Songs of the Week, 4th week of March
SotW #1 is Jurs OP, the song name means “Opening Theme of JurseyRider734“.
Song is by Kil – He is well known for OP of FFR people and Gaussian Blur series. Also he is a stepfile maker for Stepmania.
Steps are by hi19hi19 – Now one of the authors who have released stepfiles for FFR the most.
It’s a piano solo song, basically slow but some parts/rhythms are fast and complex.
Difficulty rating is 4/6 (Very Difficult).
You can find this song in Classic section.
SotW #2 is Tribal Revival. Originally this song is for R2, then also released for R1
this time. In the future more R2 songs will be in R1.
Song is by Prophecy – He has provided cool songs like Pondering Stuff, Tribal Transcendency,
Snowflakes for FFR, and Tribal Revival is one of them.
Steps are by Silver Brian – An upcoming FFR stepfile author, many songs stepped by him are now in the queue of future FFR songs.
It’s a bit harder song because it has fairly many jumps and a mini-jack.
Difficulty rating is 4/6 (Very Difficult) as well.
This song is currently in Funk section.
Have fun with SotW,
JX
Come Play With Us A Success!
So a few weeks ago we started our “Come Play With Us” program. Basically this allowed anyone who wants a t-shirt but doesn’t have the cash to help out FFR in other ways. In return for your help, we send you a shirt! It worked very well and continues to work well. Everyone placing CPWU links seems to be getting inbound links.
This week alone we sent out 2 new t-shirts. One all the way to Israel and another to a member in the US. Congrats to heyitsmee and lxd for working hard and FOLLOWING THE RULES with the links. We are happy to have had the opportunity to mutually benefit each other. And from the looks of it, we have additional people creeping closer to that 5000 link mark.
For those of you who don’t know. “Come Play With Us” is a way to help out FFR by helping us get new people interested in the site. Basically you place a specific link on your blog, myspace or other sites(follow the rules!). Once 5,000 legit unique people click on that link, you will get a t-shirt coupon sent to you. No charge for shipping, no charge for processing.. nothing.. Just pick your shirt, enter the coupon and order. You get the satisfaction of helping FFR grow and at the same time get an extra shirt from your favorite site. 
Win/Win
Want to use a “Come Place With Us” link on your site? It’s easy, just go here:
http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/signature/SiggyEdit.php
You can copy the generated link right out of there and place it on your sites. It couldn’t be easier!
Thanks to everyone who has participated. We have done so well that we may be lowering the requirement of uniques this week in order to make getting a shirt even easier!
Cheers,
Synthlight
Token #10 Makes It’s Appearance
I would like to thank token #10 for participating and being a part of the FFR community. If you are looking for token #10, I really can’t help you. You will have to look to other people tonight for your clues.
Cheers,
Synthlight
Spontaneous Contest #96.3 – We Have A Winner! – g4z33b0!
I commend everyone’s bravery tonight. Getting your parents to take a picture for some random internet site is not easy. Personally, I think all of you who participated deserves some sort of special little prize.
Ok.. Where were we.. Ahh! Yes.. The winner. DarkRoa, your father took a compelling picture and I do appreciate the fact he shaved his mustache for the occasion. We will consider him second place tonight. Especially since you already have a T-Shirt! Samurai swords and Bucket for constipation also came in a close second. Hell.. EVERYONE came in a close second. Even mad scary looking dad with no shirt! Special shout out to the mom who covered her eyes because she was scared of the internets!
I cannot believe I am putting this on the front page of FFR.. Wow.. nearly NSFW. g4z33b0‘s mom blew away the competition. Literally.. I think most of us were so shocked that we didn’t even know what to say. Well Ms. g4z33b0, you have earned a rightful spot on the front page of FFR. Enjoy the publicity and your son is going to laugh it up while wearing his new shirt.
Behold! The power of FFR!
Thanks again to everyone for participating. I will be PM’ing all the people who participated tonight and giving them a special little e-gift sometime very shortly (few minutes). Others will want what you have, it will be your decision to let them have it or keep it to yourself.
Enjoy the night
Cheers,
Spontaneous Contest #96.3 Starts…. NOW! Win a T-Shirt with a Special Secret Message
Yup Yup, Welcome back to Spontaneous contest night!
I have come up with a photo contest inspired by all the ideas sent to me and I am looking forward to the originality that you guys always bring. You can consider tonight’s contest a part 2 of a contest that we held last year. Someone (who shall remain anonymous) was nice enough to send this idea to me via PM when I was asking for ideas. What do you have to do? Read on.
Tonight will not be about you, no sir! Tonight will be about your parents. You must simply take a picture of your parents or parent holding a piece of paper with this phrase written on it “FFR gives me constipation”.
Bonus points will be awarded for interesting expressions and creative poses!
Photoshopped images will not be accepted, so power up those little space age digital cameras and get snappin! You have 1 hour (8pm Central Time) to get the photos in!
What will you win? What else besides a fantasticalagistic FFR T-Shirt with a special mystery message written on it from your truly! (hint: the message will unlock something).
–> Click Here to post your images.. <--- If you don’t have an external account, you can always upload your photos into your profile and then embed them into the contest thread.
DOOOO IT!! GO!!
GO!!!
Cheers,
Synthlight
*Edit Synthlight 7:22PM* – YES! The photos are starting to roll in! Remember, you have to sell this idea to your parents! You have to make them understand that you are competing for new clothes. This means they will save money!
*Edit Synthlight 7:55pm* 5 minute warning bell!
*Edit Synthlight 8:00PM* Contest is closed! Thank you everyone for your entries! The winner will be announced in just a few minutes!
Spontaneous Contest #96.3
Please charge your cameras. Because tonight, IT’S GOING DOWN!
7pm Central Time.. (8pm Eastern and 5pm Pacific).
The prize, a t-shirt with a special message.
Cheers,
Synthlight
*Edit Synthlight 6:00pm CST* – Only about an hour away until we begin.
New FFR Feature – Song Auto-Fail (we are serious) FFR Revision Update V.701
Many of you might be wondering why you would ever want to auto-fail anything on FFR right? Well, there is definitely a reason and I will explain that to you.
Lets say you have been trying to get a perfect score on a certain song for weeks now only to find out after playing the entire song, you had 500 perfects and 1 good at the end. Somehow in the middle of the song a good sneaks in there and ruins all the dreams and accomplishments. You then spend another 1-2 minutes playing out the song only to be made aware of that 1 good at the post game screen.
The horror!
So this is where auto-fail comes in. It will help you raise your ranking and stats quicker than before and will help you not waste your time on the parts you don’t need to improve on. It basically works like this..
Load the game
Click the settings button
Choose the trigger amount for each type of arrow judge down beneath “Auto-Fail”
Play a level!
Easy? Of course. I really hopes this helps many of you improve your game. Thanks to all of those who requested it and the subscribers on the beta team who helped test it. They provided a lot of great feedback.
The Feature is available now.
Cheers,
Synthlight
FFR Connection Speed Upgrade + New Feature Releases This Week
Well, not many of you thought we could get faster than dual gigabit up/down stream lines right? And while we didn’t actually upgrade our line speed, we had one serious datacenter core router upgrade that can more efficiently handle the flow of network traffic. This trickles down as higher speed and more responsiveness for the people that use FFR and will be noticed in page refreshes, multiplayer, file downloads and even FFR the game itself.
Yes, as many of you already know within a quarter second of visiting FFR tonight, the core router at the data center was finally replaced and we are off and running again. If everyone could do me a personal favor and spread the word (email, phone, word of mouth, person in class next to you) and let them know that FFR is finally back up to speed after 2 agonizing days of reduced bandwidth. Not only are we back, we are back and faster than hell. I was downloading files here from the site tonight and I kept maxing my cable connection out at around 550-600kbs. Has anyone had faster?
Last but not least we have a few new things to release to everyone this week in celebration of our upgrades. Check the news here throughout the day. I am sure that I will have more than a couple of things to post about. Muahaha.
Cheers,
Synthlight
YAY! HAPPY FUN TIMES!
Yes, that can only mean one thing. It means that the core router will be fixed tonight in approximately 50 minutes so that our transfer speeds go back to normal. Between now and 10pm central time, FFR will be going down for approximately 20 minutes. When it goes down, it will be rewired to the new core router and we will come back online being faster than ever.
See you on the side.
Cheers,
Synthlight
