Who? What? Where? Synthlight Begs?

OMG.. I feel like it has been eons since I have had the time to post in the forum or do my usual updating. Luckily Nestlekwik has been hard at work (thank you nestle) trying to keep the house together. Work is finally slowing down a bit and I will be able to get back on track with my FFR duties.

Speaking of such things. I will be announcing a series of relatively obvious hints starting tomorrow night (Saturday) regarding the location of the new secret song. Which btw, nobody has found The hints will come in the form of threads posted in the FORUM but will only remain listed for small amounts of time. They will then be erased only later to be listed again with a new hint.

Secondly, I wanted to let everyone know that we have relocated our hosting service and renamed it. It is now called Huah! Hosting (thanks spookgoblin) and 100% of profits still go to FFR. This site is maintained and support by our staff. It is NOT some 3rd party company paying us a cut.

Please, pretty please with sugar on top. If you are in the market for some hosting or know anyone who is, please consider using our service. You will find our services are top notch and service/support is very quick. This is true domain hosting at a fraction of the cost of most any domain hosting services you can find. At this point the hosting service is what keeps FFR alive and I REFUSE to charge anyone to play FFR.

See you all tomorrow night in the forums with hints >:)

FFR Remix #2

FFR Remix #2 is underway in construction. The discussion forum is bursting with activity, seven pages worth of topics, mostly contribuiting ideas to make FFR better. With all of these ideas, we can be sure that some of them will work their way in. For example, Remix #2 will have the high scores made to show only the highest score of a top 10 individual, meaning that your name will only be shown once in the high scores, showing your highest score. This will give more people a chance to get on the top ten. If you are keeping the forums active you probably already knew about this.

Synthlight, Bprc and Nestlekwik are working hard to get Remix #2 ready, so if you have a good idea, offer your suggestion in the forums. But to make things as easy for them as possible, don’t spam garbage into important topic areas. There’s room for that elsewhere. And make your messages as clear and as easy to interperate as possible. If you can follow through with this, Remix #2 will arrive all the quicker.

Web Hosting Service Launched & Secret Level

Today we launched our domain web hosting service. Our intent is pretty simple, use our hosting service for your domain and in return 100% of profits go towards FFR server costs. We can provide you with a low cost, high quality product because we intend only to cover our costs. The hosting service is handled directly by us on the actual FFR servers. For the cost of 2 lunches you can rid yourself of places like Tripod and Geocities for an entire year.

Our hosting service covers just about everything you could want from a hosting service… MySQL, Php4, Subdomains, Frontpage 2002 extensions, Linux RedHat & Apache reliability, Ensim control panels and many many other features.

Our servers are each on 100mbit net connections and we only serve from P4 Dual Xeon 2.0ghz machines with HD’s that are in a raid configuration.

We can usually have your account setup within minutes and the DNS for your existing or new domains usually propagates within 1-3 days. Until propagation we provide you with temporary logins so that you can prepare your site for launch.

Xqsite.com Subdomain hosting is $1.00 a month (i.e. joe.xqsite.com) and normal domain hosting starts at $2.50 a month. Not easy to beat that! Unlimited transfer bandwidth and Linux based Coldfusion hosting solutions to come in the near future!

Thank you for any consideration. We look forward to providing some of best hosting service you can find, anywhere. We are grateful for every dime we receive to keep FFR alive.

You can sign up
HERE if you are interested.

Didn’t the title say something about a secret level? Maybe a new secret level? You never know.

SCORE RESET!

There will at long last be a score reset today at around 10am CST. Which is about 20 minutes from the time of this post.

Good luck to all!

*SCORES HAVE BEEN RESET*

Catching up!

Recently I’ve been doing mucho work at the office, looking for an apartment with my girlfriend and other business, so I’ve been quite remote from my online duties, but after some R&R and with some spare time now, I’m back to my regular duties.
First off, check the miss system solutions I’ve provided in the “Miss System: Part 3″ thread in the FFR General Talk forum. Your vote in the poll will be greatly appreciated and please leave any comments you wish to make in the thread while you’re there.
I’ve taken the liberty of answering the FAQ questions everyone’s been leaving, so if you’re encountering problems with the program or just have a general question about it, check the FAQ section. I can answer anything except hardware compatability because I’m not quite a tech guy and questions about future site additions, features and programs. Aside from asking questions, members also have the ability to review songs featured on FFR, so be sure to use that option as well and read up on what people think about the created stepfiles. Members can also find out how to create FFR stepfiles and submit them in the FAQ section. FFR can never have too many songs you know.
Synth has fallen into the clutches of reality as well and has been void of the site for the most part. He’s been quite busy with finalizing Remix and has been working and taking personal time, so, no, the rumors about Synth being eaten by a malicious gang of wallabies at a company picnic are not true, he’s just been dealing with other things. However, we should be able to expect Remix in the near future due to Synth and bprc’s hard work and I must say it sounds like the new version is really coming along well. When the new version is released, I’ll get together information on league play as soon as I can. I’ll be around so Synth doesn’t have to babysit the forums and other areas of the site and can get his work done, so feel free to ask me questions too if Synth or bprc are not around to respond.
On another note, Synth has fixed up the bugs pointed out to him in the new beta version. Should you experience any more bugs with version .46, please leave a post in the Bug Report thread in the forum.
Until next time, have fun with the new version.

Beta .46 Now Online

I have released .46 beta for the online version today. Some very minor graphical changes as well as some optimizations to bring down the cpu requirements by a small amount. I will be making additional changes within this version before the day is over.

Cheers

*EDIT* I accidentally caused a sync issue with the arrows. Clear cache and reload. Let me know if you have any problems. Thanks to those who found the issue.

New Rock Song Released

First new rock song has been released. The bands name is ZAO and they are signed with Solid State records. ZAO is currently #2 on the Mp3.com metal charts and if you would like to support them, please buy their album that is due out this FEB or listen to their song on Mp3.com. Thanks to ZAO and their management for allowing us to use their material.

The level is medium to low difficulty and shouldn’t be a challenge for the pro’s. It also slides a half beat near the end on purpose to throw you a bit. If you dont see the song in the list, clear your CACHE and then reload.

There should be another song out sometime tonight. For those interested, I will be available in the FFR-CHAT at around 10pm CST.

More Rock Songs On Their Way!

Yes.. Yes.. I know it has been a long wait for you people that desperately wanted rock songs. Well, the wait is over. Tomorrow night I release 2 rock songs followed by even more in the next few days.

I would also like to let people know that we are accepting songs of all genre’s for the upcomming FFR R2 due out as soon as we deem it stable enough for public use. This is a good chance for signed or unsigned bands to get some expsosure and build a fan base. On average any 1 song is listened to about 10,000-20,000 times a day here on FFR.

See you all tomorrow night. BTW, I will be hanging in the FFR chat during the release to see responses and feedback etc. My guess would be somewhere around 10pm CST.

Over 7,400 Members Strong and Growing

I want to thank all the people who have registered out of the kindness of their heart over the past 2 1/2 months that this project has been alive. These 7,400+ members have registered even though they did not need to in order to play the game online.

Today I have figured out through my server stats and other sources that a good number of sites have been linking to FFR directly and not through Xqsite.com (The FFR homepage). This is a shame because it eats up our transfer bandwidth without getting to see any of the benefits. Because of this I am requiring all new visitors to register in order to play the game. Registration is private, free and only takes about 20 seconds to complete. It is literally THAT simple.

We are planning to start a public beta of FFR R2 very soon and you will need to be registered in order play this version because it keeps stats on each player as well as configuration data for each player. Soooo.. You might as well get it out of the way for R2.

Link to REGISTER if you have not already.Thanks again to all those who have registered and supported us and the FFR project. Good things are in the works.