Archive for January 1st, 2011

Replays update

Update #3:

All replays converted (well it only took 2 hours, but never did a post update) and replay engine can handle the new format. Only thing left is the save button which is just about done. There will also be a beta engine update as I also have the source to that.

regards,
~Velocity

Update #2:

We found a big red button… weren’t quite sure what it does but we decided to press it. What’s the worst that can happen?

Turns out it converts the replays to a more modern, compact form and brings them back online. We’ll let you know when it’s done!

regards,
~Velocity / aperson

Update: We’re working on the replays right now and have moved where the replays are currently stored. You won’t be able to access your saved replays for a bit while we do this.

I have trimmed down the replays database and removed any corrupted entries. Any replays that were not set to be saved have been deleted. Replays are now viewable again from your profiles, where you will see your saved replays as the last visible entries.

Recording new replays is still disabled. We will be working over the next few days to bring them back as I described in a previous post. We will keep you updated with changes as they happen.

Hope your 2011 is off to a great start!
Cheers,
aperson

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year everyone!

To celebrate Earth turning one year older we’ve added some new songs! There are two new skill token songs, one new secret song and one purchased song.

BEER MY FRIEND
Musician: FALL
Step Artist: bmah
Song Genre: Skill Token
Difficulty: 9
Song Length: 2:07
Requirement: Get 2 goods, 0 averages, 1 miss, and 1 boo on any song.

BEER
Musician: Is-m
Step Artist: bmah
Song Genre: Skill Token
Difficulty: 11
Song Length: 1:47
Requirement: Get a max combo of 2011 on any song

Csikos Post
Musician: SHK
Step Artist: woker-X
Song Genre: Secret
Difficulty: 8
Song Length: 1:12
Requirement: 2011 Credits

Cette Annee
Musician: YMCK
Step Artist: who_cares973
Song Genre: Purchased
Difficulty: 10
Song Length: 3:12
Price: 2011 Credits

Ask & Receive! TOKEN!!!

You guys all wanted a new token…  so LD decided to bring one to life.  All compliments can go to me…  all complaints to LD.  :)  

This token is an achievement token.  Get a positive score on every public song, then check your levelrank and you’ll unlock PianoCore by hi19hi19.  Song is by x0-000 and I think the trills and weird jump-16th/24th things makes it a low FMO, but I’m open to making it a VC.

Enjoy and continue to look for new stuff in the coming days and weeks!

-Tass & LD

Spon Con – Super Bowl Edition

Quick spontaneous contest…  the first person who correctly picks the exact score of tonight’s super bowl (including which team wins) will get 20,000 credits and a 6 month subbie.  If nobody gets it correct, the closest person will win (closest first means correct team, then closest to the exact score by taking the absolute value different of both the winning and losing teams score).

You may only guess once…  submitting many guesses will not only disqualify you, it will definitely piss me off.

-Tass & his tears at the Eagles not playing today.

This is now over.  Congrats to foilman8805 for his guess of 27-21 and to the Steelers for winning 27-23.

SotY 2009! Take me back 5 years!

Song of the Year took a break in 2008, because we didn’t have anything awesome enough for it.  There were rumors of Mario or TMWT…  but it all came and passed.  And now it is 2009.  And we have SotY again!  We’re going to party like it’s 2004!

The full name of the song is OSTER Project presents World Tour 2004.  Seeing as how that is both a mouthful and redundant, I labeled it simply “World Tour 2004″.  Artist is, of course, OSTER Project.

Now, why does this song classify for SotY?  Because each one of us can relate to it.  The song hits music from all over the world.  It also happens to be the longest song in FFR and the song with the most notes.  A AAA on this will net you over 6 million points!  It is 8:38 and 3940 of goodness by behanjc.  It’s FMO for some jacks and length and PAing 24th jumpstream…  but it’s not TOO bad.

How can you play this, you ask?  All you need is 20,009 credits and you’ll find it at the top of page 3 of Secret.

Enjoy and Happy New Year!

-Tass

CCCP… Not Soviet Russia!

No, not russia.  It’s our most recent song!  Counter Clockwise Chant Pattern by Terminal 11.  It’s… beyond words.  Mega-FGO.  Good luck trying to even FC this file.  You can try for it for 7500 credits in purchased (the last of the purchased releases for the time being, yay!)  You can thank gnr61 for this mass regurgitation of arrows.

Subbies get a new behanjc file in funk.

-Tass

Yay Labor Day!

A few song related things for you guys…

1. 2 new subbie SotW songs are out, for yesterday and Friday.

2. 2 new public songs were released on Friday and yesterday (like every Friday and Sunday). Do A Barrel Roll by Kil, stepped by ElectricWerewolf and Here’s To Life [Oni] by Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution, stepped by DrugstoreCowboy, Kailure, AND Bluguerrilla.

3. We’ve added 2 new SKILL TOKENS, which gives us 100 total. #99 is straight-forward… Pass One Minute Waltz with less than 100 boos to unlock Minute Waltz v2. I listed it as a FMO, but it may be high VC. Not sure. Stepfile by jimerax. #100 is a bit different. We want to reward all the Token Whores out there, and hi19hi19 gave us the perfect opportunity. ST #100 requires you to have unlocked the previous 99 skill tokens. Have #1-99, then check your levelrank.php, and you’ll be given #100… the aptly named Token Whore, by dj tepples. If you get access to this song, congrats!, you ARE a Token Whore!

4. Some Support Token news: About 100 users were able to play Dendrite v2 without actually having access to the song… we’ve removed the scores from these users. In addition, all support tokens will now show up in special levelrank, not normal levelrank. Finally, challenges are being disallowed on support tokens if you do not have the token (just like secret, token, skill, etc).

5. Be on the lookout for a special public release file later today too. We ARE sitting on 599 public songs, and today IS a holiday (in the US).

-Tass

New Token!!! OMFG TOKEN!!! #30

No, there is no riddle to solve… no brainteaser to figure out… no link on ffrtokens.com for you to steal in order to get this token. No no no. This is a unique token, but not the only of it’s kind. Expect to see more of these in the future.

I am calling them “achievement tokens” and you’ll be able to find them in Token (Skill is too crowded already, and these are lifetime achievements, not single-game skill based unlocks). To get access to the songs, just meet the achievement… then check your levelrank.php page.

This 1st achievement token is for the song Orchestral Angels, by dj-nate. Stepfile is by behanjc and has some nifty jumpstream towards the end. I still say it is a high 8 and not a 9. I managed to AAA on my 2nd try. To unlock: have 1,000,000,000 (1 billion) Grand Total Score.

Expect to see both easier and harder achievement tokens in the near future.

-Tass

Scheduled Maintenance Almost Complete

The good news is that our datacenter underwent some pretty massive upgrades starting around midnight last night. These upgrades will bring more bandwidth to our datacenter which basically translates into quicker loading of site pages and the game levels.

The bad news (not really bad.. just more like annoying news) is that during the maintenance, some people were blocked out on Time Warner cable, Comcast cable and a few others. Being on Comcast myself, this was irritating while it was going on but it seems that the routing has been corrected now.

Vidchat and multiplayer are being relaunched shortly. Let me know if you see any other problems.

Cheers,

Synthlight