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FFRSiggy aka FFR Banner and Editor
Some of you may have already noticed.
For those that have not, we have created an early beta of a Signature Editor or Banner Editor. This allows you to create a customized banner for you to paste into your forum signatures, post to your blogs or myspace / facebook profiles.
We are working on adding to the available banner themes and increasing the amount of layouts available. Also we hope to add more variables to the displays to make it snazzier.
Take a look, let us know what you think and do give us suggestions regarding site banners or site buttons in the forum.
The Games We Played, Part 5
It’s been one hell of a week, not just for me, but for all of FFR. I’ve spent probably 10 hours just getting these files ready for FFR, but I got it all done, and you all have 5 new simfiles to play.
Tonight, we put TGWP part 5 in the game. The last part of the song. I was wrong when I said that part 3 was the longest part. Part 5 is just a few seconds longer. The other parts have been really nice and emotional, and this one is even more so. The ending blows me away…it’s almost too epic. You guys probably know what to expect, with the other simfiles.
The whole song is just over 17 minutes long, and has 2000 (Yes, two thousand) manually found bpm changes. What is manually found? I found all of the bpm changes using nothing but my ears. It took me two months from start to finish to make this file. Over 40 hours in the editor in stepmania, which is unheard of… Making a file like this, synced so nicely was so hard to do. I almost thought I would go insane when I was at the end. The last 40 seconds of the song was VERY hard to hear and sync, but as you can all see, I did it.
Why would I make such a file? I wanted to make a simfile that matched what I felt towards the girl I love. To do that, I would have to make the perfect simfile. With The Games We Played, I think I did so. There is no other simfile that is like this. She gave me the will to start and finish this simfile. It was an intense two months, but I finished it and the results are outstanding! She is the one person that gave me the ability to do this. Sadly, right now we’re having a little trouble with our relationship. I don’t know what will happen right now, if she’ll leave or if she’ll stay. All I can do now is hope for the best.
And with that, I give you all The Games We Played Part 5. The last part of the song.
Enjoy!
EDIT:
Well, tonight I found out the truth. Me and her were on a “break” from each other as of two weeks ago. I found out tonight that it wasn’t just a break, it was a complete break up. This sucks…really bad. I put so much time into perfecting TGWP because of her, and she’s probably gone. It almost makes me feel like I wasted my time.
But…I know I didn’t completely waste my time. I know that even if it was or wasn’t made for her, it’s still one of the best simfiles ever made if not the best. I accomplished one of my ultimate goals in this game: to make one of the best simfiles ever.
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I also wanted to thank all of you guys for your amazing feedback regarding not just this song, but for all of the recent SotW’s AND for Shash’s fixing of many other songs. Originally, we planned to release only Part 1 of TGWP with MAYBE adding another part or 2 a few weeks or months down the road… but the response we saw from everyone made us realize that we needed to add in the entire song. And look where that has led us.
Thanks again guys,
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.
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,
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
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,
