It's about time I suggest this stuff.

[Privateer]

1. Completely redesign the arrows.

Have the stationary arrows changed, too. I don't mean to compare FFR with DDR, but I like the way the stationary arrows in DDR are not filled in and are gray. The arrows right now (all of them) are too filled in with color.

2. Change the fashion in which songs are listed and organized.

a. The buttons used for the songs in the main menu are much too big. They should look like this:
Two lines of text fit comfortably, and you don't have to chop up almost every single one-word song.

b. The way the songs are put in categories kind of stinks. You get too much overflowing in certain genres. Rather than splitting them into genres, you should have them put into groups based on difficulty rating. Speaking of, the difficulty system is weak.

3. The ratings given for difficulties should be changed.

Give numbers out of 15, and get many opinions as to what they should be rated. Don't use any symbols or phrases to rate songs, just numbers.

EDIT: Chardish's idea is better. I still think the ratings should be just numbers though.

4. Option for menu music to be turned off.

There should be an option where when you are at the menu, you have no music playing. It would be a permanent option so that when you start FFR, it doesn't play. Same for the score screen.

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This is like a pre-draft of my final post...I'll go back later and fix it up.

[Dark_Mind]

I like your button idea. But not the others.

[banditcom]

I support these suggestions.

[Moogy]

As do I.

[flawofhumanity]

I like these suggestions, sounds good.

[ultima301]

1 - The arrows are fine...alternate designs would be cool though.
2 - Agreed.
3 - Agreed..it actually perfectly compliments my ranking system idea, since I used a scale of 1 to 15 for difficulty ( http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...wtopic&t=10208 is the link if you want to take a look)

[Privateer]

These are some hot suggestions, Privateer.

[ImEric12]

Yeah, I really like those suggestions.. I've been thinking the same thing, myself.

[Arch0wl]

1 to 13 is fine =\

[ImEric12]

Well, yeah, but the difficulty system really does need to be redone.. I can pass NeoMAX (Very Challenging), but there are quite a few Difficults I can't pass... I can also pass a lot of Very Difficults.

http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...wtopic&t=10624

I'd like to see this be the difficulty system.

[IAMTHEEVILBEAN]

Those are sexy privateer.

[Privateer]

These are sexy.

[ad0gg]

i like ur ideas

[EmperorSteele]

Yeah, bigger buttons, definatly!

Though i dont think we need to get rid of the genres, if thats what you were suggestng, but yeah, def. arrange them by difficulty -within- those genres.

and whats wrogn with the menu music? =/

[Cenright]

I think that most of those are good suggestions and would actually help the overall gameplay. I also aggree that the system chardish has on song rating is good. That can easily be changed to the ))))s, and FFR already has room for the ))))) ratings AND the word ratings, so there doesn't have to be any debate on that.

[ImEric12]

or have a selection of ways to sort it, like in DDR Extreme (and probably the other arcade DDR's, for that matter)... sort by genre, sort by alpha, sort by difficulty, etc.

[Brain_Dead]

I think we needmore music people have actulay heard of you know?

[esupin]

yeah but those cost big bucks

[hEaLiNgViSiOnAnGeLicMiX]

I think we needmore music people have actulay heard of you know?

Would you like to pay $10 000 for each of those songs that 'people have heard of"? I don't think Synth would either

But yeah back on topic. Privateer I think those are some awesome ideas. I too hate hearing the music in the song selection screens, not that it's a bad song, but if you're just trying to look through the songs, the reptitive music CAN get annoying after a while.