How to get better at FFR

[AriesMalvis]

Originally Posted by Vincentine

thnx any tips on FF7 battle them? i can play the whole thing sometimes and get some decent points....but i miss alot of the arrows in the hard parts

the most i've gotten is 6 credits

seriously...the easiest way is to keep playing it
kno when your trouble stops are coming up and try to remember the arrows that are hard for you.
i do that a lot, even on some easier songs :/
just whatever you do, don't start button mashing lol
or if you really want to attempt it, take a screen shot and study it

[Hwscottsmcgram]

If your tryin to fc a song get it on your ipod and listen to it nonstop

[WarNGuns]

Originally Posted by iggymatrixcounter

I’m tired of reading “How do I get awesome at this game?” threads….

Hence my rant of How to get better at FFR

First and foremost: PRACTICE!!!!!! this cannot be stressed enough. How do you get better at football? How do you master the gameplay of chess? How does one become a rocket scientist? You practice the trade and learn about what you want to get good at.

But I’ve learned a couple tricks that, coming from my own experiences, can make your practice more effective.

1 ) Scroll the screen so you only see about half of the total screen. C300 (The speed of EVERY song on FFR is not the best way to read many of the harder songs. By scrolling up the screen your reaction time is less thus making it SEEM faster and easier to read. (Trust me it does, ask anyone that has any high score and I’ll bet you they tell you the same thing.)

2 ) Try to hit ALL the arrows. Don’t worry if you get averages, they still keep your combo going. (unlike Step Mania) Your total score heavily depends on a high max combo so hit every arrow at all costs.

3 ) After being able to Full Combo (FC) a song (or not get any misses.) work on your Perfect Attack (PA for short). It’s relatively easier to get perfects on FFR than the standard Step Mania difficulty and the more perfects you get the higher your total score. (Keep in mind that you’ll want to keep your combo over getting more perfects as the max combo has more weight to the scoring system.)

4 ) Finally once you’ve gotten a decent PA (Perfect Attack) and can FC (Full Combo) a song..... “Go for the AAA!!!” (<-- A common term sometimes said to other users) This is where you get all perfects, thus getting the highest possible score for the particular song you are playing. To me this is the only way someone can say that they’ve mastered a song. Every song has a difficulty we can work on if we’ve never gotten a AAA.

Well there you go all you new players. I hope this can be of some help to getting you on your way to becoming a better player. Remember you have to PRACTICE in order to get good, but if you can make your practice more effective, then you can become better, faster.

HOW FFR SCORES YOUR SONG

550 for each perfect
275 for each good
55 for each average
-310 for each miss
-20 for each boo
1000 for each step in your max combo
(from igotrhythm)

And there you have it.... if anyone wants to add something they feel has helped them, I’ll take it into consideration and possibly add it to my list.

Advice from fellow FFR Players:

Doug31: Find a direction that fits your style. (I.E. having the arrows scroll up or down basically.) I've found that playing down is easier than up and I've been playing up for a long time.

LinkisDoomed: My suggestion: don't just play once with one finger style and keep playing that way. I'm stuck with one hand and I don't want to transfer to 2 handed methods because I'm gonna suck at it for a while. Test yourself for a while on different styles of playing.

*Sticky Please?*

You can play to get better...

[iggymatrixcounter]

Originally Posted by WarNGuns

You can play to get better...

Yes, but some people do not realize that practice is the way to get better. Plus I give insight into how to make the most of your time while you try to get better.

[Naptown]

ya thos tips r helpin out alot I can pwn the easy songs then I try to jump on somethin dificult I go straight to button mash mode XD but Ill get it eventually

[Yeha]

I understand what screen shrinking is, I just dont understand how its supposed to help you?

I mean, your making the arrows appear on your screen with less time till they need to be activated, which might limit confusion, but surely that gives you less time to react thus making it harder?

[AriesMalvis]

it makes you better, it doesn't make it easier...
it's to get your reaction time up

[DeadDeadRabbit]

Wow.
I never would have guessed that FFR had such a WIERD scoring method. XD

Thanks much, this will help!

[beaner692]

to anyone that hasn't played ddr or SM or anything like that before they start ffr, LIKE ME, I suggest you use down arrows.

For some reason, they are the easiest in my opinion. I couldnt play up arrows worth a s**t, so I switch to down arrows and it was way easier

GL Enjoy =D

[PinoySkillz]

Originally Posted by Yeha

I understand what screen shrinking is, I just dont understand how its supposed to help you?

I mean, your making the arrows appear on your screen with less time till they need to be activated, which might limit confusion, but surely that gives you less time to react thus making it harder?

The fewer arrows you see, the fewer arrows your brain has to process. Yes, it does give you less of a reaction time, so the trick is to find a comfortable amount of screenshrink so you can read the notes but still be able to hit the arrows without feeling rushed.
Over time your reaction speed will increase and you can screenshrink even more to be able to read the really hard songs.

[Yeha]

Originally Posted by PinoySkillz

The fewer arrows you see, the fewer arrows your brain has to process. Yes, it does give you less of a reaction time, so the trick is to find a comfortable amount of screenshrink so you can read the notes but still be able to hit the arrows without feeling rushed.
Over time your reaction speed will increase and you can screenshrink even more to be able to read the really hard songs.

Thankyou, very well explained.

[LeMoN25]

this game is pretty easy u just gott 2 get used to it im a pretty hardcore gamer i play gud games like everquest and vanuard and im a big cs gamer so this isnt hard 2 me

[FRANKKK]

Originally Posted by AriesMalvis

take a screen shot and study it

Thats what i do whenever i come to a hard part in a song.
It helps a lot too, my Lawn Wake combo went from 110 to 356 doing that lol.

[egenem0ore9]

thanks for the good tips

[2fast4u789]

Thanks for the help man ^^

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[meletienne]

meh.. aaa is hard i always miss 1 freakin godd note -,-

[Latenes]

HEy im not particualarly a newbie but im still not that good :P I can do some difficult songs but im now stuck on Very difficult.
I mean i can do some of the bits, but when it comes to places where there's arrows everywhere, i just can't do it and resort to button mashing. They just go up so fast i dunno which is next. Any tips for that? I tried shrinking my screen and stuff but it doesn't help. I been practicing the same song for like 10 days now and have only managed to get passed the certain hard bit like 5 times. It just confuses me to a point where i just give up

[TheCookieMonster]

... yeah, im not so sure all this stuff will work out too well for me..


EDIT: Yes, this will work for me [my scores are much better than they used to be].

[Just a good kid]

Originally Posted by iggymatrixcounter

I’m tired of reading “How do I get awesome at this game?” threads….

Hence my rant of How to get better at FFR

First and foremost: PRACTICE!!!!!! this cannot be stressed enough. How do you get better at football? How do you master the gameplay of chess? How does one become a rocket scientist?

Who wants to be good at playing chess????