I found a game a while ago which contains parts of the Japanese Expressway that we don't have yet, Battle gear 4. I know that this topic is about Wangan Midnight PS3 but nonetheless i felt it would be right to post in here.
This game is only for arcade but fortunately, as it was designed for Windows, it works perfectly well on home PCs. So i tried my hand at analyzing the files and found out this game uses a similar 3D structure as GTA San Andreas. It might not be so difficult to reverse.
Car textures are stored in .txd format which can be normally viewed and exported with TXD Workshop.
For 3D, when the file extension is renamed from .rws to .dff, ZModeler imports car files, but without texture coords, normals and the model is completely black.
3DS Max with the KAM's script doesn't even want to import.
For the maps, though, nor ZModeler nor 3DS Max don't budge.
They are in the same format (.rws) but with textures integrated in the file.
Here's a screenshot of one of the map files when opened with a hex editor:
And random screenshots of the Hanshin Expressway:
As a last resort i hoped for 3D Ripper DX or Ninja Ripper to do their job but nope.
It would be nice to have some more parts of the Japanese Expressway in 3D, especially because parts of the code for importers are already written by other people.
To finish, here are some videos of the game in action:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsfB-E0_jIg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI1FKbxhkPk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjMf9520nZU
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