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
My Impression of Tonight
Wow, what a crazy day and night we have seen over the last 24 hours.
Some quick tips for those playing R2 Public Beta 1:
Make sure there are no flash banners running in other windows
Make sure all flash apps are closed
Make sure you have the latest Flash plugin
Run R2 in I.E. and complain to macromedia about their poor FireFox support
Running R2 in I.E. will increase the performance by 30-40%
DO NOT right click and press play if a song appears to not be loading.
If a song shows that it is loaded at 100% please give it some time. This may be a bug with the preloader and it may still be loading.
press RETURN at the end of a song to return to the song wheel
press DELETE anytime you want to back out of a menu
CLICK on the OPTIONS button on the song wheel screen in order to set speed mods etc.
We have had some random complaints about a combo bug where people miss an arrow and then on the next arrow it starts the combo where it left off. This seems to run hand in hand with the bug that makes it really hard for you to fail a song. If you are one of these people, please PM Synthlight with detailed specs on your situation. The more information you provide, the quicker this gets solved. This also goes for people who have experienced negative scores, please report your detailed specs.
I will add to this list as I think of more. This will be a little tricky over the next few days as we identify and try to satisfy each situation or configuration.
Cheers,
Synthlight
*EDIT* Contest winners will be announced by 1pm CST tomorrow (26th)
Helpful Hint
Helpful Hint #384732
Use the DELETE key to back out of any menu. The ESCAPE key is not valid in flash.
Helpful Hint
Helpful Hint #982843:
Use the keyboard for all navigation in R2 besides the options button on the song select screen.
Helpful Hint
Helpful Hint #34234985:
Run R2 with I.E. because Firefox runs it at about 70% the normal speed due to Macromedia not putting in enough effort for the FireFox version of the plugin.
Update
Getting there. Still getting things ready and dealing with some last minute problems.
Btw.. Thanks to whoever has been DOS attacking our server since this afternoon. We will be working hard tomorrow to hunt you down.
*EDIT* The old FFR is back online for the moment.
Patience
Patience. We are getting there. Soccr is working his ass off.
Cheers,
Synthlight
