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FFRMas 2016: Day 11
I hope everyone is having a great holiday today! I’m releasing this song a bit on the earlier side today, as the family festivities are typically held on the day before Christmas over here.
Eternal Excavation
Musician: jmr
Step Artist: Silvuh
Genre: VG Remix
Difficulty: 58
Length: 2:47
Spontaneous Contest: Post a full combo on Eternal Excavation, and I’ll give you 1,000 credits. This is the last spontaneous contest of the event: if you haven’t gotten involved with one, you’re going to want to, as tomorrow will reward those who have!
FFRMas 2016: Day 10
Getting this stuff up from a hotel. I hope that you all are having (or will be having) a good holiday weekend!
where is my balls
Musician: LOLI RIPE
Step Artist: YoshL
Genre: Mashcore
Difficulty: 97
Length: 2:54
Spontaneous Contest: For every perfect (or amazing + perfect) you get on where is my balls on 1.0x rate (velocity/legacy players: don’t worry, you’re fine), I will give you 3 credits.
FFRMas 2016: Day 9
Apologies: it’s a little hectic here prepping for holiday travels.
AirTrip-SF#2-
Musician: TiS
Step Artist: bmah
Song Genre: Fusion
Difficulty: 78
Length: 2:20
No spontaneous contest today, just have fun with the release.
FFRMas 2016: Day 8
Note: from now on, I’m gonna put the releases down to 7:30 PM server time. It’s a bit easier of a time for me to remember/handle all this stuff.
On the eighth day of Christmas, FFRMas gave to me…
…a trapstep song with a difficulty over 100.
EDM mastermind and ex-Krewella member Rain Man graciously gave us permission to use his song Make the Fire Burn for FFR (thanks, Kayla!), and this was an opportunity that I sure as hell was not gonna miss. Yes, “I” – as in, the 8th FFRMas release with a difficulty of over 100 is charted by me… and I’ll say this while I have the chance: I am not sorry.
Clocking in at a difficulty of 102 (and easily the hardest of them), Make the Fire Burn now holds the record for the fastest sustained streams in the game, featuring several sequences of streams of 176 BPM 32nds, and unlike its Eclipse-counterpart, the patterns are much tougher to auto-pilot your way through. Even the best of players in the game are gonna get a run for their money – if the nasty streams don’t get them, then the ungodly rigid burst/jack transitions outside of them will.
Make the Fire Burn
Musician: Rain Man
Step Artist: TC_Halogen
Song Genre: Trapstep
Difficulty: 102
Length: 3:35
Spontaneous Contest: Pass Make The Fire Burn (at 1.0 rate, for you R^3 folks) with over 1,000 boos, get 4,000 credits. Piece of cake. EDIT: Changed it from 2,000 to 1,000. Having 700 notes of buffer is good in a normal file, but when more than that is composed in ridiculous 32nd note streams where mashing keeps your lifebar filled with no hope of overmashing, I suppose that’s an issue. :p
If you can get to 2,000 – I’ll double your prize.
FFRMas 2016: Day 7
On the seventh day of Ch— NOPE I’M RUNNING LATE NO TIME FOR INTRODUCTIONS
(PLACEHOLDER FOR NOT SO INTERESTING STUFF TO TALK ABOUT)
G4M3 0V3R
Musician: Celldweller
Step Artist: gameboy42690
Song Genre: Dance 2
Difficulty: 61
Length: 2:09
GAME OVER MAN GAME OVER
Spontaneous Contest: Despite having this release a bit late, the difficulty is actually something that is sorted out. Get the right number that the FFR Difficulty Consultants have in mind, and I’ll give you that number * 100 credits.
I CAN’T EVEN GET SPON CONS RIGHT THANKS HAKU
FFRMas 2016: Day 6
On the six day of Christmas, FFRMas gave to me…
…some haulin’ chipcore (I think that’s what you cool kids would call this.)
YZYX is an artist that, in my personal opinion, is a mixed bag of awesome. Introduced as an artist to the game with Dysnomia, a ridiculously paced orchestral-turned breakcore song with a (thankfully) comparatively tame chart, those who were not familiar with the world of Stepmania, or well… YZYX, might have assumed that Powerflux’s entry to the game was going to be some savage breakcore song that would murder even the top of players. Instead, we got a kickass, absolutely ballistic 8-bit-esque sounding hybrid of a whole bunch of stuff that well… ok, it still managed to get the best of even the game’s best players. This time, we’re going along a very similar route in terms of song sound, featuring yet another high-speed chiptune/breakcore/IDM/(etc) hybrid.
As familiarly identified with the lovely red background by our graphic contest winner, Shikari (show him some love), ._Pulse clocks well into the 200s of BPM, and has a decent mix of patterns from start to finish; those of you with weaknesses to constant, unbroken streaming will feel the pain with heavy jumpstream density, and, if i’m not mistake, the longest sustained handstream over 200 BPM in all of FFR. Best of luck, you will need it!
._Pulse
Musician: YZYX
Step Artist: GammaBlaster
Song Genre: Arcade
Difficulty: 95
Song Length: 2:10
Spontaneous Contest: Full combo ._Pulse, and I’ll give you 2,500 credits. I don’t care how you do it, so long as you’re not physically cheating, using a bot, or something along those lines (to which your account shall be eviscerated).
For those of you wondering: credits have not been paid out for the spontaneous contests past Day 2. I will get to them – do not worry; you won’t be stiffed.
FFRMas 2016: Day 5
On the fifth day of Christmas, FFRMas gave to me…
…a fresh Monstercat release!
(Apologies for being late: I had it ready for almost two hours and then… just forgot to release it, hahaha)
We’ve not seen Monstercat-released content in a little while, but the drought has been broken by FFRMas’ 5th day, a Pegboard Nerds track called Try This. It’s not quite as explicitly dubby/drum-steppy in terms of melody, but it’s still a banger that sounds like the would-be background music of a bank heist. (Actually, I get the feeling that this is what they were going for, given the graphic used for the release, at least on Soundcloud.) In any case, this chart’s deceptively difficult – the density doesn’t ever peak to particularly high levels, and it certainly doesn’t try to cram a huge amount of notes at a time either (957 steps in 1:53), but the pattern choices are somewhat unforgiving. If you’re not fending off heavy layering, you’re contending with some variety of trills, flams, or balancing into/out of repeated notes.
Created by rushyrulz, this chart will certainly put a ton of pressure on mid-level players.
Try This
Musician: Pegboard Nerds
Step Artist: rushyrulz
Song Genre: Dance 2
Difficulty: 66
Song Length: 1:53
Spontaneous Contest: TRY THIS - pass Try This with a raw score of less than 11,500 and I will give you a support token of your choice.
For those of you wondering: credits have not been paid out for the spontaneous contests past Day 2. I will get to them – do not worry; you won’t be stiffed.
Click here to go to the FFRMas release thread (it’s been pretty lonely).
FFRMas 2016: Day 4
On the fourth day of Christmas, FFRMas gave to me…
…a song composed entirely of user-submitted samples.
I have a lot of issues making this clever: Blitz Lunar pieced this song together using a bunch of user-submitted samples for a long-running series of Sample Pack Contests run over at the VGMusic forums – this particular track was released in VG Music’s second Sample Pack Contest.
Tougher release this time, as indicated by the red banner. Like many other Blitz Lunar tracks in this game, this chart is pretty demanding. Props to Gradiant for creating a very well-crafted, brutally hard, hyper-technical chart.
A Dichroic Glass Snafu
Musician: Blitz Lunar
Step Artist: Gradiant
Song Genre: Arcade
Difficulty: 98
Song Length: 2:00
Spontaneous Contest: I’m not feeling particularly creative. I am feeling somewhat generous, though. For every 10 raw score points you get on A Dichroic Glass Snafu, I will give you 1 credit (I’ll round up). Got a good? Congrats, you got 3 credits.
FFRMas 2016: Day 3
On the third day of Christmas, FFRMas gave to me…
…the first DM Ashura song in over 8 years! (Holy what?)
I was surprised to see this myself. I had to double-check numerous times to make sure that I wasn’t in fact missing a whole bunch of songs, but it’s true – the last time we’ve seen a song composed by DM Ashura on FFR was back in 2008, when bluguerilla’s chart fof Vanity Angel was released. If you were looking for a break from yesterday’s release, you will most certainly be getting it with this one. DarkZtar did a really nice job with pattern selection to keep the song accessible to our Advanced-tier players and lower, while keeping it somewhat interesting for our higher level players by bringing some tastefully placed mini-jacks, bursts, and occasionally heavier layering.
Chaotic WHITE
Musician: DM Ashura
Step Artist: DarkZtar
Song Genre: Dance 2
Style: Electronic (I honestly don’t know what to call this. I’m tryin’ here.)
Difficulty: 53
Song Length: 1:55
Spontaneous Contest: Hmmm, we’re still on the aversion game, me thinks. See, we definitely weren’t fans of the cold. I gave you free reign to avoid as much or as little as you wanted before, but this time, it’s not gonna be as easy. Today, we hate chaos. Particularly, those of a white-note variety.
Miss all white notes in Chaotic WHITE, and I will give you 5,000 credits. A screenshot is not going to cut it: save a replay and place the link to the replays on the front page post and I will check them to see if you qualified. I won’t tell you if you’ve gotten it or not until the day is over, so you’d better be sure you’ve got it!
