Spin It Up: More Up

AHA! Some of you may have forgotten about our precious SpinItUP project… But we have not! Development is still moving forward with some new engine features. We also have 2 brand new spinfiles available to you tonight thanks to the great, the legendary, the.. umm.. crazy Shashakiro. He works tirelessly to bring you levels in which he cannot see until we convert them.

The new songs are:

For FFR – 8 – Remade For SIU and hard as hell.. Should be a 9 if we had it.
Force of Light – 3 – Something a little easier for the kiddies.

Enjoy!

Cheers,

Synthlight + FFR Staff + Dual Core 64bit Madness

Finally, You Can Play Your Simfiles Online

OH SNAP!

Today we are releasing a major Update to the FFR Sim File Database which is entitled “FFR Resonance”.

This update provides the combination of the FFR Simfile Database and FFR Resonance as a simulator.

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Simfile Database New Feature(s) Release Tonight

As always, I try to keep things secret until we we know that we will be releasing a feature. But as you know, some interesting new upgrades are on their way tonight for the Simfile Database. I am sure we will need lots of feedback on what does and what does not work as this is a very early beta of.. *shhhh*.. Anyway.. Can’t wait to get it out there on the server. I will give a full explanation later tonight.

Cheers,

Synthlight & FFR Staff & Tuberculosis

Simfile Database Upgrades

Over the next 48 hours we will be adding some significant new functionality to the simfile database. Certain functions may be sketchy during this development period but we promise it will be worth the wait.

Cheers,

Synthlight

Song of the week, and future step artists!

We’re reviving dead genres in back to back weeks. This week it is Rock, with Victims & Martyrs by Allrise. Allrise is an indie band from Southern California whose music is self-described as Melodic Hard Rock. The stepchart is by T0rajir0u and isn’t that difficult; either Tricky or Difficult. If you like the song, check out the rest of Allrise’s work on their website, www.allrisemusic.com or via download on iTunes.

Second on the agenda, Jello will be joining LD in helping to manage song of the week. We will be looking for a few new step artists, and are interested in hearing from you! If you’re interested in being a step artist, read further into this story for details!

Cheers,

The FFR Staff & their Victims
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Song of the week: Time for some rag!

This week’s Song of the Week takes us back in time, to 1899. Composed by Scott Joplin, Maple Leaf Rag is an upbeat song that would be classified as Ragtime, a pre-cursor to Jazz, but also a modern Classical of sorts. Performed by Benjamin Robert Tubb (stepfile by Jimerax), of www.pdmusic.org, this classic will be much easier than EHHS or Pants, but hopefully still a challenge for everyone. MLR will be the first addition to the Classic page in years. So go check it out now, and also check out pdmusic.org for all of your pre-1923 American favorites.

Cheers,

FFR Staff and The Sting

Song of the Week: Omg.. The Highspeeds..

Some of you may have already played this weeks new song of the week by DJ Sharpnel (stepfile by Shashakiro) – Exciting Hyper Highspeed Star. I would give all of you a full review of this song but honestly, it is so advanced that I cannot even come close to finishing it, maybe you can can do better. Go check out the song in the Dance section (first page).

Of course a big welcome and thank you guys out to the DJ Sharpnel crew for allowing us the use of this music. Maybe we could use another song in the near future that I am able to complete.

Cheers,

The FFR Staff and Lack of FFR Playing Skills

SpinItUp Version .83 Beta

Some significant little additions for SpinItUp tonight. We finally show the “spinfile artist” during song load and after the song is finished. The game now shows the BPM of the song while browsing on the wheel, during loading and after on the score screen.
BPM is important because it is now tied directly to the speed of the waves. This makes each song a little more unique and speed modifiers now = BPM + or – Speedmod.
The timing method has been switched up once again and you should find it to be pinpoint accurate even at .25x

7 new songs were added tonight. This makes 18 songs total in SIU. The total list now looks like this:

LEVEL 1: Platypus
LEVEL 2: End Night
LEVEL 3: Delirium
LEVEL 4: Secret Zombie Room
LEVEL 5: MoonBeam
LEVEL 5: Error
LEVEL 5: Balloon Fever
LEVEL 6: Trip to the Moon
LEVEL 6: Cutting Circles
LEVEL 6: KlungKung 2004
LEVEL 6: Ravers Fantasy -Speedy-
LEVEL 6: Error -System Remix-
LEVEL 7: Go Go Power Rangers
LEVEL 7: Dot Death
LEVEL 7: State of Emergency^2
LEVEL 8: Ub3R R4vE
LEVEL 8: Lovely Lovely Lovely
LEVEL 8: State of Emergency

Cheers,

FFR Staff and Spins

*EDIT* – I would like to welcome Darkchao56 as our newest artist/spinfile author. You can check out his first submission as KlungKung 2004 (Difficulty 6).

True Speed Mods for SpinItUp

Tonight we release SpinItUp Version .79. This is a partially rewritten SpinItUp engine that handles one of the many new features in development, speedmods. Speedmods (for those of you who don’t know) alter the scroll rate of the waves. We use a new method of timing in order to use speedmods and you may find a few oddities with .25x rates in version .79. In the future this will be refined.

I have to warn you that Speed 5x is not for the weak of heart.

Cheers,

FFR Staff and Staff Infections
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