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FFRMas Day 10: Four More Songs
Sorry for delay, but I have just received word that the files for Day 10 of the 12 Days of FFRMas are now live, making four more Flash Flash Revolution songs available in the hip-hop genre – scroll down three pages and you’ll see them listed as the last songs:
First up, providing a mellow 2 difficulty, Nina Goddess of Dance brings more Euro house to FFR with the addition of Don’t You Want Me, a stepfile by MixMasterLar that flows with the airy vocals and bassline. Bumping up the difficulty, Progression by Draigun enters in with a difficulty level 9 stepfile by Silvuh that continually flows with triplets and is accented with tricky parts all through the song. The next two additions turn the difficulty dial up to 10 – Neonatrias provides a quickfire stepfile with the intense Ascii Art Core by Yamajet that will have you seeing plenty of yellow. Shanghai Girl of Meiji 17 by dBu is a little more laid back with a file by behanjc, which follows the song’s orchestral feel, but unlike the fast-paced 1:24 runtime of Ascii Art Core, this level 10 file runs just short of four minutes.
Of course, being that it is now day 11 in the event, you should expect to see another update later today with even more FFR song additions.
Day 8 + 9 = Day 17? More FFR Songs!
While most of us are currently enjoying the laurels of the holiday, I’m stepping in real quick for the mighty Tasselfoot to fill you in on the details of the 12 Days of FFRMas additions for days 8 and 9. Honestly, it’s been a good spell since I’ve tackled the beast that is Flash Flash Revolution, so without further ado, enough of my blabber and on with the tunes, which are all located at the bottom pages of the hip-hop genre:
Day 8 (Friday, Dec. 21)
First up is Shin Trigger by ZeRo_BaSs, a fast-paced song with a difficulty 7 stepfile by SulferDragon, featuring a number of yellow note patterns that follow the melodies. Same Dream by DJ Sharpnel is a melodic song full of 1/8th streams, resulting in a fitting difficulty 4 stepfile by ElectricWerewolf. Next, in a level featuring a good amount of streaming arrows, Hadazumi Rittou by Schizophrenic Raccoon might appear easier than labeled until you hit the burst toward the end in this difficulty 7 stepfile by Silvuh. To finish out yesterday’s additions, the Kyle Ward-produced tune Clockwork Genesis by Inspector K uses a good amount of air steps and yellow notes to serve up a difficulty 8 stepfile by eastsideman09.
Day 9 (Saturday, Dec. 22)
In today’s first addition, Midnight of the North comes at you courtesy of Sanxion7 with a difficulty 7 stepfile by blahblahblahblahblahblah that features a good amount of yellow note triplets and strings. In today’s first difficulty 9 stepfile, Megane De Ne! by MOSAIC.WAV features peppy vocals and melodies along with a challenging guitar solo in this file by jimerax. Finally, players will get to taste the rainbow of different note colors in Sunny Side Up by Stargroup100 with a suitable difficulty 9 stepfile produced by the song’s own author, Stargroup100.
As you might expect, day 10 will be coming at you very soon as we count down the final days of this now annual event. We hope you are enjoying the additions as we wrap up yet another great year here at Flash Flash Revolution.
Day 8 – No Time For News!
I have to run off to the airport in an hour, and have to pack and stuff still… so, no time to write up a full news story on today’s songs. But, there are 4 of them. They are really fun. And they are in Hip-Hop. That is really all you need to know. I’ll give a full write up on them + tomorrow’s songs tomorrow.
Nestle’s quick reference of added song titles until Tass updates:
Shin Trigger, Same Dream, Hadazumi Rittou, Clockwork Genesis
And in case you missed the skill token announcement among the T-Shirt design entry: FC RainDrops with 463+ Perfects to unlock RainDrops v2.
Peace Out Homies
-Tass
Day 7 – Tass Accidentially Deletes His Spreadsheet
Unbelievably annoying, but true. So for the final half of this event, I’ll be trying to re-create what I had originally laid out. I’ve got a pretty good memory, but it won’t be 100% the same as it otherwise would have been. Feel free to mock me, I deserve it. My apologies.
In better news, there are 4 songs in today’s release! Comptine D’un Autre Ete Techno Mix is, clearly, a remix of a French song. I don’t really know much more about it. It’s fun to play though! And it’s our first song by BreeD, who goes by TK_Breed on our site. Stepfile is by Kotarouchan, her 2nd. I give it an 8 in difficulty for it’s long 16th stream and jump triplets.
Hero’s Theme (w.i.p.) is yet another cornandbeans song without braces. Amazing. This song is pretty epic… similar to DarkeSword stuff, only better IMO. Stepfile is by brothaice and is fairly unique. It has a long 8th jump section with 16th thrown in that I find extremely hard to PA, along with a 12th stream section with 8ths in it and a 16th staircase section with 32nds thrown in. Check it out for yourselves… I find it to be a 10 in difficulty because of the hardness to PA the unusual patterns.
Finally, our first song by rock group Machinae Supremacy, Koala in the Spider’s Web. It’s a pretty downtempo song, and a bit repetitive, but still very chill to listen to. Stepfile is by first-timer three17s. Initially I thought it was a 4, but then there were some 8th chains so I thought it was a 5, but at the end there were 2 small 16th staircases that made it a 6. Enjoy.
Oh, wait… I said 4, right? Well… the fourth isn’t out yet. Won’t be out til the evening. And you’ll have to have some SKILL to get it. Hint Hint.
These 3 are in Hip-Hop, 4th will be somewhere else… will put another blurb up when that goes live.
-Tass
Day 6 – Legendary Lunar Saturation Etude
For those who enjoyed Pupil of Frenzy yesterday, we’ve got a back-to-back touhou sighting with today’s release of Lunar Saturation, and SUN3 arrangement of the song by ZUN. Stepfile is by Rebirth0, so you know it’s good. 24 4-framers fill this 185bpm file, with most coming in an intense ending. Definitely a 10.
Legendary Etude is our first song by AEROJET since last year’s FFRmas event, when we released Kick It. Stepfile is by hi19hi19 and is a pitch-relevant classical remix type song. Not too bad, 150bpm streamy song with lots of trills and runningmen. But watch out for the ending! 9 on the difficulty scale.
Songs in Hip-Hop… and I’m hungry.
-Tass
Day 5 – I can’t come up with a catchy title for today’s songs. :’(
So, I’ll just get right into the nitty-gritty. Pupil of Frenzy is a killer progressive rock and touhou remix song by dBu. If you like Synaxis Symphony, The Brain of the Moon, or anything else similar… you’ll love this song. Even if you don’t… you’ll love this song. It’s long too, so there is a lot to love. Just a hair under 4 minutes. File is full of long 16th bursts, 8th chain sections, and even has a nice white-note gallop section. Comes it at a 9 in difficulty, stepped courtesy of Neonatrias.
There was a thread going around talking about the lack of in-house artists being featured in FFR recently. As always, just a coincidence… but we’ve got 2 featured in today’s songs. Air Breeze is a techno song by Wickedawesomeful and stepped by FFR’s 2nd most underappreciated stepfiler (next to Stargroup100), Vote4Nixon. If you need practice on short rolls, this is the song for you. It’s pretty much full of 3 note long rolls in succession. Comes in at an 8 on the Tass-O-Hard meter. Secondly, Dragons Bane is a wicked sweet (I’m not from Boston, I swear!) tune from DJSBX under alias D-Latch. Stepped by the master of the 12th note, hi19hi19, this song will have you playing it repeatedly, just to listen to it again and again. It’s also a bit tricky, with some 24th rolls at the beginning and end. Definitely a 9.
Finally, (yes… you get four songs… again. I think I broke random.org with all the 4s I rolled) our first song by ASK since Sympathizer way back in June. Life Light is a up-tempo (190bpm) song that’ll make you want to run and lift weights (at the same time!). Stepfile is by Cyanite, and it has 28 4-framers in it, most in the last 35 seconds.
Songs are in Hip-Hop… and darn am I tired. Night y’all.
-Tass
Day 4 – Dot Matrix Hero’s Fantasia Syndrome on Beaker Sunset
Four more files for everyone today. Yay! Dot Matrix Hero is an 8-bit mix by Sabrepulse with a bit of a DnB feel. The 2nd half is mostly from Super Mario Land 1, but I don’t recognize any of the other games in it. The song is 190bpm, so 4-framers are unavoidable… 27 of them. Stepped by ElectricWerewolf, it’s a 10 footer with 1000 notes on the dot.
Fantasia is a Happy song by our resident happy artist, Smiley. Usual fair for a Smiley tune, it’s full of 8th chains and 8th jumps, with a few 16ths thrown in for good measure. Also, no shocker, the stepfile is by Eastsideman09, who has the corner on the Kyle Ward market, it seems. File is a low 8 footer.
Beaker Sunset is our 3rd addition from the Alphabasic collection of Benn Jordan, aka The Flashbulb. More in line with Do Not Sex To This than Lawn Wake IV, this file comes in at as a 6 footer for 16th bursts to the DnB sections, but mostly 4ths to everything else. Of course, just like DNSTT… the file is by l Endorphin l.
Finally, Syndrome Craze is our first song in FFR by Youaremyfavoritefood. He has the distinction of being the artist in FFR with the most letters in his name (of those with only 1 word names), passing Wickedawesomeful. The song is a pretty short and straightforward techno piece, which disappoints me a bit, because it’s good… but it ends way too soon. Anyway, the stepfiler is BEN.(SPEIRS) 7.5, who has the distinction of having the worst username to have to type out repeatedly of all time. File itself is a 7.
Once again, all files can be found in Hip-Hop currently. Discuss here.
-Tass
drugstore edit – The song is actually called Syndrome Craze.
Day 3 – Read The Mind of the Lost Indigo Floating Bridge (I couldn’t make this stuff up if I tried)
4 files for everyone today… lucky you! Today is also a pretty easy day, comparatively. Blame the gods of randomness. Indigo is a semi-repetitive techno song by Dark6 and is stepped by who_cares973, his first stepfile in FFR. I rate it a very low 7, for slow bursts and triplets.
Lost is our second song in FFR by remixer Kyrn, both files by Starfalcon176. Hardest song in today’s batch, a solid 8. Has some cool rhythms and gallops in it.
Read The Mind is a rare cornandbeans song to be sans braces. Also fairly simple, it does have a few 16th bursts and gallops throughout that make it a 6. Chart by SulferDragon.
Finally, a song that will actually stay in Hip-Hop once this event is finished. Floating Bridge is, I guess, a nerdcore song by MC Frontalot. Short and simple song with amusing lyrics. Stepfile is by dore and is mostly 8th notes with a few 16th gallops to keep you on your toes. I rated a high 4.
Hit the forums for the discussion page. All songs are in hip-hop through the end of the event.
-Tass
It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year! AGAIN!
For those who were around at this time last year, you’ll remember the 12 days of FFRmas event that we ran, with 1 new song a day for 12 days leading up to Christmas. Well, we’ve come a long way since then. I had to beg and scrap to get those 12 files finished on time. Now, we’ve got well over 100 songs waiting in queue to get into the game. Including widgets, around 600 songs have been added to FFR in the past 12 months. Insane, given there were only about 200 added in the first 4 years.
So today is December 14th, exactly 12 days before Christmas (including the 25th). Since we have so many songs to choose from, and since we did 1 a day last year… We decided to up the stakes a bit. This year, expect a random number of new songs each day (between 2 and 4). So 24 to 48 new files over 12 days. I can tell you that there are 28 different stepfile authors represented in this event and 32 different musical artists. Unbelievable! [Allsongs were selected randomly from the queue, using random.org, with a tiny amount of tweaking on days 11/12 to weed out repetition]
It’s a bit of a pain to place songs in the proper location, so all songs will be placed in Hip-Hop for the duration of the event. After it is over, I’ll move them to their permanent homes. Anyway… Enough of the history and nostalgia. Let’s get on with today’s songs!
Only 2 today, but they’re quality. Forsaken Neon is an extremely high-tempo techno song by Dimrain47 and stepped by Rebirth0. It is a whopping 230BPM, which poses all kinds of framer issues. There were 2 3-framers in the file, but I tweaked them to 4. A total of 29 4-framers in the finished file. It’s a 10 in difficulty. The other song today is Teh Tricky Techno, a short Popeye-esque techno song by old-school artist DJ RageVI and stepped by Xandertrax. Pretty catchy tune and amusing stepfile that I think is a 9. It has jumptrills and 24th rolls worked into some fun 16th stream patterns.
Enjoy, and look forward to another 11 days of awesome stepfiles and songs! Check the official thread for discussion
-Tass
