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Engine Support Update

For a while on Velocity’s engine we have added code that makes it impossible to get the location of the raw level files. Velocity has recently added this support into the legacy engine as well. Some time tomorrow, I will be moving the level files and hiding them so that it is no longer possible to download the raw level files. This will cause all legacy engine versions older than the latest release to no longer work, so if you have downloaded a standalone, please make sure it is the latest version.

Please note that anyone found hosting or distributing the raw level files for this site will be permanently banned.

Cheers,
aperson

November’s Most Popular Songs

Posted in FFR News, Game Announcements on December 5th, 201092 Comments »

November has come and gone, and with our first full month back, I thought I’d let you know the ten most popular levels of November!

1. Excite Bike
2. -Y
3. Guitar vs Piano
4. Policy in the Sky
5. Power
6. Zelda Stormy
7. Death Piano
8. Snowflakes
9. 300 This Is Sparta EXTENDED Mix
10. Chaoz Fantasy

Surprised?  Let us know what you think in the comments, and tell us what your favorite level is!

-lightdarkness

Bluenote/Synth Songs

For the uninformed: The bluenote/synth songs are a number of older songs from the earliest days of the site, where the files were actually made basically in notepad with some frame timings on them. As a result, they’re pretty wildly offsync, and as they predate the period where notes were coloured based on their timing, are blue noteskinned throughout.

What happened is that the list of synth/bluenote songs was moved from their various genres into the “Support” genre, which previously held only the three songs obtainable by buying the artist’s album in the FFR Shop.

The Bluenote/Synth songs, being in Support, are no longer public, which is why you’ll have lost public AAAs/FCs and the total public song count is down. Since they’re in the Support Genre right now, and nobody happens to own the tokens (since they don’t exist) the songs aren’t available for play, which is why you can’t find them.

Anybody who is a veteran, or still has subscriber benefits can see their ranks on the “Token level rank” page. Your scores still exist, the songs still exist, and you haven’t lost any AAAs or FCs.

The Support Genre is going to be renamed to “Legacy” containing all of the old songs that weren’t created under the new noteskinning/syncing system.

The Legacy Genre -will- be a public genre. The songs will be available to everybody, and once that is done, the songs will re-appear in the normal levelranks page, and the profile bars will re-update with the old number of songs, and your old AAA/FC counts.

Nobody has lost songs, nobody has lost AAAs, nobody has lost FCs, we’re just being careful with the databases as we get these moved over, taking it slowly, making backups, to ensure that no data is lost.

-Devonin

Welcome to Newvember!

For those who think things have been quiet around here, prepared to wake up and here the noise!  NSane and myself have gotten together and compiled an event for November SO BIG, we had to rename the month!

Newvember as we’re calling it is a song release event where we release a song every day for the rest of the month!  This event started a week ago, so there’s already a handful of songs in the game for you to play.

During the event all songs will be released into Funk, and will be moved from there after the release event.  Below are all the songs released thus far:

November 8th: Slaytronic
November 9th: Wish (Reprise
November 10th: Versatile
November 11th: You will die
November 12th: Chaoz Fantasy
November 13th: Saddest RMX
November 14th: Ripoff
November 15th: I’m Sick of Uprock
November 16th: Prelude No. 7
November 17th: Twist
November 18th: Asteroid Run
November 19th: Angel Island Remix
November 20th: DeVouR
November 21st: Tribe Attacker
November 22nd: XP Sounds Attempt
November 23rd: {A Change of Seasons}
November 24th: Determine
November 25th: Caixa D’Aqua
November 26th: Yeah Yeah Beats
November 27th: Humanism
November 28th: Sexperation
November 29th: Tageri
November 30th: Session

We will continue to update this post with the songs as they are released.  We hope you enjoy the event, and everything else me and NSane have planned for the coming months on FFR!

“We ain’t going anywhere…”

-LD & NSane

1st Season of the Official Ongoing League

Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the qualifying tournament for FFR’s first official ongoing League (now known as the OOL).

There is an awful lot to know about the OOL, so read the full rules in the official OOL rules thread.

If you want to participate, round 1 of qualifying has JUST started.  See the Round 1 thread to join!

Prizes have not been finalized, but there will be credit prizes for the top finishers in the qualifying tournament.

Best of luck to all our competitors!

-Devonin

Spreading the joy

Mirror is finally 100% fixed and with that I present a mirror mode for downscroll players as well! Key reverse is still required to use mirror, but that shouldn’t be that much of a problem. I also added a x1.65 speedmod for all you players between x1.50 and x1.75 that I left out last time.

Don’t forget to subscribe for all of these awesome features! Have fun!
-NSane

Speedmods and Mirror!

Mirror has arrived and it brought along with it new speedmods! The speedmods include, x1.875, x1.95, x2.15, and x2.20. Don’t think that these will be the only four, I’ll add more in the future but for now be patient. Mirror is finally in-game and set as a scroll, however there are some things you must do before using mirror.

First off, set your keys reversed in the settings menu, i.e. zx./ becomes /.xz or it won’t work properly. Second off, there is a bug in mirror at the moment, the arrow flashes on the receptors will appear for the opposing arrow you hit, this is most likely due to the fact that I reversed the arrow output to achieve the desired mirror effect without screen flip. Now don’t think I will let this bug go unnoticed I will be working on it from time to time to get it fixed and working properly, maybe even completely redo the way I originally created mirror to get it fixed, but in the meantime I think the speedmods will compensate.

Once again, this is for our FFR Subscribers, so two more reasons you should subscribe! Enjoy!

-NSane

Mute = No More Emotion

NSane is hard at work, and his newest feature is being tested on the beta for all our blue folk (aka subscribers). It is mute buttons for the menu music and the score screen music.  Each one has a button…  and they’re works in progress.  Expect them to save your choice in the near future.

Also expect the ability to select ANY song as your menu music soon.

Don’t forget to subscribe for these cool features and many more!

-Tass

Ask & Receive! TOKEN!!!

You guys all wanted a new token…  so LD decided to bring one to life.  All compliments can go to me…  all complaints to LD.  :)  

This token is an achievement token.  Get a positive score on every public song, then check your levelrank and you’ll unlock PianoCore by hi19hi19.  Song is by x0-000 and I think the trills and weird jump-16th/24th things makes it a low FMO, but I’m open to making it a VC.

Enjoy and continue to look for new stuff in the coming days and weeks!

-Tass & LD