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
FFR’s 16th Official Tournament – Round 1
You can also check the 16th Official Tournament thread for more info.
Hello everyone, and welcome back to FlashFlashRevolution’s biggest Official Tournament of the year! For those last-minute people not sure what’s happening, typically every July/August, we host a 2-month long tournament to determine the best player of their respective competitive Division brackets, in a no-holds barred elimination-style tournament. For more information on the event, please consider giving the main forum thread for it a visit!
Let’s carry on with the first round’s song picks for this week, plus our bonus songs! We also have five new musicians this week!
Division 1/2:
Pleiades East West Mass Rapid Transit Line
Musician: Kaname Shigeyoshi
Step Artist: Velocity
Song Length: 2:15
Song Style: Drum’n Bass
Difficulty: 27
Arrow Count: 563
Kaname Shigeyoshi – Spotify | SoundCloud | YouTube | Twitter
Division 3:
Claiomh Solais
Musician: ETIA.
Step Artist: jh05013
Song Length: 2:11
Song Style: Renaissance Hardcore
Difficulty: 40
Arrow Count: 794
Division 4:
Clocktown [Onefin & Stardew]
Musician: Onefin & Stardew
Step Artist: Arp!
Song Length: 2:42
Song Style: Starry Instrumental
Difficulty: 57
Arrow Count: 1132
Onefin – SoundCloud | Bandcamp | YouTube | Twitter
Stardew – Spotify | SoundCloud | Bandcamp | YouTube | Twitter
Division 5:
introspect
Musician: Lokan
Step Artist: M0nkeyz
Song Length: 2:07
Song Style: Acid Jazz
Difficulty: 67
Arrow Count: 1009
Division 6:
Necroxus
Musician: Se-U-Ra
Step Artist: M0nkeyz
Song Length: 2:24
Song Style: Speed Fantasy
Difficulty: 80
Arrow Count: 1467
Division 7:
The End of Dreams (Cut Ver.)
Musician: xi
Step Artist: VisD
Song Length: 3:08
Song Style: Progressive
Difficulty: 90
Arrow Count: 2405
Division 8:
sub/zero
Musician: Kou!
Step Artist: jh05013
Song Length: 3:35
Song Style: Hi-Tech Hardcore
Difficulty: 100
Arrow Count: 3031
Kou! – Home | Spotify | SoundCloud | Bandcamp | YouTube | Twitter
Bonus File 1:
Aster Mirror
Musician: Se-U-Ra
Step Artist: M0nkeyz
Song Length: 3:42
Song Style: Drum’n Bass/Hardcore
Difficulty: 79
Arrow Count: 2376
Bonus File 2:
Super wild! Survival Zundoko-chan
Musician: IOSYS feat. Chiyoko
Step Artist: jacobvl39
Song Length: 2:28
Song Style: Denpa Samba
Difficulty: 78
Arrow Count: 1739
And furthermore, have a new Skill Token to top things off for the week:
dimensionalize nervous breakdown
Musician: Frums
Step Artist: Matthia
Song Length: 2:39
Song Style: Techno
Difficulty: 93
Arrow Count: 2000
We hope you all enjoy the Official Tournament as much as we do! Now, go out there and give your competition something to fear!
- The OT Committee, the Game Management Team, and the Community Managers.
Songs of the Week and Weekly Update 6/24/2023
Welcome to the last Songs of the Week release before the 16th Official Tournament begins on June 30th! We have a series of difficult v2 files this time around.
Final Reminders
- Sign-ups for the 16th Official Tournament close on June 25th at 11:59 PM server time.
- The Derustathon event ends on June 30th when round 1 of the official tournament begins at midnight server time.
- Season 7 ends in less than one week on June 30th at 11:59 PM server time.
Every week we will be showing previews of the file for each division for the upcoming round. Round 1 previews will be on Thursday, June 29th at 9 PM server time. You can watch the previews live on our Twitch channel!
POP/STARS v2
Musician: K/DA (ft. Madison Beer, (G)I-DLE, Jaira Burns)
Step Artist: Psychotik
Song Length: 3:09
Song Style: K-Pop
Note Count: 2234
Difficulty: 84
Chlorophyll v2
Musician: Venetian Snares
Step Artist: ositzxz369
Song Length: 2:30
Song Style: Minimal
Note Count: 1506
Difficulty: 87
Celsus v2
Musician: felys feat. Yoko Natsukawa
Step Artist: DarkZtar
Song Length: 2:03
Song Style: Valkyrie Breaks
Note Count: 2046
Difficulty: 96
Enjoy!
- DossarLX ODI, the Game Management Team, and the Community Managers
Songs of the Week and Weekly Update 6/17/2023
Hello and welcome to the second to last SOTW in June before the 16th Official Tournament!
Reminders
- ~1 week left to sign up for the 16th Official Tournament. Sign-ups close on June 25th.
- ~2 weeks until round one of the Official Tournament begins and the Derustathon event ends on June 30th.
- ~2 weeks left in Season 7, which also ends on June 30th!
All song releases this week have new musicians! As always, you can find their socials listed below.
Nya, Death!
Musician: Chiponyaut 158
Step Artist: ositzxz369
Song Length: 2:09
Song Style: 8-bit
Note Count: 1374
Difficulty: 85
Chiponyaut 158 – Bandcamp | YouTube
skip&step
Musician: Mono.
Step Artist: Velocity
Song Length: 2:06
Song Style: Happy Chipcore
Note Count: 1422
Difficulty: 90
Mono. – Home | Spotify | SoundCloud | YouTube | Twitter
Slash Dot Slash (Slim boy fat)
Musician: Round Wave Crusher
Step Artist: Skayles
Song Length: 3:14
Song Style: Hardcore
Note Count: 3095
Difficulty: 95
Round Wave Crusher – Spotify | SoundCloud | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook
Enjoy!
- DossarLX ODI, the Game Management Team, and the Community Managers
Songs of the Week and Weekly Update 6/10/2023
We’re around halfway through the year and the 16th Official Tournament will be starting June 30th! Signups close June 25th.
Thank you, T-Force!
As some of you may have already heard, one of our longtime moderators of ~10 years has recently stepped down from staff. Thank you, T-Force, for the wonderful service you provided to the FFR team and community. Enjoy retirement and the sweet bliss of not having to deal with bots or angsty rulebreakers!
R^3 Update
Version 1.5.2 for R^3 was just released! You can find a download and changelog on what’s new on this page. This release comes with some bug fixes and a few features including a new result graph, autofail options, and score tracking. Special thanks to Velocity and Justin on the work for this release!
Derustathon
A reminder to participate in the Derustathon if you haven’t yet. You only have until June 30th to claim a unique profile badge from this event!
On to our songs of the week, which will be the easiest release of the year so far.
Faint Courage (Game Over)
Musician: Toby Fox
Step Artist: Snupeh
Song Length: 0:51
Song Style: Game Music
Note Count: 148
Difficulty: 6
Get Out…
Musician: Pogo
Step Artist: Deamerai
Song Length: 2:25
Song Style: Electronica
Note Count: 187
Difficulty: 4
Red Soil Redux (Super Metroid)
Musician: Dj CUTMAN
Step Artist: Psychotik
Song Length: 1:19
Song Style: Game Remix
Note Count: 275
Difficulty: 13
Enjoy!
-DossarLX ODI, the Game Management Team, and the Community Managers
Songs of the Week and Weekly Update 6/3/2023
Welcome to the first Songs of the Week Release of June!
Event Reminders
As with last week, sign-ups for the 16th Official Tournament are still open! If you haven’t already, sign-up!! The Derustathon bingo event is also still open, so participate and hone your keytapping skills for the OT!
Remember, sign-ups for the 16th Official Tournament will close on Sunday, June 25, 2023, 11:59 PM server time, and the tournament is expected to start on Friday, June 30, 2023, 12:00 AM server time.
We have one new musician with this week’s song releases! Details below.
Her Perfume
Musician: Pogo
Step Artist: Deamerai
Song Length: 1:11
Song Style: Ambient Breaks
Note Count: 545
Difficulty: 54
Drop Bombs
Musician: Stonebank
Step Artist: Rapta
Song Length: 1:39
Song Style: Dubstep
Note Count: 957
Difficulty: 70
Stonebank – SoundCloud | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
Terror From Beyond v2
Musician: Digital Explosion
Step Artist: Xtreme2252
Song Length: 2:56
Song Style: Techno
Note Count: 1938
Difficulty: 74
Enjoy!
-DossarLX ODI, the Game Management Team, and the Community Managers
Memorial Day Release 5/29/2023
Hello again, we’ve got a song release for Memorial Day.
16th Official Tournament and Derustathon
If you missed it in the previous post, sign-ups for the 16th Official Tournament are now open! Sign-up instructions have changed this year, so please read them carefully before completing the process. Also make sure to read the thread and the dashboard for all of the latest details on the tournament itself! Sign-ups are open until Sunday, June 25, 2023, 11:59 PM server time, and the tournament is expected to start on Friday, June 30, 2023, 12:00 AM server time.
The Derustathon bingo event is ongoing and will be until the official tournament begins. A reminder that you can win an event token and a unique profile badge!
Grist [Part 1]
Musician: Drumcorps
Step Artist: ositzxz369
Song Length: 2:10
Song Style: Grindcore
Note Count: 807
Difficulty: 57
Immortalized
Musician: Disturbed
Step Artist: storn42
Song Length: 2:50
Song Style: Heavy Metal
Note Count: 1699
Difficulty: 69
If You Can’t Hang v2
Musician: Sleeping With Sirens
Step Artist: Pizza69
Song Length: 4:10
Song Style: Alternative Rock
Note Count: 2036
Difficulty: 63
Enjoy!
-DossarLX ODI, the Game Management Team, and the Community Managers
Official Tournament 16 – Signups Open! Derustathon Begins!
It’s that time once again for another Official Official Tournament Post. Welcome to FlashFlashRevolution’s 16th Official Tournament. As always, get ready for intense elimination competition featuring an extraordinary lineup of the year’s most mind-blowing songs yet. Last year we raised the bar for the quality and presentation, and this year we hope to raise it even farther.
Want to sign-up for it? Click below, can’t miss it.
It’s that simple.
To those that might be firstcomers, or have never participated or watched FlashFlashRevolution’s Official Tournaments in the past, what is it?
The Official Tournament is a once-per-year event, where we call to arms all rhythm gaming 4-key players together to test their mettle and accuracy against one another in one of the oldest birthed rhythm games on the internet, in the traditional left, down, up and right arrows that ignited our love for rhythm games, and this website! It’s been over 20 years since the launch of FlashFlashRevolution, and our love for rhythm games expanded since then on how we play them! No matter what kind of 4 keys are pressed nowadays, FFR has grown to accommodate, and encourage anyone with the ability to hit keys fast, to sign-up.
Starting June 30th, participants will be divided into 8 divisions of skill, and will be given a week to earn the highest possible score for the host-selected song in their respective division. Every Friday between then and August 25th will see the lowest-scoring players eliminated, a new song released and another week to obtain scores. Survive 8 weeks, and be crowned king of your division! All songs/charts/maps are brand new, curated by some of the best Stepauthors in 4-key, and drafted specifically for this Official Tournament.
The one large change for this time around comes in the form of how the tournament has been managed in the background this time around. Instead of just one Game Manager handling song picks, placements, and basically everything else, this year we are trying a more spread out approach with the songs picks being decided by a panel of staff members from both the judge team and difficulty consultants. Placements will also be decided by this group, with the help of events team as well. This should hopefully make a more balanced and fun tournament regardless of what division you are apart of.
If you wish to check out more about the 16th Official Tournament, we have a Forum Thread dedicated for discussion around and during the tournament. Also, we have a Discord that has 1000′s of players talking every week! If you want to get a heads-up on your song every week, we also have OfficialFFR broadcasting on Twitch every Thursday night before songs go out! We hope to see you there, whether you laugh in excitement, or pale in fear of the songs to come!
In the meantime, our Events Team has an event for everyone that will last until the official tournament begins!
Welcome to Derustathon bingo!
In this event there will be a bingo card where each square corresponds to a challenge. If you complete the challenge for a square, you win credits. If you complete a full row of challenges, you win a profile badge, and completing three rows will earn you an event token! Check out the thread for all of the details!
-Velocity, the OT Committee, Game Management Team, and the Community Managers
Songs of the Week and Weekly Update 5/20/2023
Welcome to the third song release of May!
As a heads-up, our next song release will be on Memorial Day (Monday, May 29th) instead of the Saturday before. We plan on having some excitement coming within the next week!
Have fun with the songs and check out our new musician for this week below.
Pink Fluffy Unicorns Dancing on Rainbows (Foozogz RainbowMiX)
Musician: Foozogz
Step Artist: gold stinger
Song Length: 3:43
Song Style: Happy Hardcore
Note Count: 2659
Difficulty: 80
The Alchemist of Twilight
Musician: Lazhward
Step Artist: jh05013
Song Length: 2:18
Song Style: Lolicore
Note Count: 1632
Difficulty: 84
Lazhward – SoundCloud | Bandcamp | Twitter
Floating Point
Musician: The Algorithm
Step Artist: DarkZtar
Song Length: 2:22
Song Style: Grindcore
Note Count: 2029
Difficulty: 89
Enjoy!
-DossarLX ODI, the Game Management Team, and the Community Managers
