New User Skill Token #1
July is now over and the previous skill token month very possibly left a lot of new users in the dust. Worry not because August will provide a handful of skill tokens which do not require mountains of … well … skill. Tonight we introduce the first of the New User Skill Tokens straight from the Nestlekwik School of FFR by adding another token to the classified beginner level of tokens. Now pay attention class – to unlock this shiny new song token, go to the Dance category and pass the song Free Space, the very first song on the Dance listing.
Lesson one merely requires one to survive 59 grueling arrows so study up and report back in a couple of days for a harder lesson. Upon passing Free Space, you’ll be rewarded with the skill token for the song Eien Maikyu by Yuki Otoha. Eien Maikyu is Japanese for Eternal Labyrinth and is rated a one in difficulty thanks to a step file of timely reds and blues by jimerax. Running at 1:41, the song is a nice ballad that has a much slower BPM than nearly all of the songs on FFR. It’s also kind of fitting that Free Space, a wide open area, unlocks Eternal Labyrinth, a tight-quartered maze. It’s like they are opposites! … Well, I thought it was a funny coincidence.
Now I see a lot of the more skilled players rolling their eyes at this task, grumbling about how easy it is. Well, then, mister or madam, do we have a feature for you. Courtesy of lightdarkness, we now have a feature for subscribers only on the skill tokens page which divides the skill tokens into a set of six difficulty levels and suggests a token for you based on the lowest-skilled token left available for you. If you have more than one skill token left in that difficulty, you can refresh the page, and the feature will generate a new suggestion for you. Handy, isn’t it! Don’t have the feature? Well, that means you’re not a subscriber! What are you waiting for? Subscribe now!
Now go and fetch the new token and revisit the token page to see what previous tokens can give you a suitable challenge! Class dismissed.
-Nestlekwik
Contest Winner + New Token!
How can I deny someone who is so dedicated.. So selfless.. So.. Sorry dude, that is just downright disgusting. I can’t say anything positive about your experience besides the fact that you have just won a 1 year subscription or t-shirt of your choice. You may also opt to give the subscription to someone else on the site if you wish. Wow.. I don’t think I could have done what you did.
Who am I talking about? darklordsarumon9 of course. Just check out this pic.
Thanks to everyone for their entries. That was a nice & disturbing entry back into the realm of spontaneous contests (those with weak stomachs, please refrain from viewing contest thread)..
IN OTHER NEWS!! (news beeping sound and typewriters goes here)
We have released a hidden token.. You may be able to find this token on this site at some point. Me as a person would not classify it as trivial either.. period.
Good luck! Remember, no user clues or giving away it’s location anywhere on FFR.
Cheers,
Synthlight
Spontaneous Contest #345.23: Hawaii Five.. 2.OHH! – Starts Now!
Alright, here’s the deal.
We are going to get this August started off with a nice little photo contest for you all. Yup.. Lets make this one a little interesting for everyone.. something a little odd (trying to think on the fly here)..
Ok.. I have it.
In honor of the great jchinzilla, I think we should keep with our toilet theme we have going tonight. I am going to pull off all restrictions here and let you guys kind of go wild with this one.
Quest: Put any object in your toilet and take a picture
Deliverable: Attach or link us to your photo in the Spontaneous Contest #345.23-2 thread here
Prize: 1 year FFR subscription for you or anyone you know. As an alternate, you may select a t-shirt from our store
I tremble thinking of the photos I am about to set gaze on. How mentally scarred will we be after tonight? The world may never know.
So get to it! You have 1 hour to make your submission and be in the running to win. Contest winner will be picked by a staff member within a few minutes of contest close at 9pm central time (10pm eastern!).
GO GO POWER RANGERS!
Cheers,
Synthlight
*CONTEST IS CLOSED! REVIEWING SUBMISSIONS AND NOT EATING FOR THE NEXT 2 DAYS.* – Winner to be announced shortly! We will also be announcing a new token within the next 30 minutes.. yes a TOKEN not a SKILL TOKEN.
Spontaneous Contest #345.23: Hawaii Five.. 2.OHH!
Now that Tass is done dominating the front page with his bazillions of skill tokens, we can move on to something WAY more important. That’s right… Spontaneous Contests! These contests are so highly organized and planned that even your non-existent accountant would be proud.
Just as Tass promised you yesterday, we are going to pop open a bottle of Spontaneous Contest tonight.
When will this contest start?: 8pm central (9pm eastern).
What will you need?: Hell if I know. It’s Spontaneous!
How do I win?: Do I need to answer this? Common people stop asking all these.. wait.. I was making up those questions.. never mind.
Prepare your mind, flush your toilets and be ready. Details at 8pm Central sharp.
Cheers,
Synthlight
(Thanks again to Tass for pumping in over 60 licensed songs into FFR and all the simfile makers who helped in the effort over this past month. We love you all!)
Skill Token Months Ends… The Five & MaxX AttaxX…. Hype!
MaxX AttaxX and The Five draw our skill token month to a close… it’s been a fun and bumpy ride. And kudos to the 10-15 people who will manage to unlock all 63 tokens released (I’ll try and compile a list and post these people’s names tomorrow… so if you want your name on the front page and think you can get all 63 tokens… do that ASAP!).
In other news… tomorrow will kick off AUGUST! Woo hoo! New User Skill Token Month, which you all will find out more about tomorrow… but rest assured… almost everyone will be able to unlock at least a few tokens, so don’t feel too bad if many of the tokens from July were too difficult for you.
Expect a long overdue regular token to be released tomorrow as well. AND… oh yes… did I mention a SPONTANEOUS CONTEST sometime tomorrow too.
August 1st will be a day you do not want to miss!
-Tass
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{Colossus}, Melonman, Hatten 2, Distant Land… Tass was too lazy to find an amusing title that worked all four of those together.
Yesterday we released Distant Land and Hatten Carnival! v2. Those songs are by Hoisin Sauce (aka, Toph.) and DJ Sharpnel, respectively. Hatten Carnival! v2 is an easier version of v1; no 24ths, many less jumps and 16ths. Many of you have said we don’t need a v2… and we probably didn’t NEED one, but I liked hi19‘s file for it so much that I felt we could have 2 versions. I just goofed and put the harder one in the game first. To unlock… pass v1 (Dance2) with 550+ perfects.
Distant Land pretty much sounds like the opening/ending of Digital Explosion’s Hardcore of the North… so it was only appropriate that we used HotN as the unlock song for it. Stepfile is by Brilliant Dynamite Neon. I rated it a 9 for its 16th streams and 24th bursts throughout the song. To unlock Distant Land, get 700+ combo on Hardcore of the North (Token) with 2 or less misses, 0 or 1 boos, 0 or 1 averages, and 20 or less goods.
Today’s 2 are {Colossus} by cornandbeans and Melonman’s OP by DJ_Ossa. The stepfile for Melonman’s OP is by hi19hi19, and is For Masters Only for its 200bpm 24ths and alternating 16th jumps, which give it 94 4-framers in only 1:50. To unlock, AAA or BlackFlag (1 good FC with 0 averages or boos) Jurs OP (Classic) 3 times in a row.
{Colossus} is another original by my main CnB. It clocks in at 3:37 and has sections of 8ths, 16th triplets, and sections of varying bpm 16th stream. because of these factors and length, I rate it a 9. To unlock, pass {Red Alert} (Misc) with 300+ combo and 450+ perfects. Stepfile by SulferDragon.
Enjoy… as tomorrow is the last day of Skill Token Month
-Tass
PS – Start the hype… August is NEW USER SKILL TOKEN MONTH!
Shipped out of Funk
Small update… moved a few songs out of funk. Speed Kitty to Dance, Nice Nice Noise to Misc and Hatten Carinval, Dokudenpa, and Prison Break into Dance2.
Dokudenpa will be available as the public SotW in about 6 hours. It’s located between dot death and {Rose}. The song is quite famous/popular in the SM world, thanks to a file by Skor about 3-4 years ago. It’s by Sharpnel, so it has that J-Core sound to it. But, instead of the well known constant stream, stepfile author Macgravel decided to change it up and be original. So don’t expect many streams in this file, just lots of triplets and jumps. Few 4-framers, as the bpm is 188. Low 10 footer, because of length and the 4-framers.
Also now available in Funk is today’s subscriber SotW… the long awaited FFR simfile debut of DigitalS3r4ph. The song is Secrets and Lies, a video game sounding original song by Rushjet1. Has that old Castlevania 8-Bit sound from the NES days.
And don’t forget about LoveHateHero’s Embedded Player. Check them out, now on tour!
Scary Kids Scaring Kids, hooked on FFR. Plus Skill Tokens 68 and 69!!
In other news, I went to Warped Tour yesterday (Friday). In case you dont know what Warped is, basically its a huge U.S. Tour of mostly rock/screamo/hardcore bands. Its one full day, per city, of nonstop music. Even if you’re not into this kind of music, i still recommend going next summer. Anyways, point of this? I recieved FFR shirts to personally deliver to Scary Kids Scaring Kids. So I met with them and got a few pictures with them. Expect more from SKSK and FFR in the near future! And check out The World As We Know It in the Rock genre.
Off like a prom dress to more concerts,
Skill token update….
Made in Innocent is a song by TaQ, and in this version is remixed by Onoken. Stepfile is by dore. It’s 120bpm, but is mostly 24th gallops, so it feels like 180bpm. I rated it a 9 overall; 0 4-framers, but 24ths always tend to throw me off a bit, like Ruins or Amefuri. To unlock, get 9 or less goods on each of these 3 songs (and Full Combo!): Below the Surface, Save Me, and Parachute. Gotta do them all in a row, in that order. And double check your profile’s last 10 games played after each game to make sure it recorded properly!
Kyuin is our 9th and 2nd to last song in the massive chain. It is a long J-Pop song by MOSAIC.WAV, and to me, sounds strikingly similar to Love Cheat! Stepfile is by hi19hi19… and to paraphrase his description of the song/file… it’s a very annoying 4 minute long song, but the file to it is quite good nonetheless. I rated it an easy 11, For Masters Only, because of its length and 153 4-framers. It will be a challenge to FC for most. Then again, it’ll be an even bigger challenge for most just to access it in the first place. Step one is to unlock Mou Uta Shika Kikoenai (forever abbreviated to Mou Uta). From there, you need to not only Full Combo it, but get 4 or less goods in the process.
Have Fun!
-Tass
LoveHateHero – FFR’s 2nd Embedded Player
Shortly after seeing Making April’s embedded FFR player was added to their page, LoveHateHero was quick to want one on their myspace as well. LoveHateHero is a melodic mix of hardcore, screamo and even some metal, signed to Ferret Music since late 2005. The band has had their trials of ups and downs, including major US tours and new band members. Earlier this year, the band released their most recent CD “White Lies”, which can be found just about everywhere.
LoveHateHero is now the second band to have an embbeded flash player on their myspace. Included on the player are Red Dress, Amity, and Goodbye My Love. Files were by Talisman and BEN.(SPEIRS) 7.5. Not on the player is a harder version of Red Dress, by MeaCulpa. These four songs will be released onto FFR in a few days.
