Scary Kids Scaring Kids, hooked on FFR. Plus Skill Tokens 68 and 69!!
In other news, I went to Warped Tour yesterday (Friday). In case you dont know what Warped is, basically its a huge U.S. Tour of mostly rock/screamo/hardcore bands. Its one full day, per city, of nonstop music. Even if you’re not into this kind of music, i still recommend going next summer. Anyways, point of this? I recieved FFR shirts to personally deliver to Scary Kids Scaring Kids. So I met with them and got a few pictures with them. Expect more from SKSK and FFR in the near future! And check out The World As We Know It in the Rock genre.
Off like a prom dress to more concerts,
Skill token update….
Made in Innocent is a song by TaQ, and in this version is remixed by Onoken. Stepfile is by dore. It’s 120bpm, but is mostly 24th gallops, so it feels like 180bpm. I rated it a 9 overall; 0 4-framers, but 24ths always tend to throw me off a bit, like Ruins or Amefuri. To unlock, get 9 or less goods on each of these 3 songs (and Full Combo!): Below the Surface, Save Me, and Parachute. Gotta do them all in a row, in that order. And double check your profile’s last 10 games played after each game to make sure it recorded properly!
Kyuin is our 9th and 2nd to last song in the massive chain. It is a long J-Pop song by MOSAIC.WAV, and to me, sounds strikingly similar to Love Cheat! Stepfile is by hi19hi19… and to paraphrase his description of the song/file… it’s a very annoying 4 minute long song, but the file to it is quite good nonetheless. I rated it an easy 11, For Masters Only, because of its length and 153 4-framers. It will be a challenge to FC for most. Then again, it’ll be an even bigger challenge for most just to access it in the first place. Step one is to unlock Mou Uta Shika Kikoenai (forever abbreviated to Mou Uta). From there, you need to not only Full Combo it, but get 4 or less goods in the process.
Have Fun!
-Tass
LoveHateHero – FFR’s 2nd Embedded Player
Shortly after seeing Making April’s embedded FFR player was added to their page, LoveHateHero was quick to want one on their myspace as well. LoveHateHero is a melodic mix of hardcore, screamo and even some metal, signed to Ferret Music since late 2005. The band has had their trials of ups and downs, including major US tours and new band members. Earlier this year, the band released their most recent CD “White Lies”, which can be found just about everywhere.
LoveHateHero is now the second band to have an embbeded flash player on their myspace. Included on the player are Red Dress, Amity, and Goodbye My Love. Files were by Talisman and BEN.(SPEIRS) 7.5. Not on the player is a harder version of Red Dress, by MeaCulpa. These four songs will be released onto FFR in a few days.
-DrugstoreCowboy and Tasselfoot
Better Late Than Never, Right? #66 and #67, plus SotW’s
Real quick, as I’m tired and want to go to bed… these were all added hours and hours ago, if you checked the Skill Token page.
Cold Breath is a Shiki song, well known in the SM circles. Steps are by Rebirth and are full of 200bpm 8th jacks. 77 4-framers, mostly clumped together. Fun song though and quality steps. Low to mid 10 footer. Easy req, comparatively. Get 600+ combo on Mercury Lamp (Dance2) with 3 or less misses and 3 or less boos (yes, you must pass).
FFR Embeddable Widget hits Facebook
Fast update to the FFR Widget, user MalDON has helped us out by building a solid FFR based application up on Facebook. You can embed the FFR Widget Application by simply installing it and it will show up on your profile.
Hopefully we will see a build of SpinItUP! up there soon too, if things go well. Give us your feedback and look forward to some additional features made available as well with the widgets overall. Make sure to give MalDON props for his hard work!
Chips,
#64 and #65 – Stunt Flying & Prelude to Rites
Stunt Flying (Sanxion7 Mix) is a remix of a song that is apparently by a Dr. Flowershirts, but I can’t find any information about the original besides via Saxxonpike’s site. Cool song, overall. Many of you may know it from StepMania. File is by Silver_Brian. I rated it an 8 for its streams at 142bpm, but I’m thinking it might be a 7. To unlock, play another Saxxonpike song, Palindrome, and Full Combo it.
FFR Embeddable Version 1
I will make this quick and easy for everyone. Yesterday we announced the SpinItUP!2 Embeddable Widget. Everyone loved it but everyone kept asking “Where is the FFR Embeddable Widget?”.
Well I am glad to say that the FFR Embeddable Widget is also ready to deploy. The base version has 7 common and recognizable songs from FFR. In the near future we will also allow you to pick the song or songs that you want to display in the embeddable version. This will be a product that we continue to expand continously. You can find the embedded player code for myspace, facebook and your personal pages by visiting the FFR Embeddable Widget Page. Enjoy! More to be released very soon with this player!
We will also be promoting another new band for FFR embeddable version tomorrow night! Don’t miss it!
Enjoy,
-Tass and that Synthlight guy.
Sail AwaY To A Chinaman – #62 and #63
Chinaman is another completely unique song by Torley Wong, in a way that only Torley can do songwriting. Stepfile is by our resident unique music guy, pokelda. I rated it a 7 for its 1 unique roll section that is a bit difficult, probably a 6 for the rest of the file. Almost 3 minutes long too. Fairly easy req too, just get a 700+ combo on the song Prototypical, found in Misc.
Sail AwaY is an interesting story, as are so many of our simfiles. First, it’s by resident in-house musician Draigun. You can listen to his music here. What makes this interesting is that we’ve received more submissions on this song than any other. By a large margin. In one testing batch we had SEVEN submissions for this song… not to mention a few submissions for it in other batches. Basically, this means you will not find a better stepfile for this song, period. We’ve been through about 10 of them total, and this one rose to the top. It’s by hi19hi19 and it beat out files by Rebirth0, jimerax, macgravel, and more. To unlock this song, you need Full Combos on 3 fairly similar 8th note stream songs from 3+ years ago. FC Secret Zombie Room (Secret), Massive (Dance1), and Breaking the Common (Dance1) in a row to unlock Sail AwaY.
Enjoy,
-Tass and that Synthlight guy.
Another Night, Another Feature. SpinItUP!2 Embeddable Player Release
We have been getting fantastic responses and feedback from everyone regarding the new SpinItUP!2 release with realtime multiplayer . Xelius has been working double duty to keep up with the current projects I have him working on while somehow handling requests and suggestions from everyone. The public beta release has been a huge success with very few bugs. If you have not already given it a spun (hey, no pun intended.. I swear) then go ahead and play it by CLICKING HERE.
As if that wasn’t enough, we have crafted a special version that you can use to embed SIU and any level of your choice on an page outside of FFR. You simply select your preferred dimension, select a level and the embed code is created automatically for you. All you have to do after that is paste the code on your myspace, facebook or homepage elsewhere. We will routinely update this embedded player automatically and you will instantly see the upgrades on the embedded pages. Some of our first features will be a play counter for your embedded SIU!2 compared to other sites among other stats comparing your embedded song to others. You can thank Jasonkey for this one. He crafted this page today for your gaming pleasure. You can find the embedded player code by CLICKING HERE
One last thing I would like to mention is that if you are a band or artist and you are interested in being promoted via custom graphics and levels with this embedded player, we are willing to entertain your requests if the right conditions exist. For more details please send any URL’s and other data or bio about your band/group/artist info to our ffrcontact email address available at the bottom of this page.
Cheers,
Synthlight, Light, Synth and Cheers
Mou Uta Incognito v2! – #60 and #61
Mou Uta Shika Kikoenai is a Progressive Rock song by dBu (I believe it is from a Touhou game, but not 100% sure). Check out dBu here. Stepfile is by Kotarouchan, his first. File is a low 10, with mid 160s bpm trills and jumpbursts for almost 3 minutes. Unlock is a hard one, as we’re getting pretty close to the end of the chain now. Full Combo PLANETZ to unlock Mou Uta Shika Kikoenai.
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