December 2017 Site Updates

Hello, everyone! We hope you are all having a great holiday. This is a summary post about some recent smaller changes from November to December, that haven’t been announced on the homepage yet. We are also planning one more song release this year for December 25th.

New R^3 Engine Features
      • New Replay Format (FFRBIN)
      • Selectable Menu Music
      • Selectable Default Engine
      • Selectable Default Filter
      • Restarts/Lost Stats Tracking
      • Toggle Top/Bottom Bar Graphics
      • Double Tap Quit to exit Song Queues

New Site Features
      • Updated Song Previews
      • Extended Song Chart Statistics
      • Restarts/Lost Stats Webpage

Bug Fixes
      • Fixed Page Display when using filters.
      • Fixed Ingame PA and Options use Judge Language correctly.

What’s New?
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Binary Replays (FFRBIN) are a new replay format, designed to increase playback accuracy and compression, and can fit an entire replay on your clipboard.

Lost statistics from song restarts are now being tracked separately. (Song restarts still won’t count towards your games played or grandtotal.)

You can now set any in-game song as your menu music, by right-clicking the title on the song selection screen. You can also set a default alternate engine playlist and default filter upon loading the R^3 engine. There is now an option to disable the top and bottom bars that appear in-game.

Song pages on the site have dozens of new extended statistics. They can be viewed by clicking “Toggle Extended Song Stats” on any game level page. Song pages also have an update chart preview, now using the R^3 engine and your game settings.

Community News
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Development on the new Batch Search Engine site is aimed to finish before the end of this year, if not Christmas. The most recent post in the Weekly Batch Update thread describes the current progress on the BSE site.

Signups for Benguin and Xel’s Rates Tourney #2 are still open until the end of Round 1 (Saturday, Dec 23 @ 10PM server time). If you have a New Year’s resolution to start playing again, it’s a great opportunity to de-rust fast. Just post in the thread that you’d like to participate, and you will be assigned to a skill bracket.

Vendetta21, mellonxcollie, and choof are now recognized as sectional moderators of their respective sub-forums.

The FFR Discord Server is now verified, and has gained over 1,200 members since its official launch in September! It has been steadily gaining more activity every month, so it will be permanently replacing Profile Chat (RIP prochat walrus).

Velocity, PrawnSkunk & DossarLX ODI
- FFR Development & Game Management

Bi-Weekly Songs of the Week (Nov. 11, 2017)

Welcome to the first November release! For upcoming releases for the rest of the year, please check the Weekly Batch Updates thread. Feel free to leave comments in the thread.

For Alexandria
Musician: LEAF XCEED Music Division
Step Artist: hi19hi19
Song Genre: Rock
Style: Game Remix
Difficulty: 46
Song Length: 1:12

The Basement Community
Musician: The Flashbulb
Step Artist: Pizza69
Song Genre: Rock
Style: Ambient Rock
Difficulty: 77
Song Length: 3:01

- The Game Management Team

Halloween Song Release (Oct. 31, 2017)

Hello again everyone and Happy Halloween! We’ve got an exciting release this time around with 2 regular songs and 3 skill tokens that increase in difficulty of unlocking. The requirements for the skill tokens are indicated with the song information.

Regular Songs

 
Drive of Unliving Things
Musician: Orange Dust
Step Artist: MarioNintendo
Song Genre: Misc
Style: Electronica
Difficulty: 66
Song Length: 2:44

Lust for Blood
Musician: setsat
Step Artist: Scintill
Song Genre: Rock
Style: Metal
Difficulty: 67
Song Length: 2:53

Skill Tokens

 
Cruel Whole (Abelcain Remix) v2
Musician: Venetian Snares
Step Artist: hi19hi19
Song Genre: Skill Token
Style: Noizecore
Difficulty: 84
Song Length: 1:45
* Full combo Cruel Whole (Abelcain Remix).

In The Summer (Canblaster Remix)
Musician: Crystal Fighters
Step Artist: Wayward Vagabond
Song Genre: Skill Token
Style: Electronic Remix
Difficulty: 75
Song Length: 2:09
* Full combo A Yodeler In Texas with 25 boos or less.

Dreamin’ attraction!! (Extended)
Musician: Hino Isuka
Step Artist: YoshL
Song Genre: Skill Token
Style: Happy Hardcore
Difficulty: 105
Song Length: 4:25
* Full combo Music (For Kirby) with 25 goods or less and 25 boos or less.

- The Game Management Team

Bi-Weekly Songs of the Week (Oct. 14, 2017)

Along with this song release, there has been an important update with the following songs: DISCHARGE RUSH (9/30/16) through Spear of Justice (9/30/17) have been shifted to be 2 frames earlier, which should resolve the -2 offset problem that players may have been experiencing. If not, please mention it in the song release thread.

Miss Jackson
Musician: Panic! At The Disco
Step Artist: Xiz
Song Genre: Rock
Style: Alternative
Difficulty: 34
Song Length: 2:15

Your Lies
Musician: Lone Ghost
Step Artist: Kraezymann
Song Genre: Misc
Style: Breakbeat
Difficulty: 48
Song Length: 3:47

- The Game Management Team

Bi-Weekly Songs of the Week (Sep. 30, 2017)

With this release, we conclude the Undertale September theme! Feel free to leave comments in the thread.

Megalovania
Musician: Toby Fox
Step Artist: DarkZtar
Song Genre: Arcade
Style: Game Ensemble
Difficulty: 77
Song Length: 2:38

Spear of Justice
Musician: Toby Fox
Step Artist: Silvuh
Song Genre: Arcade
Style: Game Ensemble
Difficulty: 69
Song Length: 1:51

- The Game Management Team

Chat With Us on Discord!

Hello everyone! We are pleased to announce there is now an Official FFR Discord Server up and running! You can join by clicking the banner above, or by clicking the link in the sidebar.

After 11 years, we must also bid farewell to Prochat. The old Flash-based widget has been replaced with a shiny new HTML5 Profile Chat! Please pay your respects in the comments below. You are now able to chat with Discord in realtime directly from your profile. If you wish not to create a Discord account, you can even chat as a guest.

We hope to see you drop by! (I will also be giving away support tokens at random this week to those commenting on/posting scores in the #ffr-bragboard channel.)

- PrawnSkunk
FFR Development & Design

Bi-Weekly Songs of the Week (Sep. 16, 2017)

Bi-Weekly Song Releases have resumed, and will now be two songs per release. For the September month, we will be having releases with an Undertale theme (presenting Toby Fox)! Feel free to leave comments in the thread.

Metal Crusher
Musician: Toby Fox
Step Artist: juckter1
Song Genre: Arcade
Style: Game Ensemble
Difficulty: 39
Song Length: 1:04

Spider Dance
Musician: Toby Fox
Step Artist: Silvuh
Song Genre: Arcade
Style: Game Ensemble
Difficulty: 66
Song Length: 1:46

- The Game Management Team

Bi-Weekly Songs of the Week (Aug. 19, 2017)

Welcome again to another Bi-Weekly Release. Feel free to leave comments in the thread.

Salieri’s Laughter
Musician: Leaf XCeed
Step Artist: DarkZtar
Song Genre: Rock
Style: Metal
Difficulty: 79
Song Length: 4:43

Ereshkigal
Musician: ABE3
Step Artist: hi19hi19
Song Genre: Dance 2
Style: Drum’ N’ Forte
Difficulty: 77
Song Length: 2:20

welc.moe
Musician: potato-tan
Step Artist: PrawnSkunk
Song Genre: Misc
Style: 8-bit
Difficulty: 50
Song Length: 2:11

- The Game Management Team

Bi-Weekly Songs of the Week (Aug. 5, 2017)

Hello and welcome to our first Bi-Weekly Release in August! This time around there are three Monstercat songs of varying genres: Dubstep, Drumstep, and Glitch Hop. Feel free to leave comments in the thread.

3 Year Anniversary Mix
Musician: Didrick
Step Artist: Xiz & Razor
Song Genre: Dance 2
Style: Dubstep
Difficulty: 78
Song Length: 3:14

Valkyrie
Musician: Varien feat. Laura Brehm
Step Artist: hi19hi19
Song Genre: Dance
Style: Drumstep
Difficulty: 32
Song Length: 1:36

Nightfall (Original Mix)
Musician: Rogue
Step Artist: XelNya
Song Genre: Dance 2
Style: Glitch Hop
Difficulty: 67
Song Length: 1:57

- The Game Management Team