Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 3

Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 3
Developer: Namco Bandai Games Publisher: Namco Bandai Games Platform: Arcade (Namco System N2) Released in JP: 2007 This game has unused graphics. This game has debugging material. This game has regional differences.

To do: Revisional differences, Ver.A/Ver.B and stuff. Also vanilla to DX to DX+ revisions.

Trance and distinguishable force feedback come together to make a surprisingly addicting racing game.

Unused Graphics

3d.png

A poorly drawn rectangle with "3D" written on it.

bonnet.png

A render of a red Evo III bonnet, angled differently from the textures of bonnets in Dress Up.

car.png

Speaking of a red Evo III bonnet, that's a red Evo III! The bonnet above fits with this car graphic.

car2.png

A green Evo III, effectively a palette swap of above.

car3.png

A purple Evo III, also a palette swap of above.

crown_car.png

The same red Evo III from before, on a crown platform. Cars are not normally displayed on a platform in the ghost crown screen.

menu_p_vs_star_minus2.png

It is normally not possible to lose two stars in one battle, so this goes unused.

menu_p_ramp_map_OK.png

An early in-game screenshot of a ramp selection screen in multiplayer. In the original Maximum Tune 3, players were able to choose the starting ramp; this action became randomized in 3DX revision. Interestingly, the sub-header of the menu is for the day/night selection screen instead.

"Under construction"

Two temporary textures for the menu and map splashes, both displaying "Under construction".

Unused Models

An unused model. Looks like it was used in ramp select.

Debug Mode

To do: How do you access this debug mode?

This mode lets you view menus, preview car dressup and even write debug cards!

ynagamatsu

Crashes the game.

ytakenaka

Also crashes the game.

himamura

Has various level up/tuning screens. Also is used to test card reading/writing (which requires a card reader).

jaoki

Just goes to a blank screen, pressing the gas pedal exits the menu. At least this one doesn't crash.

mhidaka

Used to test the weather select screens with various variables. Entering test menu while in this menu will cause the screen to rapidly flicker in most cases and you will be forced to exit the game.

tsumida

Used to test various dress up combinations and car select screens.

ftani

Same as jaoki.

mmiyoshi

Plays music from 10 Outrun Mode, can be changed with the View Change button. Also for some reason the music continues playing after exiting the menu until it finishes.

ykaneda

Seems to put you in an early version of Story Mode Stage 2. It is in daylight and has no dialouge except from the beginning cutscene.

kiida

Again, is used to test various menus and cutscenes.

rhatano

Used to test menus such as Story Mode select and the like. Also contains some unused menus which are all for testing.

soundtest

Doesn't do anything. Forces you to exit the game.

movietest

(Jap exclusive, does not work in export version)
Plays back the unused "play demo" video and at the end stops at the last frame of video until B is pressed

spritetest

Used to test various sprites.

Regional Differences

The Japanese version includes one additional manufacturer, Gemballa, featuring three modified Porsche models: 3.8RS (based on the 964 generation 911), RSR (also based on the 964), and the Avalanche (based on the 997 generation 911). Because the Gemballa cars were removed in the English version, the Blackbird instead drives a Nissan Fairlady Z Version S (Z33, also known as the 350Z outside Japan) in the storyline. Yoshiaki Ishida, one of storyline characters, also switches from Gemballa Avalanche to Subaru Alcyone SVX in the English version.

Unlike Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 2, the English version of the game will not accept a Tuning Card with a Gemballa car in it, either from the Japanese version of Maximum Tune 2 (as a transfer) or Maximum Tune 3. This is because all data for the Gemballa cars were completely removed in English versions of Maximum Tune 3 - the game will crash if a Gemballa is accessed from the debug menu above. However you can put the 3D model files from a Japanese dump into the English game files and it will load properly in debug menus.