Post your FFR/Stepmania resume

**Zybanthia** · 02-23-2009, 07:01 AM

Re: Post your FFR/Stepmania resume

Wow, you went through a lot of rejections. Good thing you stuck with it though, people love your files now.

Oh, me. I have no real resume.

2007:
- Downloaded Stepmania in November.
- Downloaded a lot of bad stepfiles and played them really horribly
- Made a lot of bad stepfiles and played those really horribly too

2008:
- Could actually play worth a darn by October
- Discovered FFR in November
- Played for a month / browsed the forums without an account
- Joined in December

2009:
- Submitted Voyage 1969 to the FFR queue
- Bitched a whole lot when the judges told me to improve my PR
- Posted quite a bit

**DossarLX ODI** · 02-23-2009, 07:24 AM

Re: Post your FFR/Stepmania resume

2006:
- Discovered FFR, was only 12 back then so I didn't register this account

2007:
- Downloaded Stepmania in November
- Just messed around with the ini and made my own offsync files

2008:
- In February, I find the hard songs megapacks and actually try doing the songs for real
- AA'd 0x1311 oni the afte having the HSMP for a month
- In May, I passed MIHC oni
- Passed One Minutes edit in early July before my 14th birthday
- AAA'd Jackhammer Madness in December

I have more but I don't have time right now

**EAGAMES** · 02-23-2009, 08:20 AM

Re: Post your FFR/Stepmania resume

I'm EAG, I don't need a resume.
/conceded

2006:
Found out about FFR at the end of the year. Had no guidance so I started with the one-hand style. I got addicted.

2007:
Kept playing one-handed and got fairly good at it. If I recall correctly, I was in the Top 5 best one handers. When I hit one year of being a member, I switched to spread and improved tremendously in all areas. Overall, the whole year I tried to get recognized and familiarize myself with others.

- Three days, or so the transition to spread, I got a couple of FCs that were amazing for me during the avmiss era. (thread).
- First "Three Thouzand Combo!!!" (thread).

2008:
I finally gave in to Stepmania around late September and noticed that my skills were increasing rapidly. I stuck with it a couple of months and came back to FFR on late December to wreck. Worked out pretty well since I SDGd Almost There and stuff.

- 300th AAA/Synthlight AAA at the beginning of the year (thread).
- 400th AAA. (thread).
- 500th AAA. (thread).
- First FMO AAA/[Oni] get (thread).
- Hit a single digit Average Rank (thread).
- "Wrecked" FFR. Scores were pretty amazing back then. (thread).
- AAAd all level 1-10 in difficulty the next day (thread).
- Tried to SDG Almost There (thread). I SDGd Almost There four months later (thread).

2009:
Havn't really done much yet. I guess these are scores worth mentioning...
- AAd Rain (link)
- AAd 8bit Tour (link)
- AAd Gigadelic (link)
- Other Stepmania scores...

That's pretty much completes my rhythm game career.

**Vuture** · 02-23-2009, 09:17 AM

Re: Post your FFR/Stepmania resume

Well I'm pretty new so mine is quite short lol.

2007:
Really got into DDR around October
Started A and AA ing Heavy songs in DDR
2008:
Found FFR through Kongregate in July
Played FFR casually until Novemeber
Registered on the site, not active yet
Started browsing the forums (at this point still a one hander) found the spread techinque, instantly improved
Started posting on the forums
2009:
Hit first FC
Found Stepmania and got addicted
Started work on first Simfiles
Got back into DDR after 4 month absence

So ya, mine's pretty short. I wanna release my simfiles soon after I work on them some more.

**TheRapingDragon** · 02-23-2009, 09:25 AM

Re: Post your FFR/Stepmania resume

2004:
- Played some FFR as a guest, left.

2005:
- Came back, joined, played from August - November.
- Downloaded and started playing Stepmania in December.

2006:
- Still playing SM. Was known for intense jacking and ability to mash.
- Developed RSI around October.

2007:
- Now also known for great MA as that's all I could do anymore.
- Started to creep up speed / jacks again.
- Quit Stepmania June/July 2007 due to RSI (which I still have).

2008:
- Came out of retirement to play in an FFR tournament. Won intermediate in a tie-break. Quit again.

**Flandre Scarlet** · 02-23-2009, 09:38 AM

Re: Post your FFR/Stepmania resume

2003:
Found FFR from classmates; played it a bit and enjoyed it from playing DDR every few weeks for 2 years
Played 2 hands, 3 fingers

2004:
Made my first account
Kept playing FFR and think I got toward AAA'ing tricky songs and doing well on Difficults
Hung out in MP a lot

2005:
Think I made my TS account in MP and had team members lol
Was trying to get above 500 combo on Dot Death and LLL etc

2006:
Started spread
Couldn't beat my girlfriend at spread for months ;_;
Posted on forum a lot

2007:
Picked up Stepmania and song packs
Had crap MA
Got obsessed with Touhou files and music in FFR/SM
Was trying to improve speed on Strangeprogram etc

2008:
Made my Flandre account
Started getting way better in SM
Made many videos
Improved MA
Played less FFR
Made my first two SM files and put them in database
Played on SMO a few times

2009:
Passed Amber Shores, Smitty smokin' a joint, Disregard
SDG'd EHHS on FFR finally
Still trying to improve MA
Edited my Eternal Nocturne file and need a friend to test one day to see if its any decent
Hit one year on this account xD

**championanwar** · 02-23-2009, 09:58 AM

Re: Post your FFR/Stepmania resume

2004:
-Found about about FFR from School friends (Sabre,Ragnarok470)
-Joined FFR February 10th.
-1 hand, pretty bad. Couldn't pass most of songs on FFR even though there were hardly any.
-First FC, Super Mario 80's remix

2005:
-Brought First Purchased song - Stay with me V2 (was terrible at it)
-First Forum post, May 12th
-Played FFR nonstop until I was a good level, and then it go blocked in my school.
Long break :P
-First Simfile, pretty horrible (Pacman remix lol) Somewhere in the db XD

2006: (inactive) Stepmania only, (improvments in progress)

2007:
-Became active again September 1st.
-November - First AAA (Burnout)
-Used Speedmod x1.25, Skill increased greatly.

2008:
-Settled back into FFR
-March, started posting properly :P
-Was able to AAA level 9's (can't remember when ;P)
-First queued File into FFR, decmeber 15th

-Switched to index

2009:
-430 FC's, 76 AAA's :3

**MinaciousGrace** · 02-23-2009, 10:19 AM

Re: Post your FFR/Stepmania resume

2007
- Introduced to FFR in early December through a friend who told me to do two things, 1. play zx./ and 2. play at 1.5x speed
- Quickly dismissed the game as too difficult and left for winter vacation

2008
- Resumed playing in January out of curiosity
- Rapidly improved in speed and reading ability but PA remained consistently terrible regardless of the difficulty I played at (later I realized this was due to lag /obvious)
- Thought I reached my skill limit when I FC'd synaxis symphony some two months later (my 200th fc I still had 0 AAA's at that point) and quit
- Resumed playing again and experienced a massive skill boost and FC'd FMOs within days of coming back, Vertex Beta, Balloon Fever, Sympathizer etc
- Gave into Stepmania sometime during the summer, exposure to files such as DME, Ghost House, DP Oni and Reincarnation further increased my speed and reading abilities, though MA/PA remained atrocious and as such many of my posted scores were ignored
- Came back to FFR to participate in Phynx's unofficial tournament a few months later, and on Oct 4th AAA'd Reality in four tries, an act which massively increased my reputation among the upper tier of FFR players
- Between October and December AA'd such files as Gigadelic, Disregard, Death Reveals, Red Sign, Vertex Delta but MA/PA ratio remained identical on any difficulty of song I felt comfortable playing

2009
- AA'd Prelude to Insanity
- AA'd You- Destructive 1.3x rate
- AA'd Gamma
- Blackflagged Eclipse on FFR
- Wrecked Irionman
- True MA still unknown due to lack of an appropriate computer to play on

**[TeRa]** · 02-23-2009, 11:14 AM

Re: Post your FFR/Stepmania resume

2001
-First year I ever played DDR, which was at an arcade in Pennsylvania, in July I believe. Game was easily the funnest game I had ever played, gave me an awesome feeling while playing it, as a kid, probably seemed better than it was, but seriously, most addicting thing ever. As soon as I got home from PA, I had my mom order DDR for the PS, which at the time was the only home version in America. I got that, and played at home every single day.

2002
-Was only playing DDR on my PS, didn't know any arcades anywhere around. Then I found DDR Freak, which has a list of arcades with DDR machines, I found one at a mall not too far, and started going there as frequently as I could. At first, I went 2 or 3 days in a row, then slowed down to once every week. As a kid though, my mom wouldn't leave me there alone of course, so I would only be there for an hour or two at best. With how many people were at the arcade playing back then, I would only get to play once or twice in an hour. Made a ton of friends, of course everyone was older being I was only 11-12. I was that little kid who was good at DDR and everyone thought it was cute >_<;
I'd like to note that when I played DDR for the first time, my brother was there, and he got addicted as well. Him and me played the home version aloooot, and he was even better than me back then x_x. My main group of friends started playing at my house as well when I got the home version. Playind DDR with all my friend and brother and a few of his friends was great, memorable childhood that I miss :tear:

2003
-This is possibly the year I started SM, I'm sure 3.0 was the current release when I started playing, not sure which alpha, but I can find threads talking about released of like alpha 11 from 2003 so yeah.
-If this was my first year with SM, I didn't know how to install songs, didn't even bother to figure it out. I had a few files thanks to people who used the .smzip thing, which if you can't figure out how to install files with that you're just flat out dumb lmao. Of course I only had a few of those, and lost interest shortly after until I found out how to install files. Ever since then, I've been a sm whore hehe.

2004
-Index, didn't even play popular files, just downloaded bs off bemanistyle and played them in my dining room with like 4-5 other friends switching after every few songs. Was very fun though, good memories.
-Can't really think of anything else from this year, probably had my first 10 pass this year, which I think Sakura was my first, if not Max 300 due to it being out earlier.

2005
-Joined FFR after my friend, and chat mod, eyoshi, told me about multiplayer, I'd played FFR for a while offline for fun for a long time before that, MP is what made me join this site pretty much.
-Made my first 2 friends on FFR, Nyokou and n3v3rl4nd, without them, I would have quit FFR back then, takes friends to stay at this site.
-Around when I actually started to become an MP reg, by the end of the year I was pretty familiar with most people in MP, including most the mp mods, and other imfamous people such as novacaine, skybeam, and female.
-Played Shash in MP, first time I ever met him...He destroyed the hell out of my of course, he was a god back then, and a god now. I remember him picking caprice, and destroying it IMO rofl. Of course I was index, and didn't even know about spread at this time.
-Summer of 05 is when I started caring for PA rather than just trying to pass songs on DDR, being that at this point, I either had every song passed, or every song passed but PSMO/PSMH [I passed PSMO before PSMH because I never once tried PSMH until after I passed PSMO lol, I wanted to do it out of order for OCD reasons lol]
-Switched from DDR to ITG in November of 2005 after DDR stopped making new games. Though I stuck with Extreme for a long time before switching of course. Only had 3 AAAs before I quit DDR. Magical Door/Magic Door or whatever, Freckles, and 1998. I have a VERY funny picture from back then, at 1-2 in the morning when I got my first AAA, I was exhausted, which is why it came out to be such a hilarious picture IMO:

2006
-Still playing index, I wasn't really a FFR player back in this time, just an MP reg, which I still am to this day >_<
-Nothing much back in this time, flagged playdoh like 2-3 times, nothing impressive now, but was top 20 back then.
-Christmas 2006, I met a very good SM player at the arcade though ITG, Kepogata. We became good friends, and this is pretty much where my SM career started. He told me about spread, and I started playing it on Christmas. Only on SM though, not until September 07 did I start playing FFR spread.

2007
-FC'd my first FMO, AIM Anthem, with avmiss, AND without even knowing anything about avmiss at the time rofl.
-Practically start of my spread career still, first week into it to be exact. Wasn't playing FFR yet though, I started and got decent at spread with SM for 7-8 months.
-Started playing FFR 2-3 months after I made this account, first time playing spread on FFR, and I've been around since then.
-First top 10 on a song without a AAA, Crowdpleaser.
-Went from my 1st to my 281st AAA from mid September to late December. Including multiple VCs. AAA'd Tambourin on my 2nd day going for AAAs on FFR. First VC AAA was Legend though, which was one of my first 10 AAAs I believe on this account.
-Unlocked Otaku Heavy off Video Out A as my 61st AAA. Though this was late into the year, September 10th.
-Reached top 100 AAAs in early November, about 3 full months into playing FFR.
-First FGO FC, RunnyMorning with AvMiss of course

-10,000 games played....in about 4 months >_>;
-Sometime in this year, around summer I'd say, is when I quit ITG, completely quitting going to the arcade, or playing on pad at all. I now just played SM and FFR.

2008
-My most memorable brag, public AAAs #298-300, Strangeprogram, Vertex BETA, Flight of the Bumblebee.
-Went from my 282nd AAAs to 575 AAAs from start to end of the year. Including my first FMO AAA, and approx. 50 more FMO AAAs.
-First song I was ever rank 1 on without having a AAA, planet karma, first SDG. Shortly after 1st 8pt tier req, AAA on Big Blue.
-AAA'd 100% of tokens FMO and below, leaving me with Here We Go, Vertex BETA vRofl, and Electro Rush v2.
-Managed to AAA a file first, that file being bmv.578, then not long after 3020.
-Reached one of the elite player status on FFR. At least I think I did.
-Single Digit AvRank, then kept it going down to 2, not sure if I reached 1 before 2009.
-Reached #1 most AAAs on FFR in mid December.
-Started losing interest in the game.
(Of course more, just can't remember >_>)

2009
-Climbed to the top of T1, nearly no hope for T0 though.
-30,000 games played.
-Lost interest in the game, play every now and then. Haven't quit, nor do I plan on it, just not playing as much till I get an urge to play again like I used to.

K, breakfast time, it was nice reminiscing on my whole life pretty much, I never really did anything outside of these 4 panel rhythm games. Which is why I never want to quit, I don't know what else to do, and quitting will have just wasted my entire life pretty much at this point. I did quit playing ITG around 2007 as I said above, though I still play every once in a while, I'm no where close at ALL to being as good as I was when I quit playing seriously due to losing stamina and pad PA/FA/whatever. I'll purchase a DDR Max machine before I die rofl <3

**Flandre Scarlet** · 02-23-2009, 11:31 AM

Re: Post your FFR/Stepmania resume

Damn TeRa O_o

ps: I still can't AAA anything on DDR/ITG after 7-8 years -_- lmao

**Tasselfoot** · 02-23-2009, 12:02 PM

Re: Post your FFR/Stepmania resume

2002
-Sometime in late 2002, was playing poker in some kids dorm room and a girl was playing FFR on a desktop in the room. Thought she was a major ***, although watching her pass 120bpm 8th stream was amazingly impressive. Tried Mario and failed.

2003
-July 2003, met Whorli in Israel and found out she liked DDR. Remembered FFR from before, and decided to try it again. Instant love.
-Played for the summer on 1st style, with about 20 songs in game, and then got bored of it.
-September, found out about SM through the FFR forums and got hooked on BMR's pack.

2004
-Got back into FFR in early 2004, with the release of 2nd style and the 1st FFR league.
-Played about 100 mil of GTS a day for a few weeks straight, and started getting top 10 scores on songs like Too Tight and 100 Bar Blackout with 2-3 goods. Started getting AAAs as well, and tracking my progress on the game's 60 or so songs (I still have my notebook with all my progress)
-1st FFR league is where everything changed. Finished 3rd in the Intermediate division, and bugged LD so much about what could be made better with the tournament that he told me to run the next one.
-It was also the FFR league that got me involved with posting on the forums, along with getting top10 scores and posting them in the Brag Board.
-AAAd stuff like Quasar with SDP, lots of Reach files, most BMR files
-Ran the 2nd FFR league... it was great success
-Became good friends with LD, SpookG, 87x, and Chardish
-Posted like mad... had over 1000 posts in 1 week sometime in Sept or Oct 04.
-Chardish starts TWG in Oct 04... my domination begins.
-Became a mod in Oct 04 as well, because of me always being on the forums, especially during the day and late at night.
-Stopped playing FFR and SM because of a new laptop that lagged like crazy

2005
-Posted a lot
-Hosted a lot of radio shows... possibly 2004 too, but I forget. Went once or twice a week through parts of 2006.

2006
-Posted even more
-Around april, started talking to Shash and getting back into FFR. Began playing all the files I hadn't played in the past 18 months (still only about 40-50 new ones) and started bugging LD like mad every week to add the new level
-Graduated college in May
-Sometime in the summer, started to work on getting permissions for FFR and work to get more levels in the game.
-August, became an admin.
-Files start pouring in, and we begin the batch process
-Started getting good at FFR, getting AAAs and FCs i'd never dreamed of before.
-We start back up the Official Tournaments

2007
-Mar 07, 1st FFR Convention. Drove myself and Sprite 8+ hours to Ohio, etc.
-Start doing widgets for MySpace bands. Gets the site noticed by the major labels... some interesting bands start giving us permission.
-June 07, just moved to CA and went to Chicago for the 2nd AdminCon (missed the 1st one because I was in Europe). Plead for $$$$.
-I like to post
-Spend most of my time doing widgets, widgets, widgets
-Batch process gone global... hundreds and hundreds of files, backlog, queues, major events, etc. Too many files! Great success!

2008
-Some cool contets in 08... PSHs and GWCs
-More batch work, more widgets
-Admin Cave is a reality for about 2 months in early 2008. Synth gets BMR and Xelius to puke through too much physical challenge. Synth and Plaguefox ride together in the trunk. Jason somehow flips MalDON in the trunk. Good times had by all.
-More posting

2009
-More of the same

That's about it... i'm sure i left off plenty of stuff though. too much happened in the past 6+ years.

**Izzy** · 02-23-2009, 12:10 PM

Re: Post your FFR/Stepmania resume

2001- started stepmania
2008-quit stepmania

ffr is insignificant because i quit only 4 months after starting.

**retching oesophagus** · 02-23-2009, 01:26 PM

Re: Post your FFR/Stepmania resume

2007:
nov- discovered ffr/sm through some braggy coursemate who had been playing for 2 years. started to play occasionally on sm and ffr as a guest

2008:
jan- signed up. started to seriously try and get good at the game. 1000 gameplays in first week.

march - made said friend quit ffr by fcing over the frail dream in front of his face. got 300 or so fcs towards may.

june - major skill jump. first FMO FCs. could aaa a lot more songs

july- 200 aaa. first C AAA. first FMO SDG

august- stopped playing during summer break. started to play SM more towards end of the month.

oct- first VC AAA. started playing hard song packs.

dec: massive skill jump. could low sdg most fmos

2009:

it's been 2 months. i'm still wating for my next skill jump!

Edit: lol this resume stuff is kinda poncy, isn't it?

**dooty_7** · 02-23-2009, 02:16 PM

Re: Post your FFR/Stepmania resume

ill fill this out later when Im not at work...anyways

@Tass, did you keep track of your progress with one of those MSPaint thingys that had every song listed and categorized and you filled it in with either FC'd, AAA'd, Almost, or Never or something like that, because I have been looking for that thing lol

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