Stepmania/ffr history thread
Hey guys, I decided I wanted to compile in a thread, and possibly later, have some sort of a scripted story reading of the history behind stepmania and ffr posted to youtube. We're a very historied community, going as far back as 2002 and there have been events, mindset shifts, metagame shifts, community members that come and go, stories for days, cheaters, liars, drama, and many many good things that persevere throughout that keep this game alive and thriving, such as community projects, packs, website developers, the forums in general, our connections with each other, and our passion for smashing arrows. I feel it'd be a darn shame if we let some notably large events, successful and/or failed projects, players, and contributors become nothing more than a thought of the past. This thread, though I may not see it to its completion, I want to kick things off with a lot of my findings throughout the digging i've done in the forums, and any help i've received from directly asking you guys, what things were like. Most importantly, I feel this is a very good opportunity to work together as a community to help put our history into a consumable manner for other people who are new, or us oldies that want some nostalgia.
I personally feel from my observations through searching the forums, that we are not a dying community, we are not a dying game, and in fact we have more activity than ever. So without further adieu, here's everything that I've compiled so far, in spoilers because it's big: I have found this story from an old timer named Tyra over on zenius I Vanisher that I found interesting! I have also saved this from arch0wl that kind of continues off the story from Tyra (kinda) but it's still interesting since I think arch0wl was very influential or just generally well known (hi arch!) One other thing I found interesting, is that IzzySM has been a very good man in keeping his website up and available to download stuff from, with timestamps! mad props! My personal digging through ffr forums, and generally the internet to find cool stuff, many titles and dates!: 12-16-2017 Stepmaniathings is back guys btw http://stepmaniathings.com/files/ Added 4/28/18 VIDEOS GUYS YOOOOO Quote:
One last thing I want to leave a note on, considering my past record with losing interest with substantiating something this massive (the list of major simfile packs) I anticipate I may lose interest in maintaining/updating this kind of a thread in the near future. So I want to leave this with you guys, if you find it interesting! I also don't think that I'd be able to write out a nice storyline including some major highlights of our community, if someone were interested and tallented/invested enough to do so, I'd be glad to read it out for youtube :) I think it's majorly awesome how much we've grown on the shoulders of giants, going from single download simfiles, to community packs, to minipacks led oftentimes by a single person in conjunction with community packs (the current state of things); how we've always had someone who volunteers to host stepmania related packs and themes/noteskins; how we've always stuck together (in some sense) throughout the most trying of times (ffr going down); how we've constantly admired the best players, the best content creators, and pushed skill over the years to an absurd level (always going higher still even); how ffr and sm have always been seperate but together entities (we're all in the same boat in a sense); and just everything, I love you guys! Another interesting fact is the internet in general has grown A LOT since 2002! This is probably a nice time for all you veterans who have been around 10+ years to share your stories too :) hope you all find something interesting here, and have a good time! Edit for more stuff: @IcyWorld there was drama about mi40/anaru for botting heterochromia iridis in the 9th tourney round 8 d7 ApocolypseAp found this, props to him! I think that these scores are from about 2006 |
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I've done nothing with my life in this department.
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make sure you have a footnote for dossar about him drinking milk through a straw
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don't forget that without the love rebirth had for his girl, we wouldn't have TGWP.
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make sure you have a footnote about the time mrrubix AAA'd excitebike while sleepwalking in ffr video chat with other people watching
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This is sweeeeet
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Some interesting tidbits here: http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...137528&&page=2
I have a small post here: http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...34&postcount=4 Mr Rubix did a thing: http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/....php?t=115062& Also KBO is still around so you should find plenty of stuff on there! |
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those are actually pretty tight! thanks kraezymann!
edit: oh dang i found this thread by you too kraezymann http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...hing+stepmania I guess I kinda fulfilled your wish with this thread, afaik this thread probably is the beginnings of the most complete history for this dear game also kbo was kind of shortlived, only lasting the duration ffr was down in terms of activity, the best things that came from it of course were solo being more fleshed out, prominent old timers hung out, patashu made the terminology guide of all guides, someone found out about sounddriver=waveout for stepmania 3.9 and 3.95 improving performance, i hosted (along with many other people) a convenient list of packs, staiain started the stepmania wiki, patashus equally impressive guide to stepping files, the rise of minipacks and individuals making their own packs in general; subjectivemania, nuclear blast, uemp, mystery pack, tg10, piano minipack of excellence, light chanchellors pack, Kommisar's Keyboard Singles Originals, Farewell, My Little Stepmania[Pack],Parallel Rotation Minipack Released, german dump mini pack, cyrenics, kombo, dossars mp3, dossars dump pack, icyworld minipack, melon collab. there were also a few big name megapacks, xoons around this time were your go to packs, ckmp4, hsmp was still going, rebound vibrajacking, otakus dream was getting really big around this time, smoc was coming around. mainly xoons though dj roar is #1 and roar speak was leet kbo as a game was pretty awesome. the community in general was super sociable, we played minecraft had our own server with stargroup iirc, and irc games, and generally lots of smo. Actually the scoreboards was the most active portion of the site really! We played so much, and posted so many scores irc games http://www.keybeat.net/forums/showthread.php?t=1109 #gayms |
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I also remember there was this one thread where a guy posted that his "brother" died and he would continue his brothers legacy by continuing to play and post in this site/game. there was also that whole thing with mi40 added soul evans stuff, and updated op with kraezymanns stuff, and shuey's ddr simfile history |
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There was also this in history, back when nois-or-e was admin.
There's also a lot in legendary threads that made a moment in history for FFR, good example is the darkshark threads. Also I vaguely remember, yet lost to time, there was one official tournament while Nois-or-e was still admin, and there was someone in D4 that had a separate account prepared for himself in D1. I forget who it was that did it, I think it was either Reshiram, or Zekramcross, but they were caught because they carried the same setups across accounts. The official thread lost their fucking mind for like 10 pages and there were no moderators online to handle it. Had like 150+ people screaming in there, and that was like 2012, 2013 as well. All the content was deleted as soon as nois-or-e came home that night. |
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hoooly moly you just reminded me that alongside cheaters, there was some really bad sandbaggers back then, lots of counteractive measures to ensure sandbagging is way less likely to happen and the such were taken
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also http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...d.php?t=139994 SaFyre13 getting banned for AAAing Staple on Smile iirc there's also the FFR scores database crisis at some point as well http://ffr.wikia.com/wiki/Scores_Purge_of_2015 also back in 09 I vaguely remember people calling each other all sorts of slurs, but I can't remember if it was done in jest or if it was unironic, perhaps it may be worth mentioning political atmosphere back then vs now??? (especially w/ ODI and KBO being very noob-unfriendly iirc) in that regard, perhaps talking about the divide between timing & vibro players before a gradual metagame shift starting around 2011 to 93ing files |
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funny enough, the name of the "kbo" community has nothing to do with keybeat as a game, but we kept the namesake since this was where the vast majority of users met, lol. |
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Might want to mention 0 and 1 frame jacks too lmao. Game play in the 03-04 era was super archaic. |
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