"Man to man. Car to car. Legend creates new legend. The Wangan story begins now..."
— Story Mode Intro for Encounter chapter.
Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 4 (also known as Maximum Tune 4, or simply Maxi 4) is an arcade racing video game developed and published by Namco and based on the Wangan Midnight manga. It is the fourth game in the Wangan Midnight arcade game series, and was released in 2011 in Japan, 2012 in Australia and some Asian countries, 2013 in Indonesia, and 2016 in Mainland China.
This was the first Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune game to not be released outside of Asia until the sequel.
New Features[]
Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 4 includes all the features from Maximum Tune 3DX+ and features an online system.
New manufacturers:
New features:
- Newer Graphics
- New Online System
- Wangan Terminal
- More Dress-up
- Japan Challenge
17 New cars:
- Chevrolet Corvette ZR1
- Mazda Savana RX-7 SA22C
- Mitsubishi Starion
- Mitsubishi Pajero Evolution (unlocked through Cheat code)
- Nissan Skyline Coupe 370GT
- RUF CTR Yellowbird
- RUF RGT
- RUF RK Coupe (first as unplayable car in story 16, later added via major update)
- Subaru Legacy B4 BM9
- Toyota Crown Athlete
Major Update cars:
- Nissan Fuga (*)
- Chevrolet Corvette Stingray (*)
- Toyota Sprinter Trueno GT-APEX (first as unplayable car in story 51, later added via major update) (*)
- Toyota 2000GT (originally previously used as campaign, later added via major update) (*)
- Mazda Cosmo Sport (International version as 110S) (*)
- Celica XX 2800GT (MA61) (first as unreleased and unplayable car in Story 30, later added via major update)
- Chevrolet Camaro SS RS (originally previously used as campaign, later added via Major Update)
(*) Denotes that these cars appear by addition via Major Update in Japan and Asia, These car later becomes fully playable in Indonesian and Chinese version of WMMT4.
2 New Courses:
(All previous courses return with improved graphics and slight adjustments)
- All-new BGM, composed by Yuzo Koshiro especially for the game
Game Modes[]
Unlike game modes from Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 3DX+, there is a new mode in this series: Online Ghost Battle. Also 10 Outrun was not included in this series
Story Mode[]
Just like previous games, players progress through story mode, defeating rivals and tuning their car as they go. There are 60 stages in Story Mode.
Online Ghost Battle Mode[]
Like the previous game, Online Ghost Battle Mode allows players to race against pre-"recorded" ghosts of other players' from around the world, earn dress-up points towards upgrading their car with aero kits, decals, etc. Dress-up can also be done via Wangan Terminal.
The New mode also contains Japan Challenge.
Tuning card[]
Unlike other games in the previous Wangan Midnight arcade series, Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 4 uses the Banapassport to save the player's data. One card can contain up to a 100 cars. The Tuning Card form the previous game can also be inserted to Wangan Terminal to transfer your data to a Banapassport.
The data transfer feature from Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 3DX+ will borrowed as well Special Tachometer (Namco and Special meter) can be used it. The rare features in this version is eligible renaming car where player can rename car like it or keep using name from 3DX+. This transfer feature only applied in Japan, Asia, Indonesia, and China version until Transfer service was ended in October 24th, 2013 (Japan and Asia version), November 30th, 2014 (Indonesia version) and December 20, 2017 (China version).
As Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 4 never released outside Asia, this feature is removed in North American version of Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 5 released in 2017, thus data transfer feature from 3DX+ (like renaming car, both Namco and Special meter, BGM) is ommited, forcing player start over from scratch.
The feature car rename return in Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 6, now called as Name Change Ticket.
Difference between Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 3DX+ and Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 4[]
Aside New graphic and feature, several Maximum Tune 3DX+ features has been updated as well some feature from 3DX+ has been ommited or removed in Maximum Tune 4 such as:
- Tatsuya Shima's Blackbird is using an black RUF CTR with player now possible to recreate Blackbird aero-kit.
- The Japan version of MT4 can be transferred a Gemballa car (3.8RS/RSR/Avalanche) turned into RUF car (CTR Yellowbird/RGT). The International/Indonesia/China version is omitted to feature transferred Gemballa car due licensing, making start a RUF car from scratch.
- Story mode is reduced to 60 stage only (similar style of WMMT1), with Ishida arc is now part in Return of Devil Z arc. The Remaining arc like Garage ACE, The Legendary F1 Turbine, Zero Fighter on the Ground, and FD Master is ommited until release of Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 6.
- 2 Story mode stage from 3DX+ such as Akio (with Ma) drove an Z31 and challenge Blackbird (Stage 1), Akio and Rumi in Hakone (Stage 4) is removed.
- 10 Outrun Mode is removed.
- Newly additional scene and stage on Story Mode.
- Fukuoka, Hakone and Nagoya course is ommited in first release of MT4 which is later added via major update to improve new graphic.
- Non Wangan Midnight Character (Pac-Man in Export version/Don Wada in Japanese version) is removed, It is likely due licensed.
Cars[]
Chevrolet[]
Mazda[]
- Savanna RX-7 SA22C
- Eunos Cosmo
- RX-7 FD3S (Masaki, Feeling Team 1)
- Savanna RX-7 FC3S (Ko-chan, Koichi Kijima)
- RX-8 (Ko-chan)
- Mazda6 MPS
- MX-5
- Cosmo Sport 110S
Mitsubishi[]
- Starion
- GTO
- Lancer Evolution III
- Lancer Evolution V (Eiji Kamiya)
- Lancer Evolution VI (Maki Kamiya)
- Lancer Evolution VIII MR
- Lancer Evolution IX MR
- Lancer Evolution X
- Pajero Evolution
Nissan[]
- Skyline Coupe
- Fuga
- 180SX
- 300ZX Z31 (Harada)
- 300ZX Z32
- 350Z
- 370Z
- Fairlady Z S30Z (Devil Z - Akio Asakura)
- Skyline GT-R BNR32 (Reina Akikawa, Koichi Hiramoto)
- Skyline GT-R V-Spec (R200 Club, Takayuki Kuroki)
- Skyline GT-R V-Spec II (Kazuhiko Yamamoto)
- Silvia Spec-R
- GT-R R35
- GT-R Spec V R35
RUF[]
Subaru[]
- Legacy B4 BM9
- Impreza WRX STI GDB-F
- Impreza WRX STI GDB-C
- Impreza WRX STI Version VI GC8
- Legacy B4 BL5
- Alcyone SVX
- R2
Toyota[]
- Crown Athlete
- Sprinter Trueno GT-APEX (Feeling Team 2)
- Supra RZ (Keiichiro Aizawa)
- Supra 2.5GT
- MR2
- Aristo (Yumeko Sasaki)
- Chaser
- Celsior (Gen Sasaki (Gatchan))
- Hiace
- Hiace (High Lift Version)
- 2000GT
- Corolla
- Celica XX 2800GT [MA61]
Trailer[]
Trivia[]
- This is first Wangan Midnight Midnight Maxiumum Tune series to feature online.
- An MT4 English version was released nearly one year after Japan version. Instead use Japan server, the International version will use an exclusive server due different version and language. The Indonesia version released following year but they use an local server (like Japan and Mainland China) instead combined with International version meaning they unable or cannot race a ghost from other region (i.e Singapore).
- The International Version had 12 countries and combined into one: Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Macau, Brunei, Thailand, Phillipines, Korea, New Zealand, and Vietnam.
- The Japan, Indonesia and Mainland China version use an exclusive local server.
- If Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 4 data is created in one country/region and then played in a different country/region, game data created up to that point may be lost. To avoid complications, please make sure to use your game data in the same country/region in which you originally created the data.
- This will be that Malaysia can compatible with Singapore or Australia due use same server and each other. This only applied for International version.
- The Indonesia/Japan/Mainland China version only compatible with same region and using exclsuive local server meaning that they cannot compatible with other region.
- During early-development of WMMT4, Yoshiaki Ishida supossedly drive an RGT (similar to Japan version of 3DX/3DX+ where he drove Avalanche) however in final release of WMMT4, the RGT is replaced with Chevrolette Corvette ZR1.
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