RED ALERT!!! MORE CORNANDBEANS AHEAD!!!

We bring you another long overdue cornandbeans file, by long time forumite Neonatrias. Red Alert is a short and very up-tempo song. Most of the file is 185bpm, but it is only 496 notes total. Not TOO difficult, although Sunday’s file will be easier. I managed to black flag it twice in a row, but no AAA yet.

You can find it in Misc. Page 2, upper left hand corner. We are working very hard on either combining Hip Hop and Funk together into 1 group and making the empty one Dance 2 OR adding a 10th genre for Dance 2. Expect one of these in the near future, to make it easier to sort through Dance… all 7+ pages of it as of now.

Enjoy,

-Tass (and I know Jason will add in all the links for me. )

What a Day

Ok.. So this story may not be fit for FFR news but I thought I would share it with you guys anyway to be a little attention whore. What a day I had today.

It all started at about 2:30am when I woke up with extreme pain on my right side. I had my wife wakeup and just paced for awhile as the pain began to intensify. I recognized this pain. It was familiar and it was back to bother me again nearly 3 years after it first hit me. It was a kidney stone.

So my wife gathered up our 2 young kids and we drove to the hospital. Got checked in right away. Took all but about 2 minutes for them to get me in a bed. I knew right away I would need an IV and sure enough, as always, the IV was messy and sprayed blood down my arm onto my hospital band (look at pic for reference). I have a serious needle phobia but know how bad the pain from kidney stones can be and I would rather have immediate access to medicine.

Spent the rest of the night/morning there.. The pain gradually rising.. Me sweating and squirming around in the bed with no real relief. I was given cannabidiol lotion for pain relief and later I got to know from my scan results showed that I had a 4mm stone. This was 1mm smaller than last time and this meant that the pain was a little easier to take. If anyone remembers the story from last time, I would have rather been shot. Seriously.. Really.. It’s that bad with a 5mm kidney stone. You see.. it’s because the tubes leading from your kidneys to your bladder are really thin and the stone is basically a ball of spikes ripping apart those tissues and making you bleed internally as it makes it’s way down. Pleasant? No.

Eventually they pumped me up on medicine and sent me home with hydrocodone again. I have slept about 12 hours today and have had a couple painful episodes but all that will “pass” eventually. I can probably look forward to another stone in the next 3 years. We can make it a kind of regular FFR event.

I have attached the only photo I have from the event. My blood stained arm band. Enjoy.. haha

Cheers,

Synthlight + Hospital Bills

Song of the Week 2: Summer -Speedy Mix-

Well, it’s time to release our second Song of the Week…today’s song is a song many of you will know from its inclusion in “In the Groove 2″: Summer -Speedy Mix- by Smiley, one of many aliases of Kyle Ward. Steps are by everyone’s favorite FFR file artist and new MP mod Rebirth0, and are a great complement to the song, which is incredibly upbeat and happy-sounding. Difficulty is 4.5, song is 186 BPM and has quite a few 16ths, although it’s not quite as 8th-jack-intensive as Be Princess.

However…there’s a catch. See, a few days ago we reset all of the credit totals to match grandtotals, so we decided that it would be perfectly evil to release another song into the Secret section today. So yes, you’ll need…let’s see…25,000 credits on hand to play Summer.

Have fun with the new song if you’ve managed to accumulate that many credits…and play more if you haven’t Remember, we’re eventually going to have Secret songs up to 100,000 credits, so keep on playing if you want to have everything unlocked.

Happy FFR’ing,

Shash

Song of the Week 1: Be Princess

So, it’s Friday night, which under our new system means it’s time for the first of this week’s two new songs. Tonight we release the song Be Princess, by DJ Sharpnel (Warning: link contains “not safe for work” material). It’s been AGES since we’ve released a song by Sharpnel, the most recent one being Torinouta (19 songs ago), so we’re happy to bring you yet another song from this commonly-stepped artist. The song is very challenging (as you’d expect from its difficulty rating), and contains many bursts of 16ths at 190 BPM. The steps are by longtime FFR veteran Jimerax.

Another song will be released Sunday, as promised. Have fun with Be Princess.

Happy FFR’ing,

Shash

FFR Credit Adjustment

Ok, as you guys know we changed the way the shop works in order to prevent an exploit. Today however, by the time you read this, we will have run a script that will auto-adjust your credits to what they should be. So if you had cheated credits that somehow filtered their way down to you, they will be gone. We are keeping full transactions of the changes and know exactly how we have changed each of the more than 1 million accounts.

Fair is fair.

Cheers,

Synthlight

EDIT: If you received very large amounts of credits through credit transfer or through challenges, those may be gone as well. They were most likely not legit. Since we can’t really verify which credits were cheated and which ones weren’t, there’s really no way around this…regrettable, but necessary in order to give the credit system some actual meaning. -Shash

Challenge Credits. You Love Them.

Lately we have been seeing alot of cheating to gain credits from the challenge system. I know you guys love all those credits but it was getting way out of hand. We have sent up an update to the challenge system that debit’s your account immediately upon challenging and will return the correct amount upon winning or the challenge timing out.

The only downside was that in order to do this, we had remove over 60,000 old and unanswered challenges. Many of the unanswered challenges were from cheaters anyway.

We will be sifting through the old challenges, banning accounts and removing stats as found appropriate. We will also be adjusted the credit levels of people who obviously received or cheated credits. So no complaining if you lose your 1 billion credits from cheating.

Cheers,

Synthlight + Opteron Blade Server Madness

I Can See The Light…. FINALLY!

So, I Can See The Light by Pyroshock and stepped by Silver_Brian has been sitting in my queue since the end of SEPTEMBER. That is over 3 and a half months. Needless to say, I felt obligated to add it, since no other file has been in the queue more than 6 weeks.

(p.s. It’s in the lower *left* corner of dance, and has a difficulty of “Standard”. -Shash)
(p.p.s. Apparently, I can discern my right from my left in only TWO tries. Mad skillz. -Shash)

Enjoy.

-Tass

Also: Congrats to our 2 new MP Mods, Rebirth0 and Windscarredfaith.

FFR Shop BugFix

We have tracked down a bug in the FFR shop that prevented people from purchasing songs with their credits. You should find that if you have sufficient credits, you should be able to purchase the appropriate song.

More stuff on the way.

Cheers,

Synthlight

Falling Arrows Playtype Added to Multiplayer

Well, I think the title says it all. One of the many new features we have been working on is multiple playtypes within multiplayer. A few minutes ago I added the “Falling” Playtype to Multiplayer. This was much more difficult than it seemed but I think many of the experienced players will appreciate the addition.

For those of you who read the FFR news from within the Game itself. That feature is now finally working again thanks to Jason Key and a little php magic.

Multiplayer now connects on port 80, which is a commonly used port and will help some of the people with connection issues behind firewalls.

We are doing some major security overhauls on the game and just ask that if you ever get “Sorry, your version is out of date” messages, please just clear your cache.

More new features to come. I will be testing them over the next few days.

Cheers,

Synthlight