Level-R Japan feneral held on 14Mar-15Mar 2010.

15th of March, 2010 PM0:00 (GMT+9) Gamepot had finished their Level-R domestic service from Dec 2006 and game server was shut downed on time. 　Even though their rude and lazy management, final shut down was really scheduled on time ironically. The worst things we can feel is Gamepot's rude attitude against customers. There are no GM statement or salute ,final comment about Level-R in the Game. Actually they doesn't enter the game almost one year???
Also they have no cooperative attitude to transfer or offer ip-block lift up to other publishers overseas for Japanese.

Last nite I met some oldcomers who supports Level-R in Closed β on Dec2006 and early days of Open β April 2007 .(Irinically most of old players leave off Level-R series and immigrated GTR2 and other race game.) We talked about the memories of Level-R beta days. e.g. Crack files, Warp cheat, Speed bug, Core2duo cheats, chat lag and memory leak and so on... those defect was feedbacked by those Japanese tester during open beta.

Here is the original Opening movie, Quadro SD-T5 versus Toyota MR2 GT-S. By this Opening movie we feel something inspiration and possibility of street-racer online race MMO game which we never had before.


Namuami-dabutsu 南無阿弥陀仏　
|　　Yea, Its just time to say good-bye to Level-R
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　 　　　　　　　 　　　　凸＼＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿_／,凸、
　　　　　　　　　　　ノ´⌒｀ヽ三三三三三三三i三.ノ´⌒｀ヽ、
　　　　　　　　　[二ノ´金｀ヽ二]二二二二二二i仁ノ´劵｀ヽニフ
　　　　　　　　 　　,.-┴―┬┴┐鬨鬩鬨鬩鬨鬨鬩鬨
　 　 　 　 　 　　／ΛΛ //ΛΛ||L匳匳||卅||匳匯||匳||
　　　　　　 　／＿(ﾟдﾟ_//_ﾟДﾟ,,)| |丗卅丗卅丗卅丗卅丗
　　_,,,.-―''''"_,,,.-―''''"|コ￣　∪i　￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣|
　i゛(}[王i王]I()0コ ―― |―――=|――――――――――〕
　|_∈口∋￣_l＿ｌ⌒ｌ ノ 　 　 　 ノ　　　　　　＿＿＿ｌ⌒ｌ＿ソ
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Λ
　　　　　／￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣　￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣＼
　　　　See you next life, some where next driving game.


References;
http://forums.aeriagames.com/viewtopic.php?t=698937
http://levelr.gamigo.de/forum/showthread.php?p=96693#post96693

Gamepot Japan still hold the license.
アカウント移行請願
Level-R Japan had been dead!
When they got worldwide license? Who cheats or be cheated or misunderstood? (revised)

Another competitor, Need For Speed World Online?

Last year, March 2009 NFS online closed beta had held on Taiwan(No it is not China!) and Hongkong (it is China) ,March 2010 It is ready to start closed beta around the world?

System requirement comparison between NFSWO and LevelR
Need for speed online sys requirement
Level-R sys requirement
Project torque sys requirement
LevelR EU sys requirement
Speed online Скорость Онлайн　sys requirement
Super Race 极限飚车 sys requirement
Fastblack sys requirement
LevelX sys requirement

Operating System
NFSWO:Windows XP Service Pack 3 / Windows Vista Service Pack 2 / Windows 7
LevelRs :XP or Vista　32 /(and windows 7 in thailand)

DirectX: DirectX 9.0c

CPU
NFSWO:Intel Core2Duo 2.0 GHz or AMD X2 4000+ at 2.1GHz or greater
LevelR:Pentium 4 2.5GHz /Pentium 4 2.0GHz
　　　　　Intel P4 3.0GHz　/Intel P4 1.8GHz at least/

LREU :Processor: 2500 MHz (AMD: 2500) /(minimum 2000 MHz (AMD: 2000))

RAM
NFSWO:2 GB RAM
LevelRs : 1 GB RAM (minimum 512 MB RAM)
LRChina: 2 GB RAM (minimum 768　MB RAM)

Video Card
NFSWO:512 MB DirectX 9.0 compatible. At least Shader Model 2.0 support2 GB RAM
LevelR:　
recommended nVidia GeForce7600 series (256MB) or more/ATi RadeonX800 series or more.
(minimum :nVidia GeForce6600series/ATi RadeonX700series or more(minimum128MB))
LRCh/RU:Nvidia Geforce 8600 GT(256MB) /Nvidia Geforce 6600 GT (minimum)
LREU : Video: DirectX 9-compatiable video card Direct X: DirectX 9.0c
(minimum a DirectX 8-compatiable video card)

Sound Card
NFSWO:DirectX 8.1 compatible
LevelRs: DirectX-compatible soundcard

Hard Drive
NFSWO:4 GB of space is required to install the game
LevelRs: ? (about 3.5GB~5GB??)

Internet
NFSWO: 128kbit/s Cable/DSL connection
LR(J) : FTTH 50Mbps or more (Mimimum ADSL 1.5Mbps at least)
LRs　 : Broadband
LRCH.TH.RU ２５６/64　

If level-R series keep recomended sys requirement and more improvement with smoothly-working they would survive in the market?

Kanagawa Mountain is coorect? it is in Kanagawa神奈川？

Yea folks everyone knows we saw a advertizement of "Kanagawa mountains waiting for you"?
Kanagawa is Here . west of Tokyo, about 30km ,prefectural capital is Yokohama. In this are they have Tanzawa also.

大きな地図で見る

Here is a photo taken from Gamigo official site.
http://levelr.gamigo.de/forum/showthread.php?t=8836




But..I found it is not correct name !!!!!


See this video.You can check same sign board on the Youtube video around (0:24'~0:26')
you can see same sign boad in the video and following picture.
http://pub.ne.jp/sunra/image/user/1257488607.jpg

"Welcome to Chi-i village　by Miyama-town Chi-i association" ”ようこそ、知井の里へ”　”美山町知井振興会”


大きな地図で見る

This place is not "Kanagawa!" this is Kyoto"!!!!!


Maybe this is the school ,same building on the video around (0:09'~0:11')
http://www.geocities.jp/srx6blkalbum/070105Miyama.htm


postscript：　
1：On 17th of March I confirmed that Russian version already introduce Isabel patch with Kanagawa Mountain Track.

2I sent Invictus about this local sign board map and local people in Chi-i felt embarrased. Invictus replied they will remove this sign board on Kyoto, from their Kanagawa Mountain map.

Gamigo ban non-gamigo player who playing the Beta?

Gamigo announcement about Julia beta and permanent ban.
http://levelr.gamigo.de/forum/showthread.php?t=8848

Liebe Community,
die Teilnahme an dem von Invictus angesetzten Julia Test auf dem ungarischen Server von Invictus bedarf unserer ausdrücklichen Genehmigung.
Die unerlaubte Teilnahme an diesem Test der Betaversion von Julia ist ein Bruch unserer Lizenzrechte und wird mit dem permanenten Bann aus Level R bestraft werden.
Julia ist der Nachfolgepatch von Isabel, welcher in einer extrem frühen Phase ist und wir weigern uns diesen Alphatest (Laut Invictus Betatest) zu unterstützen solange Invictus uns keine releasefähige Isabelversion liefert.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Nerion

Translation　http://levelr.gamigo.de/forum/showthread.php?p=94992#post94992
Dear community,

to participate on the Julia Beta test on the server of Invictus our approval is required.
An unapproved participation is a violation of our licenses and results in a permanent ban for Level R.
Julia will be the next Level R version after Isabel version. Because the Julia version is early alpha it has not entered our test yet nor do we support any Julia tests before an Isabel release.
Best regards,
SoleRacer.


I can understand if the statement means that Gamigo can give purnishment of permanent ban from their beta against the player who have no authorization of participation of the beta by gamigo ? It means just Gamigo have right to kick out (=ban) unauthorized player from the Julia beta.

But, it is strange even if some player violates LTCP, how Gamigo can give permanent ban to the player who are not gamigo customer e.g. Aeria customer or Gamepot account holder, or Speed Online drivers??? Maybe Gamigo can have right to ask compensation money against non-authorised players in the Beta. But, it is not Gamigo matter to ban (means delete) other company's accounts because it is not their customer. It is invictus matter if they give permanent ban or fully repell out the violator from all Level-R series incruding Project Torque, Speed Online, Fastblack and Level-X and Superrace.

Nissan GTR on Level-R？

On the Thailand version they have wallpaper for Nissan Skyline GT-R 34
http://levelx.winner.co.th/x_index.asp



But..there are another images posted on Project Torque forum which have Nissan GT-R
http://forums.aeriagames.com/viewtopic.php?p=5718581#5718581
According the forum, the spec woudn't be Normal GTR, maybe it is Spec-V or something? (acceration 0-100kph 3.18sec)
The image is strange they said "Skyline GTR R35" which is not existed name. R35 is "Nissan GTR" ,which is not skyline line-up nowadays.


Yea, we already know there are R33 and many player claims "give us R32 or 34 or GT-R instead of R33".