Double digit vehicle class code plates

[ShiinE]

Why isn't possible to select a double digit vehicle class code? (small number at the top of license plate, next to prefecture). I remember you could do it in previous games by selecting "." as the third digit, but the option is greyed out.

[Rendezvous 9]

Well, today's plate has 3 digit, I guess 2 digit is too obsolete...

[<Blank />]

Originally posted by Rendezvous 9:

Well, today's plate has 3 digit, I guess 2 digit is too obsolete...

Would be a nice hidden feature to allow it for the 80s cars, though

[Sgt Kent]

I don't like the new plate limitations either. I clearly remember seeing GTR Skylines with Yankee Plates. Y on the plate means it's U.S. Military or family member. My AE86 had Iwakuni plates 386 Y 13-71. I got them because 1371 is Combat Engineer in the Marines. I miss living in Japan. Also, one Sergeant Major had an R32 GTR with Yankee plates.
It seems I can only put Yankee plates on Kei cars.

[kashun84]

Originally posted by <Blank />:

Originally posted by Rendezvous 9:

Well, today's plate has 3 digit, I guess 2 digit is too obsolete...

Would be a nice hidden feature to allow it for the 80s cars, though

I wish Genki bring this option back so I can duplicate the plate my car had.

[boris.glevrk]

Originally posted by Rendezvous 9:

Well, today's plate has 3 digit, I guess 2 digit is too obsolete...

more like two digit has (nearly) always been fictional.
Japan started three-digit category numbers in 19 May 1998, just ONE MONTH after Initial D first stage aired (19 April 1998). Initial D is essentially what made people want to have two digit category numbers. And the five-digit serial number from Initial D has always been fictional.

To OP: the "." is used as substitution of leading 0s in the serial number (larger font number) part. I.e. you will have "...1" instead of 0001. It's entirely not meant to be used in the category number section. The best you can get to two digit category number would probably be stuff like 33X and 55X.

[<Blank />]

Originally posted by boris.glevrk:

Originally posted by Rendezvous 9:

Well, today's plate has 3 digit, I guess 2 digit is too obsolete...

more like two digit has (nearly) always been fictional.
Japan started three-digit category numbers in 19 May 1998, just ONE MONTH after Initial D first stage aired (19 April 1998). Initial D is essentially what made people want to have two digit category numbers. And the five-digit serial number from Initial D has always been fictional.

To OP: the "." is used as substitution of leading 0s in the serial number (larger font number) part. I.e. you will have "...1" instead of 0001. It's entirely not meant to be used in the category number section. The best you can get to two digit category number would probably be stuff like 33X and 55X.

Wangan Midnight's first volume was in 1990. Every car had a two digit category number. Not everything is because "Initial-D" (especially not in the highway racing fandom) and it certainly was far from 'fictional'. It was literally the category numbering used until, yes 1998. From 1967 until 1998 the license plates had two characters. That is not 'almost fictional' it's 'true reality'.

[ShiinE]

Originally posted by <Blank />:

Originally posted by boris.glevrk:

more like two digit has (nearly) always been fictional.
Japan started three-digit category numbers in 19 May 1998, just ONE MONTH after Initial D first stage aired (19 April 1998). Initial D is essentially what made people want to have two digit category numbers. And the five-digit serial number from Initial D has always been fictional.

To OP: the "." is used as substitution of leading 0s in the serial number (larger font number) part. I.e. you will have "...1" instead of 0001. It's entirely not meant to be used in the category number section. The best you can get to two digit category number would probably be stuff like 33X and 55X.

Wangan Midnight's first volume was in 1990. Every car had a two digit category number. Not everything is because "Initial-D" (especially not in the highway racing fandom) and it certainly was far from 'fictional'. It was literally the category numbering used until, yes 1998. From 1967 until 1998 the license plates had two characters. That is not 'almost fictional' it's 'true reality'.

Yes, the 5 digit serial number plates seen in Initial D and/or Wangan Midnight are fictional, probably to avoid having someone's real life plate being broadcasted on TV.
Now onto car classification codes, as <Blank /> says, 2 digits were the norm between 1967 and 1998. Having played TXR Zero and 3, selecting between having 2 or 3 digits was definitely an option. I'm pretty sure it was done by selecting "." as the third digit. Then you would select the hiragana (US military characters are also missing I believe) and then the 4 digit serial number, of which the first 3 digits will be shown as dots if they are zeroes.
I just think it would make sense to have that option return given the amount of cars from that era in the game. Better yet, as suggested above, have it as an option only for those pre-1998 cars.