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Bomb the Base
So, it’s now 10 of 2am here in Philadelphia… but I’ve managed to get home from a nice night of drinking to add the aforementioned song by Nestlekwik. Should and sweet news post about it, sans links (cause i’m a little drunk!)
Bomb the Base is our first song by Paradise Decay, but it features vocals by Nina, our resident goddess of dance. It’s the 21st file released by Kwik, and my 21st really really easy AAA of a kwik file. 
You can find it in the upper left hand corner of Dance, for now. It’s a low 2.0, in my opinion… but i’m open to hear the opinions of others.
PS – you can hear more from Paradise Decay and more from Nina.
Yours Forever,
What?!? Kwik isn’t DEAD?!?
so… we all love those classic files by Nestlekwik. The ones that have been on the site for years longer than we have. The ones that seemingly were here before Synthlight himself. Classic files such as Secret Zombie Room, Breaking the Common, and Trip to the Moon. And yet… not one of his files is hard. He is the original dore.
Anyway… why do I mention all this? Well, first off, because Kwik is an awesome dude and deserves the recognition. But, more importantly, he made a new file for FFR. His first in at least 3 years. And it is REALLY REALLY REALLY hard. Well….. no. No, it isn’t really hard at all. a low 2.0/6, I believe.
So, if you’re looking forward to playing the new Kwik song, check back in some time this evening for more details!
-Tass
The Evolution of the Blood Rabbit Festival and its Revenge!
Happy Easter everyone! Yay! Colored eggs and peeps galore! Anywho… pokelda & Cyanite, our resident holiday simfile specialists, have come up with a special file for Easter. DT Rabbit Blood Festival is an uppity file by DJ Sharpnel (Warning: NSFW). 1085 notes long, 170bpm, 2:37 in length. Nothing more than 7 note bursts of 16ths… rates either a high 3.5 or low-mid 4.0 in difficulty, IMO. I’ve placed it in the upper left of Dance2 for the time being, subject to change.
And the other part of the title… BB Evolution and BB Revenge were added as public songs earlier this week. I’ll copy and paste what Rebirth sent to me to use as the story for them:
Today we have a special simfile release. What’s the occasion? We put up this sim today in honor of my birthday. Now today isn’t my birthday. My birthday is January 5th, 1991. I had asked to have a simfile put into the game in honor of my birthday three months ago, but I was turned down. Once Tass put a simfile up for hi19hi19s birthday, he said he would make it up to me and release one for me.
BB Evolution by AKHT is the song we put in the game today. It’s located in the third row of the second page of Arcade. Be warned though: this simfile isn’t easy. It’s rated a 5.5/6 (For Masters Only) simfile becuase of its many 16th streams and 8th jumpstreams at 210 bpm. It even has some 12th streams and one or two small 24th streams. The song is 5:00 long, one of the longest songs in the game. And it’s fairly difficult the whole time.
BB Revenge, is another song I stepped for this special release. This too is made by AKHT. BB Evolution isn’t really the special simfile I had in store for my birthday release… the special song I want to release is BB Revenge. This song is a very high 5.5/6 (For Masters Only) song. It is so intense at times, that it can almost be called a Guru song (6/6 in difficulty). While it is a little bit slower than BB Evolution (which is 210 bpm (BB Revenge is 204)), it is MUCH harder to play and score well on. I stepped this song trying to go exactly to the electric guitar, so it actually feels like you’re playing the song when you play the simfile. It has tons of non index friendly streams, a lot of trills, some 24th stream madness and some 8th jumps. It will be an extremely hard AAA for anyone. Even a Full Combo on this song would be VERY impressive.
AKHT is a musical artist that plays a bunch of video game music on an electric guitar, as well as some other stuff. Some people might recognize these songs, because BB Evolution and BB Revenge are songs from Final Fantasy V (FF5).
Have fun with these simfiles,
And in other news… don’t forget about the convention coming up in Bowling Green, OH on April 14th. That is THIS COMING SATURDAY. I’ll be there. Synth will be there. Jason will be there. So if you’ve ever had desires to meet (or kill?) a major chunk of the FFR Admin and Development team, now is your chance.
Finally, subscriptions. I added another new file today… Divinity. But only subscribers can access it, currently. Wanna test out the new song? Wanna test other new songs? Want to be part of the beta team? Subscribe today! You can also subscribe in person at the convention this weekend if you don’t have access to a credit card.
Much love & Purple Peeps,
Tass
The REAL Song of the Week #2: Vertex BETA
As most of you probably realized, Vertex BETA (now renamed as “Vertex BETA vrofl”) was an April Fools Day joke song, and we weren’t ever planning on having it stick around as a standard FFR file, no matter how many requests we got 
However, while the impossible-to-pass (although Darkshark gets credit for, as far as I know, being the only player to actually reach the truly impossible part) file is gone, we’re still releasing a *real* Vertex BETA file today. Back on the normal scale of difficulty, it still ranks a very high 11/12 (For Masters Only), and while this is nothing compared to the first version, it’s still nothing to sneeze at. The file (also stepped by yours truly) consists of long 200 BPM 16th streams mostly, with some breaks for 8ths in places. It’s located in its proper spot in the Dance2 genre, very near the bottom.
For those of you who are wondering what will happen to Vertex BETA vrofl, don’t worry…it’s on vacation, but it’ll be back…for a certain skilled few of you, anyway.
Happy FFR’ing,
Songs of the Week, final week of March
Our first Song of the Week is Let Mom Sleep, by Hideki Naganuma. It’s a relatively easy song (at least compared to the other Song of the Week), and it’s rated 7/12, or Difficult. The steps feature some very interesting rhythms, including a variety of colors of notes, from 4ths to 64ths. Also, see if you can find which other already existing FFR song takes a sample right out of this one! This will be stepfile author Cyanite‘s first file on FFR, though he has many others in the queue. Let Mom Sleep is located in Funk and will stay there permanently, unlike some others in recent FFR history.
Out second Song of the Week is Vertex BETA by Silvia. Now, often people ask what the hardest song in FFR is, and I’m forced to answer “One Minute Waltz“, even though there are tons of people who can pass that song with no problems, and a couple people have even come close to getting a full combo on it. I got tired of this, so I stepped Vertex BETA for FFR to raise the bar a bit. It’s…uh…hard. REALLY hard. Remember how we got rid of the blank 13/12 difficulty, even on songs like Grand Gallop Chromatique and One Minute Waltz? Well, we wouldn’t rate this one a 13/12 either…it’d be more like a 17/12, or perhaps higher. I don’t know, since I can’t pass it. But anyway, our ratings only go up to 13, so that’s what it’s at. Song features…uh…lots and lots and lots and lots of arrows. Yeah. The song is located at the very top of the Dance2 genre. Good luck.
Happy FFR’ing,
Who is Tom Lehrer?
Tom Lehrer is currently a professor at UC-Santa Cruz, where he has taught for 35 years. He attended Harvard back in the mid 1940s, which is where he began writing polital satire comedy songs. Elements is one of his most popular songs, merely a list of all of the elements found on the Periodic Table, as named in the late 1940s… and set to the music of the Major General’s Song by Gilbert and Sullivan. You can read up more on Tom Lehrer here.
I bring this special release to FFR for a few reasons: 1st, we need comedy on FFR. William Hung just doesn’t cut it for me. I’ve tried contacting some other comedic songwriters that I am familiar with from my days of listening to “Kid’s Corner” on University of Pennsylvania’s radio station back in the early 90s (such as Trout Fishing in America or The Firm [famous for "Star Trekkin'"]), but to no avail. Mr. Lehrer was kind enough to give us permissio to use a few of his songs, Elements included (albiet 6 months after I initially requested permission).
2nd: I feel that it is my duty to bring some culture and history back to FFR. That is why I have given such a strong push towards adding certain Classical pieces. The history behind the songs of Tom Lehrer (or Alan Sherman) are crucial towards the history of the US, tackling various subject matters of the time. Not to mention, they were inspriations to any more modern satirist, such as Wierd Al.
3rd: I just love the song. Modern Major General is such a catchy song, and it isn’t any different with a whole bunch of Elements as the words instead.
So, I bring you Tom Lehrer’s Elements. Located in Misc (upper left of Page 1 for the time being). Steps are by jimerax and are fairly straightforward. Non-static BPM, but fairly constant between 115-121. All 16th notes with a few jumps thrown in. high 3 or low 3.5.
Also, I have 1 other quite amusing Tom Lehrer song that I am looking for someone to step. It is called “Lobachevsky”.
Enjoy,
Tasselfoot & Fight Fiercely, Harvard!
FFR Official Average Rank
Greetings! Welcome to the now-official Average Rank thread. With the permission of Tasselfoot himself, I am creating a thread that will be updated weekly. Every saturday, expect to see your name move up in the lists. Please post in this thread if you feel you have the Average Rank to make it onto the list. I will simply verify that you, in fact, do have the Average Rank to make it onto the list by looking at your levelrank.php.
I will be making two separate lists, however. One list will strictly contain those who have paid and are now Subscribers to this wonderful game. The other, will contain those who haven’t. As you may well imagine, those who pay have quite the advantage, so it’s only fair to make the two lists separate. I will also put a little * next to your name if I know you have the ability to greatly improve your hindered Average Rank. Some people are quite lazy, such that they have a few songs that they haven’t played, and that is keeping their Rank way up there. The maximum Average Rank that the Subscriber List will have is 85, because it’s better to keep the list to a minimum. The maximum Average Rank that the Non-Subscriber List will have is 100, because we have all those Subscriber-only songs keeping us way up there.
As a little incentive, I will double-asterisk (**) the person who has improved their average rank the most that week, and that person will receive 750 credits personally from me. This may seem unfair because many people have higher Average Ranks, but eventually they’ll all be down there in the teens, with just as much trouble as the rest of you. This “Credit Transfer” will occur one day following update day. This is to give a chance to those who just haven’t had the time to play every song yet.
Subscribers and their Average Rank:
Previous Rank to Current Rank) Name – Current Average Rank – Last week’s Average Rank
1 
1) Shashakiro – 1.0511 – 1.0478
2 2) dAnceguy117 – 3.2372 – 3.5071
3 3) Jimerax – 5.3488* – 5.1818
7 
4) darkshark – 11.3674* – 20.6124
4 
5) Exag0n – 11.6325* – 11.3971
5 6) ZZ_Sprite – 12.5162 – 14.1913
6 7) XXXsmittyXXX – 15.5627 – 15.7224
8 8 ) Tasselfoot – 22.2604 – 23.2009
10 9) HammyMcSquirrel – 38.5116 – 40.6698
11 10) Doug31 – 49.7395 – 50.0956
12 11) stlunatic0124 – 66.8139* – 53.2296
9 12) Bahamut-X – 72.4093* – 36.2392
14 13) Silver_Brian – 78.7441 – 79.1148
Non-Subscribers and their Average Rank:
Previous Rank to Current Rank) Name – Current Average Rank – Last Week’s Average Rank
1 1) ieatyourlvllol – 5.8697 – 6.2631
2 2) xjohnieboyx – 8.8837 – 8.5502
3 3) ledwix – 9.7255* – 11.3732
4 4) eurostud4 – 16.0930* – 15.5215
5 5) Tayfun – 28.3581* – 28.4306
6 6) Hakulyte – Play EHHS – 41.0861
7 7) izlude77714 – 37.0651 – 45.8421
9 
smartdude1212 – 48.1395* – 53.4210
8 9) dawg4321 – 51.4837 – 49.3875
10 10) Ryusei_ – 63.9906* – 65.1674
11 11) sc979 – 89.1627* – 87.2775
See the FFR Official Average Rank thread in the forum for more info and a special thanks to xjohnieboyx for compiling this.
Seamus O’Toole… I’m Ready To Get Drunk!
And why is that, you might ask? Well, for one thing, it’s ST PATRICK’S DAY! For another, any holiday is an excellent excuse to release a simfile. So without further ado, I bring you Pretty Green Onions by DJ Sharpnel (and as always, Sharpnel’s site is NSFW). The file is pretty difficult and quite long. 1608 steps in 3:28 at 193bpm makes this file a Very Challenging (10/12 on the scale). You can find it in the upper left corner of Misc Page 1 for the time being, with it later being moved to its proper spot within Misc.
Little bit of a story behind this file. It all started by pokelda informing me that he was stepping PGO with all 64th arrows (64th arrows are green, for those unaware) as a tribute for St. Pat’s. I thought this had potential, but I needed to see the finished project still. Unfortunately, when Shash and I got down to playing it, it was very very difficult to read. So we were heartbroken, but had to turn down the file. BUT… it turns out that another one of our up-and-coming stepfile authors, Cyanite, had a similar idea, sans the green arrows. So we took his file, which was only finished 2 weeks ago, and threw it to the head of the queue, just in time for today.
So with all of that, ENJOY Pretty Green Onions. And if you’re of legal age to drink, have a beer with me on this most joyous of holidays.
-Tasselfoot & a pint of ale
Special Song release! Brightone by onoken
In case some of you haven’t noticed, a special file was released yesterday in honor of my birthday. YAY!
The song is Brightone, by Japanese artist onoken, and the steps are by me, hi19hi19. Brightone is a very upbeat and unique song, and the steps reflect that. I sometimes find it hard to resist getting up and dancing to this song when I play it.
The file can be found in the top left corner of Dance2. Its rating is 4/6 (Very Difficult), so many people will be able to enjoy a challenge while still having fun.
If you wish to discuss the song and file, post in this thread. You can also post your scores in this thread.
Have a good time!
~hi19hi19
