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FFRMas 2008 Day 3 – Long Post Is Long!
OK… so let’s make up for all the stuff I didn’t do the past few days:
Fei Longer is now synced. Difficulty is a low 10. Somehow, in the sync process, we lost 2 arrows… so I had to wipe a few scores. Sorry. Clear your cache to get the properly synced and correctly arrow’d version. If you like Star Salzman, check out his site and download his tunes. And yes hi19… the file is a jackdump.
The 2 files for today are Forgotten Planet by Rushjet1 and bmv.578 by OSTER Project. Forgotten Planet is far, far easier than most of the Rushjet you know, but it has that same 8-bit sound. This is Patashu’s first public release, although you can expect another of his files to hit the public in about 10 days. Expect many more good charts by him too! This one is only a Standard, a 5.
bmv.578 may sound slightly familiar to some people… it’s only 1 small letter off from what it’s based on, which is Bach’s Little Fugue in G Minor, aka BWV.578. To me, it’s a high FMO for the 5 repetitive jack sections, specifically the long up jacks. They sure give me fits. Regardless, the song is amazing and the chart is excellent. Props to dag12 for it. You should all play it now… there is nothing better than well stepped and synced classical charts.
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FFRMas Day 2!
I’m leaving for the airport in about 20 minutes, so even shorter than yesterday… I’ll fix the sync on Fei Longer when I get home tonight. Today’s 2 songs are Felys by Onoken, stepped by Vote4Nixon and Snake Riddem by our very own championanwar, stepped by jokim. I guess I lied yesterday… and Felys is a purchased song (naturally), given that we already have a Felys remix in-game. Snake Riddem is in Hip-Hop though. Also, difficulties are probably wrong… will fix tonight.ÂÂ
-Tass
FFRMas 2008 – Day 1!
Sorry that this is so brief… I’m in Philly with my family, flying back to LA tomorrow morning. I’ll make sure to give a big story on Tuesday.
Today is the start of our 3rd annual FFRMas celebration… 12 days of publicly released FFR files! This year is a year of diversity. 2 new levels each day. That’s 24, for those who don’t want to do math. Of those 24, we have 22 different artists… and 24 different stepfilers (although 2 are collabs, so there are 2 users with repeat levels).
All levels will be at the end of Hip-Hop through the end of the event, then they’ll be moved to their proper locations. Today’s songs are Fei Longer by Star Salzman, stepped by hi19hi19 and Night and Day by Virt, stepped by ElectricWerewolf. Sadly, I won’t get to play either of these files until Tuesday… so I can’t give you any reviews on them. Also, the difficulties listed in-game will be wrong until I can play them and fix it.
But, I’m sure you all are just glad to get some levels…  not to mention darkshark’s MP contest running now through 11pm EST!!! Maybe he’ll do something involving these new levels? Who knows…
-Tass
PS – No links, because I’m in a rush… will make sure to give love to all the linkless folks on Tuesday. Promise.
Multiplayer Not-So-Spontaneous Contest!!
The Date: Sunday, December 14th
The Time: 1pm to 8pm PST
The Place: Multiplayer lobby of FFR
The Prizes? Your piece of HALF A MILLION credits + subscriptions
This contest will be a little bit of everything (MP gaming, scavenger hunts, FFR trivia, and more!), details can be found HERE.
Tass note: Expect Photo Scavenger Hunt 3: Return of the Mannequin to take place the weekend before Christmas (the 19th-21st). And, of course, we’ll be having a Christmas song event too.
{Big Boss}. Brackets Can Only Mean One Thing…
New cornandbeans! That’s right. {Big Boss} sounds like it should be right out of Castlevania, but I’m pretty sure it’s straight from CnB’s big musical brain. Stepfile is by the under appreciated and eccentric Vote4Nixon. Currently in funk, but I’m sure jx will be moving it in the next 24-48 hours. Also, *gasp*, it’s NOT a purchased song! The song is short and sweet and Very Challenging.
Subbies get some Orange Dust in the form of Patashu‘s Dead and Direct. It’s a low-mid FMO.
-Tass
CCCP… Not Soviet Russia!
No, not russia. It’s our most recent song! Counter Clockwise Chant Pattern by Terminal 11. It’s… beyond words. Mega-FGO. Good luck trying to even FC this file. You can try for it for 7500 credits in purchased (the last of the purchased releases for the time being, yay!) You can thank gnr61 for this mass regurgitation of arrows.
Subbies get a new behanjc file in funk.
-Tass
Tower and my 1000th level
Today’s public song is the very challenging Tower by AKHT. I don’t really have much to say about it… but it’s yours for 1000 credits in Purchased. File is by hi19hi19.
New subbie song is out too, Moon Child -Go With The Flow- by Naotyu. File by bmah. Will tell you all about it in 3 weeks. PS – This file is the 1000th I’ve personally added to FFR, including widgets.
-Tass
Double Special KgZ Happy Fun Time!
Let’s start off with a nice little happy 16th birthday to in-house artist KgZ.
As such, I went ahead an added a new KgZ song to FFR for today’s subbie song. That song is Memories. Stepfile is by Sprite-, all of our favoritest mod to come back from the grave EVAR. It’s his first stepfile in game. I thought both guys would appreciate something for them. You can find it in funk. Very melodic song.
After I added Memories, I realized that today’s public song is ALSO a KgZ song. How crazy is that? Anyway, today’s song is Procrastination on a Paper. You can have it for 4500 in Purchased. It’s a pretty snazzy jazz piece, and only 8 AAAs on it despite a 9 difficulty… so it’s a challenge. File by Silvuh.
Enjoy!
-Tass
And oh yeah… thanks to all of you guys for getting us to 1.6 million registered users!
Momentary Life since i have Hellhounds On My Trail
My good friend Shashakiro decided to come out of retirement this past summer and wreck havok on the FFR leaderboards, including winning the last official tournament. In addition, he decided to shower us with a few of his simfile masterpieces… all S.S.H. and all FMO, of course. The first of these is Momentary Life. 216bpm, 370 4-framers, 3:20 seconds, and over 2100 notes of FMO S.S.H. Shashy goodness. You can find it in the FFR Shop for the low, low price of 6000 credits.
Today’s subbie release is much anticipated. I’ll save the full review for 3 weeks from now, but just to give a small heads-up, it’s Hellhounds On My Trail by Children of Bodom. AND it’s stepped by behanjc. 4:00 of CoB goodness. I know there has been a lot of requests for this, so I’m happy to oblidge. The one caviat is that it’s a secret song, so you’ll need 125,000 credits to play it. Or, maybe not. Anyone can access it via the widget on CoB’s myspace page or here on FFR.
-Tass
