Transmission Complete

FFR is now uses a total of 2 dedicated servers. The game portion is being hosted by my new dedicated server and you will most likely not notice any changes on the user end. All the old paths and links are still valid. The new server increases both our bandwidth and server speed.

*EDIT* Switching back to single server for a few hours this morning while I upgrade the 2nd server.

*EDIT* Back on second server.. Restored Hi-Scores from 6am. Should be fully operational. Leave a note if you have problems accessing the game.

Megaman Song Bug Fixed

There has been this persistant bug within the Megaman song that caused people to lose their max combo at a certain point within the level. This bug has FINALLY been fixed and a new version of the song uploaded.

Don’t forget to clear your cache and then give it a try. It is a difficult song but atleast the advanced players can full combo it now.. right? RIGHT?

?? Blink ?? Uhh.. What was that?

We had a small 1 1/2 hour outage due to unexpected traffic tonight. Everything is back up and we are running at full speed. Sorry to everyone that had to go without their FFR during that time. I’m glad to be back

For a Limited Time Only

The scores have been reset due to the bug that was found yesterday. Thanks to everyone keeping an eye out during our beta stages. btw, everytime I reset, I file the old hi-scores away so that someday we can look back on them.

Now go grab a spot in the top 50 while you can!

There’s a Snake in My Boots

After a few quick changes to Beta .44, I am going to be resetting the hi-scores tonight at 6pm CST. Just thought I would send out the alert for those of you who wanted to get into the top 50.

Your Knew it Was on it’s Way

There is a new genre and song up this afternoon. The genre is Classical and the song is “Fast Piano” by Philip Glass. The steps were created by Hyrogashi (remember chrono trigger?)

WARNINGS: THIS LEVEL IS DIFFICULT! BEGINNERS STAY AWAY.
Set your quality setting to low unless you have a really fast machine due to the number of arrows on screen at any given time.
Don’t forget to CLEAR your CACHE if you don’t see the classical section.

The fury of arrows will astonish you while at the same time amaze you with how very beautiful this FFR level is. I sat in my chair for atleast 10 minutes watching the level in my ‘preview’ mode. Hyrogashi has done an excellent job at conveying the music through a series of simple arrows. He took quite a few days getting this one together and it definately shows. Congrats to Hyrogashi on a job well done.

Thanks for the submission.

P.S. Fear not, I still have a cache of about 5 songs I need to adjust and convert. I will get atleast 2 more up by late tonight or early morning. (sorry guys, it is early morning and the songs are still not up. Getting there)

*BUGFIX* Negative scores now display correctly for all levels. Previously, the “-” symbol was not showing.

Update For Stat Junkies

For those of you interested. Since November 26th we have had:

356,565 games of FFR played
3,205,444 hits on the URL
145,460,376,674 bytes of data served

Per day we now average:

48,393 plays of FFR
508,982 hits
22gb of data transfer

New Revision for Online Version .44 Beta

Time again to clear those caches and check the new version. The new .44 version includes 2 new genre’s. “dance2″ and “rock”. I have also included 2 songs in the Dance2 genre to keep you busy until I am done converting everyones songs (I will get to them shortly).

To ease the pain as our library of songs grows, I put together a temporary genre selector which will make things a little easier until Remix #2. I never expected to have this many songs when i originally thought about the interface.

More to come but that is all for now. Enjoy!

Additional Server to Make Life Easier

First off, I just wanted to thank the people who have sent us donations thru Paypal. You know who you are and we are very grateful for your contributions. Every little bit helps. Thank you very very much.

Second, I wanted to let all the FFR players know that we have secured a second server. This server is of much higher quality, is a dedicated server (like the one we are on now) , is about 2-3x as fast as our current server. Most importantly this server will allow us to serve as much data as we need without any transfer limitations. This means that for Remix #2, we could literally serve 1000′s of levels with no limitations or additional charges.

This server does not come cheap but I am so excited about this project and would like to push FFR up a notch in the near future with “Remix #2″. We have so much planned and it is SO hard not to talk about it all.

Again, thanks to everyone for their support. It is always nice to hear from people who talk about ‘way back in the days’ and refer to 1 1/2 months ago.

Long Live FFR