Songs of the Week, 1st week of April
Hey, did you enjoy the special release songs this past week?
Aside from those songs, we have 3 more regular songs of the week for all you crazy eyed players.
SotW #1 of this week is Mercury Lamp.
Song is by Shiki – This is his 3rd song, we have popular and cool songs, Air, Sepia.
yea this one is cool as well.
Steps are by macgravel – Although it’s his 2nd simfile for FFR, he’s a veteran of making sims.
It has 16th short streams at 147 BPM, and mini-gallops with doubles.
Difficulty rating is 4/6 (Very Difficult). You can find this song in Dance 2 section.
SotW #2 is My When Clones I Am Out Many.
Song is by Shadow of the Beat – It’s his first song stepped for FFR, he has other some unique
songs in his site.
Steps are by hi19hi19 – recently we have his steps every week, it’s 18th song released for public.
Steps are straightforward, maybe kind for every player. Difficulty rating is high 2.5/6 (Standard).
This song is currently in Funk section.
SotW #3 is Shihen.. This song is a secret song and for those who think
My When Clones I Am Out Many is too easy. You need 35,000 credits to play this song.
Song is by DJ Sharpnel, collaboration of the slow melody with fast rhythms is nice.
Some people may have already known this song since it’s a poplular song for a Stepmania simfile.
Steps by regular FFR artist Rebirth0, and it’s his 23rd song released for public on FFR.
BPM is 198, a bit slower than BB Evolution or BB Revenge but still fast enough. Big streams at the ending are challenging. Difficulty Rating is 5/6 (Very Challenging).
Have fun with SotW,
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
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,
