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Simfile DB Fixed! Gambling Hall Dead :(

I’m sorry guys…  the internet police have officially given up their search for our missing gambling hall.  It is presumed dead.  Maybe one day we’ll find the body afloat in the river, or a hiker will discover half-eaten pieces off a rarely used trail.  Who knows.  It is a sad day…  shed a tear with me.

Juxaposed to that sadness, the simfile db is officially fixed.  There had been issues since mid-April, but no more!  And expect none in the future for many years.  So upload all your kickass charts today!

-Tass

Gambling Hall Vanishes!

Hey guys.  Wanted to let you know that sometime between last night and right now, I noticed the gambling hall disappeared.  We’re investigating heavily to find out what happened…  and the internet police have been called in.  We’re afraid of an abduction or possible robbery.  No ransom call has been made yet, but we fear it’ll come at any time.  So say a prayer for the gambling hall, that it may be returned to us safely and quickly.

Also, expect to see some more tweaks, fixes, and updates over the next week or two.  lightdarkness is back on the scene for php work and NSane is lending a hand for all things flash (even his tatas!).

Things should get exciting!  If you have any suggestions for bug fixes or site/game updates…  post them in the comments.

-Tass

LD EDIT: We’ll be tracking the story on Twitter on the Official FFR Account…

Memorial Day Special Release & Random Updates

I figured we hadn’t done a special release in a while…  so I wanted to do something for you guys.  Enter Ievan Polkka, by Otomania, quite possibly the catchiest song ever.  It may sound familiar, as Pretty Green Onions is a mix of the same song.  IMO, it’s a Low FMO…  the jumpjacks with 3-framers are JUST enough to make it not be VC, but I’m willing to listen to other opinions.  Mad props to my main man jimerax for this awesomely fun chart that you will won’t be able to stop playing.  Oh yeah…  it’s on Page 1 of Dance2 for easy access.

In other news, I haven’t forgotten about all of you.  Don’t think that I have.  :(.  The P4U fix that resulted in the chart being offsync is being worked on again, and should be sync’d by the time you read this.  Also, I like cake.

-Tass

Oh yeah…  if you care about the batch, notes should be up tomorrow.  Maybe I’ll even be nice enough to unlock the discussion thread.

Server Issues on Forum

Hey guys,

We’re aware of the forum issues going on intermittently. We should have everything fixed soon.

-Tass

edit: Should be fixed!

Tass Tips – General Gaming Strategies

Hey guys. I haven’t had much to put up on the front page recently… but in my spare time, I like to make videos. A few weeks back, I decided to start a video blog to help casual gamers on a broad scale. Instead of showing people specifically how to beat one game, I was going to give them strategies to help across all games. These videos are mostly geared towards Flash Games, including FFR, but can apply to other casual games (and potentially console/PC games) as well.

This is my 3rd installment. It’s a bit meta, and definitely a bit out there… but I think it’ll help. The topic is “Know Yourself & Plan Accordingly”:
Episode 3

The previous topics were Reducing Lag and Read the Instructions. Future topics will cover genre specific strategies, optimization, and more. I don’t have too many more topic ideas… so if you have any, please let me know.

-Tass

Rithum Is Now Open For All Bands!!

Hey everyone, I’m sure you all know what Rithum is. You better, it’s embedded in your profiles. You know, that thing that randomly plays music? Yea, that one.

Since Rithum was launched , music players were only available to special people. After a lot of work, we are pleased to announce that any musician with original music can sign up for free. You don’t have to be super amazing, or be signed to a billion dollar label. We are open to anyone who loves music as much as we do.

Just a quick marketing pitch:

• Full statistics
• Awesome-quality streaming audio
• Super hot video player

There’s a lot more too, but I’m sure I’ve already sold you. Go ahead, sign up right now!

And hey, making music not your forte? Join the community, and listen to some hot new bands.

-MalDON, Walros Extrodinaire.

Very, Very Old Bug Now Fixed!

A small one, but a very old one… dating way back to 2003. We all love the cute little dancing white thing in the background video for Party 4 U v2, but sadly the music wouldn’t play when you went to try it again (and the notes would lag). This has been fixed! Big thanks to NSane for the assistance on the fix. No more P4U bug! Yay!

-Tass

New Features To The Subscriber Beta FFR

I put together this little video to show off the new features of the Beta version of FFR:

-New sexy graphics
-Better in-genre navigation
-FC/AAA graphics in-game
-Combo/Accuracy masking

Any suggestions for other things we should work on adding? If you feel these features are as sexy as I do, subscribe!

-Tass

Put the Retrigger on the Bong-Ra and hide the children

Bong-Ra:
Bong-Ra, Jason Köhnen’s electronic alter ego saw life in 1996. Hailing form The Netherlands, Bong-Ra initially started as a dj, but quickly focused his priority on producing his own music in 1997. Since then he has set up two record labels and released well over 40 albums on many record labels (including Cock Rock Disco.) His latest release, the Vitus Blister EP, features the song many of you have probably grown to love, Nomina Nuda Tenemus, which was released a week or so ago and was stepped by here. It’s either an FMO or FGO, there seems to be a lot of disagreement about the actual difficulty [it's just jumpstream, right? ].

Retrigger:
Retrigger is an electronic musician from Brazil, also known as Raul Costa, who has been producing hard and experimental music since the year of 2001. He has released tracks in labels from different countries, in 5 different continents. His sounds range from breakcore to 60s psychedelia, from punk to funk, from garage rock to hip hop or anything he’s listening at the time, mostly sounding like all of those at the same time. Just last week, resident stepfiler and FFR stepfile judge kommisar[os]‘s file for Jeanie and Caroline became public and it’s an FMO focusing on Retrigger’s wonderful drums. Check out his website for free music and keep an eye for a release on Cock Rock Disco.

Hope you all enjoy the new breakcore!

-blu