Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

1) Sorry to hear about your news; wish you all the best with that, really.

2) You'd be preaching to the choir since a lot of people here have run events/projects etc. and it's just something that comes with running a service for people. That being said you DO have every right to pull the plug so I respect that decision even though it might seem hasty.

3) You gave out your pw...what did you expect? Of course people are going to be immature, but to actually take these things to heart is being over-sensitive. I get that you're stressed but please try to put the situation into perspective.

4) If you do leave, take care of yourself. I personally find it an immature and rash thing to react this way but do as you like.

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

you are a huge ******

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

Everyone log out of Tarrik's account now. :D

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

Payment will resume on the last day of January so there will be about a 4 day downtime.

Then payments will be continued by myself.

I already manage everything so the payment change will be easy enough.

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

Oh wow im so insulted. NOT

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

What did I miss?

oh apparently quite a bit

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

Seriously, what did you expect by giving out your password ?
Yeah some dick insulted you, welcome to the internet, why do you care about his opinion ? You don't know him, he is most likely an idiot, so why reacting like this, just ignore it.

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

WHOA am i gonna have to keep playing SM to get better now?

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

Like Shiki. said, there will be about four day down time, but payments will be continued by Shiki.. :)

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

oh i didn't read the thread oops

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

Leaderboard for this pl0x? I just found out about this today, I am a slowpoke.

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

As far as I know, there is no leaderboard for any engine, really. Dragon's Fury used to but...

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

Requesting Kaiten Dumbstream 1-4 please.

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

The file "Zen" from HSMP12 is the 12 footer (Easy one) Could we possibly get the harder one too? this ones awkward and wierd and bad.

I'll talk to arcn about seeing if this might be easy as piss to do on R^3 with the fact that R^3 stores your best scores on an engine locally, those same scores would just have to be uploaded to a small database for a makeshift leaderboard and voila, alt engine leaderboards completed.

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

Uhm... hmmm... please? :)

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

The 12 footer was from ODI3 apparently, hard from HSMP12 is 13. Regardless, I added the challenge version of Zen from HSMP 12.

Sorry guys, I've been a bit lazy recently with additions (not sure about the others).

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

Alright this may be a dumb question but....yesterday I managed to load up FFR Mania on R^3. Recently I cleared my history, logged back in, and I had to re-load the engine again. So I clicked add engine, and pasted the code in, http://ffrmania.com/r3.xml but when I hit enter it didn't add it and in the corner it said "error loading legacy engine". What does this even mean? It was fine yesterday. I'm probably doing something wrong.

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

Looks like that .xml isn't there anymore. Might have been taken down -- Tarrik came storming into video chat unannounced early this morning saying that the engine wasn't coming back.

EDIT: site is officially gone -- FFRMania is dead.

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

fuck me how am i gonna skillboost now

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

edit: Emily is currently attempting to restore a complete backup of FFRMania. The engine should be re-uploaded to zxq.net today, and Tarrik will no longer be involved with the project.

edit2: Here is an outdated temporary mirror: http://thestepmaniaengine.zxq.net/r3.xml

edit3: lol tarrik took that down too

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

hype

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

Ooh I see. Good to know. Thanks for the quick response :)

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

Cool.

Really happy this engine/hosting is here btw. As I'm sure everyone else is as well.

Thank you.

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

As things have changed slightly, let me elaborate on the current status of FFRMania, and what exactly is being done at the moment:

Essentially FFRMania was obliterated by Tarrik (he deleted everything on the FFRMania FTP, and also marked the old ZXQ site for deletion). Currently we have no idea why he did it, nor is it important, as we've removed him from all aspects of the project entirely. So for the short time being, FFRMania is not accessible, because there is literally nothing to access.

Soon we will be able to restore a large portion of the engine and it's contents, due to having some backups from the migration from zxq to FFRMania.com. There is a good chance though that not every level has a backup, and those that do not will have to be reconverted (which will take a little time). I have an extremely recent copy of the xmlfeedbacktest, so it should go by faster as levels would already be named and have details filled out. It may seem strange that we do not have an official up to date archive, but it should be noted that we are using paid hosting, and didn't have to worry about things like loss of data or anything like that. We also didn't exactly expect that anyone on the team would just flat out delete all of the contents within the engine (including the hundreds of levels they converted themselves). Needless to say, an up to date archive will be saved locally from now on, regardless of the fact it is less likely for data to be lost now that Tarrik has left. Further, due to Tarrik's discharge, there will be no more arbitrary downtime for the server caused by some form of emotional reaction in the future (or threats of said downtime).

Hopefully we can get at least a portion of the engine playable by the end of today, and repair more and more of the missing content throughout the remainder of the week. Once all repairs are complete, we will resume requests and converting levels normally. When we find out which files are not within our backup, they will be listed, and obviously we'll post about it when said levels are reconverted.

I apologize for any inconvenience this has caused, we will attempt to get this project back on it's feet as soon as as possibly can.

-Fox

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

things can only move up from here keep up the hard work guys

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

Technically it's contents were, but it should be back in it's entirety soon enough with a little work. I should also mention that the site was just paid in advance for an entire year, so it's hardly the end of the road for us.

-Fox

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

Woah damn. How did I miss the drama before my Zen post... thanks for the upload considering the circumstances, sorry for that timing.

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

tarrik pls I want ffrmania :'(

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

I actually tried recently to connect, couldn't so I went to check here.

Wow, he actually deleted all of it. That's really depressing, there's a few songs in there I enjoyed playing.

EDIT: Oh, there's a new .xml

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

Yes he did, though the majority of FFRMania is now usable (a little over 1200 levels). However because of this random incident (one which none of us know why occurred even after this time) the following things need to be reconverted / re-uploaded by us:

Our pack and song list needed to fix what we lost from Tarrik:
Mina Mini megapack 3
FFR Community Pack Winter 2011
FFR Community Pack Spring 2012
FFR Community Pack Autumn 2011
HSMP 1 and Hard Shit 1
HSMP Selections*
SPEEEDCOOOORE
SPEEEDCOOOORE 2
Extreme Z4 (DJMAX Extreme Z4 remix) [Oni] (NBJ3)
The Formula[Rea'du] (IcyWorld)

What we need from Prawn:
CMD+CTRL+C (IcyWorld)
Sannin No Dragon Slayer
BIGbadBOSSi's OP

What we need from Emily:
IIDX Candy Heroes Pad Pack (wip)

* There have been a few files added to HSMP selections I converted

Everything else should be usable though, and FFRMania should be working on R^3 now (just loaded it this very second, all seems well).

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

Glad you guys are working hard on getting this all working again! Thanks for all the work to those involved. Dick move by Tarrik.

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

hype!

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

i'm finding that the chart for maid of fire [oni] is identical to the current chart for maid of fire [heavy]... this didn't used to happen

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

I should try this out someday

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

Fixed this issue. If it persists, clear your cache (IE if standalone).

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

wow fuck you tarrik. what shred of dignity you had left in this community is gone now.

thank you guys so much.

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

Any updates on re-converting those packs?

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

^^^

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

lmao tarrik

dude needs to take a chill pill and retire from the internet for a while

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

disregards borked :<

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

Do you guys know which songs are lost?

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

gate openerz is also borked : (

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

And CMD+ctrl+c

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

Many songs are borked, because we are still waiting on Tarrik to fulfill his promise to re-convert the 400-something files that could not be recovered.

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

I'm doing it slowly but surely, I'm sick at the moment so i'm resting up.

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

Thank you. We assumed converting so many levels would take a while.

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

Yeah, They are being converted though. You guys have nothing to worry about :)

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

Basically this:
TRRK0001 - TRRK0033: Mina Mini megapack 3 Converted over!
TRRK0034 - TRRK0076: FFR Community Pack Winter 2011
TRRK0077 - TRRK0148: FFR Community Pack Spring 2012[
TRRK0149 - TRRK0205: FFR Community Pack Autumn 2011
TRRK0206 - TRRK0290: HSMP 1 and Hard Shit 1[/s]
TRRK0291 - TRRK0351: HSMP Selections
TRRK0352 - TRRK0396: SPEEEDCOOOORE
TRRK0397 - TRRK0444: SPEEEDCOOOORE 2
TRRK0445: Extreme Z4 (DJMAX Extreme Z4 remix) [Oni] (NBJ3)
TRRK0446: The Formula[Rea'du] (IcyWorld)

Once the conversion is completed by Tarrik (as mentioned by Prawn) things will once again be under normal operating order.

Admittedly we've been occupied with some other things, and the conversion rates have nearly halted since the incident, which I apologize for. Hopefully we can get the ball rolling again once the main stuff is restored. Thanks again Tarrik.


Converted over Back to the Gate (IcyWorld's request).

Keeping this post updated when conversions are uploaded to FFRMania!

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

No need to thank me, i'm more than happy to fix up this project for everyone; considering it was my fault to begin with ><!

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

Hang on, I have a whole bunch of ffrmania files saved from november (like, trrk0001-0290 and a bunch of separately named pack files). Probably like 1200 swfs in total. Skype me sometime and I can get some stuff transferred.

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

Hopefully thats all done now cause

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

just wait for the full release, it should be done in less than 2 days

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

I guess for a few files being fixed sure but it's mostly ready since ffrmania doesn't need graphics :>

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

several files were removed/revised and a whole bunch were added in, and it also eliminates the need for the singles that icy requested to be converted which are in nb5 anyway.

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

You were all over the gfx thread so I'll just trust you and not bug for this yet then :P

edit: this did need a bump Im pretty sure a tonne of files are still borked since the 7th

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

Bump cause some files are still broke.

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

i hope you're not surprised

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

I actually enjoyed that file. :(

I'm also noticing that most of Genre Eight (from Beast and the Harlot on) doesn't work.

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

Tarrik obviously isn't going to finish converting the files, and I'm sick of waiting. I apologize, foxfire and I have been very busy working on other projects while waiting for Tarrik.

After I am finished writing my first two finals this weekend, I will convert everything that is currently missing and start pumping out some new content.

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

Thats what I'm talkin about

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

I have a job now, Sorry. I barely have any free time to myself as it is and just got over being sick too, where i was sleeping 20 hours a day. I'm not trying to give excuses, that's how it is though.

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

excuses are fine but dont leave your thread un-attended without telling us, we all genuinely expected something and had no idea sooner you couldnt help, because you never informed us. Congratulations on the job Tarrik and I hope all is well, but you should communicate stuff like this sooner when you're a pinnacle part of a project :)

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

I totally agree with you. I apologize to everyone. In all honesty, the thread and engine hadn't even been on my mind. I'm not even on the computer all too often anymore, let alone the FFR site for more than a minute. Still though, I said i would do something and i didn't do it. I feel terrible about it. I need to go to work now .. Sorry again for letting you all down .. again.

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

Following files should be fixed now

Gate Openerz (Heavy and Oni)
CMD+Ctrl+C
All-Powerful Trixie

List any other broken files you come across.

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

Welcome Fantasticone to the team! Every corrupt stepfile has been removed (temporarily RIP HSMP & community packs). Now that everything on the engine actually loads, we can get some work done. I'll work on getting some new packs up tonight.

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

lockene (charted in 7 and a half minutes Must be fun)


is not working

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

VGM packs plz.

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

fuck yeah burning noumander

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

On it

Will try to get done by the end of the week

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

Wow, this is awesome. I can't believe I'm barely finding out about this. Looks like some shit went down before I found out about it too. :/

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

either my timing window is messed up, but Princess Bride seems off
edit:
god i realized how bad suck at this game lol

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

yo I heard that I still have files in this engine
just because tarrik is longer in charge doesn't mean I give permission for my files to be in here

pull them

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

lol

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die winnipeg die die die fuckers die
dirtwalker
do back burn
drawcia soul
fucking paranoid
ghosts
interrupt
lovely bloodflow
my half
near dark
robotomy
so deep
tsugaru apple mix
vortex
you goddamn fish (i'm assuming that one is mine)


i'm sure i missed a few
if i still have files in this engine by tomorrow when i get back to my main computer we're gonna have problems

sorry, all of these files i made specifically for stepmania (with mine/holds/xmod), so playing them with no mines, no holds, and constant bpm kinda defeats the whole purpose

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

24 hours is pretty short notice for a takedown.

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

tarrik had no issue with taking down my files originally and there were far more than 15

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

Im no entertainment lawyer, but are any of these "simfiles" copyrighted (not Creative Commons)?

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

technically no
but trust me, you want to take these down before tomorrow evening lol

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

"Insert assholish remark here" Yeah.K.

Re: FFRMania Engine: 1500+ songs and counting!
 

uh oh what a terrifying threat