Spontaneous Contest #34,353

Put on your thinking caps. Why? WHY? Because Spontaneous Contest is back to whoop that.. well. I better not get too excited.

Spontaneous Contest is coming back tonight and will be as spontaneous as ever! The contest will be opening up at 8:00pm Central Standard Time and will be open for exactly 1 hour or until someone wins the contest.

Tonights prize: $25 deposited immediately to your paypal account upon winning.

Contest Start Time: 8:00pm Central Standard Time (9pm eastern)
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High Scores for FFR Resonance!

If you ever wanted a chance at having a beating the great Shashakiro to the #1 spot on a high score list, now is your chance. As promised, while you have been busy just checking out the levels and playing them for fun, the backend scripts have been busy recording your stats. Not just your score but marvelous, perfects, max combos etc.. everything down the life meter. Each difficulty level of every song has a seperate high score list and you can now see these scores when you view the details of any sim.

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Spin It Up: More Up

AHA! Some of you may have forgotten about our precious SpinItUP project… But we have not! Development is still moving forward with some new engine features. We also have 2 brand new spinfiles available to you tonight thanks to the great, the legendary, the.. umm.. crazy Shashakiro. He works tirelessly to bring you levels in which he cannot see until we convert them.

The new songs are:

For FFR – 8 – Remade For SIU and hard as hell.. Should be a 9 if we had it.
Force of Light – 3 – Something a little easier for the kiddies.

Enjoy!

Cheers,

Synthlight + FFR Staff + Dual Core 64bit Madness

Finally, You Can Play Your Simfiles Online

OH SNAP!

Today we are releasing a major Update to the FFR Sim File Database which is entitled “FFR Resonance”.

This update provides the combination of the FFR Simfile Database and FFR Resonance as a simulator.

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Simfile Database New Feature(s) Release Tonight

As always, I try to keep things secret until we we know that we will be releasing a feature. But as you know, some interesting new upgrades are on their way tonight for the Simfile Database. I am sure we will need lots of feedback on what does and what does not work as this is a very early beta of.. *shhhh*.. Anyway.. Can’t wait to get it out there on the server. I will give a full explanation later tonight.

Cheers,

Synthlight & FFR Staff & Tuberculosis

Simfile Database Upgrades

Over the next 48 hours we will be adding some significant new functionality to the simfile database. Certain functions may be sketchy during this development period but we promise it will be worth the wait.

Cheers,

Synthlight

Song of the week, and future step artists!

We’re reviving dead genres in back to back weeks. This week it is Rock, with Victims & Martyrs by Allrise. Allrise is an indie band from Southern California whose music is self-described as Melodic Hard Rock. The stepchart is by T0rajir0u and isn’t that difficult; either Tricky or Difficult. If you like the song, check out the rest of Allrise’s work on their website, www.allrisemusic.com or via download on iTunes.

Second on the agenda, Jello will be joining LD in helping to manage song of the week. We will be looking for a few new step artists, and are interested in hearing from you! If you’re interested in being a step artist, read further into this story for details!

Cheers,

The FFR Staff & their Victims
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Song of the week: Time for some rag!

This week’s Song of the Week takes us back in time, to 1899. Composed by Scott Joplin, Maple Leaf Rag is an upbeat song that would be classified as Ragtime, a pre-cursor to Jazz, but also a modern Classical of sorts. Performed by Benjamin Robert Tubb (stepfile by Jimerax), of www.pdmusic.org, this classic will be much easier than EHHS or Pants, but hopefully still a challenge for everyone. MLR will be the first addition to the Classic page in years. So go check it out now, and also check out pdmusic.org for all of your pre-1923 American favorites.

Cheers,

FFR Staff and The Sting

Song of the Week: Omg.. The Highspeeds..

Some of you may have already played this weeks new song of the week by DJ Sharpnel (stepfile by Shashakiro) – Exciting Hyper Highspeed Star. I would give all of you a full review of this song but honestly, it is so advanced that I cannot even come close to finishing it, maybe you can can do better. Go check out the song in the Dance section (first page).

Of course a big welcome and thank you guys out to the DJ Sharpnel crew for allowing us the use of this music. Maybe we could use another song in the near future that I am able to complete.

Cheers,

The FFR Staff and Lack of FFR Playing Skills