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The match making services have been terminated for the SegaAM2's arcade-to-console port of Outrun 2SP. Outrun 2006 was terminated randomly without any notice given to SumoDigital (the company that ported it to home consoles). The time gap for when it was taken offline, is somewhere between November of 2007 to February of 2008. The last time I took the game online was back in November of '07.

This game can still be played online though via LAN tunneling. Outrun 2006 can only be tunneled NTSC vs NTSC, and PAL vs PAL. If PAL and NTSC players try to start a match, it results in players from the other region being dropped from the race.