Shenmue Passport Is Back Online!

Get ready to face off against the best darts players in the world because Shenmue Passport is now back online thanks to the efforts of Xiden and Jial! A special thanks also goes out to flyinghead and Shuouma who also contributed their big brains to the project. I should note that the Shenmue Passport has been partially functional for a few years now but the most important part, the online rankings, didn’t work until today. Yes indeed, you can now face off against other players around the world by uploading your high scores for Space Harrier, Hang-On, Darts, Excite QTE 2, QTE Title, the slot machine, 70 Person Free Battle, and the forklift race!

If you’d like to participate in the Shenmue Passport festivities, it’s mostly automatic if using DreamPi or by simply setting your DNS with other connection methods to 46.101.91.123 but there are a few things to know which you can read about in Xiden’s notes below.

“Prerequisites to Shenmue Passport:

• ALL USERS must have a unique Dreamcast ID (Using Dream or Flycast for example will not work and you wont even be able to connect to the server if you try… similar to other DC games).
• North American users – Using planet web, they must set their Area Code to the current state they live in otherwise the game will put them in an unknown generic ranking category
• PAL Users – Must use Dreamkey 3.0, do the setup and select their country. Users from Spain must use Dreamkey 3.1 (Spain Release) to setup their user.

**Extra note for PAL users, users who have a save file that uses 50hz will see a different leader board than the 60hz users. This is because 50hz of course is slower speed. This is something that’s built into Shenmue and it also tells the user this when they try to enter the rankings.”

Huge thanks to everyone involved in getting this back up and running! If you have any issues, feel free to post them in the comments below or in the forum post on Dreamcast-Talk.