good stuff doode, but is there any posibility that there could be possible permission problems with it ?

some of my uisers cant see it

they say they are getting access denied when they try to see it

Keep up the great work.. To try and keep my users from lynching me for info.. any idea on timescales for the next release ? :)

This is a great hack!

And for one so complex, it installed without a hitch (vbhacker) thanks to your excellent instructions. Good job man. My users are going nuts for it.

Can anyone tell me where I can find downloadable flash games? I'd like to take a look at them and see what would be involved in porting them over to this system.

In particular, I am looking for Galaga and Joust. Bonus for anyone who finds those - I googled around without much luck.

When someone who is not an admin trys to play, they see this screen;

Did you turn each of the games on via the proarcadeadmin.php file?

everything is on for me and still nothing i get the same error, and i also cannot see the games :(

how to reset the score?

There is ONE person on my forums who cannot play, and that is because his username has a ' in it... anyway to fix this?

galeforce, i think i found the problem, where the dir is /games/ its the one below forum dir i think

I'm not having that problem anymore, and the problem I was having was that certian members didnt have permission... now I just need my other question answered.

but how did u fix it?

i have done some testing now and found out that its the usergroups for each group only Registered users have access, no other groups apart from admin do.

:/

read around page 10, theres a fix over there.

thanks guys, i kinda just ripped the usergroup check out D:

it works good now

my forums are in a sub directory, forums/

on game over it looks for proarcade.php in the root folder, i've been looking over the previous threads but i don't understand the fix for this, little help?

<font size="3">BUG</font>

Users with a ' in their name get MySQL errors when trying to play in the arcade.

First off, thanks for the great hack futureal!

It is so great, in fact, that within an hour of installing it on my website, my users have effectively taken down the server my website is being hosted on! I had just taken first place back in Breakout, too! :p

Edit: Not sure if this was already mentioned, but it would be nice to have a feature to disable the music in the games that have it. That seems to be the only issue I have with it at first impressions (minus the known bugs).

Thanks again for a great hack, and keep up the great work! :D

This problem is fixed some 90 posts back.....

Post #404

I'm having the same problem also, a few Registered users can't play the game. Permission not granted to access page. :(

how do i find out usergroupid for each user groups?

http://www.domain.net/forum

So i think that should be ok.

I checked all possibilities but no results :cry:

mine is the same except domain.net/forums

after game over it looks for proarcade.php in the domain.net/
directory.

That only allows them to play, there is still a DB error when they get a Game Over.

In your admin pages under User Groups, click on Modify. That will show you each of your usergroups. When you put your mouse over the [edit] link you will be able to see the number in the status bar of your browser.

Oh, I think I may have found a slight problem with the Champions system. One of my users has the top score in 4 of the games and another user has the top score in one of the games. It works fine for the user that has the high score in one game, but doesn't show anything for the user that has the high score in the other 4. The only difference I see in their accounts is the one it works for has a custom user title and the other doesn't. It's not really a big deal for me, but I thought I'd let you know. :)

anyone can please answer my question?

thanx mate :)

mewgood: You need to empty the data from the arcade table. Run a query something like:

DELETE FROM arcade WHERE game='game'

That should do it.

I am redoing the Champions system for the next Beta, which should fix most of those problems. I pretty much just schlocked it together 'cause I was trying to get Beta 1 out in a hurry, which turned out to be a big mistake.

As for the problems with the game going to the wrong directory, this is actually a client-side problem related to Flash and its handling of POST variables. The way the script works is like this:

script gets "play" request from user
script sends game, user, highscore, and location of forums to a flash game
flash game plays
flash game ends, and sends game, user, score to the page defined in location
script takes that data and keeps going

So basically, what's happening is that Flash is not correctly sending the location back to the script via POST.

Because of the problems with this, one option is to change the script to use GET. This means that the URL bar would look something like this:

http://www.yoursite.com/forum/proarcade.php?action=gameover&game=tetris&score=45 6000&whatever

Obviously this creates a problem in that people can see how the score is being passed and just enter it manually. So I'm thinking that we'd need to put an MD5 hash on it before transmission, and I'm not sure that Flash's ActionScript can do that. So I'm kind of stumped as where to go from here.

I will keep working on a solution...

As well, a member in my board played the game and in the top 10 and it should be in the scoreboard, but it doesn't show up.
HELP PELASE

I also have a few users that are experiencing a strange problem. No matter what game they play, and no matter how long or short that game is, when the game finishes they are taken back to the main arcade page instead of being prompted to submit their score. One user is using IE 6.0, the rest have not replied to my PMs. Any ideas?

ya
some mebers got this error too

N/M -- problem solved. Great hack, by the way. :D

A few others have mentioned this problem. We haven't found a reliable solution. Users running the AOL browser may experiencing difficulties because an AOL's user's IP can change from request to request, which can wreak havok with vBulletin. That is a known problem that has been discussed on vbulletin.com.

But people running IE should not have problems. You could ask if they are behind a proxy server, which may cause an issue, but I can't think of any way to fix it. As I mentioned earlier, using GET rather than POST is one solution, but not a good one. The other is to hard-code the redirect URL into the Flash games, but that would require that everybody running the hack either have a copy of Flash MX to edit the .FLAs (bad) or everybody sticks the arcade files in the same directory (probably impossible).

As always, I am open to any other ideas that people may have. I have been following some of these bugs on FlashKit.com and believe me, we are not the only ones to be experiencing them.

well
he is not behind proxy

My users are using IE 6.0 and are not on AOL. Strange how it only happens to a select few, they think I'm plotting against them (most of them should be #1). :p

I had the exact problem with the redirect after the games...

It was solved for me after i reformatted :)

Before that though, I had tried everything. I cleared and reinstalled flash, I cleared and reinstalled shockwave, Cleared all my "Downloaded Program Files", cleared cookies in many different ways, and about a dozen other things, and nothing worked, until i reformatted my pc.

I couldn't even begin to imagine what the problem was, at this point.... All i know is that it works now :)

what are the differences to john eovie´s Arcade Hack ?
when will yours go final ?

thanks...
Schorsch

Are you guys making one that will go with the store? Wher eyou have to pay to play?

Oh yeah, really nice hack!
Installation worked without any problems, and i can play the games as they are supposed to be played :)

The only problem is, only i can play the games, along with the other admins :surprised:
How can i set it up so it works with the other usergroups?
This has probably been answered before, but it's tough having to read through 518 replys to get the answer :) Hope you can understand.

And one more thing: every time i do a reply, it says, in the upper left corner Connection Refused (111). Howcome?


Other than that, i must say: This is a really sweet hack! No doubt about that, and i can't wait for the future realeses!

//Kasper