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Faster Better Stronger
Howdy!
While this should not affect your ability to play the game or browse the site in any way, we are experimenting this weekend with a multitude of different web servers to see just how much we can accelerate page loads for everyone. Let us know if you find any problem pages and we will address them asap. Personally I have seen an average improvement of around 0.4 seconds. Do things feel any faster for you?
Cheers,
Synthlight
In memorum, Stephen Van Ness (aka Jellygod) and Card
Hello fellow FFR’ers.
As many of you may already know, our friend and old-time avid community member Jellygod (or Stephen Van Ness) had passed away only a few weeks ago. This has saddened us and brought to our attention just how close our community is. I just wanted to take a moment to remember Jelly and say that we shall all miss him dearly.
Furthermore, I have already begun passing around a card and sheet of paper, being mailed around to people that wanted to be involved, who are signing the card and writing how they remember Steve and how great a guy he was, then mailing it on to the next person. We only have about 8-10 people involved right now, but I would really like to see more people involved, as I find this would be a great thing to do to help support his friends and family in a time of need. The final delivery, once I make sure that everyone who wants to be involved is, will go to danceguy (or Peter), one of Steve’s closest friends, so that he, eurostud and ickalanda can give it to Steve’s parents. If you want to know more, please feel free to view this: http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/vbz/showthread.php?t=116013 and please, let’s all be respectful.
So, if you would like to be involved, please PM me with your mailing info. And phone number (for texting/update purposes) and I will make sure the card gets to each person and continued on.
Thanks for listening in,
Sincerely
- revolutionomega
November’s Most Popular Songs
November has come and gone, and with our first full month back, I thought I’d let you know the ten most popular levels of November!
1. Excite Bike
2. -Y
3. Guitar vs Piano
4. Policy in the Sky
5. Power
6. Zelda Stormy
7. Death Piano
8. Snowflakes
9. 300 This Is Sparta EXTENDED Mix
10. Chaoz Fantasy
Surprised? Let us know what you think in the comments, and tell us what your favorite level is!
-lightdarkness
Bluenote/Synth Songs
For the uninformed: The bluenote/synth songs are a number of older songs from the earliest days of the site, where the files were actually made basically in notepad with some frame timings on them. As a result, they’re pretty wildly offsync, and as they predate the period where notes were coloured based on their timing, are blue noteskinned throughout.
What happened is that the list of synth/bluenote songs was moved from their various genres into the “Support” genre, which previously held only the three songs obtainable by buying the artist’s album in the FFR Shop.
The Bluenote/Synth songs, being in Support, are no longer public, which is why you’ll have lost public AAAs/FCs and the total public song count is down. Since they’re in the Support Genre right now, and nobody happens to own the tokens (since they don’t exist) the songs aren’t available for play, which is why you can’t find them.
Anybody who is a veteran, or still has subscriber benefits can see their ranks on the “Token level rank” page. Your scores still exist, the songs still exist, and you haven’t lost any AAAs or FCs.
The Support Genre is going to be renamed to “Legacy” containing all of the old songs that weren’t created under the new noteskinning/syncing system.
The Legacy Genre -will- be a public genre. The songs will be available to everybody, and once that is done, the songs will re-appear in the normal levelranks page, and the profile bars will re-update with the old number of songs, and your old AAA/FC counts.
Nobody has lost songs, nobody has lost AAAs, nobody has lost FCs, we’re just being careful with the databases as we get these moved over, taking it slowly, making backups, to ensure that no data is lost.
-Devonin
One Word. Yikes.
Following a year of intense rise and then nearly complete destruction of FFR, I have worked tirelessly for many months to re-wire and re-structure FFR so that it could once again promote rhythm gaming. This is without a doubt a work in progress but I am re-launching FFR with the full intent of cutting out the corporate bullsh*t, righting wrongs and helping to preserve the community that was our family for many years. It’s been a crazy 1 1/2 years for sure.
There is still an incredible amount of work to be done and we are aware so many pages still need rewiring but we will get to those as they are found. Currently multiplayer is still being rewritten to work in the new system along with the simfiles section. Most profiles should work but going to your own profile may present a problem. If you find any broken pages, feel free to respond here to this news story and post them.
I will no doubt post more on the history, what I have been up to and what we have planned over the coming week. I owe this to all of you. This isn’t a test.
Cheers,
Synthlight
Welcome to Newvember!
For those who think things have been quiet around here, prepared to wake up and here the noise! NSane and myself have gotten together and compiled an event for November SO BIG, we had to rename the month!
Newvember as we’re calling it is a song release event where we release a song every day for the rest of the month! This event started a week ago, so there’s already a handful of songs in the game for you to play.
During the event all songs will be released into Funk, and will be moved from there after the release event. Below are all the songs released thus far:
November 8th: Slaytronic November 9th: Wish (Reprise November 10th: Versatile November 11th: You will die November 12th: Chaoz Fantasy November 13th: Saddest RMX November 14th: RipoffNovember 15th: I’m Sick of Uprock
November 16th: Prelude No. 7
November 17th: Twist November 18th: Asteroid Run November 19th: Angel Island Remix November 20th: DeVouR November 21st: Tribe Attacker
November 22nd: XP Sounds Attempt
November 23rd: {A Change of Seasons}
November 24th: Determine
November 25th: Caixa D’Aqua
November 26th: Yeah Yeah Beats
November 27th: Humanism
November 28th: Sexperation
November 29th: Tageri
November 30th: Session
We will continue to update this post with the songs as they are released. We hope you enjoy the event, and everything else me and NSane have planned for the coming months on FFR!
“We ain’t going anywhere…”
Spontaneous Contest!
Blast to the past in flash games… Â get the highest score you can on Nanaca Crash. Â Upload the screenshot to your FFR profile, then put a link to the SS as a comment to this news post.
Contest ends in 2 hours, at 8pm PST (11pm EST). Â Winner will get a 3 month subbie and 20k credits.
Congrats to X Seraphim X! Contest OVER.
-Tass
1st Season of the Official Ongoing League
Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the qualifying tournament for FFR’s first official ongoing League (now known as the OOL).
There is an awful lot to know about the OOL, so read the full rules in the official OOL rules thread.
If you want to participate, round 1 of qualifying has JUST started. Â See the Round 1 thread to join!
Prizes have not been finalized, but there will be credit prizes for the top finishers in the qualifying tournament.
Best of luck to all our competitors!
PSH #4 – Results!
View all of the hilarious and creative photos/videos in the forum thread.
Prizes:
1st place: 2 year subbie + All 3 Albums + 50,000 credits
2nd place: 2 year subbie + 1 Album of your choice + 25,000 credits
3rd place: 1 year subbie + 10,000 credits
4th place: 6 month subbie + 5,000 credits
5th place: 3 month subbie + 2,000 credits
Honorable Mention: Tainted Rainbow (82) – welcome to the forums! your first post was your submissions… hopefully you’ll stick around for some more. CODxGLITCH (90) – you look 10 dude… your wedgie picture is disturbing. also a newbie to our forums. welcome and congrats! Heartseeker7 (108) – you called it… 3 times in a row. always a bridesmaid, never a bride. alloyus (112) – nice custom FFR shirt. but seriously… i don’t look like a fat-faced asian. 
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5th place -Â Prime8 – I feel bad that you bought a wig… try to return it or something. I gave you a ton of bonus points, as your pics were really funny. Just not enough of them. 123 points.
4th place -Â Dark_Chrysalis – All around solid. 155 points.
3rd place -Â fermble – Awesome pics. The lack of a 2x bonus for an FFR shirt definitely hurt. 160 points is still more than respectable.
2nd place -Â iheartbyakuya – Late to the party, but it’s not about how you start… it’s how you finish. Tons of pics, awesome vids for bonus points, and a coin collection x2 got you a boost from 5th place in PSH3 to 2nd place here. 186 points.
and… the crazy manboob himself…
1st place -Â eastsideman09 – Almost every picture and insane combo photos to boot for some extra points. The real over the top was the 23 point shirt bonus off the 14 people / Waldo picture. 202 points total.
