OMG
Well.. My wife is in labor 4:38am.. Time to go to the hospital! See you guys in a few days! Can’t talk, gotta run!
Cheers,
Synthlight
Rewind
I will be looking into the issue in the original FFR that prevents people from buying songs. I will do my best to get this resolved by the end of the day.
Cheers,
Synthlight
Nov 30th Radio Show on FFr Radio
November 30th radio show.
http://ffrradio.com:8000/listen.pls
It’s my birthday, and I will be doing a live broadcast of my set starting around 5:30pm pst, 8:30pm est. It will be a mixture of Drum ‘n bass, trance, hard trance, and psy if I get around to it. And yeah, just see what’s up. I don’t know how long it will be, but it should go for a couple hours.
FYI, the radio server is back up, so the autoplaylist will be on too if you want to listen.
*EDIT* Yes, i know about the autokick the server has been doing.. it isn’t something I can control, and it isn’t anything on my end. I’m sorry it is occuring, and hope you will just bear with it.
Optimizing
The forum is NOT down but the forum block on the right is not active. I am testing some results of queries with it off. You can still get to the forum from the top navigation and the left navigation.
Cheers,
Synthlight
*EDIT* Does everyone see a significant increase in the speed of the site right now?
Extreme Fix
Ok, maybe it isn’t as good as it sounds. I fixed the song “Extreme” the original was compressed in… mono… and flash didn’t like that. So I ran it through and recompressed it as a stereo .mp3. It should be working fine now.
You MUST clear your cache in order for Extreme to work.. unless.. you have never loaded it before.
Cheers,
Synthlight
Updates But No Baby
Well, it was either one or the other right? My wife is not in labor yet we have some updates for you guys.
Group order is correct now on the group select screen.
When switching difficulties on the difficulty select screen, the icon no longer gets stuck.
When exiting options, it returns the song wheel to the song you were previously on.
When exiting the score screen, it returns the song wheel to the song you were previously on.
At this point we are at R2 Public Beta .12 and still moving forward on bugs and features.
Cheers,
Synthlight
*EDIT* A new error just popped up in the difficulty select screen. If you move too quickly, it breaks it. We are fixing it right now and this message will go away when it is fixed.
One Small Step
Not enough to change a minor revision number but I think I have completely solved the song loading problem. No songs should ever report 100% loaded upon the start of a load unless they really are. 
On a secondary note, my wife might be starting labor as I write this. So I may be in the hospital for a day or 2 if that happens. Which means *music of doom* no R2 updates during that time.
Cheers,
Synthlight
First revision update. R2 Public Beta V .11
We have addressed a couple of issues regarding the R2 engine and have released the first update. I will be working on a solution for the pre-loader this afternoon.
Escape Key now works.
The hard to break combo and hard to miss arrow bug on high bpm songs has been fixed.
Cheers,
Synthlight
R2 Contest Results
Thanks to everyone for participating and remember to be good sports. No ripping each other apart as result of these results. If everyone plays nice, I will hold another contest like this very soon! I will keep my comments to a minimum and all of the judges individual results are private. So don’t ask. All judges performed as expected and rated people very differently based on their own experiences.
1st place: Kilgamayan (4th file made the difference)
2nd place: Skor (Can you say lost 1st by .5%)
3rd place: Reach (one hell of a stepfile)
4th place: Jenova Sephiroth (Beat out Alain, damn fine effort)
Thanks to everyone for participating! PM me with your address asap! If everything goes well I will see you very soon for the next contest. BTW there are many stepfiles from this contest that need to be put up for R2. We only had time to put in a few yesterday.
Cheers,
Synthlight
