Profile & Forum Update
NOTE: NOW I think I got them .. if you see any more bugs .. comment on them.
Thanks
Tonight we changed the internal structure of the avatars within the forum and profiles. As a result you may not see your own avatar within profiles until we adapt the code to work with the new structure. Nothing is broken, just in a state of development.
Cheers,
Synthlight + FFR Staff
High Server Load Tonight
We are experience high server load tonight due to increased traffic. If things seem slow to refresh, please be patient. We are doing everything we can to speed up the site.
Cheers,
Synthlight + Bleeding FFR Servers
New DJSBX CD Available
Hey everybody. DJ SymBiotiX here with a message for all of you.
As some of you may know, I am the artist of Splash Beats! on FFR, and on November 20th, I released my first cd entitled “Act 1″.
For info on tracklisting etc click HERE.
Click here to see a picture of the cd/case.
Click HERE to go to my online store for ordering information.
Note: The site will be “down for maintenance” untill the 20th.
I hope you guys have the chance to get this. I really look forward to releasing this, and future cd’s.
Thanks everybody,
DJ SymBiotiX
Song of the Week: Norgers
I don’t understand how it took this long to finally get a djshox song into FFR, but it has finally happened. Stepped by xObserveRx, Norgers is a fairly simple song that reminds me a bit of the 80s. You can find it in the Dance genre, lower left hand corner of page 1.
In other news, Shashakiro has been hard at work re-syncing songs and fixing the dreaded red-note syndrome. Excited Hyper Highspeed Star and Balloon Fever received noteskin upgrades, while songs like Wish and others have had their syncing tweaked. Expect this to continue until all of the noteskinned songs are fixed. Do NOT expect any of the old non-noteskinned blue arrowed songs to be fixed in any way.
If you’d like to comment about Norgers, go here. If you’d like to show off your insane FFR skills and brag about your score on Norgers, go here.
Happy finger dancing,
Tasselfoot & his new buddies from North Stafford
PS – The Turkey God may have a special secret for everyone come Thanksgiving.
Multiplayer Service Running
After a short downtime for upgrades, I am proud to announce that Multiplayer is up and running again. Thank you everyone for your patience on this. 
Cheers,
Synthlight
Server Upgrade This Afternoon
Site and Server Stable – Still Waiting for an upgraded license that runs a component of FFR Multi-Player
*EDIT SYNTHLIGHT* – We are back from the datacenter with a new raid installed to alleviate some of the pain during our record breaking week. We had almost 1700 people online at the same time earlier today. The new drives have brought our system load down considerably but we are still waiting for that license so that we can update our multiplayer. This may take awhile so please be patient. Until then you can play normal single player and it should work just fine.
Cheers,
Synthlight
Multiplayer Service Update
Today we are in the process of updating our multiplayer service and as a result it will be down for a few hours. We estimate our time of completion to be somewhere this afternoon. We are awaiting a new version of our software license.
Cheers,
Synthlight
*Edit, leaving now at 2pm Central on a train to the data center. We will be installing some new drives this afternoon*
FFR Tournament is over!
After eight long weeks of tournament play, the Official 2006 FFR R1 Tournament is finally over. After many tough matches, the winners from each division are:
Expert ($100):
Bahamut-X
Advanced ($80):
Akorn
Beginner ($70):
HansSky
Congratulations to all three of you for victory–PM me with your PayPal address to get your prize money.
Expect another tournament at some point in the coming months…and next time, I promise that signups will last for more than 12 hours. 
NOTE:
Also, you might have noticed some minor changes to a few songs in the game recently — some maintenance is being done on some of the songs to improve their sync, and fix noteskin glitches. Nothing fundamental about the songs will change though, don’t worry.
Happy FFR’ing,
Song of the Week: Sensorium
Well, it’s Monday, which means it’s time for another Song of the Week! This week we give you Sensorium, by MerKa. Stepped by Jimerax, it’s a relatively slow song (under 140 BPM), but makes up for this with plenty of 16th stream and jumpstream, so it’s still a challenge. Sensorium can be found on the first page of Dance.
Happy FFR’ing,
