Did your CREDITS fall down an ABYSS (Downbeat Mix)? – #59
So, now that credits are back in order… we figured we’d release the 2nd skill token for tonight, and get back on track.
Abyss (Downbeat Mix) is a remix of the classic DDR song Abyss, done by Saxxonpike. Melodic 90bpm, it has plenty of 16th minijacks to keep you awake and focused. Stepfile is by Silver_Brian. I rated it a 6, overall… the only difficult parts are the minijacks, and even those go perfectly with the music and are easy to follow. The unlock req is another unique one… with a bit of anti-token to it, in that you have to get at least 1 good, 1 average, 1 miss, and 1 boo. Beyond that, there IS a skill element to it also. The unlock song is Horizon, another Saxxonpike song. On Horizon, you must get your goods * averages * misses * boos to be greater than 0 (hence they all have to be at least 1) BUT less than 5000 (aka, you can’t mash or have 100 goods and 50 averages, or 250 goods and 10 misses and 2 boos). Little bit of math involved, but as long as you’re fairly accurate and don’t mash, you should be fine. Horizon is in Misc.
Enjoy,
-Tass
Credits. How Many Do You Have?
The answer is either a HUGE amount or none at all right? That is because we are simply doing some changes to our scripts and updated a few things. We will revert back to normal fairly soon. Your credits may adjust a small amount. Hopefully you haven’t been cheating! 
*EDIT* Credits are almost restored to their state on the 19th of July. Within 20 minutes they will be restored fully and will be up to date.
*LD EDIT*: Credits have been restored… thanks for your patience.
Cheers,
Synthlight
Add Another Ad Taken Away
As long as I can remember, both myself and the numerous staff here at FFR have worked very hard to bring you the most content and features for the absolute lowest amount money. The cost of “Free” is pretty damn hard to beat when you think about how large this site has become. We now can dish out 800GB or more of data transferred on a single day and have nearly 1.3 million members. This comes out to more than 300,000 games of FFR played each day and 300,000 ways to promote the artists and bands that take part in FFR. Not only are we still amazed and in disbelief at this but we are extemely proud to have grown an amazing online community / social network / video chat / online radio / forum / (insert a billion other aspects here). I am undoubtedly humbled by everyone’s support.
Speaking of support.. and before I ramble on about stats and how amazed I am, I should really get to the point of this news story. My point is that thanks to the generous support of people joining the beta team (FFR Subscribers), we have been able to take away one of the ads (300×250 top right) from the main page and place a smaller ad over on the left side of the navigation. This will allow for more of the content that you want to see move higher up on the page. Again, this was all made possible by those subscribing. Take time out sometime to go thank the people who are active subscribers and doing their part to help make this site a better place to live. Or better yet, become a Subscriber yourself and help us accomplish our plans for world domination. Ok, I promise, no more subscriber hotlinks beyond this point tonight.
We have a couple more announcements lined up for tonight. I will be back this evening to make those announcements.
Cheers,
Synthlight & An Army of Wonderbread
Binary Rendezvous – #57 [Re-use of last nights write-up ++] & LunaMarionette – #58
So, I was trying to find a way to write “Binary Rendezvous” in binary… but I realized it would be like 200 characters long, so I decided not to do that. Anyway… the earlier skill token was reduced from 1200 boos to 1100. I didn’t realize that averages no longer give you back life, which makes it MUCH harder to get 1200 boos that I had originally thought. This should make it easier.
The 2 Making April songs for today are both active. Check out the upper left and middle upper of Rock page 1 for those. And check out Making April’s myspace page.
The 2nd token for today is, obviously, Binary Rendezvous. The song is by Yamajet, maker of Ruins. It has a somewhat similar sound to it. Stepfile is by Rednanaki, his 2nd file in the game… and much better than his first, if I may say so. I feel the difficulty is in the mid to high 9 range for this file. While it sounds nothing like Evil Approaches, the file itself has a similar feel, to me. 12 4-framers, 190bpm. Few odd 32nds. You get the idea. To unlock it, Full Combo Ruins with under 10 boos.
-Tass
LunaMarionette is another very rockin’ J-Rock piece by AKHT (site under construction). I rated it a 9, but I have a feeling you all will feel the song and steps merit a low 10. It’s 180bpm, and starts off with a nice long trill. From there, it has a ton of 3 and 5 note bursts ending in jumps. 0 4-framers, thankfully. The file is by Brilliant Dynamite Neon. Many of you may notice that the trill at the start starts in the middle… well, yes. This is a perfect example of why I tell stepfile authors to leave 2 seconds of blank space at the start of their file; the converter cuts off anything in the 1st 1.5 seconds.
This token unlock is our 2nd of the “perfect imperfection” type. You need to play Moonbeam (cause Moon and Luna… you get it), found at the end of Dance1. Get exactly 444 misses, exactly a combo of 4, and less than 440 perfects (I couldn’t resist the perfect part, since it made so many 4′s in the req). This does force you to get a few mandatory goods, but not many at all… most of you will likely get them automatically. As with the Destiny v2 token, there IS a specific trick to meeting this req. I will say that it is slightly more complicated than the trick for Destiny v2, but along the same lines. And you do need to pass the song (no auto-fail tricks). I’d also appreciate it if you didn’t post how you got it, make it a bit harder for those who can’t figure it out themselves. I do have a feeling that the way I did this req is not the only way though. I’ll be doing some testing to see if I’m correct.
2 new Making April songs are also available in Rock. 2nd token for today will be out later.
-Tass, take 2.
Sunlight comes a month early, in Making April – #56 and special
{Sunlight} is today’s 1st skill token release. A light mix by cornandbeans, I’m pretty sure it is from some pop/rock song that I’ve heard, but I can’t place which. Stepfile is MeaCulpa‘s first, and I like it. Mixes 8ths with 12ths with 16ths and a few 24th bursts. Good job at keeping an almost 4 minute long song interesting and not repetitive. The unlock for this is something that a LOT of people have brought up to me as a good token req (and one I’ve had in mind since before skill tokens existed). You may say this is an anti-skill token, but I beg to differ. This is not a skill or an anti-skill token. It is a straight MASH token. It is a skill-less token. Get 1200+ boos on Silence while still passing to unlock. I recommend the quadmash, although the alternating double mash works best if your keyboard can’t register more than 2 keys at a time. Shouldn’t be that hard to get 1400+, IMO. I’ve done it a few times myself.
In other news, I’m sure you ALL have checked out Making April’s new snazzy custom Embedded FFR Player on their myspace. And I know you guys have been anxious to play these files on FFR as well. Well, starting today, you can. There are a total of 6 files of Making April’s that will be released over the next 3 days (3 versions of Driveway, 2 of Roses and Butterflies, and 1 of Jump In). Today we’ll release the Standard version of Driveway, stepfile by SulferDragon and later today we’ll release the Heavy version of Roses and Butterflies, stepfile by Neonatrias. All 6 will be found in Rock.
Check back later today for the 2nd of today’s releases. And consider the Making April releases as my apology for not getting Planetz and Love Cheat! out yesterday.
-Tass
EDIT: I’d like to make it known that while I feel that {Sunlight} does in fact sound similar to some song that I can’t place, I have been informed by cornandbeans that it is quite original and not a mix of anything.
The Planetz have re-aligned and you all are feeling Love Cheat’d – #54 and #55
I know, I know. No tokens yesterday. I’m sorry. LD is sorry. We’re all sorry. The Harry Potter craze got the best of the admins. Regardless, you now get FOUR today.
Yesterday’s 2 are now public… Love Cheat! is a masterpiece of J-Pop by MOSAIC.WAV, tipping the scales at 4 minutes and 28 seconds. If you like J-Pop, you’ll really enjoy Love Cheat! If you don’t like J-Pop, you still probably will like Love Cheat! And if not, the stepfile is quite good too (it’s by Rebirth0). A solid 10 footer, because as the song is 195bpm it causes massive 4-framers. 89 of them, to be precise. Few difficulty jump sections, but all in all not as hard as Sympathizer or some other big time 4-framer songs. The unlock for this is pretty easy, compared the the song’s difficulty… all you need to do is get 500+ combo on Youkoso! Himitsu no suzume bara ya! It’s found in Dance2.
PLANETZ is part 7 of the chain. Another ultra-hyper song by DJ Sharpnel, it is stepped by Brilliant Dynamite Neon. The file is full of long 8th jacks with alternating jumps and 16th jumpbursts at 190bpm. Only 2:12 long, it has 86 4-framers. Because of this, I listed it as an 11 (For Masters Only), but I’ll let you guys weigh in on whether you feel it really is an 11 or just a hard 10. The req for this is a bit harder, but still IMO easy for the file. Full Combo Clash at the Mountains with 9 or less goods. Also, check out the token for it; quite appropriate. Big thanks again to DigitalS3r4ph for the recent token images.
Check back soon for the 2 tokens for today! Also, the subscriber SotW is public as well. Apparently there is not a public SotW release today…. not really sure why that is.
-Tass
The Story of Snowman and Girl in Sunshiny ViennaCore – #52 and #53
Interesting story behind Story of Snowman and Sunshine Girl v2 (by Digital Explosion, the ORIGINAL artist for FFR). This is the 2nd time it’s been added to the game. I had originally added it about 3 months ago as a regular Token (this was before Skill Tokens), but then Silver_Brian came to me asking for it to be removed so he could fix it up some more. Then about 3 revisions later, here we are. And the file is definitely much better than 3 months ago. To unlock this 7 footer (for mostly 8th stream at 142bpm, but consistent 5 note 16th bursts throughout), Full Combo Story of Snowman and Sunshine Girl (Dance) with 0 boos. [Also, for subscribers, check out State of Emergency as today's subscriber SotW. By SynthWulf (aka E^2). Very fun and challenging 10 footer, full of 69 4-framers)]
Our second skill token of today is going to make a lot of people complain. It is our third auto-fail based skill token (hey, y’all didn’t want any more anti-tokens… we had to replace them with something!). ViennaCore is a kickin’ classical remix by JAKAZiD. I can’t figure out WHICH Classical song it is a remix of…. so someone please help me out with that in the comments. Thanks. I listed it as a low 10, because it is full of runningmen at 180bpm and also has a few 1-handed trills; it may be a high 9 though. Stepfile is the first by another new and talented stepfile author, eastsideman09. The unlock for this is a bit tricky to understand, so I’m going to explain it in full detail. 1. Play Classical Insanity (Classic). 2. Do Not Miss (note: I did NOT say Full Combo). 3. Get 2 or less averages and boos COMBINED (aka, averages + boos less than or equal to 2. 1 average and 2 boos is NOT going to unlock it). 4. Get between 995 and 1005 perfects and goods COMBINED.
So, 995 combo with 995 perfects and 0 goods, averages, misses, boos would unlock it. 1006 combo with 1000 perfects, 5 goods, 1 average, 1 boo, and 0 misses would unlock it too. So would 1000 combo with 900 perfects, 100 goods, 0 averages, 2 boos, 0 misses. BUT… 1000 combo with 950 perfects, 49 goods, 1 average, 1 boo, 1 miss would NOT unlock it. Nor would 990 combo with 980 perfects, 10 goods, 0 averages, 0 boos, 0 misses. Make sense? This isn’t one that I expect people to be able to get on the 1st try (unless you can AAA it, in which case, it’s still pretty easy).
Hatten Carnival!, another awesome DJ Sharpnel song is today’s public SotW. Stepfile is by Brilliant Dynamite Neon. Currently in Funk, but I’ll be moving it later today to the end of Dance, as it is a low 8 footer. Also, expect an easier v2 of Hatten Carnival later this month as a ST.
Enjoy,
-Tass
A Disconnected Clash at the Mountains! #50 and #51
Today’s new skill tokens are very easy and very difficulty. A 3 and an 8, to be specific.
Disconnected is another Kyle Ward alias Inspector K song, with a nice hardcore-ish sound D&B style. Stepfile by dore. Interesting note… we’ve received a submission for EVERY single song Kyle Ward has ever composed, save for his 3 new songs under his new lias Oscillator X. I suspect he will become the first artist to ever have ALL of their songs in our game, excluding by chance an artist that has only ever composed 1 piece. To unlock this simple file of 4th notes at 200bpm, Pass Robotix (Dance2) with less than 100 goods.
Clash at the Mountains is a cool Zelda: Link’s Awakening song by zircon, who you can find on ocremix.org. The file has it’s up and down parts too, with a few slow 4th note sections and a few sections of crazy 48th and 32nd rolls. Overall it’s an 8, as none of the rolls are more than 5 notes long. Stepfile is by SulferDragon. To unlock: Full Combo Dawn with 788+ perfects (aka, 5 goods or less. But you could also have 2 goods, 3 average, and 56 boos if you wanted to). Fear not… the chain is not over yet!
-Tass
Spinning With You by sleeplessdragn
In the midst of this special occasion which we call the beta release of SpinItUP! 2.0, I have excitedly created a wonderful spinfile for all of you, even those limited to but the original version of SIU! It’s a great song by one of our own in-house artists infamously known as sleeplessdragn.
I tried to create the… uh.. SPINNIEST spinfile there is, and it only seems appropriate that this song is known as:
sleeplessdragn – Spinning With You [Difficulty: 5]
I suggest you all donate a couple bucks for a month’s subscription so you can try out the new SIU as well as the four player multiplayer combat (which is really awesome, by the way). You won’t be disappointed!
Thanks for you patience, and enjoy the new spinfile!
Love,
