How Can I Help FFR Grow?
As most of you know by now, we are having our first convention in less than 2 weeks! (April 14th). We are currently in a sort of planning phase for what we will bring with and what we will have setup. We have secured not just a table but an entire room at the convention. Room #106 to be exact. We will be bringing computers, projectors, DDR hardpads, Merchandise and basically anything we can stuff in our vans. We plan on doing MANY more of these conventions during the year and this convention will sort of be a learning experience for us. It will be something to help us gear up for all the conventions coming up. Actually, it would be fantastic if we could travel over the summer and do a few a month. 
Anyway, we are trying to get buttons, shirts and all kinds of things printed for sale and giveaways at these conventions. But in a game that you can play 100% for free, our methods of earning any revenue for these types of things is seriously limited. This is why we came up with a section of FFR that allows you or anyone who supports FFR a spot on the beta team. The beta team typically has access to songs about 2-3 weeks early if not more, they have direct input to the game development, access to the active subscribers forum and many other things. It is the beta team that ultimately makes sure that songs are on sync and the functions work correctly.
In the last few weeks, the beta team helped test things like:
Arrow Scroll Rate Changes
Keymapping tests (we are getting there!)
Tokens
Skill Tokens
Auto-Fail Settings
Our newest Alpha Game: Nucleus
Basically, anything new or in development goes through them first.
Why am I pitching this so hard today? Because I am asking that if you ever thought about helping FFR out, now is the time. Anything you can do is very appreciated and would contribute directly to not only our development of this free game, but how many and what conferences we attend. Our goal always has been to give the people as much as we can for free. If you want it in technical terms, that equals about 222,450,376 hits per month and rising.
Please consider joining and helping us prepare for the convention by clicking on the FFR Subscribers Link Here.
Thank you all for your support. We are growing and it is thanks to everyone who supports and advertises FFR for us each day.
Cheers,
Synthlight, JasonKey & All of our generous Staff.
Skill Tokens Official List!
Regarding the FFR Skill Tokens, it looks like it is a resounding YES to an official list. We are in the process of building an official list and will be giving you guys a link to that today. When you see the list, you will also notice quite a few new FFR Skill Tokens added to the list. It should keep you busy for awhile.
Can you imagine trying to pass a song with 100% goods? Ahhh the challenges that await.
Cheers,
Synthlight
P.S. Thank you everyone for being so patient with us tonight. Here is the link to the FFR Skill Tokens Official List:
http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/tokens/skill_token_info.php
Skill Tokens Official List?
This will most likely be a heated debate. Should we make the FFR Skill Tokens available as a public list or should we continue to keep them wrapped in mystery? As the next few days approach, we have the capacity to add many new FFR Skill Token levels to FFR and I would like to know everyone’s opinion.
* Possible new skill token release tonight.
Cheers,
Synthlight
Song of the Week #3: That Tethnic Vibe
Hey guys, did you enjoy April fool songs.. rofl Vertex BETA and REAL Vertex BETA?
yea, I enjoyed them… really, seriously.
Some of you guys might have already noticed, another SotW was released, That Tethnic Vibe.
Song is by Re_Synthesis, healing music. He has some other cool songs with mainly pianos, strings, synths on his myspace page. Steps are by hi19hi19, go well with the music and fairly easy. Difficulty Rating is 2.5/6 (Standard).
This song is currently in Funk section.
Have fun with SotW,
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,
12th Token.. Maybe the easiest ever!
I was trying to think of something fun for you guys to do on an otherwise uneventful April 1st and I came up with this token. It adds a completely new twist in your way of thinking and may throw off some of the regular token users. We really appreciate you guys visiting our site and appreciate the fact that many of you call FFR your second home. Do something nice for your parents today and clean your rooms. That would freak them out on April Fools! Enjoy yourselves and don’t spend too much time indoors.
Oh yeah.. Lets get you guys started with this for token news… Click Here Never a boring moment here at FFR.
Cheers,
Synthlight
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!
SpinItUP! 3 More Spinfiles, and a Resorted List!
As I promised, three more spinfiles are up this week before I head out on vacation.
Our first one is another MixMasterLar spinfile:
/DJS\ – Comic Bakery [Difficulty: 3] Song Length: 2:05
The second, by newcomer lord_carbo, and what may possibly be our new most difficult:
Saskrotch – Battleman Zero’s Theme [Difficulty: 8] Song Length: 1:45
And one, both song and spinfile, by yours truly
iPatcH – Lovin’ Lime Land [Difficulty: 4] Song Length: 2:34
Also, I resorted the song list for the time being to see how more… “right” it feels.
Here is the difficulty list in its new state:
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