No. 292009.6.24

Low Rider * Rhapsody

Hello, 100 million and 17 Wangan players in the world, how's it going?
I'm Jufuku, a new designer in the Wangan Maxi production team (picked in the 7th-round draft).
Thank you for always enjoying "Maxi 3DX."
Well...
Jufuku also participated in the "Welcoming New-Comer Cart Tournament" which the judo-suit man, Nagamatsu, has mentioned.
The result was, winning the 8th place prize! (The number of carts participating was 8.)
...well, it's a bit mortifying.
If the Jufuku Cart wasn't rear-ended by the Maeda P Cart, or if the Maeda P Cart wasn't spinning out in front of the Jufuku Cart at the moment the Jufuku Cart was just out of the hairpin curve, or if there were no other accidents, I might've got 7th place.
Oh, no, no, it was never Maeda P's fault at all.
I mean, the person who is taking the role of producer fundamentally works out a far-sighted scheme, so even a button player is moving around here and there, he would not come in sight of the produc...

Anyways, let's just get to the main subject in this issue.
(with slightly watery eyes)

As you all know, there are various little changes from "Maxi 3" to "Maxi 3DX."
One of these changes I will introduce here.
Here is a question.
↓↓↓ What's this data??



The answer is, the data to control the height of each vehicle.

(If you just said, "Uh, boring." I'm sorry.)
I heard that in "Maxi 3" it was pointed out by several players that "I tuned the vehicle heights, but those heights didn't change AT ALL!"
In response to that, in "Maxi 3DX,"
we introduced a "lower the vehicle height after vehicle height tuning" on the screen.
Oh gosh, it only increased my work...
What? Looks sooo easy?
Well, actually the work itself was quite easy because the TOOL was excellent, but as you know, the number of vehicle types was just so many.
And then, of course, the limit value to for lower one was different for each car, so in the end, I needed to adjust them one by one while the checking values over the screen.
When I reached the halfway point of the Gemballa cars and Mazda cars, the work was becoming too tough. So I was thinking to pass the rest of my work onto another member, but instead, I was scolded for about an hour... I was almost in tears and ended up continuing the rest of my work.
Let's just leave that painful memory aside.

↓↓↓ Let's check this image. ↓↓↓



Yep, as you all know, they are R34 GT-R V-Spec II/Normal and
V-Spec II/Nur.
This is the key point.
You should look closely coz it'll be on the next test!
Well then, let's look at the value on the "vehicle height setting."
If the vehicle height is tuned, the height will be lowered for the above value (0.1=1cm).

Vehicle height setting for Normal: -0.4
Vehicle height setting for Nur: -0.45

In other words,
R34 Nur's height will be 5mm lower than R34 Normal's height.

Settings were present like that.
Have all the owners of R34 Nur already noticed?
(I think not...as it to be expected.)
The reason why we did this was...
R34 cannot be distinguished at all between Normal and Nur if, for example, works vinyl is placed, or the body is changed to a customized color.
Since Jufuku was driving Nur in test plays, I was thinking whether I could create a little differentiation.
Of course, it's a very low-key difference, and honestly you can't really see it. But we wanted to add a little bit of character to Nur.
So, for all the R34 Nur owners, if you see any player who is driving R34 Normal, why don't you snicker to yourself secretly!, like

"hee-hee, my Nur is different from your R34..."

Jufuku is actually doing that every once in a while at a local arcade!
(This is my case of ‘fox and the grapes' when I completely lost in VS player.)
There are cars in which similar gizmos are to be found.

↓↓↓ Lancer Evolution 6 GSR and RS↓↓↓



RS's vehicle height is set to 5mm lower than GSR.
When you see a white Lancer Evolution 6, its height is 5mm lower than the other Evolution 6!
...What? You can't tell at all?
I'm sorry...
Then, how about this?

↓↓↓Aristo and Hidden Car Aristo Taxi↓↓↓



Somehow, the vehicle height of the taxi specification is 3cm lower, hee-hee.
(9cm lowered through vehicle height tuning)
...uh-oh, not good?
I personally thought the fully body-lowered taxi was unspeakably cool...
Let's see...
There are various cars with different vehicle heights based on car variations, so why don't you check your car out? Jufuku attains his long-cherished ambition if you now understand the fact that "vehicle heights actually vary based on cars"...even if you can't tell the difference at first glance.

I'd like to add one more thing here.
Among all the cars in "Wangan Maxi 3DX," there is only one car whose height increases when the vehicle height is tuned.
Check the screens really carefully when you have a chance.
Well then, see you around.

**********

Julia:
Oh, I know!
It must be [Fun Fun Lion Bus], mustn't it?

...No, that's a turned-down car.
But I admit that car, [Fun Fun Lion Bus], is doing a good job.
I don't understand at all why that car was turned down.
(Wha?