New Features Testing

Posted in Uncategorized on January 3rd, 2007

We are testing a couple of internal features in FFR tonight that will not be seen by the public. Let us know if you experience any difficulty that is out of the ordinary when playing the game. We will let you know about these new features in the near future. :)

Cheers,

Synthlight

133 Responses to “New Features Testing”

  1. Thanks for the warning.

  2. Sweet. Time to start playing just to try to see if I can find anything wrong.

  3. what are the new features? i wanna know now XD

  4. Well, my FFR game isn’t loading. That just happened like 30 minutes after this news got uploaded.

  5. My FFR game hasn’t loaded for about 6 days.. Maybe this will make it work now.. Hopefully >.

  6. Killerwu, great.. now if you could just be so kind as to give me a little more information than that. Like your cable provider company, where you are connecting from, browser type, OS type.. all that good stuff. and what exactly does “isn’t loading” mean?

  7. i wasn’t able to play any of the secret songs for like 10 minutes if that’s a big deal.

  8. Have you tried clearing your cache? I’ve heard that that helps sometimes. It might not be as a result of whatever testing is going on.

  9. I just got a bug that never happened to me before. I got to where I took this screenshot, then it just stopped. I’m connecting from my house, using comcast, firefox, and windows.
    http://img167.imageshack.us/my.php?image=buguh3.png

  10. BWAA! NEW STUFF COMING YAY!

  11. wait..why is someones score above everyone elses in {Rose} ? its abnormal…hax maybe? or maybe its a bug bit i doubt it

  12. Hey, this is a little off-topic, but what ever happened to R3? Whats the story with that? Did that project just sorta die?

  13. No, not dead and it is called 3rd style.

  14. has the size of the FFR engine changed recently? if so…why. if not whats going on lol

  15. I see you have noticed.. The compressed version has gone up a small amount. Uncompressed it is a bit larger. But I cannot tell you why.

    Cheers,

    Synthlight

  16. Oh the excitement!!!! well ill test Hardcore for next few houres and ley ya know!
    BTW keep up the good work! I have been playin more than ever latley

  17. ill see

  18. For the past 2-3 days i havent been able to play ffr that well, heres the problems:

    1. The songs take a long time to load, about 2mins and about 70% of the time they stop loading altogether.
    2. Not only are the songs loading slow but going from page to page on ffr (ex checking profiles) is slow too, it takes a few mins to load, and i use high speed. also 50% of the time a screen comes up with the dreaded *page can not be displayed* screen.
    3. After a song (if it works) the credits are not added and scores are either ???? or 0. and when i try to choose another song my credit count goes to 0 and my mp level does as well.

    I have never had these problems like this before and im looking forward to play again. Thx for your consideration!

    xFlamenx~

  19. I go undefined about every other song and sometimes my song wont load. I try to refresh and my computer freezes, I know its not the computer cuz i just got it.

  20. Hey, I was just playing one of the secret songs..and I had 259 credits, now I have 0!!!! What’s up with that?????

  21. no nevermind they’re back..wierd.

  22. 3rd style testing?

  23. Yesterday and today i’ve had a LOT of problems.

    1. Every song i have to reload it many times, it keeps getting stuck at 0 this had never hapenned to me until yesterday.

    2. Every 3rd song or so in MP, it shows i have no credits.

    I don’t have dialup so my computers internet shouldn’t be the problem. FIX IT PLEASE

    OO new stuff i hope the near future is meant as tommorow.

  24. I hope so Blazze- ^_^;

  25. I just played a song, and it seems to me that the arrows are moving much smoother than they used to (could be just me, but that’s a difference i noticed).

  26. is it a bug if sometimes i play a lvl and the purple arrows are invisible and the green or light blue ones turn to normal blue arrows?

  27. Probably testing FFR Wii version?

  28. if you pick a song on one page then go up or down a page the song (in the same slot) get replaced from the song you pick on the first page. not too bad of a bug just its there. (to get the songs back to normal just close the song tab ex, dance tab)

  29. FFr won’t even load on my page…like the game, spinitup and R2 work but FFR doesn’t…..help?

  30. hey SYNTHLIGHT!
    i have a question!
    why has the FFR server been going slow lately?
    i know it isnt my computer or internet!

    truly,

    Kyle

  31. The game’s running fine for me except when I first enter FFR.

  32. Synth, my FFR as been messed up for the past 2 days. In multiplayer I keep becoming undefined and the site randomly doesnt load and i get error pages. Also the songs wont load unless i wait like 2 minutes for each to start with multiple clicks. btw i have cable internet connection and the most problems happen on IE.

  33. the game is goin faster then b4 but some of the songs are stoppin a few times ten goin again. Also just a little bug i found that i never got to say was in Party4UHolyNightRemix if you lose then try again the song doesnt play and it goes uber slow.

    Thanks,
    Slayer1096

  34. yeah…i somehow cant connect…ive tried everything…and i can connect right away usually…yesterday it took a long timne to connectbut now it wont connect at all

  35. some of my key strokes aren’t being recognized…. don’t know if it’s my computer or ffr, and my credits aren’t being added…. but can’t wait and some of the songs are being really slow when i play them but sometimes my computer is just slow so i don’t know if it’s ffr or not. Can’t wait to see the new stuff!

  36. and jugglingguy – same problems eh it sucks

  37. What I mean by “FFR won’t load” is that when I click the link to play FFR, it loads the page fine but then it just has a blank white box, and it’s that way for the Unified Chat as well. I can still post on forums and update my profile and everything, I just can’t play FFR or use the Chat Box.

    I’ve tried everything I can think of but it still doesn’t work for me, and it started 5 or 6 days ago. I use IE and I’m connecting from my house, and I have DSL.

  38. never mind it is adding my credits but still some of the key strokes don’t register and it’s not because of my keyboard because i just got it like a day ago and it’s not a bad connection it’s really weird though it’s fine on the other ones- resonance etc. but on ffr it’s not working

  39. Some songs have been unplayable for me…like I couldn’t play Pants when I tried today about an hour ago.

    A lot of glitches I can point out thus far…here is info about my computer: DSL (Non-wireless router), Firefox 2.0 browser, Windows XP, and connecting from my house.

    Another glitch is multiplayer isn’t loading, as well as songs…they get to 100% but then stop, or they start and stop immediately after it starts.

    Another glitch that has happened recently is that when I click on “The Game”, I’ve had to click it once or twice before it actually loads…and when it’s loading the game, sometimes it doesn’t load all the way, like stopping at a certain KB. I have waited a while, I usually wait 30-40 seconds, but FFR usually loads instantly for me.

    One I am noticing is a common one…the scores don’t save, so I would play something like Balloon Fever and it would stay at 0 rank, or not save. I clear my cache everyday, so that can’t be the problem.

    The final glitch I have noticed is “Sever Split” on multiplayer. I mean, I play against someone, then near the end of the song, it says he’s still there, but he’s not. It also shows he died although he keeps getting a combo…very weird glitch.

    I hope you fix these problems Synth, and I hope I helped you :)

  40. seems like everyones going through these same problems as me, see #18 /////
    Ps~ hope my meteor works!~ ////////
    @O@@@O//
    Lord Of Fire O@@O@@@@
    xFlamenx~ @@@@O@

  41. cool new features

  42. nice, i hope the new features arent gay =) =P

  43. The song Blank Knowing in Dance is not working

  44. yea in multiplayer it says im loaded then i have to load and by then the other person is already playing without me!?!

  45. Same as 18 above, page itself doesnt load, or when it does song doesnt load or has huge delays in loading. Credits etc disappear, reappear at random. Cable internet, provider Suddenlink, IE7, os WinXP Pro, 2 gig ram yadda yadda, yes dumped cache etc etc. Same with Firefox. Bleh

  46. Yeah, I got to click on play FFR and it comes up on the blue page and it dosen’t load. Im using IE From my house and i have had this problem sicne yesterday or the day before. hopefully u guys can fix it.

  47. Have gotten a few launches with no problem cept having an issue with score.. hopefully link to screenshot works.

    [img]http://thay.us/images/scorebug.jpg[/img]

  48. look at this, i got a bug aswell whne playing chaotiac sound

    C:\Documents and Settings\Anna\Desktop\untitled.bmp

  49. Eh,my FFR isnt loading at all…solid blue screen,using mozilla firefox,high speed cable internet connection. It just started literally about half an hour after the news was posted.

  50. I was playing Chaotic Sound and it seemed as if it was off-sync. Was this in the stepfile, or what?

  51. Just a few things. First some songs I can’t even play i.e. Gradeus / Pants. This isnt from lack of skill as I have beaten them before. For some reason if there is a jump stream with anything more than 8th’s it seems that my arrow clicks won’t get registered. I have tested this on my other computer and it seems like its a 50/50 chance of the same thing. Second sometimes when I hit arrows and the word PERFECT or GOOD pops up, the arrow will still go flying by and it still results in a MISS. It is getting very annoying when I go to AAA easy songs and it happens midway through. Also I have experinced that “FFR not loading” with the rest of the page loaded and FFR not even showing up at all. Just incase you need to know, DSL from home using windows XP.

  52. Sorry for the double post, but this is more of an edit. I tried doing Pants 4 times and each time the same thing happend. When it got to the first jump stream at first I didnt press anything, and I got farthur than when i tried to even hit any arrows. So I tried hitting arrows and they all registered, but not as hitting the falling arrows (I play down arrows) instead they all registered as whatever they would have been + a BOO. Also the arrow would still go past and also result in a MISS. For instance if I hit an arrow and it registers as PERFECT, what I really get is. PERFECT + BOO + MISS. I hope you are able to fix this soon

  53. But I _want_ to know why the file is bigger now.. _please_ tell me?

    :)

  54. I just played Synesthetic as a test and to get a best score higher than zero after it was redone :|

    Then, somewhere in the middle of the song, it slowed down like P4U. It played perfectly fine up until it slowed down and it even recorded my stats and credits fine after I failed out of the song. I have wideopenwest cable (can’t you check our IPs to figure this out yourself? Do these postings not record IPs?), Windows XP Professional, and Firefox.

    Oh and telling us you’re testing new features is a major tease. You could have just said “We’ve made a few changes and are unsure if everything went through alright. Let us know if you encounter any problems.”

  55. Just played a few more songs and it didn’t happen again.

    I think it happened a few days ago too though. It probably isn’t related directly to this.

  56. i played for a bit last night and so far no problems :D but will u tell us what u did after everythings all set?

  57. i played for a bit last night and so far no problems :D but will u tell us what u did after everythings all set?

  58. FFR also wont load for me either =/ sadface

  59. i seem to be having to same problem as Alucard4_6 but it’s my up and left arrows mostly but some times my down and right arrow but mostly my up and left

  60. The size…it’s like 1000 instead of 500 as it used to be.

    And ffr loads, people, you just have to be patient. It doesn’t show it loading, but in the end it will say loaded and bring you there.

  61. For those of you having problems still, please tell us if using a mirror or the main FFR site (here), your browser version and flash version if you would.

    We need as much information as possible as we work on some of these enhancements. As we are going to be testing different builds today as we track down any problems with these upgrades.

  62. bigger load engine, doubled, hmmmm something kools gonna happen, new FFR engine could mean so much, smoother game play, R3, new feature stole from R3, New MP system.

    When can we find out>?>?

  63. Nothing out of the ordinary over here. I can’t wait till the new features. How long is near? I can’t wait =)

  64. ive been having arrow registration problems lately too. i run on comcast, the main site, and i use IE. it happens randomly but i know i hit the arrow and i register a miss. i tried this on my other comp and get this same problem. it happens mostly in a stream above 160-170 BPM.

  65. I also use the main site. Sorry I don’t know which version of IE or my flash version.

  66. Win Xp Pro, Flash Player 9, Explorer 7.0.5730.11IC, or Firefox 2.0.0.1, have tryed to play on either browser, same result, also using main site, not a mirror

  67. I’ve been seeing on some of the songs the timing will drift off of the music. Also on older computers the songs have more trouble playing. On some songs the arrows will drop to maybe 1/5th the speed they should be coming up and the music will stop. I’m using the same computers I used before.

  68. *edit for comparison, last night the last few times I tryed played neither of the above was working, so far today, Firefox is cooperating atm, except for the occasional song launch to immediate score, no arrows, goes straight to all 0′s and shows your highest score and ffr best ;| IE7 still isn’t, for what thats worth :)

  69. Never mind, it works now :)

  70. OMG I WANA KNOW SO BAD

  71. JasonKey Im using the main site with IE 7.0 with Windows Xp – my problems are very bad took me like 10 minutes to get onto this

  72. I have tested 2 seperate computers so far. 2 of which are Windows XP Home and one running IE 6 and another IE 7 Both with Flash player 9. If anything, the computer with IE6 ran the game slightly smoother, either that or im crasy. I also noticed besides the increase of the file size of the FFR engine, when the engine is loading there is a “http://www.flash” written in small text in the upper left corner. im PRETTY sure its not supposed to be there.

    Also because i think it might be a factor, my location is in northern Delaware. It is possibble that the people who are experiencing issues just loading the page are experiencing some issue with wires somewhere down the line to where this game server is. Mainly people who do not live in the US or Canada, just say where you live cause it might be a factor.

  73. Everything works fine for me (at least in single player – didn’t try multiplyer this evening) except the download speed. That was better last year. I can still download all songs, but it takes about a minute. I’m from germany, T-Com DSL, WinXP, IE.
    The download was much faster last year. It took me about 10 secs download a song.

  74. Quote from Popalats:

    if you pick a song on one page then go up or down a page the song (in the same slot) get replaced from the song you pick on the first page. not too bad of a bug just its there. (to get the songs back to normal just close the song tab ex, dance tab)

    ^^^That problem doesnt come from this patch. I recognised this bug some time ago, but didnt really care, because it’s not really a heavy bug :)

    And yes… the game seemed a bit more fluent to play (at least I think so – the power of will :D ) as some other guys wrote some posts above

  75. lookin around… not much i could complain about…

    pretty good.

    and if i know synthlight how i think i know him…. the new features are of course not going to be anything gay. they are merely going to be something AMAZING!

    Shashakiros Master,
    Punk (jk)

  76. wait scratch that… all the purchased songs i bought are now back in the “FFR shop”

    they are also in my purchased section, but i cannot play them.

    i dont know if this is a big problem, but its ok. take your time.

    going to stab myself soon.

    not suicidal (seriously),
    Punk

  77. zz, connection issues are REALLY odd. Not something we can control from here.

    tloz, we know about that, and its expected.

    Still working away on things.

  78. WOA! thats kinda weird…first of all the ffr engine size seems to be changing…a bit…and when you try to buy songs it says you dont have enough credits when you have WAY more than enough…if i find any other stuff i’ll mention it [and sorry in advance for being meticulious...im kinda a perfectionist in a small sence so sorry if im being annoying] keep up the great work! also maybe the people who are loading songs slowly should try playing on the Low Res version of FFR…the screen size might be really small but you can play it maybe, because thats the point

  79. usually my connection is instant. also in mp i randomly become undefined with no credits like every 3 songs or so

  80. a big problem its either i lose my credits and don’t get them back, or i get like 500 credits. also it sometimes said ffr cannot load Hint: did you type in all correct url words? Did you bla bla bla What ever. Its mad annoying.

  81. tloz: I meant in reference to the “when the engine is loading there is a “http://www.flash” ” issue ;)

  82. Mines fine…but is this new feature the speed change(if its is… YEA!!!) …I realy want that to work out for you guys at FFR……good luck…

    -L$

  83. I don’t know if this is related, but just now I started playing TGWP Part 2, and the arrows were about a beat too early. But then after about 5 or so seconds the music stopped and the arrows slowed down.

    My cable provider is Time Warner Cable, I’m running Windows XP SP2 and I’m using Firefox 2.0.0.1

  84. firefox will do that to you. try repeatedly reloading the song.

  85. ive notice that some of the songs scores r not normal.

    In the song ROSE someones record is too high. Tass check it out and please try to speed up the new features cause like… everyone here is like…getting pissed. But I think that ur doing a great job, keep it up. :)

  86. coolguy44 Says:
    January 4th, 2007 at 7:39 pm
    How do u find 3rd Style?

    lawl

  87. The FFR shop reset completely for me. Now I have to buy ALL the songs over again, just to get the last one.

  88. I noticed the size difference in the loading of the engine, but the only problem that I am concered is that whoever or whenever I played, the screen freezes constrantly. I used to get that alot in the past…but its back. Hope you can fix that including the rest of the peoples. see ya!

  89. oh yeah, and the time is an hour ahead -_-

  90. Very Problematic…

  91. TO FIND 3RD STYLE YOU MUST HOLD ALT+F4 REPEATEDELY WHILE IN THE GAME. IF IT TAKES YOU OFF OF FFR, THEN THAT IS THE 3RD STYLE SECURITY SYSTEM. KEEP TRYING AND 3RD STYLE WILL BECOME UNLOCKED.

  92. For me, it’s been a week since i cannot load ffr the game : or the loading bar appears and stops around halfway through (and stays there, I left it open for an hour or so) or the loading screen doesn’t appear at all. But i think the problem has nothing to do with the patch as i am connecting from beijing, china, it might be because of the earthquake that cut the cable lines… anyone else from asia experiencing the same problems?

  93. *little nooby voice* Kazashu…i’ve been trying for hours and it wont unlock. how many times should I try?! *cough cough*
    *normal voice* dude thats just mean…

  94. totally.

  95. Did you just figure that one out, Kazashu?

  96. # Kazashu Says:
    January 4th, 2007 at 9:55 pm

    TO FIND 3RD STYLE YOU MUST HOLD ALT+F4 REPEATEDELY WHILE IN THE GAME. IF IT TAKES YOU OFF OF FFR, THEN THAT IS THE 3RD STYLE SECURITY SYSTEM. KEEP TRYING AND 3RD STYLE WILL BECOME UNLOCKED.

    lol

  97. I’m not the gay Kashazu from the forum.

    I’m impersonating him.

  98. when i play it doesn’t let me buy a song

  99. “I’m not the gay Kashazu from the forum.
    I’m impersonating him.”

    So much for the impersonating part.

  100. and my scores dont record

  101. I guess I’m not an isolated case, for the FFR site has been freezing on me recently also. For example when I click to play a song, it will start with “loading 0%” then not move… I’ll have to refresh the page and try clicking the same song again to get it to load, but the page will refresh a lot slower than it should, sometimes remaining a blank white screen and display an error page. Songs only load smoothly for me if it’s already Cached.

  102. I’ve had a problem lately with the arrows and images not dissapearing when they should. Like when an arrow travels upwards it still shows some of its states of movement. Like a trail. And when i start a song, some of the selection menu is still showing on top of my game.

    Firefox, camino, safari, and ei.

  103. Everything is going well for me …. but I saw something weird… when you choose a genre you can see under it:

    There is # song in this genre

    but there’s no number like 50 or 5 or anything it’s # songs in this genre…

    good luck :P

  104. sorry for the double post but I saw that so I tought you’d like to see it too … I was looking for a game in multiplayer when I saw that….

    [url]http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/1772/sansnomweboh6.jpg[/url]

  105. Quote:
    Thony450 Says:
    January 5th, 2007 at 8:42 am
    sorry for the double post but I saw that so I tought you’d like to see it too … I was looking for a game in multiplayer when I saw that….

    [url]http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/1772/sansnomweboh6.jpg[/url]
    Yeah i noticed that a long time ago it started around 2 or 3 days atleast before this was posted and i just left it alone it was just i thought yeah it’s weird but maybe im just on acid or something and im seeing things….. btw im not on ne drugs!!!

  106. really really really sorry for double posting i will go into a closet and beat myself for double posting but i’ve been noticing that i can’t connect to multiplayer… never happened to me before but it might just be my computer is being stupid. any way i have to go punish myself now for double posting…

  107. yeah same here I was playing and it froze and I couldn’t join anymore… I use firefox with window XP and a good internet connection…and flash 9

  108. Won’t connect to multiplayer — cleared cache (IE and firefox). This problem is new as of this morning.

  109. The Multiplayer screen at the bottom won’t show up…it’s been like this for 2 days now…could just be my computer but….(high speed, WinXp, IE)

  110. after songs it just stops and doesn’t go to the complete page so i have to get boos until my bar is empty to get to the complete page

  111. yeah like i said b4 when i was playin sum 1 it didnt show the perfects nor the max combo and i ended up winning which i didnt want well tahst a big prob to me cuz thats not fun well jus a prob i think u should look into

  112. hay, i cant connect to profile chat!

  113. The multiplayer bugs mentioned this morning have been fixed.. refresh or clear cache

    Cheers,

    Synthlight

  114. yeah i saw the load issue with the loading on the serv.
    the “http://www.flash” thing yeah.

    well still testing…
    Punk

  115. Hmmm. All my Secret songs have gone. They disappeared about 6 months ago and I had to earn them back, but now they’re gone again.
    Grrrr.
    D:

  116. you can’t purchase any songs. at all. it just says you don’t have enough credits.

  117. I’m hoping I can challange people who are not members via email now.

  118. it sucks to be all you guys.
    nothing is wrong with mine at all.
    my computer is the perfecting being.
    haha, i laugh at you all with problems.

  119. All of the songs are off beat.

  120. FFR is loading fine, however:

    I went to purchase one of my last 2 songs that need to be bought and it now shows in the “FFR Shop” all the songs that I’ve already purchased. It won’t let me scroll down to find the ones i haven’t bought either.

  121. wait…how long has there been a “latest played games” thing on the side under the SOtW?

  122. brand new

  123. THATS WHAT I THOUGHT! GENIOUS! so many people will be seen now. and is the united profile chat new too?

  124. c too much negative comments in people.

  125. not that new. its been around a while, and working on updates to that too.

  126. I went to the shop to buy a song and the only songs that are available are songs I have already bought.

  127. weird… no?
    http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/6945/ffrwebco9.jpg

    and how can we do URLs?

  128. yeah same with me only songs avaiable where song i have already bought

  129. I’ve noticed that the songs aare offbeat too.
    I thought it was just me, so I ignored it. xD

  130. as a new feature you guys should set up a new menu that lets you enter into tounaments or set up an annual
    tournament bracket

  131. ummmmm wtf all my secret songs just like dissapeared umm HELP!!! wtf

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