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Songs of the Week and Weekly Update 6/10/2023
We’re around halfway through the year and the 16th Official Tournament will be starting June 30th! Signups close June 25th.
Thank you, T-Force!
As some of you may have already heard, one of our longtime moderators of ~10 years has recently stepped down from staff. Thank you, T-Force, for the wonderful service you provided to the FFR team and community. Enjoy retirement and the sweet bliss of not having to deal with bots or angsty rulebreakers!
R^3 Update
Version 1.5.2 for R^3 was just released! You can find a download and changelog on what’s new on this page. This release comes with some bug fixes and a few features including a new result graph, autofail options, and score tracking. Special thanks to Velocity and Justin on the work for this release!
Derustathon
A reminder to participate in the Derustathon if you haven’t yet. You only have until June 30th to claim a unique profile badge from this event!
On to our songs of the week, which will be the easiest release of the year so far.
Faint Courage (Game Over)
Musician: Toby Fox
Step Artist: Snupeh
Song Length: 0:51
Song Style: Game Music
Note Count: 148
Difficulty: 6
Get Out…
Musician: Pogo
Step Artist: Deamerai
Song Length: 2:25
Song Style: Electronica
Note Count: 187
Difficulty: 4
Red Soil Redux (Super Metroid)
Musician: Dj CUTMAN
Step Artist: Psychotik
Song Length: 1:19
Song Style: Game Remix
Note Count: 275
Difficulty: 13
Enjoy!
-DossarLX ODI, the Game Management Team, and the Community Managers
Songs of the Week and Weekly Update 6/3/2023
Welcome to the first Songs of the Week Release of June!
Event Reminders
As with last week, sign-ups for the 16th Official Tournament are still open! If you haven’t already, sign-up!! The Derustathon bingo event is also still open, so participate and hone your keytapping skills for the OT!
Remember, sign-ups for the 16th Official Tournament will close on Sunday, June 25, 2023, 11:59 PM server time, and the tournament is expected to start on Friday, June 30, 2023, 12:00 AM server time.
We have one new musician with this week’s song releases! Details below.
Her Perfume
Musician: Pogo
Step Artist: Deamerai
Song Length: 1:11
Song Style: Ambient Breaks
Note Count: 545
Difficulty: 54
Drop Bombs
Musician: Stonebank
Step Artist: Rapta
Song Length: 1:39
Song Style: Dubstep
Note Count: 957
Difficulty: 70
Stonebank – SoundCloud | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
Terror From Beyond v2
Musician: Digital Explosion
Step Artist: Xtreme2252
Song Length: 2:56
Song Style: Techno
Note Count: 1938
Difficulty: 74
Enjoy!
-DossarLX ODI, the Game Management Team, and the Community Managers
Memorial Day Release 5/29/2023
Hello again, we’ve got a song release for Memorial Day.
16th Official Tournament and Derustathon
If you missed it in the previous post, sign-ups for the 16th Official Tournament are now open! Sign-up instructions have changed this year, so please read them carefully before completing the process. Also make sure to read the thread and the dashboard for all of the latest details on the tournament itself! Sign-ups are open until Sunday, June 25, 2023, 11:59 PM server time, and the tournament is expected to start on Friday, June 30, 2023, 12:00 AM server time.
The Derustathon bingo event is ongoing and will be until the official tournament begins. A reminder that you can win an event token and a unique profile badge!
Grist [Part 1]
Musician: Drumcorps
Step Artist: ositzxz369
Song Length: 2:10
Song Style: Grindcore
Note Count: 807
Difficulty: 57
Immortalized
Musician: Disturbed
Step Artist: storn42
Song Length: 2:50
Song Style: Heavy Metal
Note Count: 1699
Difficulty: 69
If You Can’t Hang v2
Musician: Sleeping With Sirens
Step Artist: Pizza69
Song Length: 4:10
Song Style: Alternative Rock
Note Count: 2036
Difficulty: 63
Enjoy!
-DossarLX ODI, the Game Management Team, and the Community Managers
Songs of the Week and Weekly Update 5/20/2023
Welcome to the third song release of May!
As a heads-up, our next song release will be on Memorial Day (Monday, May 29th) instead of the Saturday before. We plan on having some excitement coming within the next week!
Have fun with the songs and check out our new musician for this week below.
Pink Fluffy Unicorns Dancing on Rainbows (Foozogz RainbowMiX)
Musician: Foozogz
Step Artist: gold stinger
Song Length: 3:43
Song Style: Happy Hardcore
Note Count: 2659
Difficulty: 80
The Alchemist of Twilight
Musician: Lazhward
Step Artist: jh05013
Song Length: 2:18
Song Style: Lolicore
Note Count: 1632
Difficulty: 84
Lazhward – SoundCloud | Bandcamp | Twitter
Floating Point
Musician: The Algorithm
Step Artist: DarkZtar
Song Length: 2:22
Song Style: Grindcore
Note Count: 2029
Difficulty: 89
Enjoy!
-DossarLX ODI, the Game Management Team, and the Community Managers
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
