MT6 came out
You guys still got MT5DX+ at this point unlike Initial D which NA still stuck at D8 which released in 2014 and server already shutdown
Waiting for you guys getting newest MT and Initial D arcade games
iplay WMMT5DX on my country(im from asia) it's a pain to play it because of the players
I Slightly Agree, where I play the players are mostly calm.. But I did meet some players that are Try Hards
Will wmmt6 release in 2018
I don't know.
July 2018, in Japan.
Everytime i see that yellow rx7 i think of initialD by default
idk why NA got the maxi tune 5dx+ so late
It's better than nothing.
@@ChoongieStudioONE yeah bc they still got the japan challenge and the decals
Something something, Japan communications harder.
I swear to god if the states doesn't get wmmt 6 I'm going to stick to the emulated wmmt 5. It's looking promising so far
can you show me how to emulate wmmt5
Calm down, they haven't even released the international version of WMMT6.
@@verifeli I’m from future, 6rr be looking good
US & Indonesia have they own server dont know why although indonesia server update the same time as international --"
idk sometimes indonesia in my place have 5dx plus
Now, in MT6 for Indonesia is now merged with Asia
Can a US passport be used on a Japanese cabinet?
The actual pass itself can be used on any machine, but if you have data from a different server, it won't show up. (I.E Japanese data won't work on USA machine, and vice versa)
We need to hack every Wangan with server off! Wangan 4 is playable on PC via Linux (because ES1) and with WMMT6, we'll hack WMMT5 ES3 to run on Windows. WMMT5 JAP ES3 is from 2014.
You would probably have to rewrite a homebrew server for the hack, because how are you supposed to get the official server code anyway...
And having a homebrew server is absolutely necessary if you want to save game data.
WMMT5 playable. We need the instructions of Banapass Server (card reader is useless for Ghost Mode). Save features working with injection.
watch?v=EjBqFHUs1xU
Wangan in Japanese means highway
I would suggest investing in a better microphone
Well in australia WMMT5 is ... well YOU CANT GET ON THE FUCKING GAME ON THE WEEKEND I WAITED LIKE HALF AND HOUR TO GET ON IT BECAUSE THERE IS SO MANY PEOPLE PLAYING IT
I feel you, mate. I losing most of my cabinet battle because some assholes rams me to wall and braking right on my front!
Bruh please thats not the worst
in Indonesia u could wait up to 1-2 hour
In Vietnam you don't even need to wait
Half an hour is nothing... come to china and you can wait for the whole day and it will still be the same people playing. Tbh i also play for whole day lol
Half an hour is nothing... come to china and you can wait for the whole day and it will still be the same people playing. Tbh i also play for whole day lol
its so sad that the NA WMMT community has been slept on for so long. Does the US even have a version of MT6 yet ?
We'll be getting 5DX+ soon in the US. Heard 6 wasn't so good.
@@coffeelover239 not sure what the scene is like over there, but in MT6, brake blocking physics were nerfed really hard and the handicap catch up was buffed so it doesnt matter how good your lines are on a map, youll be caught up to eventually
@@isaactuala9460 That's only in Japanese Version Asian-pacific is a not sure no ones blabbing around since its release
Ha-ko-ne
Wangan Midnight should have a crossover with Attack on Titan
pronounced hakone "ha cone" oof
Well, in manga and anime, initial d is more famous than wangan midnight (since initial d has many seasons, ova, movie "both have movie version, but initial d movie is better than wangan midnight movie" and memes, while wangan only has movie and anime only) but in game version (mainly arcade), maximum tune beat initial d in all aspects (like story, feature, characters, online battle which is you can play other ghost player, ranking "from C9 to SSSS", multiplayer up to 4, cards, language, etc)