Archive for the 'Song of the Week' Category
Mother’s Day Release 5/14/2023
Happy Mother’s Day! Instead of a Saturday Songs of the Week release this time around, the release was pushed one day for celebrating Mother’s Day. We’ve got a skill token and a new musician as well in this entertaining release.
Leaderboards
For those that have been following the leaderboards the past couple of weeks, you may have noticed that TristanJacob9 got FFR Rank #1 on April 28th with Lv.107 73%. At the time, the Top 3 was within 50% of each other in Lv.107 (with AnMaO in 2nd and Matthia in 3rd).
On May 9th, TristanJacob9 achieved Lv.108 after getting 3 goods on eXXXcaliborg.Error, and then kept going with a AAA on Gamma Stop Sending Me Ratchet and Clank Videos to Sample. Congratulations on being the first player to achieve D9!
fastbeats
Musician: Red Ruler
Step Artist: Deamerai
Song Length: 0:30
Song Style: IDM
Note Count: 379
Difficulty: 82
Red Ruler – SoundCloud | Bandcamp | YouTube | Twitter | Facebook
CHICKEN for the WIN
Musician: innkeeper
Step Artist: bmah & Xiz
Song Length: 2:36
Song Style: Electro
Note Count: 1292
Difficulty: 69
Leeroy Jenkins (Fun Time Mix) v2*
Musician: Funtastic Power!
Step Artist: alloyus
Song Length: 1:42
Song Style: Meme Trance
Note Count: 1095
Difficulty: 74
*Full Combo Leeroy Jenkins (Fun Time Mix) to unlock Leeroy Jenkins (Fun Time Mix) v2.
Enjoy!
-DossarLX ODI, the Game Management Team, and the Community Managers
Songs of the Week and Weekly Update 5/6/2023
Welcome to the first song release of May! We’re cooling down from the hard release that finished off April, and having an easier release to start off May.
Batch Judging
The 16th Official Tournament batch is now closed. The batch system will be closed for the time being, as mentioned in the previous SOTW update. Batch judging will be undergoing a different approach to help get caught up on the unjudged files. The process will be similar to how files were judged during the Dump Batch last year where the goal is more about general reviews instead of detailed ones. You can find a full explanation of the process in this post.
FFR Facebook
For those of you on Facebook, we have created a new page! Updates will be posted similarly to the previous group page, and it will also be an avenue for us to keep everyone informed if the main website were to go down. Please check it out and follow it when you get the chance!
New Staff
We recently brought on another member to the FFR staff! Please welcome our newest simfile judge, Zeta!
We have a whopping four new musicians for everyone today. Hope you enjoy the new music, and take the time to visit their socials below!
When I’m Gone (feat. Ellen Louise)
Musician: Tetrix Bass & ROY KNOX
Step Artist: WirryWoo
Song Length: 1:56
Song Style: Melodic Dubstep
Note Count: 344
Difficulty: 21
Tetrix Bass – Spotify | SoundCloud | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook
ROY KNOX – Spotify | SoundCloud | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook
Ellen Louise – SoundCloud | Bandcamp | YouTube | Instagram
Dream Continuation
Musician: AAAA
Step Artist: Velocity
Song Length: 2:41
Song Style: Dreamy Fantasy
Note Count: 517
Difficulty: 23
Sneaky Snitch
Musician: Kevin MacLeod
Step Artist: Tru
Song Length: 1:08
Song Style: Short Strings
Note Count: 310
Difficulty: 25
Kevin MacLeod – Spotify | SoundCloud | YouTube | Twitch | Twitter | Facebook
Enjoy!
-DossarLX ODI, the Game Management Team, and the Community Managers
Songs of the Week and Weekly Update 4/29/2023
Hello and welcome back to the resuming of Songs of the Week! The Spring Showdown recently ended and we’re back to weekly Saturday releases.
This is the final reminder that the 16th Official Tournament batch will be closing in a couple days on April 30th. Because of a file backlog and a lot of preparation being needed for the 16th Official Tournament, the batch system will be closed afterwards until the judges feel like they are in a good place to reopen it.
We also want to mention that we recently experienced some issues with our e-mail verification system for new accounts. This should now be fixed. If you were unable to have your account fully activated or know someone that this happened to, please reach out to one of our Community Managers or Global Moderators for assistance!
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Musician: Cardboard Box
Step Artist: mi40
Song Length: 1:54
Song Style: Energetic 8-bit
Note Count: 1817
Difficulty: 96
Fool The Detector
Musician: Venetian Snares
Step Artist: ositzxz369
Song Length: 2:11
Song Style: Beatbox IDM
Note Count: 1677
Difficulty: 90
How Things Went Wrong
Musician: Goreshit
Step Artist: XelNya
Song Length: 1:57
Song Style: IDM
Note Count: 1395
Difficulty: 95
Enjoy!
-DossarLX ODI, the Game Management Team, and the Community Managers
Songs of the Week and Weekly Update 4/1/2023
Welcome to the first post of April! With another new season comes our bigger seasonal update with difficulty changes, a new leaderboard season, an engine update, and some other big news!
FFR Engine v1.5.0
Starting with a new engine update, a quick rundown of what’s coming to the engine is as follows:
Local File Browser
- Local file browser for playing .sm / .osu / .qua files.
- For those that have used the AF2021 engine, this is the same song selector, but is limited to just FFR style charts. (4K, No Mines or Holds)
- There’s a potential desync issue when using Isolation in combination with this, am looking into it.
Song Selection Tags and display toggles:
- Legacy
- Explicit
- Unranked
Reworked Receptor Code:
- Speed Scaler (0.25x – 5x)
- Unify Animations
- Per Judge Score Color and Toggles
Song Rates:
- No longer requires reloading the song when changed.
As with any engine update, you can find it over on our downloads page, and report any issues over on Github.
Season 7
Season 6 has concluded with just over 250 participants this time around. Season 7 has begun and will last until the end of June. Participation badges for Season 6 will automatically be added soon for those that met the requirements for them.
Difficulty Updates
The difficulty changes this season can be found at the usual location of our contested difficulty spreadsheet. In addition to the list of difficulty updates coming out for the new season, we have something a bit different that is happening with a short list of files. These files in particular have a severe difficulty spike, and as a result are frequently brought up for difficulty discussion, with enduring disagreement about whether the files are overrated, underrated, or should be moved to 0. Specifically, these files have a singular difficulty spike that is 1) ~5 seconds or less in duration and 2) 15 or more points more difficult than everything else in the file. We determined that these files are not quite as extreme as other files currently rated 0, and consequently they will be retaining their numerical ratings but will be unranked. This means they will no longer grant AAA equivalency or figure into global or seasonal skill ratings. You’ll be able to identify them in the new engine update by the gray difficulty number on the song selection screen.
The files affected by this change are:
R/\IN
DubstEpic Symph
Entrance [Deemo Cut]
Etude Op. 10, No. 9 in F minor
For FFR
Runny Mornings (SGX Mix)
Jettison
Judgement Updates
On the judgement side of things we have a change in pace. We’re going to temporarily close submissions once the 16th Official Tournament batch closes at the end of April. We’ve built up quite a backlog, and will need to focus on getting OT files judged once that batch closes. There has not been a date set for when when the next batch will open, but we will provide an update on that as soon as it has been determined. The main factors will be how quickly judging proceeds through the current backlog and the quantity of files in the queue.
New Releases
As for the song releases today, we’ve kept this as a secret for awhile now. It took a bit of wrangling with some labels on our founder’s end, as well as a contract to only dedicate a very, very small percentage of his time towards being present on FFR. It doesn’t make much sense to us either, but it got some results!
To start out this month, all of our releases will be new musicians! These were extremely hard to get permissions for artists you may have heard of. As always, check out their socials below! Thanks, Synthlight!!!
Rap God
Musician: Eminem
Step Artist: gold stinger
Song Length: 6:04
Song Style: Speed Rap
Note Count: 5577
Difficulty: 102
Eminem – Spotify | YouTube | Twitter | Facebook
Mariah Carey F**king Dies in a Multigenre Death Loop
Musician: Mariah Carey feat. DJ Khaled, ReeK, Filthy Frank
Step Artist: Velocity & ositzxz369
Song Length: 4:17
Song Style: Multigenre
Note Count: 2639
Difficulty: 112
Mariah Carey – Spotify | YouTube | Twitter | Facebook
Space Oddity (Dossar Acapella Remix)
Musician: David Bowie feat. DossarLX ODI
Step Artist: DossarLX ODI
Song Length: 3:55
Song Style: Acapella
Note Count: 592
Difficulty: 13
David Bowie – Spotify | SoundCloud | YouTube | Twitter | Facebook
Flames!
Musician: Dragonforce feat. Ph0ton
Step Artist: XJ-9
Song Length: 4:23
Song Style: Kawaii Desu Guitar
Note Count: 2409
Difficulty: 73
Dragonforce – Spotify | SoundCloud | YouTube | Twitter | Facebook
Ph0ton – Spotify | SoundCloud | YouTube | Twitter | Facebook
SUPER RENDA BEAT
Musician: LuzeriA
Step Artist: bmah
Song Length: 2:24
Song Style: Free Jack Equiv
Note Count: 1504
Difficulty: 81
LuzeriA – Spotify | SoundCloud | YouTube | Twitter | Facebook
Enjoy!
-DossarLX ODI, gold stinger, Velocity, the Game Management Team, and the Community Managers
Songs of the Week and Weekly Update 3/25/2023
Welcome to the last Songs of the Week release of March! We’ve got a difficult release of long files to end the month and go into the Spring Tournament.
For those of you that signed up for FFR’s Spring Showdown Tournament, round one has now begun! Your division’s song and overall progress can be found within the tournament dashboard, and round one ends on March 29th 2023, 12:00 AM server time. Keep the thread in mind for any questions you may have. Good luck!
Final reminder that Season 6 ends in one week!
LET’S JUMP
Musician: Camellia
Step Artist: Velocity & gold stinger
Song Length: 7:03
Song Style: Future Techno
Note Count: 5000
Difficulty: 91
Where’s Bill
Musician: Venetian Snares
Step Artist: mi40
Song Length: 5:06
Song Style: Industrial Breaks
Note Count: 4244
Difficulty: 97
Tache
Musician: Venetian Snares
Step Artist: ositzxz369
Song Length: 6:27
Song Style: IDM Breakcore
Note Count: 4802
Difficulty: 100
As part of the Spring Tournament, the following file is also being released for Round 1:
Diversion
Musician: Fire From The Gods
Step Artist: storn42
Song Length: 3:04
Song Style: Metalcore
Note Count: 2069
Difficulty: 69
Enjoy!
-DossarLX ODI, the Game Management Team, and the Community Managers
Saint Patrick’s Day Release and Weekly Update
Hello FFR! We’re releasing Songs of the Week one day early for Saint Patrick’s Day this week.
A couple reminders before we get to the song releases. Sign-ups are still open for FFR’s Spring Showdown Tournament! If you haven’t registered already, you have until March 24th, 11:59 PM server time to do so. The first round of the tournament will start at 12:00 AM server time on March 25th!
Season 6 ends in two weeks, so get your scores in while you can!
Midi Chin Chin
Musician: DJ Rainbow Ejaculation
Step Artist: ositzxz369
Song Length: 1:09
Song Style: Samplecore
Note Count: 753
Difficulty: 69
happy core chocobo
Musician: fether
Step Artist: bmah
Song Length: 1:36
Song Style: Game Remix
Note Count: 1077
Difficulty: 70
Disorder (Intermission1)
Musician: Terminal 11
Step Artist: Deamerai
Song Length: 1:04
Song Style: Experimental
Note Count: 680
Difficulty: 91
Enjoy!
-DossarLX ODI, the Game Management Team, and the Community Managers
Songs of the Week and Weekly Update 3/11/2023
Welcome to the second SOTW release of March!
Shortly after last week’s post, we added another member to our Event Staff. Please welcome diddleysquin to the team!
Speaking of the Event Staff, they have a new event for everyone…
Sign-ups are now open for the Spring Showdown Tournament! This cumulative scoring tournament will be utilizing the official dashboard where you can access the round status, player scores, rules and sign-up info. Make sure to take a look at all of the details and prize info within the thread!
Sign-ups will be open until Friday, March 24th, 11:59PM server time, and the tournament will start on Saturday, March 25th, 12:00 AM server time.
The Voiceless
Musician: Fire From The Gods
Step Artist: storn42
Song Length: 3:10
Song Style: Metalcore
Note Count: 1555
Difficulty: 65
True
Musician: SGX feat. Sekhret Hush
Step Artist: Tru
Song Length: 3:25
Song Style: Truthful Breakbeats
Note Count: 2148
Difficulty: 67
SPACE DISCO 4000
Musician: Loli Ripe
Step Artist: Elite Ninja
Song Length: 1:26
Song Style: Carnival
Note Count: 760
Difficulty: 70
Enjoy!
-DossarLX ODI, the Game Management Team, and the Community Managers
Songs of the Week and Weekly Update 3/4/2023
With the February releases over, we’re transitioning back to weekly Saturday releases at 12 AM Server Time, 3 files per week!
Starting again this month, the regular releases will also be available to Veterans immediately, non-veterans the week after.
Please welcome Lights, Snupeh, and basicdrummerman to our Event Staff! We know that activity on the event side has been slow lately, so we’re really happy to bring more people in to help change that. Congrats to you three!
We have two new musicians this week, so take the time to check out their socials when you can!
Lay Low
Musician: Conro
Step Artist: Rapta
Song Length: 1:29
Song Style: Tropical Bass
Note Count: 175
Difficulty: 10
Conro – Spotify | SoundCloud | YouTube | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
FOX
Musician: Shirobon
Step Artist: jh05013
Song Length: 2:36
Song Style: Chip Trance
Note Count: 446
Difficulty: 12
Lonely Lux
Musician: Trerey-U
Step Artist: Velocity
Song Length: 2:52
Song Style: Toy Pop Lullaby
Note Count: 498
Difficulty: 13
Trerey-U – Home | Bandcamp | SoundCloud | YouTube | Twitter
Enjoy!
-DossarLX ODI, the Game Management Team, and the Community Managers
Valentine’s Day Release and February Release Update
Happy Valentine’s Day! For the rest of February, Songs of the Week will be replaced with daily releases starting today. There will be a release event that is 14 days of releases starting from the 15th!
The difficulty will gradually increase throughout the release event. Today’s release is 12 AM Server Time, although after today the releases in the event will be at 10 PM Server Time.
You’re My Hero
Musician: Richard Jacques feat. Debbie Morris
Step Artist: bmah
Song Length: 1:45
Song Style: Pop Ballad
Note Count: 692
Difficulty: 55
Enjoy!
-DossarLX ODI, the Game Management Team, and the Community Managers
