R^3 Air Edition, Spin it UP: Mobile Alpha Test, Alt Engine Leaderboards & New Songs

Have you read thread upon thread of lag reduction tips for FFR? Do you get random lag spikes, no matter how many times you restart a song? FFR has a long history of running poorly on modern operating systems, regardless of hardware, due to the the performance and optimization limitations of Adobe Flash Player. If you’ve ever been personally victimized by Flash Player, we have a very exciting announcement for you.

Flash Flash Revolution is ditching Flash Player once and for all.

R^3 Air Edition is the same great game engine, built entirely without Flash. All future R^3 updates will apply to both browser/Flash and desktop/Air editions, and update automatically. Some of the features introduced in the future may only apply to Air Edition though. Air Edition includes everything the current game does, along with some new features the Adobe AIR platform allows us to provide:

GPU Rendering Air Edition uses GPU rendering to achieve the highest, most stable frame rates ever recorded in FFR history. (While Flash Player has an option for hardware acceleration, it still renders graphics through the CPU only.)

Local File Caching Enable Local File Caching in Options to save game levels locally to your hard drive, greatly reducing load time for songs after the first play. This feature will also work for alternate engines. If you were to load every single level FFR has to offer, it would take up 1.6 GB of space.

Auto-Saved Replays All gameplay replays are auto-saved locally to the replay folder. These are simple text files that can be imported into the game using the F2 replay menu.

MP3 Menu Music Use any song you could ever want as custom menu music. Simply name a file “menu_music.mp3″ in the game location to use that as your menu music. Menu Music can be cleared by deleting both the “menu_music.mp3″ and “menu_music.swf”.



So what are you waiting for?! R^3 Air Edition is immediately available for download for Windows1 (did we mention without Flash?).

Oh, and we’re also releasing…

Spin it UP: Mobile Alpha Test



This update also brings the first public release of Spin it UP: Mobile for Android devices and Windows. For those who are not familiar with the old Spin it UP, it is a mouse-driven rhythm game developed by FFR that was discontinued in 2011. Keeping in theme with R^3, Spin it UP is ditching Flash, and has been completely rebuilt from the ground up.

To play Spin it UP: Mobile on your Android device, tap to download the .apk below, and install it using “APK Installer” from the Google Play Store. Let us know what you think! We’re hoping to collect your feedback on device compatibility and general experience.

Choose your destiny.

Oh, and also have some…

Alt Engine Leaderboards

Alt Engine Leaderboards are a new leaderboard system, which automatically tracks and ranks all alternate engine scores. New alternate engines won’t appear visible to the public until they are unhidden by an FFR administrator.

These leaderboards are built using new FFR score code, which in the future will allow us to support replays and rates. Please leave us your suggestions, for any features you’d like to see on the alt engine leaderboards. We’re looking forward to developing this new competitive platform for FFR.

And let’s wrap things up with some new content…

Songs of the Week (Dec. 25, 2017)

This will be FFR’s final song release for 2017! When you try out the new engine, be sure to start by indulging in FFR’s favourite pastime – passing Death Piano. Who will become the first person to AAA Death Piano v2′s ending 16th megatrill?!

Death Piano v2

Musician: Xi

Step Artist: hi19hi19

Song Genre: Skill Token

Style: Piano Quartet

Difficulty: 70

Song Length: 2:52

* Pass Death Piano to unlock Death Piano v2.

The last song of the year is an unmissable masterpiece by Xiz. Experience a full-body “hands to wubs” sensation with Problematic.

Problematic

Musician: Kezwik & Protohype

Step Artist: Xiz

Song Genre: Dance 2

Style: Drumstep

Difficulty: 62

Song Length: 2:09

That’s all folks. We’ve officially run out of space in the title to fit any more updates. Be sure to give Velocity all of your love in the comments! Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and welcome to the world of lagless2 FFR.

1(Mac and Linux versions of R^3 Air Edition will hopefully come at a later date.)

2(This is the first public release of the Air version, so mileage may vary, but performance should be way better.)

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