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Did your CREDITS fall down an ABYSS (Downbeat Mix)? – #59

So, now that credits are back in order… we figured we’d release the 2nd skill token for tonight, and get back on track.

Abyss (Downbeat Mix) is a remix of the classic DDR song Abyss, done by Saxxonpike. Melodic 90bpm, it has plenty of 16th minijacks to keep you awake and focused. Stepfile is by Silver_Brian. I rated it a 6, overall… the only difficult parts are the minijacks, and even those go perfectly with the music and are easy to follow. The unlock req is another unique one… with a bit of anti-token to it, in that you have to get at least 1 good, 1 average, 1 miss, and 1 boo. Beyond that, there IS a skill element to it also. The unlock song is Horizon, another Saxxonpike song. On Horizon, you must get your goods * averages * misses * boos to be greater than 0 (hence they all have to be at least 1) BUT less than 5000 (aka, you can’t mash or have 100 goods and 50 averages, or 250 goods and 10 misses and 2 boos). Little bit of math involved, but as long as you’re fairly accurate and don’t mash, you should be fine. Horizon is in Misc.

Enjoy,

-Tass

Sunlight comes a month early, in Making April – #56 and special

{Sunlight} is today’s 1st skill token release. A light mix by cornandbeans, I’m pretty sure it is from some pop/rock song that I’ve heard, but I can’t place which. Stepfile is MeaCulpa‘s first, and I like it. Mixes 8ths with 12ths with 16ths and a few 24th bursts. Good job at keeping an almost 4 minute long song interesting and not repetitive. The unlock for this is something that a LOT of people have brought up to me as a good token req (and one I’ve had in mind since before skill tokens existed). You may say this is an anti-skill token, but I beg to differ. This is not a skill or an anti-skill token. It is a straight MASH token. It is a skill-less token. Get 1200+ boos on Silence while still passing to unlock. I recommend the quadmash, although the alternating double mash works best if your keyboard can’t register more than 2 keys at a time. Shouldn’t be that hard to get 1400+, IMO. I’ve done it a few times myself.

In other news, I’m sure you ALL have checked out Making April’s new snazzy custom Embedded FFR Player on their myspace. And I know you guys have been anxious to play these files on FFR as well. Well, starting today, you can. There are a total of 6 files of Making April’s that will be released over the next 3 days (3 versions of Driveway, 2 of Roses and Butterflies, and 1 of Jump In). Today we’ll release the Standard version of Driveway, stepfile by SulferDragon and later today we’ll release the Heavy version of Roses and Butterflies, stepfile by Neonatrias. All 6 will be found in Rock.

Check back later today for the 2nd of today’s releases. And consider the Making April releases as my apology for not getting Planetz and Love Cheat! out yesterday.

-Tass

EDIT: I’d like to make it known that while I feel that {Sunlight} does in fact sound similar to some song that I can’t place, I have been informed by cornandbeans that it is quite original and not a mix of anything.

The Planetz have re-aligned and you all are feeling Love Cheat’d – #54 and #55

I know, I know. No tokens yesterday. I’m sorry. LD is sorry. We’re all sorry. The Harry Potter craze got the best of the admins. Regardless, you now get FOUR today.

Yesterday’s 2 are now public… Love Cheat! is a masterpiece of J-Pop by MOSAIC.WAV, tipping the scales at 4 minutes and 28 seconds. If you like J-Pop, you’ll really enjoy Love Cheat! If you don’t like J-Pop, you still probably will like Love Cheat! And if not, the stepfile is quite good too (it’s by Rebirth0). A solid 10 footer, because as the song is 195bpm it causes massive 4-framers. 89 of them, to be precise. Few difficulty jump sections, but all in all not as hard as Sympathizer or some other big time 4-framer songs. The unlock for this is pretty easy, compared the the song’s difficulty… all you need to do is get 500+ combo on Youkoso! Himitsu no suzume bara ya! It’s found in Dance2.

PLANETZ is part 7 of the chain. Another ultra-hyper song by DJ Sharpnel, it is stepped by Brilliant Dynamite Neon. The file is full of long 8th jacks with alternating jumps and 16th jumpbursts at 190bpm. Only 2:12 long, it has 86 4-framers. Because of this, I listed it as an 11 (For Masters Only), but I’ll let you guys weigh in on whether you feel it really is an 11 or just a hard 10. The req for this is a bit harder, but still IMO easy for the file. Full Combo Clash at the Mountains with 9 or less goods. Also, check out the token for it; quite appropriate. Big thanks again to DigitalS3r4ph for the recent token images.

Check back soon for the 2 tokens for today! Also, the subscriber SotW is public as well. Apparently there is not a public SotW release today…. not really sure why that is.

-Tass

The Story of Snowman and Girl in Sunshiny ViennaCore – #52 and #53

Interesting story behind Story of Snowman and Sunshine Girl v2 (by Digital Explosion, the ORIGINAL artist for FFR). This is the 2nd time it’s been added to the game. I had originally added it about 3 months ago as a regular Token (this was before Skill Tokens), but then Silver_Brian came to me asking for it to be removed so he could fix it up some more. Then about 3 revisions later, here we are. And the file is definitely much better than 3 months ago. To unlock this 7 footer (for mostly 8th stream at 142bpm, but consistent 5 note 16th bursts throughout), Full Combo Story of Snowman and Sunshine Girl (Dance) with 0 boos. [Also, for subscribers, check out State of Emergency as today's subscriber SotW. By SynthWulf (aka E^2). Very fun and challenging 10 footer, full of 69 4-framers)]

Our second skill token of today is going to make a lot of people complain. It is our third auto-fail based skill token (hey, y’all didn’t want any more anti-tokens… we had to replace them with something!). ViennaCore is a kickin’ classical remix by JAKAZiD. I can’t figure out WHICH Classical song it is a remix of…. so someone please help me out with that in the comments. Thanks. I listed it as a low 10, because it is full of runningmen at 180bpm and also has a few 1-handed trills; it may be a high 9 though. Stepfile is the first by another new and talented stepfile author, eastsideman09. The unlock for this is a bit tricky to understand, so I’m going to explain it in full detail. 1. Play Classical Insanity (Classic). 2. Do Not Miss (note: I did NOT say Full Combo). 3. Get 2 or less averages and boos COMBINED (aka, averages + boos less than or equal to 2. 1 average and 2 boos is NOT going to unlock it). 4. Get between 995 and 1005 perfects and goods COMBINED.

So, 995 combo with 995 perfects and 0 goods, averages, misses, boos would unlock it. 1006 combo with 1000 perfects, 5 goods, 1 average, 1 boo, and 0 misses would unlock it too. So would 1000 combo with 900 perfects, 100 goods, 0 averages, 2 boos, 0 misses. BUT… 1000 combo with 950 perfects, 49 goods, 1 average, 1 boo, 1 miss would NOT unlock it. Nor would 990 combo with 980 perfects, 10 goods, 0 averages, 0 boos, 0 misses. Make sense? This isn’t one that I expect people to be able to get on the 1st try (unless you can AAA it, in which case, it’s still pretty easy).

Hatten Carnival!, another awesome DJ Sharpnel song is today’s public SotW. Stepfile is by Brilliant Dynamite Neon. Currently in Funk, but I’ll be moving it later today to the end of Dance, as it is a low 8 footer. Also, expect an easier v2 of Hatten Carnival later this month as a ST.

Enjoy,

-Tass

A Disconnected Clash at the Mountains! #50 and #51

Today’s new skill tokens are very easy and very difficulty. A 3 and an 8, to be specific.

Disconnected is another Kyle Ward alias Inspector K song, with a nice hardcore-ish sound D&B style. Stepfile by dore. Interesting note… we’ve received a submission for EVERY single song Kyle Ward has ever composed, save for his 3 new songs under his new lias Oscillator X. I suspect he will become the first artist to ever have ALL of their songs in our game, excluding by chance an artist that has only ever composed 1 piece. To unlock this simple file of 4th notes at 200bpm, Pass Robotix (Dance2) with less than 100 goods.

Clash at the Mountains is a cool Zelda: Link’s Awakening song by zircon, who you can find on ocremix.org. The file has it’s up and down parts too, with a few slow 4th note sections and a few sections of crazy 48th and 32nd rolls. Overall it’s an 8, as none of the rolls are more than 5 notes long. Stepfile is by SulferDragon. To unlock: Full Combo Dawn with 788+ perfects (aka, 5 goods or less. But you could also have 2 goods, 3 average, and 56 boos if you wanted to). Fear not… the chain is not over yet!

-Tass

2 Otaku’s and 3 Rings – #47, #48, #49

So, you guys are in for a treat. Sort of. You get the chance to unlock THREE songs tonight (no, there will not be 1 tomorrow. there will still be 2 every day for the rest of the month.) The catch, you ask? 2 of the 3 are REALLY REALLY hard to unlock. Including one so hard that it is the 1st requirement that I am unable to unlock myself.

Otaku Speedvibe is a crazy Hardcore Gabba song by DJ Sharpnel alias Neon Genesis Gabbangelion. The story behind this dual release, and file, is that hi19hi19 stepped a crazy ass version of this and submitted it to Shash and me for consideration. We said it was way overstepped, and he needed to tone it down. So he did, and we accepted it. But, he still kept his crazy version in the dwi for us to have. Then, Shash comes to me and says, “Tass, we need at least 1 retardedly hard skill token. Just 1.” So, I’m like…. ok, sure. Why not? Anyway, we decided to use hi19′s Otaku file for it. Only… I go to test it today, and it’s mad easy. And I’m like, “Crap. We can’t have this easy song as the unlockable for the crazy retardedly hard skill token…. LETS RELEASE THIS WITH AN EASIER REQ, AND USE THE UBER OVERSTEPPED VERSION FOR THE CRAZY REQ!” So, that is what I did. Both versions, Otaku Speedvibe [Heavy] and Otaku Speedvibe [Oni] are fairly identical files, just that Oni has a bunch of 212bpm 32nd rolls and 212bpm 16th jumpstream, while Heavy does not. Which is why I classified them as Heavy and Oni, as opposed to v1 and v2. Heavy has about 140 4-framers, and is a fairly challenging 10/12. Oni has 2 3-framers and around 220 4-framers… the 32nd rolls are by far the hardest part of the file. So much so that I’ve rated the Oni version 12/12, For Guru’s Only.

The unlocks for both are quite challenging. I refer you to this thread on FFR Difficulties, for your reference. To unlock Heavy, you must AAA one of the files listed as a “65″, aka… one of: Seven, the Brain of the Moon, Famouz, The Games We Played Part 4, Video Out A, Evil Approaches, Ruins, Amefuri Koneko, or Tribal Transcendency. For those who are observant, you’ll notice that Exciting Hyper Highspeed Star v2 is not on that list, despite being a 65. I decided to not include Tokens or Skill Tokens for the unlock req. So, you have 9 songs to choose from, and you have to AAA 1 of them.

The unlock for Oni is even harder. You have to AAA one of the For Masters Only songs. Silence, Vertex BETA, Sympathizer, k8107, Balloon Fever, Turkish March, HELLBEAT, Rottel-da-Station, Lawn Wake IV, Flight of the Bumblebee, Strangeprogram, AIM Anthem, BB Evolution, or Exciting Hyper Highspeed Star. And so you know… only 13 people have ever done it: Shashakiro (9: silence, vertex, sympathizer, k8107, balloon fever, hellbeat, lawn wake iv, fotbb, ehhs), darkshark (5: silence, vertex, k8107, balloon fever, fotbb), smartdude1212 (3: vertex, hellbeat, fotbb), danceguy117 (3: vertex, balloon fever, hellbeat), jimerax (2: silence, k8107), dynam0 (2: silence, balloon fever), skeleton-gotw (2: vertex, hellbeat), xxxsmittyxxx (2: vertex, sympathizer), cetaka (2: k8107, ehhs), bill_clinton (2: k8107, balloon fever), bahamut-x (2: balloon fever, ehhs), scottish (1: fotbb), and ledwix (1: k8107) AND, 5 of the 14 songs have never been AAAd (Turkish, Rottel, SP, AIM, and Evo)

MY NOTE TO THOSE CAPABLE OF GETTING THIS TOKEN…. PLEASE DO NOT SEND OUT CHALLENGES ON IT! YOU EARNED IT, NOT THE RANDOM PERSON YOU SEND A CHALLENGE TO ON IT! Also, any clearly fake AAA score who gets the token will get their account banned, have their scores wiped, and have their stats set to negative numbers.

And then to counter the 2 really really hard tokens, I give you a really really easy token. Three Ring Nightfall is a remix of the Casino Night Zone from the game Sonic 3 & Knuckles. This remix comes from Haydn, and is part of Project Chaos, a group working to put out a remix cd of music all from Sonic 3 & Knuckles. Stepfile is by Neonatrias. I rated it a 6 for its 5 note trills at 120bpm, which is the hardest part of the file. It is a bit long, at a shade over 3 minutes. I hope you enjoy this circus-esque mix based off of my favorite Sonic level music. To unlock Three Ring Nightfall…. pass Sonic 1 Final Zone, found in arcade.

Enjoy, and start with the complaining.

-Tass

Edit: Also congrats to our 2 newest members of the “I can AAA a FMO song”, Reach and Xiaounlimited.

Dance To Moroder & Angel Stays On This Ground – #31 and #32

Dance To Moroder is our 2nd song in game by Joy Electric. It’s a bit down tempo, yet still conveys energy that really does make you want to get up and Dance all the way to Moroder. Except that every time I try and go to Moroder, I wind up in Mordor. I think it is that stupid eye that keeps staring at me. Regardless. File is by jimerax, my main man always willing to do what is asked of him. He’s also the expert on file difficulties, and rated his own file a 4…. but I feel that it is a 5. So we can start the debate now on that subject. If you’d like to play the file to weigh in your input, just pass From Mount Chorus with 15 or less averages. FMC is in Misc.

Angel Stays On This Ground is another non-Vertex song by Silvia to be in game, also by Silver_Brian. The song has a very euro dance feel to it. No offense to Joy Electric, but ASOTG makes me want to Dance to Moroder even more than Dance to Moroder does. I rated the file a 7, but I could see it being a 6 also…. so, more debate. Also, the file kind of ends abruptly, about 2 seconds before the music does. Not really sure why, but that’s that. To unlock ASOTG, play Water Like Pudding. Get EXACTLY 243 perfects on it. 0 goods, 0 averages, 0 misses, 0 boos. I’ll let you guys figure out how to do that.

Enjoy

-Tass

Chardish edit: Quit your hatin’, Tass, you know you love Joy Electric. How could you not?

Dawn of the Giggles Color. #29 & #30

Sorry for the lateness of the tokens…. but it’s still only 9:30 here on the West Coast. Anyway…

Dawn is another Trance song by Kyle Ward alias KaW. File is by Triplex72, and has the distinction of being in the queue longer than any other song. EVER! (Except July, but that doesn’t count, since I specifically held off on releasing it for a reason. Dawn was just random that it was never released earlier, mostly). So big thanks to Triplex on being so patient on getting his first file in the game. Difficulty is set at an 8, mostly for length. The song is 3:30, bunch of gallops. Unlock req: Get a FC on The Pylons Are TRAP BALLS with at least 546 perfects.

Color of Giggles is a real fun song by sleeplessdragn, one of our in-house music extraordinaires. The song is 200bpm, full of upbeatness. Rated a 10 for its 4-framers, but overall it doesn’t have any long streams; just many long bursts and 8th chains. File is by dAnceguy117, his 2nd. The unlock req is interesting on this one…. Shash came up with it. Your combo must be 5 times greater than your combined total of goods, averages, misses, and boos on Vertex BETA (along with passing it). Aka, a Full Combo (1755) with 200 goods, 100 averages, 0 misses, and 60 boos would NOT unlock it (200+100+60 * 5 = 1800). BUT, a combo of 500 with 20 goods, 20 averages, 20 misses, and 20 boos WOULD unlock it (20+20+20+20 * 5 = 400).

Enjoy! And check back again tomorrow for 2 more Skill Tokens, hopefully earlier in the day.

-Tass

2 Skill Tokens & An Artist URL Update!

I’ve been busy today… in addition to the 2 skill tokens, I’ve spent most of my morning updating our list of URLs for all of FFRs artists. After all, exposure IS the reason why these bands/artists give us permission. Still missing some, mostly ones from 3+ years ago or japanese artists… so I’m going to rely on you guys to help me out. If you know of a URL for an artist that is currently missing a URL, please PM me the link. You can view all of this information in THREE different places…. The FFR Song List (does not include Secret, Token, or Skill songs), The Genre List (does not include Secret), or you can view the information from each level’s individual levelstats page.

Again… if you know a working URL for one of the bands or artists that I am missing, please PM me the information. As you guys are unable to view the Secret genre songs except individually via their levelstats, the artists from that genre that I’m missing are: Kil, Sampling Masters CHANG, DJ Destruction, DJ Lain, Jordan Neff, DJ RageVI, and DJ Bladerunner. As you can see, I had trouble with people who had DJ in their name.

As for the 2 skill tokens! Heavy Danger is from a popular newsground artist named Manmademusic. Pretty cool sounding song, if you ask me. Little rock-ish, little techno-ish. File is medium difficulty; I listed it as a 7. Made by SulferDragon. All you have to do to unlock it is AAA Free Space, which is found in Dance.

What-ever is our first non-VertexBETA song by Silvia. I’m certainly no expert on music genres (as I’m sure you all know by now), but it has a bit of an epic trance sound to me, at least in the beginning. Anyway, before I continue to show off my lack of musical knowledge, I’ll digress. File is by Silver_Brian and is again of medium difficulty; again rated a 7 by yours truly. To unlock this fun little piece, pass Delirium with a 400+ combo. Delirium is in Dance2.

I think that is about it for now… subscribers can expect a song later tonight. Assuming Kit- is finished sending me updates on it. I think she’s given me about 12 so far. Everyone else can expect a subscriber song to go public some time on Sunday.

-Tass & LD & something that we’ll let you come up with yourself.

EDIT: Thank you to the multiple quick responses… I now have DJ Destruction (who I found, but thought it was the wrong person), Jordan Neff, and DJ RageVI. I have a URL for DJ Lain, but I think it is the wrong person. Also, in case you are lazy… I’m also missing: DJ Kankaoh (kwik, any ideas?), Analog Boy, Chuk & Gek, Good Job Company, Prophecy, Dj GULIT (kwik?), DJ Ascent, The Red Rebel, WipEOut, Braille & J5, Richee, Just Will, F.T.S., D.I. – LVC Producitons, Leroy Watkins Jr, KgZ, Wlokos, AKHT (I know of their 1 page non-english website, but I want something that is actually useful), Excluded (is it the offbeat’s site?), DJ Plaeskool, Sektone, Hiro, Dissonance, DJ Naphouse, beatMARIO, Dan & Jea, Kajmaster Kajet, and Paraoka. That is the FULL list of artist’s I’m missing, minus the ones that clearly don’t have them.

EDIT2: Again, big thanks… still missing: DJ Kankaoh, Analog Boy, Chuk & Gek, Prophecy, Dj GULIT, DJ Ascent, WipEOut, Braille & J5, Richee, D.I. – LVC Productions, Wlokos, AKHT, Excluded, Sektone, Hiro, Dissonance, DJ Naphouse (found out this is our very own FishFishRevolution), and beatMARIO. And I’m sure once Rebirth0 and hi19hi19 see this, half of these will be taken care of.