History Trivia / WanganMidnight

* NoExportForYou:
** Not a single company in North America has expressed interest in picking up either the anime or the manga. However, an official Chinese translation of the manga is available in Taiwan. The anime is much better despite being not licensed outside Japan; you could find the anime episodes elsewhere on Website/YouTube.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: Attempted twice in succession. For ''Maximum Tune 5'', both the international and Japanese versions of the game were released simultaneously so that overseas players wouldn't have to wait, [[https://wanganmaxi-official.com/wanganmaxi5/en/miraiken/003.html as stated in a developer blog]]. However, this wasn't well-liked by overseas players due to the international versions having less content and using ''Maximum Tune 4'' as a base rather than using the new hardware and engine for the Japanese version. [[https://wanganmaxi-official.com//wanganmaxi5dx/en/miraiken/001.php In response]], ''Maximum Tune 5 DX'' was released with the same content across all versions to prevent such an issue again, going back to the tradeoff of the non-Japanese versions taking longer to be released.

*** North America and Mainland China versions of ''5DX+'' had both NSXes (NA1 and NC1) being replaced by an Acura versions of these cars. As a result, the ghosts of these cars in both Japan Challenge and VSORG will not be encountered or raced against each other with the exception of Honda S2000 (despite not playable), which was the only time a Honda car appeared in these versions, despite the Acura versions of NSXes were shared by Honda versions outside of these territories.

** As noted in WhatCouldHaveBeen entry for ''[=6R=]'' below, features which were in the Japan-only ''[=6R=]'' will be reused in the overseas releases of ''[=6RR=]''.

*** North America and Mainland China versions of ''5DX+'' had both NSXes (NA1 and NC1) being replaced by an Acura versions of these cars. As a result, the ghosts of these cars in both Japan Challenge and VSORG will not be encountered or raced against each other with the exception of Honda S2000 (despite not playable), which was the only time a Honda car appeared in these versions, despite the NSXes were shared by Honda versions outside of these territories.

** North America and Mainland China versions of ''5DX+'' had both NSXes (NA1 and NC1) being replaced by an Acura versions of these cars. As a result, the ghosts of these cars in both Japan Challenge and VSORG will not be encountered or raced against with the exception of Honda S2000, which was the only time a Honda car appeared in these versions, despite the NSXes were shared by Honda versions outside of these territories.

** Deep down into the 2022 CompilationRerelease versions of the older ''Maximum Tune'' albums, released on streaming services by Yuzo Koshiro himself, there were prototype versions of the menu music (rival and course select theme in ''Maximum Tune'', login music in ''Maximum Tune 3'') that were used in prototype testing cabinets but were replaced in the final releases, and had more tranced tune compared to finished product.

** Deep down into the 2022 CompilationRereleases of the older ''Maximum Tune'' albums, released on streaming services by Yuzo Koshiro himself, there were prototype versions of the menu music (rival and course select theme in ''Maximum Tune'', login music in ''Maximum Tune 3'') that were used in prototype testing cabinets but were replaced in the final releases, and had more tranced tune compared to finished product.

* CutSong: "Entry ([=Maxi5=] Version)" is supposed to be used for the login screens in ''Maximum Tune 5'', but [[NoExportForYou this only applies to the Japanese version]]; the non-Japanese versions of the same game [[BadExportForYou omit this track]] and simply [[RecycledSoundtrack reuse]] "Entry [=Maxi4=]" (''Maximum Tune 4''[='=]s login BGM).

* NamesTheSame: ''Devil Z'' was first used in ''Anime/TransformersSuperGodMasterforce'', which was some years before the manga was made.

*** Likewise, the North American version of ''5DX+'' removed Toyota Soarer 2.5GT Twin Turbo (also known as Lexus SC in North America) that debuted from the Japanese version of ''Maximum Tune 5'' as North America couldn't obtain the rights to any Lexus-branded cars, just like the Celsior and Aristo.

** Now, China will get ''Maximum Tune 5DX after 6 years of being stuck with Maximum Tune 4''. The ''Maximum Tune 5'' was skipped due to the regional-segregation problems.
** North America will finally get ''Maximum Tune 5DX+'' after 4 years being stuck with ''Maximum Tune 5'', skipping ''5DX''. Coincidentally, at the same month, Asia will be getting ''6RR'' after being stuck with ''Maximum Tune 6'' for almost 2 years, skipping ''6R''.

* FanNickname:
** Whether a car is undefeated in Story Mode or not is referred to as "unshaded" (undefeated) or "shaded" (lost at least once). This is an [[TheArtifact artifact]] from the days of magnetic cards: a car that has not lost in Story Mode has hollow (unshaded) stage completed marks printed on its card, while a car that has lost at least once has filled (shaded) marks; Banapassport cards do not get marked by the machine (since they only have to be near the machine when logging in or purchasing as card straight from the game cabinet, and Banapassport cards are read-only anyway with all player data stored on network servers) but the terms are still widely-used.
** The sharp left turn on C1 Inward that forks off from the stretch of road shared with New Belt Line Clockwise[[note]]Known in real life as Edobashi Junction, but Western players generally don't use the location names that aren't mentioned ingame[[/note]] is known as the "suicide left", due to being one of the hardest turns in the entire game. The term originated in a [[https://www.gamefaqs.com/arcade/927606-wangan-midnight-maximum-tune-2/faqs/37272 guide]] on [=GameFAQs=] written by DKW.
** [[ComebackMechanic Handicap]] is referred to as "Boost" despite no official material referring to it as such; this is a carry-over from ''VideoGame/InitialDArcadeStage'' which does officially use the term.
** "Fishing" is the term given to the act of challenging a player with a partially-tuned or stock car (usually a casual player who doesn't have a card) [[CurbStompBattle with a fully-tuned vehicle]]. Like "Boost", this is also a carry-over from ''Initial D Arcade Stage'', where the term is instead used to refer to challenging players and taking then to courses that the challenging player knows their opponent is terrible at.
** Due to its reputation as a [[TierInducedScrappy/HighTiers High-Tier Scrappy]], the Nissan Skyline GT-R V-Spec II, known amongst car fans as the [=R34=] after its chassis code, is referred to ''Maximum Tune'' players as the "No-Skill GT-R".
** "Zero stop" is the name given to slamming into an object, usually a tollbooth, head-on (often due to an opponent [[CarFu ramming the victim into said object]]) and coming from (usually) 300+ km/h to a complete stop as a result.

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** ''Maximum Tune 5'' is infamous in this regard. It was released in 2014 in the Asia Pacific, Australia, and New Zealand, and then in ''2017'' in North America...at a time when Japan was on ''Maximum Tune 5DX+'' and most of the rest of the Asia-Pacific was on ''5DX''.

* ActorAllusion: The driver of Blackbird, Tatsuya Shima, is voiced by Creator/ShinichiroMiki, the same person who voiced Takumi Fujiwara from Manga/InitialD. With this in mind, several people went into WMG territory, suggesting the tofu delivery boy from Gunma grew out of his Toyota and moved into Tokyo, became a surgeon and races a Porsche.

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* NamesTheSame: ''Devil Z'' was first used in ''Anime/TransformersSuperGodMasterforce'', which was some years before the manga was made.

** Manga: Not a single company in North America has expressed interest in picking up either the anime or the manga. However, an official Chinese translation of the manga is available in Taiwan. The anime is much better despite being not licensed outside Japan; you could find the anime episodes elsewhere on Website/YouTube.

* TheWikiRule: A [[https://wikiwiki.jp/wmmt/ Japanese wiki]] still counts. The ''Maximum Tune'' team SOARS maintains a Korean-language one for the English-language versions [[https://soarsmedia.blogspot.com/ here]].

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*** Likewise, the North American version of ''5DX+'' removed Toyota Soarer 2.5GT Twin Turbo that debuted from the Japanese version of ''Maximum Tune 5''.

** As noted in WhatCouldHaveBeen entry for ''[=6R=]'' above, features which were in the Japan-only ''[=6R=]'' will be reused in the overseas releases of ''[=6RR=]''.

** Due to UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, ''Maximum Tune [=6R=]'' is Japan-only. The overseas releases will instead skip to ''[=6RR=]''.

** As noted in NoExportForYou entry for ''[=6R=]'' above, features which were in the Japan-only ''[=6R=]'' will be reused in the overseas releases of ''[=6RR=]''.

* RefittedForSequel: A double example when ''[=5DX=]'' was released. The Japanese versions of ''[=5DX=]'' added the cars exclusive to the English/overseas versions of vanilla ''5''. In return, the English/overseas versions of ''[=5DX=]'' added the features which were exclusive to the Japanese versions of ''5''.

** Due to UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, ''Maximum Tune [=6R=]'' is currently Japan-only.