Archive for July 1st, 2023
Seasonal Update 7/1/2023
Today marks the beginning of a new season on FFR, and with it our seasonal updates.
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R^3 1.5.3
R^3 1.5.3 is being released for everyone with general system stability improvements to enhance the user’s experience. You can find the latest downloads and changelog here. Credit goes to Velocity on the bug fixes!
Season 8
Season 8 is now underway! As of midnight today, Season 7 concluded with over 300 participants in the end. Season 7 badges will appear shortly for those that participated.
Updated File Difficulties
As usual, the latest difficulty changes can be found on this spreadsheet. It’s also worth noting that Celsus v2 from last week’s release was changed from a 98 to a 96 shortly after being released.
Ongoing Events
The first round of the 16th Official Tournament started yesterday! This also means that the Derustathon event has concluded. Thank you to everyone that participated! If you won any prizes, you will see those handed out soon.
The weekly song releases over the next seven weeks will be based around the official tournament schedule, so they will be happening on Fridays instead of Saturdays. As a reminder, stay tuned for upcoming round previews each week on Thursday evenings by visiting the FFR Twitch channel.
Until next time!
- The Community Managers
Songs of the Week and Weekly Update 4/1/2023
Welcome to the first post of April! With another new season comes our bigger seasonal update with difficulty changes, a new leaderboard season, an engine update, and some other big news!
FFR Engine v1.5.0
Starting with a new engine update, a quick rundown of what’s coming to the engine is as follows:
Local File Browser
- Local file browser for playing .sm / .osu / .qua files.
- For those that have used the AF2021 engine, this is the same song selector, but is limited to just FFR style charts. (4K, No Mines or Holds)
- There’s a potential desync issue when using Isolation in combination with this, am looking into it.
Song Selection Tags and display toggles:
- Legacy
- Explicit
- Unranked
Reworked Receptor Code:
- Speed Scaler (0.25x – 5x)
- Unify Animations
- Per Judge Score Color and Toggles
Song Rates:
- No longer requires reloading the song when changed.
As with any engine update, you can find it over on our downloads page, and report any issues over on Github.
Season 7
Season 6 has concluded with just over 250 participants this time around. Season 7 has begun and will last until the end of June. Participation badges for Season 6 will automatically be added soon for those that met the requirements for them.
Difficulty Updates
The difficulty changes this season can be found at the usual location of our contested difficulty spreadsheet. In addition to the list of difficulty updates coming out for the new season, we have something a bit different that is happening with a short list of files. These files in particular have a severe difficulty spike, and as a result are frequently brought up for difficulty discussion, with enduring disagreement about whether the files are overrated, underrated, or should be moved to 0. Specifically, these files have a singular difficulty spike that is 1) ~5 seconds or less in duration and 2) 15 or more points more difficult than everything else in the file. We determined that these files are not quite as extreme as other files currently rated 0, and consequently they will be retaining their numerical ratings but will be unranked. This means they will no longer grant AAA equivalency or figure into global or seasonal skill ratings. You’ll be able to identify them in the new engine update by the gray difficulty number on the song selection screen.
The files affected by this change are:
R/\IN
DubstEpic Symph
Entrance [Deemo Cut]
Etude Op. 10, No. 9 in F minor
For FFR
Runny Mornings (SGX Mix)
Jettison
Judgement Updates
On the judgement side of things we have a change in pace. We’re going to temporarily close submissions once the 16th Official Tournament batch closes at the end of April. We’ve built up quite a backlog, and will need to focus on getting OT files judged once that batch closes. There has not been a date set for when when the next batch will open, but we will provide an update on that as soon as it has been determined. The main factors will be how quickly judging proceeds through the current backlog and the quantity of files in the queue.
New Releases
As for the song releases today, we’ve kept this as a secret for awhile now. It took a bit of wrangling with some labels on our founder’s end, as well as a contract to only dedicate a very, very small percentage of his time towards being present on FFR. It doesn’t make much sense to us either, but it got some results!
To start out this month, all of our releases will be new musicians! These were extremely hard to get permissions for artists you may have heard of. As always, check out their socials below! Thanks, Synthlight!!!
Rap God
Musician: Eminem
Step Artist: gold stinger
Song Length: 6:04
Song Style: Speed Rap
Note Count: 5577
Difficulty: 102
Eminem – Spotify | YouTube | Twitter | Facebook
Mariah Carey F**king Dies in a Multigenre Death Loop
Musician: Mariah Carey feat. DJ Khaled, ReeK, Filthy Frank
Step Artist: Velocity & ositzxz369
Song Length: 4:17
Song Style: Multigenre
Note Count: 2639
Difficulty: 112
Mariah Carey – Spotify | YouTube | Twitter | Facebook
Space Oddity (Dossar Acapella Remix)
Musician: David Bowie feat. DossarLX ODI
Step Artist: DossarLX ODI
Song Length: 3:55
Song Style: Acapella
Note Count: 592
Difficulty: 13
David Bowie – Spotify | SoundCloud | YouTube | Twitter | Facebook
Flames!
Musician: Dragonforce feat. Ph0ton
Step Artist: XJ-9
Song Length: 4:23
Song Style: Kawaii Desu Guitar
Note Count: 2409
Difficulty: 73
Dragonforce – Spotify | SoundCloud | YouTube | Twitter | Facebook
Ph0ton – Spotify | SoundCloud | YouTube | Twitter | Facebook
SUPER RENDA BEAT
Musician: LuzeriA
Step Artist: bmah
Song Length: 2:24
Song Style: Free Jack Equiv
Note Count: 1504
Difficulty: 81
LuzeriA – Spotify | SoundCloud | YouTube | Twitter | Facebook
Enjoy!
-DossarLX ODI, gold stinger, Velocity, the Game Management Team, and the Community Managers
2022 FFR User Awards – Voting
Hello again, everyone!
The 2022 FFR User Awards are open for voting! This is similar to the forum awards from years ago but changed to represent our community as a whole and not just within the forums. You can find the details and guidelines in this thread so make sure to read it carefully!
To vote, please fill out this form. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact XJ-9 or post within the thread.
Voting will be open until February 15th at 11:59 PM server time.
Enjoy!
- The Community Managers
New Years Release 2023
Hello and welcome to the New Years Release of 2023! Let’s celebrate with three “Black” songs for how dark it is outside at this time of night, but a bright start to another year.
Seasonal Updates:
-January opens with Season 6 and closes out Season 5, which had just over 300 participants in the end.
-The Winter 2022 Seasonal Batch has closed and our next batch will be for the 16th Official Tournament. Details can be found in the discussion thread and you can find the batch here.
-There are some difficulty changes this season that you can find on our spreadsheet. You can expect those changes to take effect soon.
-We are opening up applications for a Difficulty Consultant position!
This is the aspect of staff that determines the most suitable difficulty for a file before it’s put in FFR, as well as reviewing difficulties that may need to change for pre-existing files based on community feedback. If you are interested, please fill out our form to apply. Applications will be open for two weeks, closing January 14th at 11:59 PM server time.
Black Lotus
Musician: wa.
Step Artist: jh05013
Song Length: 1:49
Song Style: Trancecore
Note Count: 1584
Difficulty: 0*
*This chart did not receive enough feedback for a proper rating. Community input about its difficulty rating is encouraged and it will be updated shortly after.
Black Rain
Musician: S.S.H.
Step Artist: MarioNintendo
Song Length: 5:12
Song Style: VG Rock
Note Count: 3359
Difficulty: 80
Black in the Burn
Musician: Masterplan
Step Artist: storn42
Song Length: 9:41
Song Style: Power Metal
Note Count: 5561
Difficulty: 86
Enjoy!
-DossarLX ODI, the Game Management Team, and the Community Managers
20 Year FFR Stepchart Celebration: Day 9
Welcome to the Day 9 Release of the 20 Year FFR Stepchart Celebration event, and the start to a new month!
Don’t Stop
Musician: KUURO
Step Artist: Skayles
Song Length: 2:48
Song Style: Halftime
Note Count: 1300
Difficulty: 77
KUURO – Spotify | SoundCloud | YouTube | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram
Enjoy!
-DossarLX ODI, the Game Management Team, and the Community Managers
FFR’s 15th Official Tournament – Round 1
Hey everyone! Welcome to the start of FlashFlashRevolution’s 15th Official Tournament! Excited to see all of you active during the Round Previews the other night, and looking forward to all the great competition out there over the next two months! For those last-minute people looking to sign-up for the tournament, there’s still time. Reach out to gold stinger specifically before July 7th, and check the 15th Official Tournament thread for more info. If you didn’t catch the Round 1 Previews from last night, you can watch them on our YouTube Page! Both upscroll and downscroll are available from the same video.
Let’s get on with the Song Releases for this week!
Division 1/2:
Space Doggity
Musician: Jonathan Coulton
Step Artist: gold stinger
Song Length: 3:27
Difficulty: 19
Division 3:
Decadence
Musician: Disturbed
Step Artist: storn42
Song Length: 2:28
Difficulty: 49
Division 4:
A Tiny Spaceship’s Final Mission
Musician: FantomenK
Step Artist: Psychotik
Song Length: 2:41
Difficulty: 51
Division 5:
Walking the Streets of a Former Hell
Musician: S.S.H.
Step Artist: hi19hi19
Song Length: 3:34
Difficulty: 68
Division 6:
NOW’S YOUR CHANCE TO BE A [[BIG SHOT]] (gomotion RMX)
Musician: gomotion
Step Artist: gold stinger
Song Length: 2:22
Difficulty: 80
Division 7:
The Lady Is A Trump
Musician: Damjoy
Step Artist: jh05013
Song Length: 2:10
Difficulty: 91
Division 8:
Excuse My Rudeness, but Could You Please RIP? (t+pazolite Remix) [Explicit]
Musician: t+pazolite feat. Mori Calliope
Step Artist: DarkZtar
Song Length: 2:55
Difficulty: 98
Extra Song:
SHINE!!
Musician: DJ Sharpnel
Step Artist: Wiosna
Song Length: 4:27
Difficulty: 93
For Non-Veterans, you will be seeing 2 more songs released for you all today, on top of the tournament songs:
Lawn Wake IV (Black) v2
Musician: The Flashbulb
Step Artist: mi40
Song Length: 2:09
Difficulty: 91
Star of the COME ON!!
Musician: Frums
Step Artist: gold stinger
Song Length: 2:36
Difficulty: 98
Good luck to all participants, and may the best StepMan win!
A couple other happenings to mention. Season 4 has started today as well! For those that qualify, you can expect Season 3 (Summer) participation badges to show up on your profiles in the near future. With a new season comes new difficulty changes. You can find these changes on our spreadsheet.
-gold stinger, the Game Management Team, and the Community Managers
April Fools, SotW and Weekly Update 4/01/2022
Hey everyone, Welcome to the April Fools takeover of FFR’s Front Page! There’s plenty happening today and for the week ahead of us. So bunker down, set your keybinds (or not), and let’s get this under way.
StepCon 2022 has begun, and the competition is underway! Participants over the next two weeks will be pouring their blood, sweat and tears into making some of the very best step-content out there. If you didn’t sign-up, no worries! There will be a Public Judging week Starting on April 15th to decide which versions of the competition’s songs will go in-game. Consider checking the thread for more info!
Season 2 has ended, and Season 3 has begun! Congratulation to those that made it to the top, there should be some shiny new badges for the second season showing up on profiles shortly-ish? Nowaday’s fine of a day as ever to try climbing to the top of the new seasonal rankings! Furthermore, there will be some difficulty changes due to contested difficulties on pre-existing songs, so be prepared for Global Rankings to change a little bit.
For the ‘Poyo’s‘ out there, I’ve got a slapping brand new Kirby song for ya, and also some old dusty songs that no one have ever touched in like, a bajillion years. Can you believe that these old farts actually keep old content around? I think people should get a chance to take these bad boys for a spin. The Kirby music will stay, but you have until the next Songs of the Week before we come repo the rest of these songs back into the SimfileDB Vault, forever.
Re:THE MEDLEY OF KIRBY SSDX
Musician: hapi
Step Artist: gold stinger
Song Length: 28:05
Difficulty: 100
Speedcore 300
Musician: Gunsynth
Step Artist: Xx{Midnight}xX
Song Length: 2:12
Difficulty: 0
gigadelic
Musician: teranoid feat. MC Natsack
Step Artist: Reach
Song Length: 2:04
Difficulty: 0
gigadelic (Camellia’s “THE TERA” Remix) [10^12 Long ver.]
Musician: Camellia
Step Artist: gold stinger
Song Length: 5:31
Difficulty: 0
*Whimper Wall*
Musician: Rez
Step Artist: Velocity
Song Length: 1:06
Difficulty: 0
Technically, these two songs from last week become public as well:
You Don’t Know
Musician: Aaron Spectre
Step Artist: VisD
Song Length: 2:59
Difficulty: 87
Tribe Attacker v2
Musician: Canblaster
Step Artist: mi40
Song Length: 1:46
Difficulty: 88
Also on a final note, all 100+ Difficulty files and most 90-99 files are getting re-uploaded to include ms-timing. D7/D8 players, rejoice!
Hope everyone enjoys the all-new content this week!
-gold stinger, the April Fools Team, and this picture of a cat.
Countdown to Christmas – 24
It’s December already, I can’t believe this year is almost over. Usually, we just have our FFRmas 12 days before but this year I decided I’m going to release a file a day counting down to Christmas. We will still have FFRmas as we get closer with some spon con events. Regular Friday releases will be paused for this month for this event.
Today we kick off with a Tokyo Machine style holiday song:
JINGLE BELLS
Musician: Tokyo Machine
Step Artist: Psychotik
Song Length: 2:33
Difficulty: 28
Enjoy!
FFR Season 1 Leaderboards & Songs of the Week 09/30/21
Fall is in the R^3 air, along with a long awaited and highly requested feature – Seasonal Leaderboards!
Season 1 starts today, and will run for 3 months. You must pass 50 unique songs on 1.0x Rate between October 1st and December 31st to appear on the Season 1 leaderboard.
Your Season 1 skill rating and division will be calculated based on a weighted average of your top 50 scores on score save, so outlier scores won’t skew your level as much, and no manual updating. Lifetime skill rating will continue to use top 15 weighting.
There won’t be any crazy season-exclusive engine mechanics. We wanted to keep Season 1 simple so it wouldn’t be delayed, and take the time to develop more features for Season 2 start. But profile badges will be offered for the division you finished the season in.
We hope you all enjoy this fresh start! -PrawnSkunk, XJ-9, and WirryWoo
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Start the season by playing the songs of the week!
Mario-chi Survivor [Heavy]
Musician: Cardboard Box ft. Koji Kondo
Step Artist: mi40
Song Length: 3:00
Difficulty: 100
Rave 3
Musician: DEV/NULL
Step Artist: Pizza69
Song Length: 1:48
Difficulty: 96
Mario-chi Survivor [Standard]
Musician: Cardboard Box ft. Koji Kondo
Step Artist: mi40
Song Length: 3:00
Difficulty: 95
Wooden Sword
Musician: The Ghost of 3.13
Step Artist: M0nkeyz
Song Length: 2:00
Difficulty: 80
Rebirth of Mars
Musician: Matt R., S. Battle
Step Artist: qrrbrbirbel
Song Length: 5:34
Difficulty: 80
