One Point Five MILLION!!!!!!!
I wanted to have some Synthlight-esque post for you guys for us hitting 1.5 million members, but clearly I wouldn’t be able to do it properly. Instead, lets reflect back on some past milestones and look forward to 1.5 million more members as we continue to plow ahead with around 1000-1500 new users each and every day.
Feb 10th, 2005: 500,000 Members (And one amazingly awesome plaque!)
Oct 10th, 2006: 1,000,000 Members
And now, on May 17th, 2008, we want to congratulate xxcheerxbabyxx as our 1.5 millionth member. I want to personally thank each and every one of you guys and gals for making the past 5 years the best years of my life, and I can’t wait to keep making new stories like this one down the road.
Oh yea…  I’ll come up with some kind of contest to run for later this evening. So stay tuned. OMFG CONTEST.
-Tass
Lucky 999 In This Edition Of “Tass Is Bored, EVERYONE Wins!”
So, some people have been bugging me to release some of the old widget-only files onto FFR. But, like with anything, I need a good excuse. I figured, I would add a few of them in conjunction with the 1000th levelID on FFR… but 1000 is so cliche. I was a bit bored this morning, so I figured I would add some levels to FFR. LevelIDs 996-999. And since 999 gets no love, we’re going to celebrate 999 with 4 public releases of widget-only files.
New public releases:
-Power by ZeroFuser. Our 1st song by ZeroFuser since Gradeus, about 3 years ago! Stepfile is by hi19hi19… and it is a doozy! Definitely the new hardest file in FFR. You can find it in the upper left hand corner of page 1 of Dance
-What’s What is a cool dance track with some hip-hop undertones by Japanese artist Yu. Stepfile is by bmah and is an 8. You can find it in the upper left hand corner of page 1 of Dance2.
-Get Um Up by Army of Freshmen. A fairly typical modern rock song, Get Um Up will be making you get your hands up… which makes playing the file hard. Rated a 6. Found in the upper left hand corner of page 1 of Rock. File by bluguerrilla.
-Outside the Skies is our first musical composition by stepfile artist Stargroup100. Stepfile is by behanjc. The song is quite melodic. I rated it a 7 for the 48ths and the long jumpstream, albeit at a low BPM. You can find it in the upper left hand corner of page 1 of Misc.
Nice Guys DO Finish First!
Nice Guys Finish First is really just one guy named Russ. He creates music that blends Powerpop with Eurodance and Electronica. All of his music is positive and fun and great to dance to. It can cheer up just about any bad day! Nice Guys Finish First’s debut full-length is now out on iTunes and AmazonMP3.
The NGFF widget will be live on his MySpace soon, and is currently playable on FFR. Play the Nice Guys Finish First widget!
-Tass
Cinco de Mayo!
So, any excuse to clear the queue up a bit, right? Unfortunately, I couldn’t find a song that related to Mexico or the number 5 or May. So, I decided to go with Endless Altercation. We’ll say that Cinco de Mayo ended that altercation. Whatever… it’s a stretch, and you guys don’t care anyway.
Currently located in the top of page 1 of Dance2, Endless Altercation is a song by our own KgZ. The stepfile is a lot of 16th jump-triplets and jumpstream. Not too fast though, so it’s rated a 9. It is also the first file in-game by smartdude1212!
Songs that came out this week: Metal Gear Solid Piano Mix by RaustBlackDragon. Stepfile by hi19hi19. Easy and melodic 4-footer, currently in Funk… will soon be in Arcade. Say It Right (Sanxion7 mix) by Sanxion7 (original song by Nelly Furtado). Stepfile by Eastsideman09. Straight-forward 8-footer, also currently in Funk, likely move soon to Dance2.
-Tass
Oh yea we did.. a new FFR Token Challenge.
Check out my new level! It has all you need.
Remember, sometimes searching for the answer is only half the battle — you need to do a little unpacking to get to the real answer within.
What? A Token You Say? Where?!?
Well, I can’t tell you yet. Check back for…
EDIT: Also, Skill Token #48 has been updated to reflect the difficulty changes from the avmiss fix. There are now 15 FMO songs that will unlock Otaku Speedvibe [Oni]: Novo Mundo, Lawn Wake 4, Lawn Wake 1, None Would Escape, Divine Suicide of K, Melonman’s OP, K8107, Southern Cross, Choprite, Midnight Dragon, Silence, Rottel-da-Station, Epidermis, AIM Anthem, and Hajnal. These are the current 15 songs that are difficulty 76-78 on our 99 point scale. We will be updating the Otaku [Heavy] ST as well down the road.
The Mirrors! And New Songs.
We wanted to let everyone know that profiles and the game should now be working across all mirrors. Synth lost a lot of hair figuring out what the problem was… and he doesn’t have that much to lose!
Also, has everyone gotten Rick Roll’d this weekend? You should have… if not, you haven’t been playing enough FFR. ReRicked was released on Friday, and is a techno remix of Never Gonna Give You Up done by KgZ. Stepfile is by SulferDragon. Released today is Xeno-Flow by beatMARIO. Steps by bmah.
Finally, if you notice some songs being moved around a bit over the next few days… don’t worry. That is just jimerax doing some house-cleaning after the avmiss fix. I’ll make sure to let everyone know when he’s finished so you can thank him for his hard work.
-Tass
FFRock + Disturbed = Yes
Since the moment I started FFR over 5 years ago, I have had a short list of milestones that I had hoped to accomplish. 500,000 members was one of them, engaging and building an online community was another. Among my list (and I am not kidding) was to have Disturbed as one of our artists featured in one of our games.
And today we have just that, full permission from the band.
Chicago being my hometown meant I had a certain admiration for Disturbed. I felt that during the mid to late 90′s and beyond, they kept rock alive in this city and across the nation. Always bringing a distinct musical and vocal flavor to everything they touched. Now here they sit, validated veterans of rock that understand how times are changing. They see the value in reaching out to online music communities and games like FFR and Rithum. This is where the youth lives and the youth needs to be exposed to their music.
Occasionally I will push an artist that we believe in over here at FFR. Today though I going to whore out the links because these guys deserve every bit of it. It’s truly an honor. Thank you to all the band members that made this possible.
Click here to pre-order the new Disturbed Album coming out on June 3rd
Click here to visit the Disturbed1.com Homepage
Click here to visit the Disturbed myspace page (check out the FFRock Widget!)
We are also featuring the very first FFRock widget here on FFR. FFRock is a completely backwards compatible 5 key supporting widget that was built in admin castle while we spent 2 months in California. As time goes on, expect FFRock to evolve. (oh the plans we have) All of you veterans make sure you scroll down to the heavy levels! Expect some hard as hell FFR levels to follow in the near future.
You can play the Disturbed FFRock Widget HERE
Thanks to everyone who took part in this project, you know who you are. Keep watching, this is going to be a fantastic year.
Cheers,
Synthlight
MFA? WTF is an MFA?
Tonight I will be giving you guys and gals a sneak peak at a little something special. It’s the thing above this post that shows a huge RITHUM logo.
It’s important to note that this MFA player is not meant for FFR. It is designed to work within the new Rithum.com and for artists and bands on myspace itself. It is here because I value your input more than you know.
Also, the FFR widget is currently being stripped out of this MFA and replaced with a brand new widget game, which we will be posting on the front page sometime here today. Of course the new game deserves an amazing artist and we will deliver on that front as well.
Play, listen, test and enjoy. It will be gone tomorrow.
Cheers,
Synthlight
***P.S.*** I wanted to mention that FFRock is currently being implemented into the MFA and is being wired up so that it displays the correct data. Later tonight we are going to announce the first group to use the FFRock style widget. There are hints out there if you care to look around the web.
