Song of the Week Continues: TGWP Part 3
Continuing with our broken-up release of The Games We Played, Part 3 of it has been released tonight. It’s the longest of all five sections, at nearly four minutes in length. Hope you enjoy part 3 of this colorful series!
Happy FFR’ing,
Song of the Week .. Again: The Games We Played, Part 2
I thought it best that we make this news item its own post so everyone sees it clearly. Especially since its not just a matter of it being the usual 1 Song of the Week.
Thus far we have The Games We Played Part 1 and The Games We Played Part 2. – JasonKey
PART 2 NOW AVAILABLE IN ARCADE AS WELL. Expect parts 3, 4, and 5 later this week. We felt that since all 5 parts were 1 song, they should all be released as part of the same Song of the Week. So enjoy this week…
Cheers,
Tass & 5x the fun.
Song of the Week: The Games We Played, Part 1
Today’s Song of the Week is made by aspergian and was stepped by Rebirth0. The Games We Played is a piano remix of many different songs from various video games like The Legend of Zelda, Super Mario Bros, Kingdom Hearts, Metal Gear Solid, Tetris, and many more. The song is 17 minutes long so that it has to be cut and released in different parts. The part we get this week is the first 3 minutes 22 seconds.
We said that we would have a song with BPM changes for this week, and this song has PLENTY of them. It has 200 – 300, give or take.
Enough talk about the simfile, let’s talk about the artist. The artist of this song goes by “Torley Wong” and has made music (mainly techno), for many years. Sadly, in May of 2004 he was struck by hyperacusis, and lost the ability to hear. He no longer makes music, but has uploaded all 230 of his songs so we can listen to them: http://www.archive.org/details/Torley_Wong_-_The_Final_Selection. We currently only have permission for TGWP, but we are working towards getting access to his entire library.
You can find TGWP1 in the Arcade section. It is currently on page 1, upper middle, although it will be moving to page 2 in around 1 month to continue the pattern of increasing difficulty within the genre. We hope you all enjoy this EXTREMELY colorful file. To discuss the file, go here. To brag about your scores on the file, go here.
Cheers,
Tass, Shash, and all things fuzzy.
BPM Changes Around the Corner?
Thanks to Kit- for her conversion coding and Shashakiro for all his testing and persistance, we now have support for BPM changes in FFR. Keep in mind that BPM does not change the scrollrate but is more of a CMOD type of conversion.
Our original converter has lacked this feature for quite some time but now you can expect to see BPM changing songs in the near future.
We also are supporting a full range of noteskins now and Shashakiro has been busy reconverting old songs to fix their noteskins and any other issues they may have.
On a seperate note, we took last night to rewrite nearly the entire script that writes scores to the FFR database. Hopefully this will bring load down a bit. If you notice any problems, let us know.
If you are new and you see the t-vb.php error and or the “not available” song list, just sign out and sign back in. It is a side effect of our changes and will be dealt with this weekend.
Cheers,
Synthlight + sleepless nights on the server
Server Experiment
We have decided to test moving the entire database into memory (about 5GB worth of data) and will see if that helps our system load situation. Multiplayer is back up and kicking now and I will keep a close watch on the system tonight to see how it reacts.
Cheers,
Synthlight
Multiplayer Testing
We are testing a new configuration for the multiplayer server this afternoon and fixing a few bugs. You may notice sporadic service during this period only within multiplayer.
Cheers,
Synthlight
The Best of the Best: The Active Top FFR Players
Howdy there! Scottish’ here, to present to you something different tonight.
You all have probably seen the thread entitled “Updated FFR Top Players list” in FFR General Talk, which is a thread that allowed people to be ranked depending on skill, not just overall score.
After realizing that the thread was obsolete and disorganized, Jimerax and I, along with others, came up with a new system that is more reliable and will allow us to rank users according to an entirely new system. The process of going through the old thread, looking over all of the ranked players, and re-ranking them according to this system will be long and tedious, so please be patient as we are trying our best to get it done.
The thread can be found here. It is currently being revised and added on to, so expect it to be a little disorganized for now. After everything is put together, you can expect it to be another “Official” ranking system. Onto another issue, the thread is there for you, the users. If you feel like you meet the requirements to make the list, post in the thread asking to be added, dont be shy 
. We want to make the top players known, not hidden. Other than that, I think I covered almost all of it. Feel free to make comments or suggestions in that thread, they are always appreciated.
Toodles,
The Turkey God’s Secret: Kick Your A
As Tass hinted at this past Monday, the Turkey God has unveiled a special secret today–specifically, a new song in the Secret section of FFR, stepped by yours truly. Those of you who have 15,000 credits can now play Kick Your A, an SGX remix of the DDR song “A”. SGX has been graciously letting us use his awesome music from the start, and to him we are thankful–he has more songs on FFR than any other artist. Check out his music at his site here.
Also, note that this isn’t a Song of the Week, and there will still be one out next Monday–don’t worry.
Happy turkey consuming,
Thanks (for) Giving (us the radio back)
Over the last few days we have set all kinds of server records. Yesterday we had nearly 300,000 gameplays of FFR alone. As a result of our increased traffic, we have been throttling certain features and re-coding or re-organizing others. One of the temporary casualties was our FFR Radio service and it’s 5 channels. You will all be happy to know that the radio is back in operation. You may stream your music again on one of the available channels or at the very least listen to the FFR dance radio playlist during a calm meal with your great grandmother and her cat.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Enjoy the holiday and thank you for your continued support on FFR.
Oh yeah, the radio can be found by clicking this link.
Cheers,
Synthlight + FFR Stuffed Turkey Staff
