Online services (status: server online!)

[emoose]

• A list of active games & server stats can be found at http://clarissa.port0.org/
• 🕹️ PS2/PSP consoles are also supported, see this comment for how to set up the DNS for it.
• 🥇 Scoreboards are now live, if you connect to the server & then play one of the singleplayer modes your score will be added to the scoreboard (scoreboards can be viewed at http://clarissa.port0.org/scores/)
• 👻 Ghost uploads/downloads are now also available, goal-based scores should prompt you to upload ghost if you've beaten your best time, per-stage scores will only upload ghosts that go through the "Retry" checkpoint, see (Online services (status: server online!) #74 (comment)) for more info
• Online player rankings are also supported, playing on MP servers set to "Ranked" will update your ELO score after the match, you can view your score from the Rankings > Multiplayer menu. (this doesn't actually affect anything in the game/matchmaking, but you can show it off if you like ;P)

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To join the online server simply get hold of C2C, extract Tweaks into the game folder, then start it up and head to Multiplayer > Online > Register new account to pick your username and password. (any username that isn't taken is fine)

(On PS2/PSP you'll need to setup DNS / DNAS patches in order to connect, see this comment for more info.)

Once logged in you can choose Quick Game to join a random online lobby, Custom Game to view/filter the list of lobbies, or Create Game to host your own.
If there's no games currently active you can always ask on the Discord server linked at http://clarissa.port0.org/, usually someone interested in playing there!

For more info see the 0.5 release post: https://github.com/emoose/OutRun2006Tweaks/releases/tag/v0.5

If you have any issues/questions/suggestions about the online feel free to post them here.

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Privacy Policy
This server is a fan-run revival of the OutRun 2006 online service, and is not affiliated with the original developer or publisher.

When you register an account, the game client collects and transmits your chosen username and a securely hashed version of your password. No email address, real name, or other personal information is collected. Your username, password hash, and any gameplay statistics recorded during play (such as lap times, scores, and racing ghosts) are stored solely for gameplay purposes.

Your username and gameplay statistics may appear publicly on the leaderboard. By registering, you are choosing a username with this in mind.

Your data is not shared with any third party, used for any commercial purpose, or used to identify you outside of this service.

You have the right to request deletion of your account and associated data. As we hold no identifying information beyond your username, we may require you to verify ownership by logging into the game client at an agreed time. To arrange this, send an email to lucknut.xbl gmail com.

Inactive accounts and their associated data are automatically deleted after 2 years, which will remove all associated data including leaderboard entries.

This server is operated as a non-commercial hobby project within the EU and processes minimal personal data in accordance with GDPR.

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Notes:

If you have login problems with the game please make a post here, some info about the process you used to setup your account and steps you tried to login to it would be useful.

Note that the master-server only functions as a middle-man between hosts and players, actual lobby connections are all handled peer-to-peer, any in-game issues like desync would be caused either by connection issues with the host or the games netcode, not much we can do for it on the master-server end.

Sadly netcode tweaks aren't that likely as we don't have much visibility into the code for it, currently the only debug symbols for the game are for Lindbergh version which uses completely different netcode :(
(still hoping some prototype or dev build of OR2Xbox/C2C/OnlineArcade might turn up with OR2Plus.pdb/OR2PlusPC.pdb symbols included, but from the builds that have got out it looks like Sumo stripped them pretty well 😢)

There's a chance settings like FramerateLimit and other framerate options could have some affect on the netcode, since networking appears to run outside of the games main 60Hz loop, running at whichever framerate you've set FramerateLimit to... if it comes to it we might be able to relocate this though.

The online services should work fine with the vanilla non-OR2006Tweaks game too, just setup your hosts file to point to our servers:

34.118.10.198 auth.outrun2.mmp.demonware.net
34.118.10.198 lsg.outrun2.mmp.demonware.net
34.118.10.198 outrun2.stun.us.demonware.net
34.118.10.198 outrun2.stun.eu.demonware.net

[ArhumMK]

Might not be very helpful for this topic but I found another game using Demonware having fan-run servers by the "Warehouse team" where you register your credentials via a bot in their discord to use to log in into their servers in-game. They seem to have experience running unofficial demonware servers so it could be worth contacting them for advice if ever needed.
https://wiki.aiwarehouse.xyz/en/home

[Tenome]

I tried online LAN via Radmin with two people and neither of them had lobbies showed up, despite being in the same Radmin lobby with the correct settings. It feels like something in the game is blocking even simulated LAN. If anyone manages to get it working, that'd be great.

Also, sorta related since the console versions let you race other ghosts--can anyone drop this time trial ghost in your SaveGames folder and let me know if it shows up for you? It's a few levels of Time Trial single levels, first three or so. You might not need the "common" file but I included it just in case. If so, we could share time trials ghosts.

SaveGame.zip

[emoose]

Looks like that works:

I just copied the GHOST00.DAT for that, didn't show any rankings on the leaderboard though, think those might be in common.
Also just noticed the ghost text at the top is misaligned there >.>

[Tenome]

So it loaded the car too? Nice! There are maybe 20 people still playing Outrun 2006, but maybe a sticky thread for sharing ghosts if there's enough interest. (or just post them in this thread).

The time attack text is most likely misaligned because it might use a monospace font. A good texture pack will fix it, I think one's being worked on bit by bit in the discord (the one you're using needs to be replaced anyway, it's a sloppy upscale).

[envido32]

Is the LAN feature working? I tried it on 2 PC with Win10 and even thought one PC can see and join the other's lobby it intermediately drops out.

I looked at the Windows firewall configuration but found nothing and the LAN it's working fine... what other debugging could I try? maybe some networking package visor?

[emoose]

I've only really seen 1 video of someone playing MP using Tweaks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTW85JsRS2c
Other than that I haven't really heard anyone else having success yet, too bad they didn't post any info about their setup there.

[Tenome]

Ohh, so it is possible. Hopefully that uploader replies.

[emoose]

The netcode does have some specific checks for 10.x.x.x / 192.168.x.x / 127.x.x.x IP addrs, maybe have to be using one of those for it to recognize other machines.

Also kinda seems it might be selecting the first network adapter which matches one of those addrs, if your local network is using that it might stop it from being able to use Radmin's adapter.

Think game also listens on 41455 / 41456 / 41457 ports, haven't seen those mentioned anywhere else yet.

[Tenome]

I'm on a 10.xxx IP. So it hits the 10.xxx first and doesn't see the Radmin adapter? I wonder how the Youtuber got it.

[Tenome]

Evidently, it is. It's just a question of setup...

[envido32]

BTW does anyone know if any footage of the online mode exists anywhere? I wonder if it was just an online version of the LAN support with people hosting servers & choosing them from a list, or if it actually had matchmaking?

OutRun_2006_Coast_2_Coast_Manual_Win_EN.pdf

According to the User Manual there was some kind of ranking system... so it should be a bit more complex than just "Lan over Inet" I guess...

[Dekaid0011]

According to the User Manual there was some kind of ranking system... so it should be a bit more complex than just "Lan over Inet" I guess...

If it is the same as on the xbox version its very simple. The more you win the higher your number goes and after each race the global leaderboard gets updated. The ranking system didn't impact matchmaking.

EDIT: Also on xbox there was Quick Match and Opti-Match options. Quick Match just throws you into a lobby, the other gives you a lobby browser.

[Tenome]

I'm not sure why, but we were able to get a lobby going in Radmin now. I'm not sure what changed, but I did forward the port range (though that might not have been it). I wonder why the Radmin lobby didn't work last time, then.

[emoose]

Played around with this a bit over the weekend:

WindowsTerminal_7OCDo4Pu0h.webm.mp4

https://github.com/shit-ware/T5-DemonWare/tree/master/DWServer was helpful for figuring out how they pack the network data, but seems OR's demonware does a lot of stuff different to what that DWServer code expects (probably using a much older version of DW), so ended up writing some new server code instead.

Don't really know how far I'll be able to go with this, never really written a server emu before, guess we'll see.

(really it'd probably be nicer to rip out the DW stuff and just use something like Steamworks instead, for that we probably need to see how the game actually interacts with DW first though)