vbProArcade Beta 2

[supersimon]

Umm i installed properally "i think" ive installed harder hacks then this one anyways but... When i go to play the games and it never loads ? and it happens to everyone on my site ??

[Sebastian]

well since this hack lacks any support here,.. I've uninstalled it.. got kinda tired fooling with bugs.. and personally, i don't see any progress here. despite the author claiming a new version over a month ago.. kinda hard to beta test something when bugs aren't being fixed.

[Da`Nacho]

Originally posted by Automated
Does anybody have a game we can add yet?

Thanks
Matthew

I had a few conversion projects in the work but I lost interest when I found out how easy it was to cheat. :(

There has to be some way of making this more secure.

[okrogius]

Are you planning on making the fla files availible?

[Exo]

any new games?

[Automated]

Originally posted by Da`Nacho


I had a few conversion projects in the work but I lost interest when I found out how easy it was to cheat. :(

There has to be some way of making this more secure.
Please make the files available that you have worked on so the games can be finished! Even though it is easy to cheat, i dont think it will be hard to stop, and also not many people know that you can cheat (or how to)

Matthew

[Thehandyplanet]

++++ wBB!!!
Look here:
http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/urltrurl?tt=url&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mywbb.info%2Fboard%2Fthread.p hp%3Fthreadid%3D32104%26sid%3D3cbff29afcbb966333b5 66c18a10e8de%26threadview%3D0%26hilight%3Darcade%2 6hilightuser%3D0%26page%3D1&lp=de_en
They have the Hack from Gulli (German Hacker Board) and now they make it for wBB!!!
STOP IT!!

[futureal]

Originally posted by Sebastian
well since this hack lacks any support here,.. I've uninstalled it.. got kinda tired fooling with bugs.. and personally, i don't see any progress here. despite the author claiming a new version over a month ago.. kinda hard to beta test something when bugs aren't being fixed.

Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

There is a new version, it is up and running on my site WITH the bugs fixed, and it will be released as soon as I am able to sit down and dedicate a few hours to coming up with a viable install file. I once again made the mistake of saying I could do it when I was busy with other stuff, and I apologize for that.

But still, I am getting hate mail both here and on my own sites because of this hack. Do you people really think that motivates me to work on it? I know it is only a few people here and there, but still, it isn't the best motivator. I should note that I am also receiving a good number of requests from unlicensed vB users trying to get support from me.

I should be back home in a day or so and at that time I will make it a priority to get the version that I have finished released. I also have the .FLA files of the five current games ready to go and will post those as well.

I would work on it right now, but it is 3 AM and I'm sitting in a cheapo motel room in Utah using my notebook and a cell phone to access the internet at like 1 KB/sec. :)

[X-Fan]

Looking forward to the updates, futureal, and thanks!

And to those sending him hate mail, for shame! None of the hack makers here are under any obligation to you, me, or anyone else. They do it because they want to contribute to the vb community, and definitely don't deserve such crappy treatment!

[Sebastian]

there are MANY questions in this thread that haven't got an answer. If you want people to beta test something at least take the time and answer a question every so often, once a month doesn't quite kick it... Especially when you checked the little box when releasing the hack that you will provide support. If you wasn't going to provide support like the title says you shouldn't have checked the box, so people know not to bother asking questions and talking to walls.

[X-Fan]

Sebastian, it still doesn't excuse people for sending hate mail. There's just no justifying that at all!

[SS9267547]

Now I'm sure futureal is trying his best in help people with this hack who might have questions and problems, and he has done this in the past, perhaps not as much as he would like right now but like everyone is aware of there is an issue with time, there is never enough of it. Just be patient, its not like you’ve paid for the hack, so when futureal gets some more free time he’ll release the next version and answer some unanswered questions some of you people may have.

[DarkDraco07]

can someone link me to a fix for people not having access to the proarcade page?

[Thehandyplanet]

Originally posted by Thehandyplanet
++++ wBB!!!
Look here:
http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/urltrurl?tt=url&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mywbb.info%2Fboard%2Fthread.p hp%3Fthreadid%3D32104%26sid%3D3cbff29afcbb966333b5 66c18a10e8de%26threadview%3D0%26hilight%3Darcade%2 6hilightuser%3D0%26page%3D1&lp=de_en
They have the Hack from Gulli (German Hacker Board) and now they make it for wBB!!!
STOP IT!!

Please don?t ignore it!
These Hack is to remain singular!

[Strider Xero]

I dont seem to get any errors when accessing the arcade part of the board, or even the Admin part of it. The only problem i'm having is actually playing the game. All that appears is a box for EVERY game. I'm sure it isn't my Flash version because i've updated to the latest one. So...what happened here?

Please take a look: http://forum.xeroanime.com

Originally posted by supersimon
Umm i installed properally "i think" ive installed harder hacks then this one anyways but... When i go to play the games and it never loads ? and it happens to everyone on my site ??

[xxxsaint]

well futureal , I'd just like to say thanks for supplying this for free in the first place. I still remember when the only way to get this style hack was to pay up yet you made it for us for free. Our board members really enjoy it and we look forward to the next release , whenever it comes.

To all of you sending hate mail , if you don't like it , uninstall it and go code your own. Ungrateful bunch of ........

[BrAinZ]

Yeah Thanks, ignore the lamers and keep up the great work!

[TheSonic]

This hack now works fine for me and my users spent a lot more time on the boards fighting 4 highscores.

Thanks again for this fine hack. I will love any new game :-)

You receive hate-mails? just drop them! If you really want "love"-mails, your mailbox will explode :D

[DarkDraco07]

would be nice to get a Galaga game on here

[Strider Xero]

So...can someone help me out with my problem? It's on page 51 of this thread.

[Xenon]

*deletes extralargepost*

@DarkDraco: I have to warn you, never post such a post again, or you'll get into trouble.

[xxxsaint]

w000h0000!! Thankx Xenon! ;)

[Strider Xero]

can i get some help???? PLEASE?!

[Mijae]

Anyone know if a newer version will be coming out soon?

[xxxsaint]

yes , there is an update coming , this thread had been disabled for a few days , be patient.

[futureal]

Hooray, my thread is back!

I will have some more info later tonight. I don't know if I will get everything packaged up, but it is basically ready. I have the new version running well under 2.2.9 with only a few more small issues.

The main thing I needed to add was the MD5 security, which is now complete. I have some documentation I wrote which I will post shortly that will explain how it works.

[Tigga]

:banana:

[BrAinZ]

What a New Year treat !!

Don't get toooo drunk before you finish it futureal ! :)

[DarkDraco07]

i tried to delete my post but the page kept freezing when i tried to delete it :(

[Sebastian]

Originally posted by DarkDraco07
i tried to delete my post but the page kept freezing when i tried to delete it :(

why you do it in the first place.. I'm sure you don't like anyone spamming your forums.. don't do it to others. it was wrong to begin with.

[futureal]

I am on the verge of having a release ready, but decided I needed to go back and change a couple things, as I detailed here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=336529#post336529

Because there will be no upgrade script for Beta 1 -> Beta 2, I want to try and pre-add support for some of the future feature ideas I have before Beta 2 is out, so that it will be easy to upgrade from Beta 2 to future versions without losing the score database.

[ixian]

We love you.

No, really. Can't wait, and my users are gonna go ape....ya, you know. :)

[futureal]

The Flash Games Development thread has been created, and all existing Flash source files have been released, here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?s=&threadid=47198

Note that those games are all modified for Beta 2, but should work fine with Beta 1. Nothing has changed, though, so unless you are planning to modify the games yourselves, there is no need to change to these versions.

Oh yea, note that the pre-docs for Beta 2 are also in the second post in that thread, including instructions on how to modify the games. They are worth reading.

[SS9267547]

Well worth the wait! Thanks futureal! :)

[Strider Xero]

How do I uninstall this??

[futureal]

Just remove everything that the installation file tells you to insert, and delete the proarcade.php and proarcadeadmin.php files along with the game files themselves.

[Strider Xero]

Ok done thanks...i'm just waiting for beta 2...hopefully the games will work in this version.

[Intex]

Just installed. Works great !! Good job futureal :cool:.

[Floris]

Rather then reading 53 pages and finding out it maybe isn't mentioned yet .. sigh

In the installation file it says:

+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| In showthread.php, replace this code: |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
if (!$getperms['cangetattachment']) {
$viewattachedimages=0;
}
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| With this code: |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
(removed ,.., snap)
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+


But that instance appears twice in the showthreads.php file

and below that it asks to replace $postbits code, but it doesn't appear in the file, only
$postbits = getpostbit($post); -- so I guess you meant that one? vb229

I have installed it all and set everything up
http://creations.nl/forum/proarcade.php

1 issue: I have safe-mode on and can't upload icons to the database - on page 22 you mentioned this is fixed, but it doesn't work here (bummer)
[code]Warning: Unable to create 'images/temp/icon-crown.gif': No such file or directory in /home/marietje/public_html/forum/admin/proarcadeadmin.php on line 69

Warning: Unable to move '/tmp/phpQ7bk1n' to 'images/temp/icon-crown.gif' in /home/marietje/public_html/forum/admin/proarcadeadmin.php on line 69
something didn't work...
Arcade options updated!
[/quote]
(and i actually have a images/temp/ dir chmod 777 and i upped the icon crown that came with the .zip)
btw ;i installed manually and not with vbhacker

[futureal]

I know that there are still lingering problems with safe mode, although if a server is configured properly, it should work, since I use the exact same method that vBulletin uses for attachments. If attachment uploading works, then I don't see why the arcade uploading wouldn't work.

As far as the other problem, that was an error in the installation instructions. The place that should be modified is the second occurance of that code in showthread.php.

As soon as I finish getting Beta 2 out the door, I will revisit the safe mode problem...

[futureal]

Another Beta 2 update:

I am not going to have the hack in a vbhacker format this time around, because I expect frequent changes/updates to the Beta as people test it. I know that makes it harder on people, but I don't have much of a choice, since setting up a larger hack for vbhacker distribution is rather unwieldy.

I am still working on a couple of things, namely the User Detail pages and a Scoreboard Reset feature. Everything else is already done.

[Intex]

I'm getting the following error messages from some of the users when trying to play the games:

>>

You do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:
You do not have permission to access the page that you were trying to. Are you trying to edit someone else's post or trying to access administrative features? Check that you are allowed to perform this action in the Forum Rules.
If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation. "

<<

All the games run fine for me (local admin) but also with one of my test accounts, but all the other users get that message.

Any ideas ?

[Intex]

I've now figured out that this problem occurs only for people in certain user groups.

My test user was in the 'Registered' user group and this was fine. I have also created my own groups in vBulletin, one of which is called 'Full Member', which most people are a part of. I changed somebody that was having the problem from 'Full Member' to 'Registered' and it worked perfectly, so it must be to do with the user group permissions. I'm just not sure where to change this.

[Floris]

Originally posted by futureal
I know that there are still lingering problems with safe mode, although if a server is configured properly, it should work, since I use the exact same method that vBulletin uses for attachments. If attachment uploading works, then I don't see why the arcade uploading wouldn't work.

As far as the other problem, that was an error in the installation instructions. The place that should be modified is the second occurance of that code in showthread.php.

As soon as I finish getting Beta 2 out the door, I will revisit the safe mode problem...

Thank you for your reply :bunny:

I was wondering though - I set it to the first instance, since below that was the postbit stuff that needed changing, and everything now runs fine.

What might not work now, or works incorrectly because I put it at the first instance?

Do you maybe have an alternative way of letting me use those images?

Normal attachment uploading goes fine with vbulletin, just not this.

[futureal]

Originally posted by Intex
I've now figured out that this problem occurs only for people in certain user groups.

My test user was in the 'Registered' user group and this was fine. I have also created my own groups in vBulletin, one of which is called 'Full Member', which most people are a part of. I changed somebody that was having the problem from 'Full Member' to 'Registered' and it worked perfectly, so it must be to do with the user group permissions. I'm just not sure where to change this.

Near the top of proarcade.php, find this code:

case "gameover":
if (($bbuserinfo[usergroupid] != 2) and
($bbuserinfo[usergroupid] != 5) and
($bbuserinfo[usergroupid] != 6) and
($bbuserinfo[usergroupid] != 7)) {
show_nopermission();
}
break;

To add additional usergroups, just add a corresponding line for that usergroupid. For example, if you wanted to add the usergroup with id 20, your code would end up looking like:

case "gameover":
if (($bbuserinfo[usergroupid] != 2) and
($bbuserinfo[usergroupid] != 5) and
($bbuserinfo[usergroupid] != 6) and
($bbuserinfo[usergroupid] != 20) and
($bbuserinfo[usergroupid] != 7)) {
show_nopermission();
}
break;

To figure out which group belongs to which ID, when you move the mouse over a group name in the Admin CP, look in your browser's status bar for where it says "...&usergroupid=##" and the ## will be your ID.

[futureal]

Originally posted by xiphoid
I was wondering though - I set it to the first instance, since below that was the postbit stuff that needed changing, and everything now runs fine.

What might not work now, or works incorrectly because I put it at the first instance?

Do you maybe have an alternative way of letting me use those images?

Normal attachment uploading goes fine with vbulletin, just not this.

The postbit stuff will just affect where (if anywhere) the champion text is displayed. The champion stuff really does not work correctly in the 1.03 version, and has been significantly changed for Beta 2. I am reluctant to tell people to mess with the postbit code for 1.03 since it has already been changed. My best advice is to sit tight.

For the images, once again a few things have changed and I hope that Beta 2 can fix those problems. If it doesn't, I will revisit the problem in my testing to see what I can do.

[TheSonic]

I always do changes manually, so i dont have problems if there is no vbHack-Version.

But i really hope to see Beta 2 coming up very soon, my users love this hack.

If i should test something for you, let me know.
My Board is not a big one, backups are available all the time and my users play arcade all night long :D

[Intex]

Thx. futureal. I've done that now and it works a treat.

The only thing thats not working is the user titles, i.e. when someone has been awarded the crown for 1st position it should show below their user titles, but at the moment it doesn't. Any ideas?

Idea for Improvement - maybe a screen where you can see the 1st, 2nd, 3rd places for each game on the same page?

[Floris]

The users indeedio love the hack, but netscape and mozilla users are complaining ;/ why can't it save the scores?

[futureal]

TheSonic: It is coming very soon. Hopefully within the next few days. I am down to the very last few things I need to get done.

Intex: Beta 2 already has such a screen. The Top 5 scores for each game are displayed on the main arcade page (although this can be toggled off to save queries if that is an issue). The user titles (champions stuff) has also been fixed in Beta 2.

xiphoid: Netscape/Mozilla do not handle POST data correctly with Flash games. This is, as far as I know, a limitation of the browser and there is not much we can do to get around it. I am planning on exploring other options for it in the future, though. There has got to be a way.

[Intex]

OK, yeah sorry - I was thinking more of 1,2,3 positions for each game. Don't worry its prob. not that good an idea anyway :).

I'm using 1.03 and have turned on all the champion items in the general options and for each game, but they still don't show. In the Admin CP for each game it does show in Red the champion and their score.

[Floris]

bugger netscrape :>

[futureal]

I finished the User Detail section of Beta 2 today. It provides some neat statistics about each user's activities in the arcade.

Check out the screen shot below to get an idea of what it looks like.

There is still all sorts of stuff I can add to this part in the future, such as ranking all users against each other as far as who is the best out of all games, most consistent, longest duration, and so on. But in the interest of getting this version out the door, I decided to freeze the features at what I have now.

[SS9267547]

That user deatils feature is looking good futureal. :)

[BrAinZ]

Yeah quite agree.. Our board is a Company one so will be interesting to see how many people are not working when they are meant to be :)

[ixian]

Future, have any new games been added to Beta 2 yet? Like that Frogger clone I sent you perhaps? :) And thanks again.

And yes, I will still kill for a Galaga flash game that works with this. I dream of the day I find it.

[SS9267547]

Hey ixian which forgger game did you send him? The one from flashkit.com?

[SS9267547]

Opps double post. :/

[futureal]

Originally posted by ixian
Future, have any new games been added to Beta 2 yet? Like that Frogger clone I sent you perhaps? :) And thanks again.

And yes, I will still kill for a Galaga flash game that works with this. I dream of the day I find it.

I honestly don't have time to work on porting over any more flash games, which is why I released the sources to the current ones. Please see this thread: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?s=&threadid=47198

If you post the file there, I'm sure somebody could work on modifying it. I was not too jazzed about the Frogger from Flashkit because, well, I thought it wasn't too good. Really sluggish controls. But that's just me, I guess. I think I'm used to Neave's awesome games, which are just too good!

[N9ne]

What's the update on the release of beta 2?

[futureal]

Do you guys even read the updates I make?

I'm not trying to sound harsh, but seeing 3 or 4 posts (and PMs) each day asking when the thing is coming does not really help.

All I can say is this:

- the source for the games has been packaged and released, as has often been requested
- all of the planned features for this release are finished
- the packaging has begun

One it is packaged and documented, it will be test-installed on a few forums run by friends of mine, and once that process is completed in a smooth fashion, it will be publicly released.

[DarkDraco07]

BUG FOUND
mym members are getting mad at this. they play the game long enough, and when they get a highscore it wont save because they timed out.

[Baptizer]

futurreal:
Have you ever heard of or experienced any problems playing space invaders or tetris? A lot of my members mention that once you get so far, it doesnt get harder........they mentioned that you could go forever and rack up a high score. They usually quit because of boredom....

Becuase I suck at the games, i have never experienced this(yet i did have a problem with breakout....ball going through the paddles at around 13-14k scores).

Take care bro! and thanks for making such a wonderful product!

[futureal]

Originally posted by DarkDraco07
BUG FOUND
mym members are getting mad at this. they play the game long enough, and when they get a highscore it wont save because they timed out.

This is a known limitation. If a user does not have "automatically stay logged in" checked in their User Options, if they play a game longer than whatever cookietimeout is set too, the site will not let them record their score.

I think that, with some thorough testing and hacking around, I could get it to where it saved the data and then took them to a log-in screen, and then from there back to the Game Over screen, but I have not attempted that yet.

[futureal]

Originally posted by Baptizer
Have you ever heard of or experienced any problems playing space invaders or tetris? A lot of my members mention that once you get so far, it doesnt get harder........they mentioned that you could go forever and rack up a high score. They usually quit because of boredom....

With Tetris, that is certainly correct. Once you get to the last "level" it gives you 1000 lines to clear, and if you finish that the game actually crashes.

In Breakout, if you get far enough, the ball moves so fast that it goes right through the paddle (the collision detection fails).

There may be other bugs in the games as well. I am not the most competent Flash programmer, nor did I write the games, so I'm not sure what to say. I am hoping that sooner or later people will jump into the Flash Development thread that I posted and do some real work on the games, to add levels, new options, and so on.

[futureal]

Here is another teaser update for Beta 2. This is a screen shot of the "Score Editor" which really doesn't do much other than allow an Admin to reset the scoreboard. This was a requested feature.

Eventually, this Score Editor will be extended to handle individual editing, searching, and so on.

[futureal]

I am also, as we speak, updating all of the original screenshots for the game with their final Beta 2 versions. I think they are in the first 7-8 posts of this thread.

Be sure to check them out.

[futureal]

Here is another quick screenshot from Beta 2, this one of how the King Icon looks in the postbit. It is a parsed variable that the admin can place anywhere in the postbit, so that adds some flexibility.

[futureal]

Another update:

Beta 2 was released to private testing early this morning (1/5), and the Arcade was re-opened on my home site with no problems so far. Looks like everything is moving along nicely.

The install file is mostly complete and the docs are mostly complete, though I expect they will be rewritten a bit as people run into problems.

Anyway, it's just around the corner now. I'm just waiting for my testers to report back to me.

[Da`Nacho]

Originally posted by futureal
Another update:

Beta 2 was released to private testing early this morning (1/5), and the Arcade was re-opened on my home site with no problems so far. Looks like everything is moving along nicely.

The install file is mostly complete and the docs are mostly complete, though I expect they will be rewritten a bit as people run into problems.

Anyway, it's just around the corner now. I'm just waiting for my testers to report back to me.

I can't wait!

I know I may have seemed a bit harsh in my earlier posts in this thread, but understand I was frustrated because of certain people taking steps to cheat the arcade on my forum. :p

I am anxiously awaiting the release and if there is any way I can help let me know.

I already plan to port a bunch of Flash games over and possibly even make my own changes to some of the existing games that we've seen in the Arcade. (I really want to add more music choices to Tetris, and maybe more levels if I can figure it out).

Anxiously waiting! ;)

[Intex]

Just another quickie - by default non-registered people / guests can access the games. How can this be disabled?

[Blue Moose Aaron]

It's disabled in the new version by default

[Intex]

What version? The latest released or the one to be released?

[Blue Moose Aaron]

The one to be released

[futureal]

Beta 2 has been released. See the first post in this thread for a full update.

I'm not sure why the thread title isn't updating...

[SS9267547]

Ah super futureal! Thanks for releasing it! Now I just need to find it lol. Right first post lol, need to learn how to read lol. :)

[Steve Machol]

Originally posted by futureal
Beta 2 has been released. See the first post in this thread for a full update. I'm not sure why the thread title isn't updating... I updated the thread title for you.

[futureal]

Thanks!

[Blue Moose Aaron]

This hack sucks!

no just kidding, it's perfect. Very easy install!

[nighteyes]

This is a sweet hack. Just installed on the latest version of VB with minimum fuss and no problems at all. Excellent documentation with crystal clear instructions. 10/10.

Only thing. Where is the code that builds the navigation header?:
BoardName ? Arcade

On my board it's left aligned by default but it's centered in the arcade. Just a tiny little thing I'd like to fix.

But what a brilliant hack. I love it! :)

[futureal]

Originally posted by nighteyes
Only thing. Where is the code that builds the navigation header?:
BoardName ? Arcade

On my board it's left aligned by default but it's centered in the arcade. Just a tiny little thing I'd like to fix.

Interesting. That might have been a template goof up on my end.

However, vbProArcade uses the exact same $navbar generator that vBulletin uses (which is why it looks the same as whatever your default navigation system is).

I will look into it and hopefully get back to you. One possible fix is to just slap a SPAN or DIV tag around the "$navbar" in the template, and then set it to align left.

[Savant]

hmm...when i got to download i get the old version..... wheres the new zip?

[Savant]

works now... *shrug * that was wierd heh... will I have to uninstall the old arcade or is there an upgrade?

[futureal]

Try refreshing. It should be in the first post of this thread.

edit: Yes, you will need to uninstall the old arcade.

[Savant]

ahh I see i have to uninstall... allso it says I need to follow the old intructions in reverse order... and .... well.. suppose there was some moron out there that didn't keep a copy of the old hack. You know I'm just lookin out for that inept admin out there, .... hehe

Outstanding hack btw, I kneel before you in humility and reverence!

[futureal]

Yea, I thought of that also. I will see if I can dig out the old version and post it somewhere, although I would almost rather not, since I am afraid it might confuse someone. Hmm...

[Savant]

could ya pm me a copy of it, i need if for a .... friend... yeah a friend thats it

[futureal]

Here is the OLD version of the Arcade, for uninstallation purposes.

Repeat: the OLD version. :)

[wrecken]

Great job bro.. did the upgrade and thing went smoothly.

Only thing that didn't work for me is that it does not show who is the champion or kings next to the users name in post.

I know I overlooked something, granted I'm not to savy in installing hacks, but dangerous.

I have a feeling I need to add $vpachampicon and/or $vpachamptext in the posbit template (as clearly stated in the instructions), but which template do i modify in Posbits specifically.

What did I miss?

[futureal]

Did you add the $vpachampicon or $vpachamptext to your postbit template?

[wrecken]

I figured it out bro.. /BANGING MY HEAD ON THE KEYBOARD.

Thanks for the hack. Very nice.

[chad777]

i don't know if this is a problem with me or beta 2....when I click to play a game it just goes to a blank screen..

setting

swf files are in /forums/games

general setting for game location is /games/

any ideas ?

[futureal]

You answered your own question.

If the games are in /forums/games, then your games dir needs to be /forums/games. :)

[chad777]

lol hehe i feel dumb :(

[Savant]

i love the new version... looks sharp, but i cant seem to get the games to record a score, I always get:

"A data mismatch has been discovered between the game and the arcade, normally as the result of a cheating attempt. This attempt has been logged, and the score invalidated. If you feel that you are receiving this message in error, please contact the system administrator. "

[Blue Moose Aaron]

Originally posted by futureal
You answered your own question.

If the games are in /forums/games, then your games dir needs to be /forums/games. :)

heh, what a familiar problem!

Originally posted by Savant
i love the new version... looks sharp, but i cant seem to get the games to record a score, I always get:

"A data mismatch has been discovered between the game and the arcade, normally as the result of a cheating attempt. This attempt has been logged, and the score invalidated. If you feel that you are receiving this message in error, please contact the system administrator. "

Are you hitting that back button each time you try to play a new game? If you reached the page via your browser's "Back" button, you have to refresh the page before playing the game, otherwise your score will result in a security violation.

[Dean C]

Wow this is such a lot of code futureal but you've done a fantastic job with it.

I'll probably leave upgrading til next weekend as i strart college again this week :)

Thanks again

- miSt

[Savant]

no im not hitting the back button, and ive tried refreshing and deleting all my internet cookies and cache. Still no dice :(

if i get a score of zero the game acts like it should....

anything higher than that and it says im a cheater...

[Strider Xero]

I got this error for some reason when trying to go to 'Modify Game'

Database error in vBulletin Control Panel 2.2.9:

Invalid SQL: UPDATE arcadeconfig
SET path='/games/',usescoreicon='1',usekingicon='1'


WHERE arcadeid='1'
mysql error: Unknown column 'usescoreicon' in 'field list'

mysql error number: 1054

Date: Monday 06th of January 2003 09:56:28 AM
Script: http://www.xeroanime.com/forums/forums/admin/proarcadeadmin.php
Referer: http://www.xeroanime.com/forums/admin/proarcadeadmin.php?action=changeoptions

[futureal]

Originally posted by Strider Xero
I got this error for some reason when trying to go to 'Modify Game'

It looks like you did not correctly remove the tables from the older version of the game.

You MUST completely uninstall Beta 1 before installing Beta 2, and I can't stress that enough. Although the outside of the hack does not look too much different, the inner workings have completely changed.

[futureal]

Originally posted by Savant
no im not hitting the back button, and ive tried refreshing and deleting all my internet cookies and cache. Still no dice :(

if i get a score of zero the game acts like it should....

anything higher than that and it says im a cheater...

Did you change the score return variable or the hash offset for any of the Flash games?

If not, give me a URL that I can look at to see if I can determine what the problem might be.

[Savant]

Originally posted by futureal


Did you change the score return variable or the hash offset for any of the Flash games?

If not, give me a URL that I can look at to see if I can determine what the problem might be.

Nope, didn't change anything...

heres the url:
http://www.procreatica.com/forum/proarcade.php
you can use username: test password: test

Don't worry bout it if ya dont see anything wrong, im gunna spend my evening combing through those instructions to make sure nothing went wrong with the uninstall or the install.. The arcade will work!

[futureal]

Savant: Did you replace the old versions of the games with the new versions?

If that isn't it, find the line near the top of proarcade.php that says something like $vpadebug = "off" and change that to "on" and then let me know and I'll look again.

[futureal]

To all:

I am leaving right now for the 2003 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and will not be back consistently until around the 14th or 15th of the month. I will TRY to stop in when I can usually my cell modem and notebook, but I make no guarantees.

So, until then, good luck with the hack and I hope you all enjoy it.

[Savant]

hmm well i made sure i have the new games on there... I'm perplexed, thanks for the help...

I turned on the debug mode... I hope whatever solution we find helps others :P thanks again!

[futureal]

Originally posted by Savant
hmm well i made sure i have the new games on there... I'm perplexed, thanks for the help...

I turned on the debug mode... I hope whatever solution we find helps others :P thanks again!

Man, that is weird. The game is returning the wrong hash, completely. I can't think of a reason why that be.

I have to jet out of here right now. I will try and figure it out and get back to you.

Good luck.

edit: Upon further inspection, the hash that is going to the game does not match the one that is being pulled back from the database. I can think of no reason why this would occur, and it's the first time that I've seen it. If anybody else sees this same sort of behavior, it might be back to the proverbial drawing board for this hack. heh

[Savant]

welp, as a temporary bandaid, in proarcade.php, i changed this:

// now, we check gamehash
if ($newhash == $hashcheck) {

to this:

// now, we check gamehash
if ($newhash == $newhash) {

and that'l at least get the games working for now. The good news is the records scores and everything else seems to be in order :) thanks again futureal!

[TheSonic]

Ops, dunno, but it only worked one time, now i have a problem:

Mv VB is located in <domain>/vbulletin
I call Arcade via <domain>/vbulletin/proarcade.php

All works, but after a game is finished, i get an 404, in the URL-Field i see that <domain>/proarcade.php is requested, but thats located in <domain>/vbulletin/proarcade.php (there i actually call it)...

How can i fix that, any ideas :( ?

[EvilLS1]

Yep, it works OK for me, but some of my users get the 404 error. I'll try Savant's fix for now.

Nice hack though!

[TheSonic]

Evils1, please let me know, Savants fix solved the problem 4 ya.

Thanx

[EvilLS1]

Nope, I misunderstood what his fix was intended for. I'm not having that problem. Its actually working fine for me, but one of my users says that he gets a 404 error when it tries to submit the score. Could be browser related or something.

{Edit} Nevermind.. He figured out what the problem was.. Nothing to do with this hack. He said something about a micromedia flash popup and he was clicking no when he should have been clicking yes. I have no idea what he's taking about because I don't get any popup. *shrugs*

[TheSonic]

But luck - for me, so i am alone again :(

I dont get Flash-Popups and i think its an error in the configs - because it redirects to the wrong destination.

But not on all systems... ARGH... I hope we can fix this, i love arcade and 1.x runs flawless on my system.

[Strider Xero]

Ok exactly what is that error saying?? As far I know, I deleted all the tables from beta 1. Anything that had vbarcade or whatever the tables were called, I deleted them. So i dont know where to start looking for the table that I need to delete since now I have beta two installed with the new tables.

[NTLDR]

For those of you who don't want to add all 22 odd templates individualy and have the template backup hack by FireFly installed then here are the Beta 2 templates as individual text files.

[N9ne]

WoW beta 2 looks amazing, great work, gonna install this in a few days!

[Blue Moose Aaron]

TheSonic: Did you have beta 1 installed first and if so did you delete all of the tables before installing beta 2?

[TheSonic]

Yes, i de-installed the complete Beta 1, including templates, hacks and SQL-Tables.

For the most useres, it works, just 2 Users become that 404 after playing (because it redirects to the wrong URL), so i dont think i hacked somethring wrong (because for the most useres it works - but they had no problem with BEta 1)... Hmm... crazy...

Perhaps there is a problem with the firewall or the IE-Settings of them, i will check that...

[Supernature]

you're not alone, TheSonic :)
I installed the Hack (first Time), and in IE, everything works well. But with my favourite Browser Mozilla I get redirected zu mydomain.de/proarcade.php instead of mydomain.de/vbb/proarade.php

[Blue Moose Aaron]

I tried playing in the arcade at my site (The Kryptonian), as well as the arcade at futureal's site (Shadows of Namek) with Opera 6.05, IE 6, Mozilla 1.2b and Netscape 7 and came to the conclusion that the redirect only works for Internet Explorer. That is why you are getting the 404 errors. I'm sure futureal should be able to fix this easily.

[GoTTi]

I got a error going on here...


Database error in vBulletin 2.2.6:

Invalid SQL: SELECT * FROM arcadescores WHERE userid=Array AND valid=1 ORDER BY endtime DESC
mysql error: Unknown column 'Array' in 'where clause'

mysql error number: 1054

Date: Wednesday 08th of January 2003 03:14:44 PM
Script: http://www.SITE.com/forums/forums/proarcade.php?action=userdetail&game=pacman&user=61


Some1 help me out here.

[Da`Nacho]

Has anyone else experienced weirdness with online.php after this?

It appears to show people in the arcade who aren't really there, I've verified this over the phone with friends. They can be in another part of the forum and it will still show them as 'Playing in the CandidForums Arcade'.

I've double and triple checked to make sure I properly added the code to online.php and it looks fine.

This problem didn't appear in beta 1.x either... :confused:

[Littlebit]

Hi :)
I just installed.
I probably missed something silly, but my proarcade.php isn't showing the games or images...
path to games is
/board/games/
and I uploaded the images to my images directory for the forums.
I did double check I uploaded games and images...
what did I miss?
-littlebit

[Da`Nacho]

Originally posted by Da`Nacho
Has anyone else experienced weirdness with online.php after this?

It appears to show people in the arcade who aren't really there, I've verified this over the phone with friends. They can be in another part of the forum and it will still show them as 'Playing in the CandidForums Arcade'.

I've double and triple checked to make sure I properly added the code to online.php and it looks fine.

This problem didn't appear in beta 1.x either... :confused:

I've figured out the cause... It's the $vbchamptext and $vbchampicon if you use it in the postbit templates. Any time a browser reads a thread with a champion in it, online.php sees them as 'Playing in the Arcade' because they are being served the champtext or champicon from proimage.php.

I'll just pull the variables from my postbit templates for now, but it would be cool if there was a way of fixing this. :)

[NTLDR]

Thanks littlebit, I installed this for use later on this month and the games never loaded and I didn't bother to look into detail but I've just figured out why! *lol*

I assume /board/games/ is the URL from your base domain? IE: www.mydomain.com/board/games ?

[Littlebit]

I'm overlooking something simple aren't I :o

[Tigga]

Very nice work futureal! It took a little while to customize all the templates to my liking, but everything looks very nice now and my users are loving it. One small thing I found though... Shouldn't the places in the script that call the date use the vbdate function instead? I'm not sure if that could be something you forgot or overlooked, but I figured I'd let ya know. :)

[Tigga]

Littlebit - Where do you have your flash games located at? Make sure they're in your board/games folder. If that's correct, either post here or PM me a link to your site. I can't guarantee I'll find what's wrong, but I'll be glad to take a look.

[Littlebit]

pm'ed ya :)

[Littlebit]

Thank you Plurplanet for noticing that...the names of my templates with longer names messed up a bit in the auto upload.
All games and graphics now appear great! WooHoo!
I did get a weird happening when I finished a test game and it, I assume was supposed to go to the updated with score page...is this what you mean by the score not working in netscape or do I need to fix a link somewhere? heres what happened and my browser info I tested it on:
The page I came from: http://www.mysite.com/forums/proarcade.php?action=play&game=breakout
Where it tried to go: /proarcade.php
my browser info: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01
The error: 404

[Littlebit]

I just noticed that others have a miss redirect too in Mozilla...just a heads up that I'm also getting the 404 error for the redirect after a game ends in IE 5.2 for MacOSX as well...
I don't understand where its coming from to fix it. Any ideas? :confused:

[marky22]

Hi, thanks for this superb little gem,

only problem i have is on the arcade screen (gamemenu) its looking, well....errrmmm confused.

Searched this thread, looked at all the posts but can't find any reference to which template it is.

the problem page here (http://mobilemods.net/forum2/proarcade.php?action=arcade&session=a369dd8051b29ecdf0f22e075d0475d2&game=)

any help would be much appreciated. :bandit:

[Littlebit]

marky22,
lol...um it kinda looks like you weren't completely successfull at removing the credits?

[marky22]

lol...um it kinda looks like you weren't completely successfull at removing the credits?


?

What credits?

all i have done is followed the instructions.....

[Littlebit]

Marky
there should be something like:
[vbProArcade v1.0 Beta 2 by futureal for Shadows of Namek]
at the bottom in a cell in that table that looks messed up on your end.
Maybe you changed alignment and somehow deleted part of a cell or something?
I add again the code for the vbproarcade_arcade
template from the install instructions.

[marky22]

still the same, and i have checked the code of the file and their is no reference to any credits....

[Littlebit]

its this part:
$vpaversion
(that variable inserts them.
...around line 34 in the proarcade.php is where it shows what I meant)

[marky22]

well i can't figure it out, that line is where it should be, i have used codelifer on http://www.mobilemods.net/forum2/proarcade.php

and the credits are also in the right place there..

oh well life goes on.

[GoTTi]

I got a error going on here...


Database error in vBulletin 2.2.6:

Invalid SQL: SELECT * FROM arcadescores WHERE userid=Array AND valid=1 ORDER BY endtime DESC
mysql error: Unknown column 'Array' in 'where clause'

mysql error number: 1054

Date: Wednesday 08th of January 2003 03:14:44 PM
Script: http://www.SITE.com/forums/forums/p...=pacman&user=61


Some1 help me out here.

[Christy]

Very nice, got it all working great! No errors, just smoothness :)

[lynerd]

i set up all the files and all the templates, and i put the games in the games folder in my forum root directory. And I still hahve the folder set in the control panel as games.

Everything works fine, untill i go to play a game, and it wont load, but if i load the game by typing in it's address it loads. (ex www.whatever.com/forum/games/breakout.swf)

any ideas?

[NTLDR]

You need to set the path correctly, ie /forum/games/ or just games/ may work too.

[Brahm]

Looks Great! Thanks for the hack. The install went smooth with no problems.

[Limpkinw]

I installed this hack today as an upgrade from 1.03 and i have 2 problems.

Problem #1) All posts are my board are duplicated. not just posts from today but ALL posts.

Problem #2) A data mismatch has been discovered between the game and the arcade, normally as the result of a cheating attempt. This attempt has been logged, and the score invalidated. If you feel that you are receiving this message in error, please contact the system administrator

When games are complete. The ONLY thing I did was uninstall previous version and install this.

HELP!

[Savant]

try this fix limpkin

Originally posted by futureal


Man, that is weird. The game is returning the wrong hash, completely. I can't think of a reason why that be.

I have to jet out of here right now. I will try and figure it out and get back to you.

Good luck.

edit: Upon further inspection, the hash that is going to the game does not match the one that is being pulled back from the database. I can think of no reason why this would occur, and it's the first time that I've seen it. If anybody else sees this same sort of behavior, it might be back to the proverbial drawing board for this hack. heh

Originally posted by Savant
welp, as a temporary bandaid, in proarcade.php, i changed this:

// now, we check gamehash
if ($newhash == $hashcheck) {

to this:

// now, we check gamehash
if ($newhash == $newhash) {

and that'l at least get the games working for now. The good news is the records scores and everything else seems to be in order :) thanks again futureal!

[Ember]

I am having some strange problems... well, just one...

The games dont appear to load, at all... the page starts to load, and then the full page is there, with the flash applet there, but it just stays one colour, the background colour of the flash movie (i assume) but it loads no further.

Any ideas?

[xxxsaint]

yes , where it says the location of your games is /games/

make it say games/

in the arcade admin section

[Littlebit]

anyone know how to fix the 404 error on redirect ...seems to do this in every browser but IE for windows platform only

[Attrox]

Good lord, this is the nicest, smoothest hack I have ever installed...amazing work on this, futureal. I'll make a donation to your PayPal account as soon as I get home. :)

[drumsy]

I get this error:

Database error in vBulletin 2.2.8:

Invalid SQL: SELECT , FROM arcadegames WHERE gameid='3'
mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax near ' FROM
arcadegames WHERE gameid='3'' at line 1

mysql error number: 1064

Date: Saturday 11th of January 2003 11:29:36 AM
Script:
http://www.honda-acura.net/forums/forums/proimage.php?id=1&gameid=3&type=2
Referer:

If you notice, the URL is honda-acura.net/forums/forums/proimage...how does it do that? The games work, but why does it add the extra forums?

I have another member who get's this error:

Oh, now that I look at the error.... It seems that it's looking to:

www.honda-acura.net/proarcade.php as opposed to www.honda-acura.net/forums/proarcade.php

What do you think?

[drumsy]

Originally posted by marky22
Hi, thanks for this superb little gem,

only problem i have is on the arcade screen (gamemenu) its looking, well....errrmmm confused.

Searched this thread, looked at all the posts but can't find any reference to which template it is.

the problem page here (http://mobilemods.net/forum2/proarcade.php?action=arcade&session=a369dd8051b29ecdf0f22e075d0475d2&game=)

any help would be much appreciated. :bandit:

It seems your date and times are showing up, unless you drag your mouse over them. Might want to check what color your date and times are set in the Admin CP.

[drumsy]

I also have problems with the user detail page for my members.

Example: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/

[ethics]

Originally posted by NTLDR
For those of you who don't want to add all 22 odd templates individualy and have the template backup hack by FireFly installed then here are the Beta 2 templates as individual text files.

You are the best. Thank you very much for doing this. :)

[BrAinZ]

Excellent Hack - Thanks futureal!!

One question.. until the score group section is fully working, what's the easiest way to reset the high scores?

[Martin64]

Upgraded, lost 2000+ scores, and now I'm holding a little contest to encourage people to play. Like 50% of the people in my who's online are viewing the arcade. Seems to work. 1.8M Tetris score already.

Thanks for this nice hack. :)

[drumsy]

Originally posted by drumsy
I also have problems with the user detail page for my members.

Example: http://www.honda-acura.net/arcade_error.bmp

Hmmm, now it's working, odd....:confused:

[Martin64]

I'm just wondering, does it sound like this user cheated:

"Tetris Statistics
Times Played: 1
Time Spent Playing: 92 Minutes, 2 Seconds
Average Game Duration: 0 Minutes, 5 Seconds
Most Recent Game: January 13th, 2003 at 4:49 pm
Highest Score: 1,820,828
Lowest Score: 1,820,828
Average Score: 1,820,828
Unique Comments: 1
Random Comment: That took me all afternoon (at work! hehe)"

If he has played only once, how can the average game duration be 5 seconds? Also, the total time spent playing is 92 minutes.

*confused*

[nymyth]

Originally posted by xxxsaint
I was able to get this action-script info out of the snake game :



now , being a flash rookie - is this enough info to be able to start adding our own games because I really want to add flash casino games in there , I've posted that all over these forums with no luck.

unfortunatly not my friend, im a flash designer....what u have right there, is useless to you in trying to design your own game, every game is unique and therefore the actionscript is unique also.......the only part that is of relevance is:


vpaver = "100B";
snakescore = score;
action = "gameover";
game = gamename;
score_loc = location + "/proarcade.php";
getURL(score_loc, "_self", "POST");


cuz thats what goes into our DB.......i would be able to configure most of these games if i could figure out that dang "score" bit......

Peace

[Christy]

A casino type game would be fun, if you did a top scorer by who had the most money :)

[EvilLS1]

Originally posted by Da`Nacho


I've figured out the cause... It's the $vbchamptext and $vbchampicon if you use it in the postbit templates. Any time a browser reads a thread with a champion in it, online.php sees them as 'Playing in the Arcade' because they are being served the champtext or champicon from proimage.php.

I'll just pull the variables from my postbit templates for now, but it would be cool if there was a way of fixing this. :)

Anyone have any idea how to fix this while still being able to use the crown and text in the postbit?

[Tigga]

Originally posted by Martin64
I'm just wondering, does it sound like this user cheated:

"Tetris Statistics
Times Played: 1
Time Spent Playing: 92 Minutes, 2 Seconds
Average Game Duration: 0 Minutes, 5 Seconds
Most Recent Game: January 13th, 2003 at 4:49 pm
Highest Score: 1,820,828
Lowest Score: 1,820,828
Average Score: 1,820,828
Unique Comments: 1
Random Comment: That took me all afternoon (at work! hehe)"

If he has played only once, how can the average game duration be 5 seconds? Also, the total time spent playing is 92 minutes.

*confused*

Maybe not... For some reason the Average Game Duration part isn't working for Tetris on my site either. :ermm:
They did make that score pretty quickly though. It took me 140 minutes to score 1.5 million (and I messed up w/ 60 lines left, so I could have gone longer).

[Martin64]

Thanks PlurPlanet :)

[x8oz]

i don't know if anyone has seen this error?
look like a template fix, but I don't know where to find it, can someone help...picture below.
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/

[EvilLS1]

Originally posted by x8oz
i don't know if anyone has seen this error?
look like a template fix, but I don't know where to find it, can someone help...picture below.
http://www.tekforum.org/help.jpg

Check the html in the "vbproarcade_arcade_userscore_notking" template.

It should look like this:

<normalfont>$userscore</normalfont>
<br>
<smallfont>(<font color={timecolor}>$userposition out of $totalusers users</font>)</smallfont>

[x8oz]

thankyou, that fixed the problem =)
:rambo:

[:Judge:]

OK well this is making members very happy people, thanks for this great piece. Is there or will there be more games to add?

[futureal]

Hi all,

I have returned to Madison after my west-coast swing (San Diego, LA, Vegas) and I can see that there are definitely some bug/issues to address with the hack.

I will begin working on isolating and fixing some of these over the weekend.

Note that, to my knowledge, the games only work in IE, because of the score redirect problem noted before. Netscape (and Opera, apparently) do not handle POST data correctly. The only solution is to pass the variables via GET, which opens up things to big time cheating.

I may have to go back to the drawing board on security. I was trying to think up a good way to add true encryption to the scores (e.g. PGP) but I am not sure I can pull it off with ActionScript. I will continue the search.

[xxxsaint]

welcome back.. :D

[Littlebit]

anyone know how to fix the 404 error on redirect ...seems to do this in every browser but IE for windows platform
I'm still wondering if this is fixable , but I haven't heard from anyone about it... at least being worked on or why exactly it does this or anything relevant to the error...any response would be cool
thanks
-littlebit

[futureal]

Littlebit: Did you read the message I posted a couple of responses back? I addressed that very issue. :)

[Littlebit]

Futureal,
oops sorry about that...I guess I skimmed right over it. :surprised:
thanks for looking into trying to fix it. :)
Oh, don't forget to add all the Mac browsers to the list of not working without error too (Internet Explorer and Netscape for OS9 and OSX+)

[Ice Effect69]

Ok, i have the arcade hack and the games up and running, the thing is im trying to add some games that i found. I get them up on the arcade board, but it doesnt record the topscore, nor redirects to the scoreboard page. Is there anyway to fix this? if so how?

script is at http://prowrestlingdirect.com/forums/proarcade.php

[futureal]

Originally posted by Ice Effect69
Ok, i have the arcade hack and the games up and running, the thing is im trying to add some games that i found. I get them up on the arcade board, but it doesnt record the topscore, nor redirects to the scoreboard page. Is there anyway to fix this? if so how?

Have the games been modified to return score values and redirect to the correct page?

Check out the Flash Games Development thread in this same forum for more information.

[Link14716]

Now I am getting a parse error.

It occurs when you try to go to the user details page:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: array_sum() in /home/sites/site68/web/forums/proarcade.php on line 757
Line 757 is:
$gamedetail_average = number_format(array_sum($allscores[$gamedetail_scores]) / count($allscores[$gamedetail_scores]));

I am using vB 2.2.7 and Beta 2 (and an early PHP4 version). Any ideas on how to fix this?

[futureal]

It looks like array_sum must be a new function added to one of the more recent PHP versions.

Hmm...

[Link14716]

Yea probably. My host is supposed to upgrade apache, PHP, and other things soon, so I guess I'll have to wait. ;)

[futureal]

You can make it work in the meantime, but without the average.

Just change that line to read:

$gamedetail_average = 0;

Then you're good to go.

[Link14716]

I also had to do it to $gamedetail_averagetime. I just commented out the probalem lines until PHP is upgraded. :)

[saint_seiya]

Hey, some of my users are getting this error:

You do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons: You do not have permission to access the page that you were trying to. Are you trying to edit someone else's post or trying to access administrative features? Check that you are allowed to perform this action in the Forum Rules. If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account..

ANy help?

[SoloX]

Originally posted by saint_seiya
Hey, some of my users are getting this error:

You do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons: You do not have permission to access the page that you were trying to. Are you trying to edit someone else's post or trying to access administrative features? Check that you are allowed to perform this action in the Forum Rules. If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account..

ANy help?

one possible reason is that they dont belong to the groups that are auth'ed to use arcade ...

[xxxsaint]

Originally posted by Da`Nacho


I've figured out the cause... It's the $vbchamptext and $vbchampicon if you use it in the postbit templates. Any time a browser reads a thread with a champion in it, online.php sees them as 'Playing in the Arcade' because they are being served the champtext or champicon from proimage.php.

I'll just pull the variables from my postbit templates for now, but it would be cool if there was a way of fixing this. :)


any updates on this problem ?

[saint_seiya]

Originally posted by SoloX


one possible reason is that they dont belong to the groups that are auth'ed to use arcade ...

How do I set the groups authorized to use the arcade?

[SoloX]

Originally posted by saint_seiya


How do I set the groups authorized to use the arcade?


Go to your CP
Click on vbProArcade > General Options
Pull down 'Add Usergroup to Arcade'
Select the group you want to add
Scroll down until you see 'Submit Changes'
Click on it.

;-)

[saint_seiya]

Thanks :)

UPDATE: I dont have that option, I guess I have to upgrade :pirate:

[SoloX]

Originally posted by saint_seiya
Thanks :)

UPDATE: I dont have that option, I guess I have to upgrade :pirate:

or, you can edit your proarcade.php file. Upgrading is always a good idea!

[Zombie-F]

I'm curious, is it possible to make it so that the arcade will only store a score if it makes it into the top ten? I think if a forum gets to be rather large that it is sort of a waste to store every single score in a game. Let's say it could work like this: The first ten scores are recorded, and then all new scores are checked against them. If the new score is better than a top ten score, the number 10 score could be deleted and the new score could be placed in the appropriate ranking.

I don't know much about php, and was just wondering if such a thing is possible.

[EvilLS1]

Originally posted by Da`Nacho


I've figured out the cause... It's the $vbchamptext and $vbchampicon if you use it in the postbit templates. Any time a browser reads a thread with a champion in it, online.php sees them as 'Playing in the Arcade' because they are being served the champtext or champicon from proimage.php.

I'll just pull the variables from my postbit templates for now, but it would be cool if there was a way of fixing this. :)


The $vpachampicon is the culprit b/c it makes the call to proimage.php. $vpachamptext does not.

So here's a simple fix. Upload all of the crown images to /forum/images. Then in your postbit template, remove "$vpachampicon", but leave "$vpachamptext" in there.

Then go to your admin control panel and click "modify games".. Under each game where it says "Champion Text for whatever game", you can use html to include the crown image next to the text. ie: Breakout Champ <img src="http://yoursite.com/forums/images/icon-crown-red.gif">. The images will show up in the threads, and your online.php will still show the correct locations.

[futureal]

I will be posting a maintenence release in the next few days that will fix that problem, and a couple of other small ones (such as one SQL error that keeps popping up in a few peoples' arcades).

There will also be a fix to the security which should make it a bit more bulletproof and maybe even fix some of those problems that people have been having.

Stay tuned.

[TheSonic]

As usual: Cant wait to see the new update :D

Thanks for your support.

[Valkhorn]

I can't find an answer to this and I've looked through the 19 pages of posts (at 50 posts per page) and haven't found the answer so hopefully you guys can help?

I'm using the Beta 2 version at http://www.giveupalready.com/

And everything seems to work except when you're done playing a game. Then you get a blank screen as it tries to go to "http://proarcade.php" instead of http://www.giveupalready.com/proarcade.php"

Does anyone know how to fix this?

Help is very appreciated :)

[futureal]

Originally posted by Valkhorn
And everything seems to work except when you're done playing a game. Then you get a blank screen as it tries to go to "http://proarcade.php" instead of http://www.giveupalready.com/proarcade.php"

First, it appears as though it is working on your site for some users. Which makes me wonder what browser you are experiencing these problems with. IE? Netscape? What version?

Another thing to check is the locations of your game files and your forums in the Admin CP (vPA Options and General Options, respectively) although if it works for some people, it means these settings are probably fine.

[Littlebit]

A minor thing, and I guess a game thing, but I thought I'd mention it ....
some users noticed if you use too much verticle motion in Breakout (ie, moving down below the playing space), you lose control. You have to be careful to keep the cursor level with or above the paddle.

[MomofThree]

Great hack...working great on my site. :) THANK YOU!

[futureal]

Originally posted by Littlebit
A minor thing, and I guess a game thing, but I thought I'd mention it ....
some users noticed if you use too much verticle motion in Breakout (ie, moving down below the playing space), you lose control. You have to be careful to keep the cursor level with or above the paddle.

Yea, I am aware of a number of bugs in the games, particularly in Breakout and Tetris. Unfortunately I am not a great Flash developer; I mainly just do the PHP and then we stick to whatever we can find for Flash games.

I am hoping that sooner or later someone will really get into the workings of these games to fix some of the problems.

[spbeck]

Just installed this great hack but i can't get the champions system to turn on from the general options screen in the control panel. :(

when i click yes and then click submit changes it just defaults back to off.

I can turn on the champions system in the games admin screen but not the overall system inthe general

Any Ideas anyone ?

[Automated]

/me go's off to install on test Board!

[GoTTi]

I am still having this error, an some1 help me out with this please...

I have re-inserted the SQL queries, and still error'd on me...


Database error in vBulletin 2.2.6:

Invalid SQL: SELECT * FROM arcadescores WHERE userid=Array AND valid=1 ORDER BY endtime DESC
mysql error: Unknown column 'Array' in 'where clause'

mysql error number: 1054

Date: Saturday 25th of January 2003 01:02:22 PM
Script: http://www.site.com/forums/forums/proarcade.php?action=userdetail&game=snake&user=61
Referer:

[PaulBearer2k]

Your a Great Man..Thank You.

[N9ne]

Is there a way to space out the icons in the postbit? Because I am a champion of 2 games, so they icons are right next to each other...

[TheComputerGuy]

I love this hack, but appearently the games are not loading for me or my users...templates work great, and I know the games are there...

[Ember]

They not loading, or not showing?

If they're not showing, then make sure you turn all the games "on" in the admin CP.

If they're not loading, then change the url to "games" instead of "games/" - I think thats how I fixed it.

[futureal]

Originally posted by Da_GoTTi
I am still having this error, an some1 help me out with this please...

I have re-inserted the SQL queries, and still error'd on me...

I am having a heck of a time trying to reproduce this error; it always works fine on my forums. It seems like one out of three sites who install the hack have this problem. Maybe it's a PHP version thing, but I doubt it. I will keep looking...

[DarkDraco07]

how come when people play snake it give them points even though they dont get 1st. i posted this in 2 other threads cuz i didnt know where to post it

[Sanni]

just installed it today..... not a hitch (I'm running VB 2.2.6 btw), awesome hack! :)

only noticed one small problem with it thus far... one of my users noticed that when you use Mozilla as your webbrowser, immediatly after you finish the game it comes back with the following error:

vbProArcade Error: Invalid game name specified (todo: put something pretty here later)

apart from that, its an excellent hack :)

[Leo[GR]]

]Originally posted by Da_GoTTi
I am still having this error, an some1 help me out with this please...

I have re-inserted the SQL queries, and still error'd on me...


Database error in vBulletin 2.2.6:

Invalid SQL: SELECT * FROM arcadescores WHERE userid=Array AND valid=1 ORDER BY endtime DESC
mysql error: Unknown column 'Array' in 'where clause'

mysql error number: 1054

Date: Saturday 25th of January 2003 01:02:22 PM
Script: http://www.site.com/forums/forums/proarcade.php?action=userdetail&game=snake&user=61
Referer:


I get the same error at my VB 2.2.6 Also I can't seem to go into the "Game over" screen. When I am done playing a game it just takes me back at the main arcade screen without adding my score at the board. Thing is that I am using IE 6.0 at WinXp with service pack 1. I thought the hack was working with IE :eek:

[saint_seiya]

Is there a vbhacker install file>?>??

[ghentskyhawk]

I've re run the sql file, and it cuts off in the middle of inserting into table arcadegames table. Could someone post the sql file or pm me with it. I've tried redownloading the zip, and I have the same problem. Thanks all.

[Sanni]

heya ghentskyhawk

I've attached the sql file to this post :)

[ghentskyhawk]

Thanks Sanni, haven't had time to check it out, but I'm going to try to finish the install today.

[Cygnus]

As much as I would like to read all 65 pages in this thread, I just don't think that that is going to happen.

I seem to be having a problem with this hack and the Who's Online page. People who are not playing in the arcade are showing up there on Who's Online when they are browsing between boards.

Anyone encounter this and find a fix for it?

[Cygnus]

Nevermind. The problem is with the call to proarcade.php when using the $vpachampicon in postbit. I changed it to use text as was suggested a few pages back.

The problem is that whenever there is a call to proarcade.php, it seems to think that that is where a person is. So... if I am viewing a thread where one of the champions has posted, that call to proarcade.php will confuse online.php into believing that I am playing in the arcade.

[ghentskyhawk]

Sanni, the file worked perfectly, thanks

[jayneblaze]

One of my members score did not post... they took a screen shot of they scores.. but it didnt show up at all...

[Automated]

Originally posted by jayneblaze
One of my members score did not post... they took a screen shot of they scores.. but it didnt show up at all...

Are you sure the screen shot hasnt been edited?

[BrAinZ]

Wondering what impact on the rest of the board, the increase in stored high scores is going to have?

Is there any way to limit the number stored?

Also... How do you reset the scores ?

[futureal]

Originally posted by BrAinZ
Wondering what impact on the rest of the board, the increase in stored high scores is going to have?

Is there any way to limit the number stored?

Also... How do you reset the scores ?

It will have absolutely no impact on the board. The scores take up an absolutely miniscule amount of space in the database.

There is no current way to limit the number of scores stored (I am still not sure why you would want to).

You can reset the scores in the Admin CP in Beta 2.

[futureal]

Known things that will be fixed in 2.01:

- security problems, hash security toggle
- showing people as playing in the arcade when viewing threads
- bad SQL query (trying to insert an Array)

Anything else of note? Those are the main ones I keep saying.

I also can't stress enough the fact that this hack will not work with non-IE browsers. To those that have emailed me, it's not my fault, and I'm sorry that things are the way they are, but Netscape, Mozilla and Opera simply don't handle POST data correctly (or well, to put it a different way).

[BrAinZ]

Originally posted by futureal
It will have absolutely no impact on the board. The scores take up an absolutely miniscule amount of space in the database.

There is no current way to limit the number of scores stored (I am still not sure why you would want to).

You can reset the scores in the Admin CP in Beta 2. Great, as long as it doesn't take up much space there's no need to delete them... so thanks for that.

BUT.. The reset scores option in Beta 2, does not seem to work on my board :(

Is it just me, or have I missed something obvious?

[Tigga]

I really don't see why so many people seem concerned about the number of scores kept in the database. I've had this installed since around the 2nd day it was released. I currently have 1,300 scores that are recorded and it takes up 133kb of space. My entire database takes up 260mb, so that would be around 0.0005% of the space.


As long as your asking for suggestions futureal, here's a couple of things I noticed... The places it checks the time & date of scores uses the date function instead of the vbdate function, so it doesn't show the correct time if it's been changed in the Admin CP.
None of the templates the arcade uses are called at the beginning of the script, so of course that adds unnecessary extra queries for each template.
I also noticed that you didn't use the free_result function after you were done with the queries, which of course isn't good for high traffic sites. Not that I think it's really affecting things too much, but it still wouldn't hurt.
As far as I remember those were the only suggestions I had for the script. Looking forward to the update and thank you for your hard work on an excellent script. :)

[Preech]

is there any particular reason why I can't unzip tetris from the vbproarcade zip file? i would expect its just a bad attachment, but I kept trying to redownload it with no success. can someone attach an unzipped swf file or email it to mvpaudio@comcast.net ? i would appreciate it greatly! :)

[Preech]

nvm it finally worked - after I restarted my computer about six times. thanks.

[Preech]

I get this error when changing options in the CP...

Database error in vBulletin Control Panel 2.2.9:

Invalid SQL: UPDATE arcadeconfig
SET path='/games/',usescoreicon='',usekingicon='1'

, passtimeout='155520000', epergamecost='1', earcadepass='1', eaph='1', ejackpot='1'
WHERE arcadeid='1'
mysql error: Unknown column 'usescoreicon' in 'field list'

mysql error number: 1054

Date: Sunday 09th of February 2003 02:30:22 AM
Script: http://www.hiphopairplay.com/airplay/airplay
/admin/proarcadeadmin.php
Referer: http://www.hiphopairplay.com/airplay/
admin/proarcadeadmin.php?action=changeoptions


and this one


Database error in vBulletin Control Panel 2.2.9:

Invalid SQL: UPDATE arcadegames
SET name='tetris', title='Tetris', description='The classic game of Tetris that we all know and love...', filename='tetris.swf',

active='0', scorevar='$tetrisscore', width='', height='',
codebase='', querystring='', objectparam='',
embedparam='',championactive='1',championtext='Tet ris Champion',championcolor='#FF0000',playcost='10',ja ckpot='42',jackpotadd='5'
WHERE gameid='1'
mysql error: Unknown column 'width' in 'field list'

mysql error number: 1054

Date: Sunday 09th of February 2003 02:41:01 AM
Script: http://www.hiphopairplay.com/airplay/airplay/admin/proarcadeadmin.php
Referer: http://www.hiphopairplay.com/airplay/admin/proarcadeadmin.php?action=modify&s=

any help would be appreciated :)

[Dean C]

You did not run the relevant queries. It's saying that you haven't got a width and height column in the table :)

- miSt

[Kasper_H]

I wanna install this updated version, as the first version was really cool!
The only problem is that i have to uninstall the old one... and for that, I will need the install instructions from the old Arcade. Unfortuneatly, I don't have these :( Where can i get them?

[Tigga]

I think futureal posted them a few pages back, but I still have a copy of the zip file so I'll post it here for ya. :)

[Kasper_H]

Thanks plurplanet!! Now i've gotta go install the new version!

[Erwin]

I've just switched over from John's arcade to this one - it works great. Thanks futureal... :)

[codewebs]

the arcade works perfect, but what is $vpachampicon , and $vpachamptext supposed to say in the postbit, its blank??

[msimplay]

Erm just a tini problem i'm sure is to do with the templates or at least i think it is
anyway am new to this hacking in vb
but in the arcade i seem to have everything running correctly
except for one thing click on the link to see what i mean
the games don't seem to show
AMC ARCADE (http://www.wambam.net/forum/proarcade.php?action=arcade)
can someone please point me in the right direction to correct this :(

[msimplay]

Oops i missed out one template in the rush to get it done silly me
its fixed now tho :D

[codewebs]

$vpachampicon , and $vpachamptext dont work in the postbit for me, even though someone is the champion there is nothing displayed..

[pgowder]

nevermind, found what i needed

[Jitway]

Awesome hack love it. :banana:

[spbeck]

Originally posted by codewebs
$vpachampicon , and $vpachamptext dont work in the postbit for me, even though someone is the champion there is nothing displayed..

Have you turned on the champion system in the arcade control panel ?

i have a similar problem where the individual games champion system is on but i cant get the main champion system to turn on

[codewebs]

yes there all on

[Erwin]

Managed to integrate this into my custom store system - 10 points to play a game, champions get 1,000 points. :)

[Erwin]

Managed to integrate this into my custom store system - 10 points to play a game, champions get 1,000 points. :)

[Erwin]

Managed to integrate this into my custom store system - 10 points to play a game, champions get 1,000 points. :)

[Dean C]

Wow another triple post Erwin :o

Your store system sure sounds funky :p

- miSt

[Poostmen]

I got this error

MySQL said: You have an error in your SQL syntax near '0', championactive tinyint(4) NOT NULL default '0', championid int(11) NOT' at line 1

what does it means!

//poost :pirate:

[sneakyc2e]

First of all this is awesome and it installed perfactly! So thanks for taking the time to build it. A couple questions.

Do u have any more games out for it?

Also some of the people are saying it is not saving there high scores.

have you heard that yet?

Dan

[bgtking]

Wow, what a great hack! I just installed it last night and my members love it!
Can you find flash games and add them where they will integrate like everything else?

[xxskullxx]

Do u have any more games out for it?

Also some of the people are saying it is not saving there high scores.

have you heard that yet? More games are being made here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?s=&threadid=47198

Also the problem with not saving scores is well known. IE is the only supported browser and there have been issues with it as well. futureal has been working on a fix for it though.

Can you find flash games and add them where they will integrate like everything else?There are some games are being made here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?s=&threadid=47198

Please read the first few posts in that thread to see what needs to be done to games to make them work with this great hack. :)

[sabret00the]

i'm having a slight problem, seems taht my champ crown in postbit thing is stuck on no in the admin cp 0_o

[Exo]

what is with the old user score when i update?

[One-Team]

work great
http://www.one-team.net/forums/proarcade.php

[Exo]

Originally posted by Exo
what is with the old user score when i update?


:paranoid:

[Silenced Soul]

this hack = orgasmic. Awesome work, and it runs perfectly on my server (http://gamingevo.net/proarcade.php), not one problem with any install, even of the other games.

[subu1]

hi, Fantastic Hack *clickinstall*

but is it normality, if Pacman is Game over i have a white Page?

regards subu1

[Silenced Soul]

It doesn't do that for me :/... does it do that for all of your games? Because if that's the case, then you forgot a template, probably.

[Kars10]

First of all ... this is one of the coolest hacks out there!! ;)
Ok, one question: is it possible to show only the latest score from a user, and not all scores he/she made? I mean something the overrides his/her scores with the newest? That should save db-space and makes the scoreboard clearly aranged!! ;)