Just a quick FYI to all music producers/artists.
Attention ANY and ALL music producers. We are accepting submissions for music in FFR R2. If you are new to FFR or just reading this, basically picture the idea of your music being displayed to hundreds of thousands of people.
You can post your music in the FFR R2 Music Submission forum. By uploading files into this forum you acknowledge that you are the copyright owner of the file you are uploading and that you give FFR the rights to use your submission. Only certain members of the FFR R2 team have the ability to download the files you submit, so don’t worry, no public or registered users will have download capability.
If you are interested in becoming a FFR in-house artist, meaning much of your music will be on FFR, please follow these guidelines for making music for FFR. A good example of an in house artist would be people like SuperGreenX for FFR, or Naoki for DDR or dj TAKA and TaQ for Beatmania.
Just a quick FYI to you all.
Peace,
-Arch
R2 Preview Video (Divx Codec Needed)
Once upon a time there lived a long and drawn out story of a lonely little flash game called R2. This game called R2 went through countless hands and rewrites for nearly a year and a half, never quite blossoming the way expected due to the difficulty of making a perfect and true DDR sim in Flash and personal schedules.
Countless rewrites, coders and graphic redesigns later we find ourselves hitting spring of 04′ and I run across Soccr743 who for some time had been interested in FFR and demonstrated that he could accomplish what I was looking for with Flash. He proved himself able to do anything my mouth could throw at him and continued to succeed in feature after feature at breakneck speed while I just watched in amazement.
It wasn’t long before I found myself directing the efforts of Soccr743 while I tackled the task of putting together the graphics of R2. Spigumus also chimed in and created the arrows and meter bar graphics. At this point Spook G from For Great Justice! expressed interest in developing loops. Aperson was generous enough to create ambient sounds and sound effects.
And so the R2 team was starting to form…
Arch0wl, Jello and others started expressing interest in developing stepfiles and finding new artists to be used in R2. Their efforts no doubt will prove themselves valuable as R2 continues to move forward. We continue to look for quality songs and stepfile makers. Please PM one of the admins if you are interested and qualified.
I think it is important to note that R2 will not replace FFR. They will co-exist on this site with seperate development paths. .68 will still come out and R2 will continue forward at the same time.
Below you find the link to the R2 preview video. Captured at 30fps. playback on 2.2ghz+ machines will yield 50-60fps or higher in the browser and up to 120fps as an executable. Because of the CPU time used to capture, the preview video = about the performance of a 1.6ghz P4. I am not committing to a feature list quite yet but you will be able to see alot of what is in store just by gazing at the interface. At this point I can tell you that R2 is 90% complete and we are in the process of wrapping up the final features (like modifiers), wiring the backend, adding content and polishing.
It has been a long summer of hard work and fun filled days for all of us.. I endured one of the toughest work schedules in my 10 years of working. I had toe surgery, a failed root canal and nearly passed out from kidney stones while working at 4am and had to be rushed to the hospital. It will all be worth it once R2 starts to roll, that is for sure. And of course… You will be able to play for free.
Thanks to goes out to Soccr743, Spook G, Spigumus and Aperson for donating their time and to the many who have tested the code and continue to test the code for bugs. (Arch, LD, Flypie, the site admins and others I am forgetting to mention)
Long live DDR! Long Live FFR/R2!
DOWNLOAD THE PREVIEW VIDEO BY CLICKING HERE
Cheers,
Synthlight
FFR League: End of playoff round 2
Today is the last day for round two of the FFR League Playoffs. If you are unsure of what to do, go here. If you have no clue what the FFR League is, ignore this message. All scores must be submitted by midnight eastern time, tonight (monday). The reason it was extended, is because we forgot to post this message 
Good Luck!
- FFR League Staff
DJ Triple Threat
Yep, it’s a fantastic 3-DJ show on FFR Radio tonight. It’s not a standard request show, but you can send in requests (and if you’re lucky, they might get played) through the standard request link here.
Here’s the schedule. It all goes down at 10 PM tonight, Eastern time.
10 PM – JurseyRider
11 PM – Chardish
12 AM – lightdarkness
Enjoy the show! Click here to listen when the time comes.
FFR Regular season ends tonight!
Week 5 of the FFR League ends tonight! Head on over to this thread for more information.
The playoffs will start tomorrow night.
Good luck!
- FFR League Staff
A request a day keeps the doctor away
The other day, I did an all request show, kinda spur of the moment, and I got a lot of comments that people liked it! So i’ve decided to do it again.
I will be going on at 9 PM eastern (8 central, 7 mountain, 6 pasific) and going til I run out of music.
At about 7 PM tonight (eastern) I will be providing you all with a link, to request a song. The reason I am giving the link early, is so I can gather music I don’t have.
This should prove to be a great show, with a varity of music. Links will be provided later tonight.
EDIT: I will be in the FFR AIM chat room, chatting. Click here to join the AIM chat. You must have AIM to join the chat.
LD
Dj Purple Live Tonight on FFR Radio. DON’T MISS IITT!!
On Monday, August 9th, DJ Purple will be doing her “English Invasion of Tea & Crumpets” show on FFR radio starting at 8pm est (5pm pst). Purple has been getting quite a bit of Airtime along with JurseyRider on the FFR Radio lately. But… This is her first official show but you are likely to hear her go 10 hours or more at a time yammerin’ on about Sonic, Zelda and playing game remixes if you tune in any late night at random.
After she finishes her show we will most likely be poking JurseyRider, LD or another DJ to continue on.
EDIT: LD lost an arm during a wrestling competition with Betty and as a result, he will be forced to go on after Purple passes out.
Click here to listen to her show tonight at 8pm EST (7pm CST, 5pm PST!
And yes, she takes takes requests. Enjoy the show. 
Just click the Radio link from the top orange bar or the left nav or up above in this post to listen.
EDIT: We understand it is very difficult to get into the FFR Chat on the site, so we’ve created a aim chatroom. Click here to join the AIM chat. You must have AIM to join the chat.
Week 5 begins!
Week 5 of the FFR League has started! Head on over to this thread for more information.
Good luck!
- FFR League Staff
FFR Radio: t3h Pwn
Wednesday, July 28th, lightdarkness will be doing his “Camp sux, FFR Rules!” show on FFR radio starting at 8pm est (5pm pst).
After that For Great Justice! will be stepping up and mixing live from 9pm est onward.
Click here to listen!
Hope you can all tune in, it should be a good show as usual!
EDIT: SPOOK’S RADIO SHOW IS OVER!
If you missed this, everyone in first period will be talking about it on monday, and you will have NO clue what is going on 
EDIT 2: ARCH0WL’S RADIO SHOW IS OVER!
Arch0wl’s original show is over, thanks to everyone who tuned in and listened!
Everyone is chillin’ in the FFR IRC channel. If you want to chat, you must have mIRC or some other IRC program (you can get MIRC at www.mirc.com) and click here which will autojoin you into the channel.
This will be a kick ass show
