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Songs of the Week (April 27th, 2012)
Sup arrow smashers? Got five new songs for you this week, so let’s get this party going! Contrary to last week, I’m going to start with the easier releases this time around, which starts with a beautifully ambient classical cross-over Release from Jennifer Thomas. Some of you might have played her other song on FFR A Beautiful Storm? Well this nice relaxing Beginner chart comes to us from a veteran stepper and is also Silvuh‘s 52nd file in game.
Jumping up in a difficulty to Challenging territory now is Princess Lolitits by Blitz Lunar, a short and sweet but funky little 8-bit number that you can find in arcade. For those of you that like the occassional pink and purple notes ninjaKIWI has got a nice little surprise for you this week!
Up next from the jumpstreamy mind of icontrolyourworld is yet another epic track from S.S.H.. Demon Beast Appearance sees S.S.H back to their very familiar good old variety of Rock. With a lot of testing minijacks, some quick paced jumpstream and a handful of shred-tastic solos, this file should be a lot of fun for those of you inclined to dominating For Masters Only songs or just those of you wanting another Rock full combo under your belts.
Now for the hardest section of this weeks release, we have a brand new For Gurus Only file and another For Masters Only for your arrowbeating needs. First up is Storm Raid Battle by Sabrepulse, an artist that is no stranger to most players. This intense 3 minute long Chip/break chart is brought to us by 0 and can be found in Misc. Not much to say about this file aside from load it up and go get your butt whooped 
And last, but certainly not least is this weeks Veteran song Chaosmaid. A speedy electro track from Paraoka feat. Iku Acme with a very fun accommodating chart stepped by one of our veteran step-artists Kommisar. This file might clock in at just under 2 minutes, but it will make you work for that full combo/AAA. It can be found in Purchased, and with a small fee of 2250 credits in the FFR Shop, it can be yours to keep!
[April 27 Released Songs]
Release by Jennifer Thomas (Silvuh) – Classical (Piano Ambient) / Beginner / 2:26
Princess Lolitits by Blitz Lunar (ninjaKIWI) – Arcade (8-bit) / Challenging / 1:09
Demon Beast Appearance by S.S.H. (icontrolyourworld) – Rock (Epic VG Rock) / For Masters Only / 2:24
Storm Raid Battle by Sabrepulse (0) – Misc (Chiptune Breakcore) / For Gurus Only / 3:23
Chaosmaid by Paraoka feat. Iku Acme (Kommisar) – Purchased [2250 credits] (Speedy Electro) / For Masters Only / 1:53
Last weeks Veteran song is now public too:
My Half by Venetian Snares (Choofers) – Misc (Drum’n Bass) / For Gurus Only / 4:53
If you want to comment on these files, we’d LOVE to hear from you! Just drop a post into this thread and take a look at what everyone else is thinking too.
That’s all for this week, stay tuned for new songs next Friday and a special announcement next weekend!
~nois-or-e and the FFR Staff
Songs of the Week (April 20th, 2012)
Another week and FFR brings you four five more new files!
Let’s start with the most difficult- My Half by Venetian Snares. Venetian Snares is certainly an artist familiar to top FFR players, and this song delivers more of his trademark sound- sprawling sonic landscapes interspersed with intense breakcore beats and IDM drums. The steps are brought to us by veteran stepman and D5 tournament winner Choofers. While he has made many files before, this marks his first file to be added to FFR- congratulations to him!
Next we have Rotary Slicers, by Terminal 11. Much like last week’s release Canary Part V, this song will be familiar to many who participated in the 6th Dragon’s Fury Custom Tournament. With steps brought to us by German mastermind Xayphon, this For Masters Only file packs quite a punch.
Clocking in with a Very Challenging rating, our next file is Nightrain by S.S.H. Another artist that veteran FFR players are no doubt familiar with, this super funky song breaks from S.S.H.’s more traditional rock roots to lay down a groovy slap bass instead. With steps courtesy trumaestro, this file provides a much-needed addition to FFR’s Funk page. And much like Choofers, this is trumaestro’s first file added to FFR- let’s hope for more to come!
Our last two files are Face of Faith by SHiNKA and beyond the summer sky ~Maid To Order~ by Constructor~, stepped by Ziergdsx18 and bmah respectively. With Challenging and Difficult ratings, these files should provide something for those still working their way up to being able to handle the other more brutal files that were released today.
With last week’s change to the Veteran System, veteran perks are more accessible than ever. Those changes have allowed us to return to the Veteran’s Song system. However, there will be 5 songs released each week for a while in order to keep the new files flowing for everyone on the site! My Half, highlighted in blue below, is the veteran’s song this week, and becomes public in 1 week.
Also note, while not a terribly major change, releases will be on Fridays from now on.
[April 20 Released Songs]
beyond the summer sky ~Maid To Order~ by Constructor~ (bmah) – Dance (Happy Hardcore) / Difficult / 1:58
Face of Faith by SHiNKA (Ziergdsx18) – Dance 2 (Trancecore) / Challenging / 2:23
Nightrain by S.S.H. (trumaestro) – Funk (Funk Fusion) / Very Challenging / 1:37
Rotary Slicers by Terminal 11 (Xayphon) – Secret [38,000 Credits] (IDM) / For Masters Only / 3:02
My Half by Venetian Snares (Choofers) – Misc (Drum’n Bass) / For Gurus Only / 4:53
If you have an opinion on these releases, drop a post in this thread to let the forums know.
That’s it for this update. Enjoy your arrow smashing!
~hi19hi19 and the FFR Staff
I Can Haz Vet Yet?
G’day everyone
So, with a lot of talk about how the Veteran status is attained, (And a lot of complaining about the 3 year wait), It has come to our attention that changing this system to something a little more ‘effort’ based would be a fantastic idea for all you non-Vet arrow smashers. With the sheer amount of the game plays it takes to hit milestones over 3 billion, relaxing the Veteran requirement for time seems pretty logical.
So here’s how it’s gonna go down.
For each milestone you hit after 3 billion, your time requirement for Veteran status will be lowered by 1 month then a further 2 months, then a further 3 months, etc, etc… Until the new minimum time of 8 months for 10 billion points. We are hoping that this might inspire some players to play the game more in an effort to get access to veteran perks such as the R^2 Engine Beta & SotW.
To find out if you qualify, the page can be found by clicking here…
http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/tools/icanhazvetyet/
…and to lessen confusion we’ve included a neat little graph to the page, and a basic text conversion of each milestone.
Visiting the page tells you if you are within the new guidelines and gives you either a neat little message telling you that you are now a vet, or a message telling you how long/many points you need to get there. There is also a Vet Calculator on this page so you can find out exactly how far away from that shiny blue name you are.
Many thanks go to Sprite- and emerald000 for throwing together the page and working out the equations to make this happen. Hopefully this will see a lot more people ‘earning’ their Veteran status without having to wait for 3 years to get it!
Leave a comment here with your thoughts on this idea or any bugs you might find when trying to use the tool. Unfortunately for the current Veterans, the ~hype~ was all for the non-Veterans this time around. But don’t worry, we have much more in store for all of you in the very near future!
~nois-or-e, Sprite-, emerald000 & The FFR Staff
Saturday night…
…at 7pm (Due to a technical difficulty). News relating to veteran status.
*stay tuned*
Songs of the Week (April 12th, 2012)
FFR is at it again, and we have four more awesome files for you this week:
First on the list is Canary Part V, stepped by veteran player One Winged Angel. While nowhere as brutal as the file that battered top players in the 6th Dragon’s Fury Custom Tournament, this file still packs a mean punch. Anyone in the mood for a new file that will leave your fingers smoking, look no further than this For Gurus Only-rated monster. Additionally, congratulations to One Winged Angel for his first file in FFR!
Next in line is teraholic, from Japanese artist 44teru-k. This song delivers a high-energy hardstyle beat with difficult steps to match, courtesy of 00Razor00. This marks his second file in FFR- let’s hope for many more to come!
Our third file is a piano remix of the Mario Kart Wii Rainbow Road theme, performed by FFR member Zorsy. Be sure to check out his Youtube channel and watch him play this song and many others on video!
The final offering for you this week is Blackout, by FFR standby artist The Flashbulb. Though the steps have been created by master arrowsmasher AlexDest and the artist is well known for his intense IDM songs, this chart weighs in at a modest "Easy" difficulty. Anyone will be able to enjoy tapping along to this relaxing, Beethoven-esque piano composition.
As a final note, this week all four files are public- for the time being, the Veteran’s Song system is no more.
[April 12 Released Songs]
Canary Part V by Clonepa (One Winged Angel) – Misc (Piano Breakcore Extreme) / For Gurus Only / 2:13
teraholic by 44teru-k (00Razor00) – Dance 2 (Nu-Style Gabba) / Very Challenging / 1:53
Rainbow Road by Zorsy (hi19hi19) – Classical (Piano Remix) / Very Difficult / 1:44
Blackout by The Flashbulb (AlexDest) – Classical (Easy Listening) / Easy / 1:25
If you have an opinion on these releases, drop a post in this thread to let the forums know.
That’s it for this update. Enjoy your arrow smashing!
~hi19hi19 and the FFR Staff
Happy Easter 2012 + Support Tokens~
~HAPPY EASTER FFR~
First of all, congratulations to Zyphoror for dominating the contest
to get the largest combo on Nyancat this week with a staggering
11,232 combo!.
Congratulations are also in order for WSCB‘s 2nd place 5,793 combo and bmah‘s 3rd place 4,572 combo. You guys are all absolutely nuts, enjoy your new token FREEDOM DiVE!!
In other news. Some of you will remember that before FFR took its extra long winter in 2009, we had 3 Support Tokens. Dendrite v2, Coactive [Over my shoulder mix] & Tell v3. Back then, users could purchase a downloadable album and receive an exclusive token as a bonus for their support. When FFR returned in 2010, subscriptions and the Support Tokens were no more 
Enter 2012. Now, I know a lot has been happening on the front page lately regarding contests, extra files and give-aways. But enough is never enough! So our Easter gift to you is releasing the new public requirements for unlocking these 3 previously unattainable tokens!! All of the details can be located in this thread, which is conveniently where you need to supply proof to gain the tokens. The system for these isn’t automated as yet, but that isn’t stopping us from giving you guys something else to unlock and play!!
Mini SponCon:
As an added incentive to see people have a go at these requirements, I’m going to throw 20k credits each to the first 10 people to unlock each requirement. Winners will need to supply proof in the thread, so read the first post carefully! If you are one of the lucky people that already possess these tokens, you are still eligible for the credits in this SponCon. Also, the first person to show proof of unlocking/completing all 3 sets of requirements will net themselves a total of 100k credits, including winnings from the first 10 of each (if applicable).
So that is all from us this weekend. I hope everyone has a safe and chocolate-filled Easter weekend!!
Edit: Just so people are aware, Nyancat and Ochitsukeruwakenaiwayo! [Super] have been removed for the moment & The wisest were wrong is now an Event Token.
~nois-or-e & the FFR Staff
Nyancat Reminder!
Just a reminder that the nyancat combo contest comes to a close at midnight server time today!! The current high score is held by Zyphoror with a combo of over 11,000!!! For those of you that are unaware, the current server time is located in the top right of every
page on FFR.
Get Nyan’ing!!
Songs of the Week (April 6th, 2012)
For the piano and classical fans out there, we have a special treat for you this week. A special collection of 3 experimental and original piano pieces, composed by Canadian musician Nick Perrin and stepped by one of our frequent stepartists MarioNintendo. This will see his 8th-10th files in-game, and hopefully the first 10 of many, many more.
[April 6 Released Songs]
Animus Intorqueo No. 1 by Nick Perrin (MarioNintendo) – Classical
(Piano Solo) / Very Challenging / 1:14
Animus Intorqueo No. 2 by Nick Perrin (MarioNintendo) – Classical
(Piano Solo) / Very Challenging / 1:46
Animus Intorqueo No. 3 by Nick Perrin (MarioNintendo) – Classical
(Piano Solo) / Very Challenging / 1:48
Edit: The veteran’s song from two weeks ago is now public:
Betrayal by The Berzerker (samurai7694) – Rock (Extreme Death Metal) / For Gurus Only / 2:08
If you want to weigh in on this weeks release, voice your opinion over here in this thread to let the forums know.
There you are for another week, enjoy the files!
~nois-or-e and the FFR Staff
April Fools Day Winners~
Wow guys, just wow… Breaking 17 million arrows in 24hrs hasn’t happened in a LOOOONG time. Good work
We had a lot of rivalries throughout the day. GTS was heavily contested in the 2nd/4th places for quite a while, and it was pretty obvious that no-one was catching Jerry DB on his attempt of breaking the all time #1 Grand Total list.
I am very pleased with how many people logged in and had a go, some people that got onto the top ten GTS didn’t even start until lunchtime! All in all it was a fun event that has inevitably given a whole lot of people sore hands for their Monday/Tuesday.
So without further delay, here are your winners!~
(spoiler alert: Jerry killed it…)
~Credit Prizes~
Jerry DB – 150,000 credits
Elite Ninja – 100,000 credits
magicturbo – 100,000 credits
usapon – 70,000 credits
popsicle_3000 – 65,000 credits
V-Ormix – 60,000 credits
coolrun – 55,000 credits
omega_grunt666 – 50,000 credits
FFR Pro 21 – 45,000 credits
ilikexd – 40,000 credits
The top ten for the daily Grand Total Scores were a combined 7.7 Billion points!!! With the 10th spot being seperated from 8th by only 2.5 million, and plenty of places changing in the final minutes. Our 6th place get V-Ormix managed to swipe his 3rd token for the day at 11:59pm server time, making the 700 million milestone by less than a minute and 70,000 points. And lastly, our copycat and equal 2nd place winners were following each other point for point from 800,000,000. (yes, they were exactly on 800 million…) Elite Ninja & magicturbo finished up with an insane 832 million each.
Congrats to you all for getting over 600 million and landing a credit/token prize for your efforts. (you are all nuts )
The remainder of the credit prizes were for the top 3 in each of the categories below. Some early competition regarding games played and AAAs was rather entertaining to watch, qqwref came out with an amazing strategy that saw him rack up over 1000 games per hour which soon spread to the others vying for a top 3 spot. I’ve included the screencap of the top 5 in each category below.
Most Perfects: 50,000 credits – Jerry DB, 30,000 credits – Elite Ninja & 20,000 credits – V-Ormix
Most Games: 50,000 credits – reuben_tate, 30,000 credits – qqwref & 20,000 credits – 8 Hour Whore
Most AAAs: 50,000 credits – reuben_tate, 30,000 credits – flash dualist & 20,000 credits – Tattsu
All in all we awarded 1,035,000 credits, 9 vRofl tokens and 12 others, FREEDOM DiVE being the most popular unlock.
Once again, a great big thanks to everyone who participated, congrats to those who won tokens or credits and we shall see you again for our next exciting SponCon!!
