New DJSBX CD Available

Hey everybody. DJ SymBiotiX here with a message for all of you.
As some of you may know, I am the artist of Splash Beats! on FFR, and on November 20th, I released my first cd entitled “Act 1″.

For info on tracklisting etc click HERE.

Click here to see a picture of the cd/case.

Click HERE to go to my online store for ordering information.
Note: The site will be “down for maintenance” untill the 20th.

I hope you guys have the chance to get this. I really look forward to releasing this, and future cd’s.

Thanks everybody,
DJ SymBiotiX

Song of the Week: Norgers

I don’t understand how it took this long to finally get a djshox song into FFR, but it has finally happened. Stepped by xObserveRx, Norgers is a fairly simple song that reminds me a bit of the 80s. You can find it in the Dance genre, lower left hand corner of page 1.

In other news, Shashakiro has been hard at work re-syncing songs and fixing the dreaded red-note syndrome. Excited Hyper Highspeed Star and Balloon Fever received noteskin upgrades, while songs like Wish and others have had their syncing tweaked. Expect this to continue until all of the noteskinned songs are fixed. Do NOT expect any of the old non-noteskinned blue arrowed songs to be fixed in any way.

If you’d like to comment about Norgers, go here. If you’d like to show off your insane FFR skills and brag about your score on Norgers, go here.

Happy finger dancing,

Tasselfoot & his new buddies from North Stafford

PS – The Turkey God may have a special secret for everyone come Thanksgiving.

Multiplayer Service Running

After a short downtime for upgrades, I am proud to announce that Multiplayer is up and running again. Thank you everyone for your patience on this.

Cheers,

Synthlight

Server Upgrade This Afternoon

Site and Server Stable – Still Waiting for an upgraded license that runs a component of FFR Multi-Player

Jason Key

*EDIT SYNTHLIGHT* – We are back from the datacenter with a new raid installed to alleviate some of the pain during our record breaking week. We had almost 1700 people online at the same time earlier today. The new drives have brought our system load down considerably but we are still waiting for that license so that we can update our multiplayer. This may take awhile so please be patient. Until then you can play normal single player and it should work just fine.

Cheers,

Synthlight

Multiplayer Service Update

Today we are in the process of updating our multiplayer service and as a result it will be down for a few hours. We estimate our time of completion to be somewhere this afternoon. We are awaiting a new version of our software license.

Cheers,

Synthlight

*Edit, leaving now at 2pm Central on a train to the data center. We will be installing some new drives this afternoon*

FFR Tournament is over!

After eight long weeks of tournament play, the Official 2006 FFR R1 Tournament is finally over. After many tough matches, the winners from each division are:

Expert ($100):
Bahamut-X

Advanced ($80):
Akorn

Beginner ($70):
HansSky

Congratulations to all three of you for victory–PM me with your PayPal address to get your prize money.

Expect another tournament at some point in the coming months…and next time, I promise that signups will last for more than 12 hours.

NOTE:

Also, you might have noticed some minor changes to a few songs in the game recently — some maintenance is being done on some of the songs to improve their sync, and fix noteskin glitches. Nothing fundamental about the songs will change though, don’t worry.

Happy FFR’ing,

Shashakiro

Song of the Week: Sensorium

Well, it’s Monday, which means it’s time for another Song of the Week! This week we give you Sensorium, by MerKa. Stepped by Jimerax, it’s a relatively slow song (under 140 BPM), but makes up for this with plenty of 16th stream and jumpstream, so it’s still a challenge. Sensorium can be found on the first page of Dance.

Happy FFR’ing,

Shashakiro

Server Updates

Tonight we are changing a few scripts and game elements in order to accomodate the recent increase in activity on the site. You may notice the game taken offline in small chunks lasting a few minutes. Please be patient while we make these updates as they will allow the site to run smoother and allow us to activate new features in the near future…

Cheers,

Synthlight + Hardware Wranglers

Minor Resonance Update and FFR Top 1000 Players

Two tidbits of news today. First off, in case any of you missed it we added a 20 Most Recently Uploaded Sims button within Resonance. That allows you Resonance fans to play the most recently uploaded playable sims. Give it a shot and send feedback if you have thoughts.

Secondly, and by popular demand, I did a little ol’ update to the Top 100 FFR Players page .. and created the FFR Top 1000 Players. Yessiree. Now if you didn’t see your name up there in that there old list of 100, I bet at least 1000 of ye can find yer names in this new list.

Additionally, to make sure everyone gets a looksee, I present you with the Top 10 as of today too.