There is something like this here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=43700

1) Go into the admin CP, edit the games, and singly turn them on. That allows members and mods to play too!

2) I have no idea....

If users can't play the games, you may also want to check the if/else statement near the top of proarcade.php to make sure that the correct user groups are given access. A better system has already been implemented in the next Beta.

As for a time frame, I have no idea. I am still playing with security and trying to figure out why some people are having trouble with the redirect. Been perusing forums around the net looking for Flash/ActionScript answers, but not having much luck so far.

Ok I installed this GREAT HACK...everything works very well EXCEPT I can not seem to upload thumbnails for the games...
I tried the safe mode fix with no luck. I do not get any errors it just doesnt change the thumb. Any Ideas?
Thanks.

Also a bug my users have found...They are changing others comments on the scoreboard. Any way to stop this?

Play a game, when it goes to the submit a comment page, save it as test.html then reopen it, look in source, find

<input type="text" name="comment" class="txtfield">

<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="This is a test hehe"
class="commentbutton">
<input type=hidden name="subaction" value="addcomment">
<input type=hidden name="userid" value="1"> (put in userid to clone)
<input type=hidden name="newscoreid" value="293">

near the bottom and modify the newscoreid number, it refers to a position in the scoreboard. Save test.html, open it again, and type the new comment to go at that spot.

wallah

He'll probably fix it for Beta 2.....

But, you could put an:
above the 'gameover' action. That'd fix it right up :)

Everything is running beatifully! Perfect! I love this hack! And so does the users! Can't wait for Beta2 :)

Now I just need to figure out how to add new games... I have no idea of how it's done :(

When is the final version going to be released?? I am iffy on installing Beta hacks :-\

\\ - Speedy - //

Working on it.

I will post more screenshots soon of some of the new stuff. Most of the delay has just been design decisions I'm making for added security features and whatnot.

Limpkinw: That's new security hole I had actually never thought of. However, it has already been inadvertently fixed in Beta 2 (I think). I will double check that one before I release anything. Thanks.

Here's an example of the new Main Arcade page in Beta 2:
http://www.shadowsofnamek.com/forum/...rcade&game=&s=

The "Mini Scoreboards" are tied directly to whether a game is active or not active. If you deactivate a game, the boards will not appear. It also handles the logic correctly so that if there is an odd number of games it always centers the last mini-board. Everything is templated out, of course.

Another small change is that a user's high score and the current high score are displayed on the page where the game is played.

This is an awesome hack, is it confirmed to work on 2.2.8 flawlessly in its current state?

EDIT: Also, when are the next updates going to be released? I may wait out for a day or two if another release is just down the road...

Beta 2 looks good futureal. I can't wait to get my hands on it! ;)

Works fine on the 3 2.2.8 forums I've got it running on :D

Beta 2 is looking KILLER and I cannot wait to get my hands on it:)

BTW, can you add a game or two in there? Here are two you can do right off the bat:

Frogger. The zip has the FLA and SWF files for easy modification, and it's free and clear - no license restrictions or anything (it's actually called "Froggy" but it's so close to the original Frogger as not to matter:) ).

download zip here

Moon Lander. Same as above, includes FLA and SWF file, no restrictions. Free for the world and more important, free to add to this hack.

Download zip here


Also, I would KILL/pay even for one or all of the following:

Joust
Missle Command
Galaga

Anyone who can come up with one or all of those to add to this excellent hack is a hero in my book.

Still no release date set in stone. I am really trying to fit in as much work on the hack as I can but other obligations have been nailing me. I will keep everybody posted.

As for more games, yes, there will be more games, I promise. Along with Beta 2 I will likely release the current .FLAs of the games so others can tinker with them (I think). We should be able to keep an "open development" environment for vbProArcade-compatible games.

I do still have a whole list of features I'd like to get into Beta 2. And yes, Beta 1 should work fine with any 2.2.x copy of vBulletin.

An obvious question but it has to be asked....

My users love Tetris which I currently have working on our board, and they are really hassling me to add more games via your Beta 1 hack.... BUT..

HOW easy is it going to be to update to beta 2 when it is released?

Am I better waiting for v2, or go ahead now with the beta 1 ?

Yeah, I am in the same spot as BrainZ, I'd like to know how easy it is to upgrade...

Same here. I cannot wait for the upgrade this is an amazing hack. I love this feature.

HI all
Love the look of the hack!!
Just a couple of questions, I am quite new to PHP and MySQL and although I have a good understanding of html I am a bit dubious of installing.
I have been reading some of the 36 pages in this post and it seems a lot of you have changed you php code and had slight probs with the sql as well.

Anyway what I am trying to say is I would love to give this a go but don’t want to damage my forum. I have read through the install notes and understand all the CHMOD and php stuff but am not sure about the sql side of things.
Can anyone offer me any advice at all, I would much appreciate it.

Thanks again.

Lee B

XrayHead - The problem with this hack is that it's still only BETA, and has been for quite some time. This means that while it may work perfectly well on your system, it might not at all.

MySQL is a simple enough thing to use - my recomendation is that you do a back-up of your database before you start installing this hack (something that is recomended before any new hack) and then run the queries in phpMyAdmin (if you don't have this, ask your host).

After that, do the rest that is needed and test it out.

Good luck.

when do you suspect that the next version will be ready for release future?

Regards

- miSt

not been all though this post but found this site with a few games on and they have the fla source available for download as well.

Well worth a look at least.

http://www.neave.com/webgames/

dude, just so you know, that is where 3 of the games come from :)

Ninth Dimension

Thanks for the confidence boost m8.
I got it working on Ver 2.2.8 and now have found out how MySQL works.
Anyway, totally cool hack and I love it.

I had to celebrate with some Stella’s on completion.
Only prob now is I want to move my Forum to anouther server….

O’Well, that is my next find out how to do it mission.

Thanks Futureal for the totally cool hack.

XrayHead

The COMMENTS on the Top Score Board DONT replace.

If your 1st game in pacman you played you leave a Comment like: TESTING THIS...and then later you play and get TOP SCORE and leave a Comment like I OWN AT PAC-MAN...it takes the 1st comment TESTING THIS and always uses that...anyone know a fix???

I just installed the hack, everything seems to word exept for 1 thing
when I want to start the game, the swf file does not load, and on another forum it does
my website runs on an nt system :p

any ideas?

in the gameoptions (user cp) change the games directory to games/ in stead of /games/ or if u dun that then active all the games individually in the options

Wow.. cool feature for the board, this game hack. Really love it.

Installed it manually, without any problems at all. But i have some problems with it... hope you could help me out there....

There seems to be a problem with some of the members, can`t see more that half of the games, but me as a admin can see them all and play them all. And the other thing, is that some members, can`t even get access to play them.

Kinda strange...

Any clue ???

Cheers.

Iceman..the fix is in this thread...it has to do with the USER GROUPS.

You need to find the code in the proarcade.php its like LINE#40

if (($bbuserinfo[usergroupid] != 2) and
($bbuserinfo[usergroupid] != 5) and
($bbuserinfo[usergroupid] != 6) and
($bbuserinfo[usergroupid] != 7)) {

You need to add whatever other USER GROUPS you have created to this..example below of what I added.

if (($bbuserinfo[usergroupid] != 2) and
($bbuserinfo[usergroupid] != 5) and
($bbuserinfo[usergroupid] != 6) and
($bbuserinfo[usergroupid] != 7) and
($bbuserinfo[usergroupid] != 8) and
($bbuserinfo[usergroupid] != 12)) {

See how I added 8 and 12...you can get the USER GROUP NUMBER# by running your Mouse over the EDIT and it will display in your status bar..if its to big in your status bar then right click on edit and COPY SHORTCUT..then paste it into NOTEPAD to read the URL...the USER GROUP # will be seen in the URL

Hope this helps

Also make sure you TURNED 'ON' all the games in the Admin Panel

I'm wonder ing if there is a way to change the way the championship text show up the postbit, the red looks really tacky imo, and I'd liek to also move the location of it, I'm clueless as to were I would go to edit that info.


One of the members on my forum suggested a different icon for each championship for each game, i think that would be awesome. :D

Wheres that POSTBIT hack for this???

Mine not showing the postbit..only thing I saw in instructions that relate to postbit is below and that is what I have :

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

+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| With this code: |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
if (!$getperms['cangetattachment']) {
$viewattachedimages=0;
}

// Begin vbProArcade
// if champ system is disabled, don't do anything
if ($vpa_champsystem == 1) {
$vpa_champs_q = $DB_site->query("SELECT championactive,championid,championtext,championcol or FROM arcadegames");

$vpa_count = 0;

while ($vpa_loop = $DB_site->fetch_array($vpa_champs_q)) {

$vpa_champs_a[$vpa_count][championactive] = $vpa_loop[championactive];
$vpa_champs_a[$vpa_count][championid] = $vpa_loop[championid];
$vpa_champs_a[$vpa_count][championtext] = $vpa_loop[championtext];
$vpa_champs_a[$vpa_count][championcolor] = $vpa_loop[championcolor];

$vpa_count++;

}

} else {

$vpa_count = 0;
$vpa_champs_a = 0;

}
// End vbProArcade

+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

+
+++
+

+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| In showthread.php, replace this code: |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
$postbits .= getpostbit($post);
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| With this code: |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
// Begin vbProArcade
$postbits .= getpostbit($post,$vpa_champs_a);
// End vbProArcade

+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

I installed it, and now its working great except it doesnt record comments, it just keeps the "no comment" in place?

any ideas on what could be wrong?

is there a way to do this :

if the user does not reach a score within the top 25 scores then he does not get put on to the score board atall but instead gets a redirect message saying you did not make it onto the score board then redirects him/her to the main arcade home page ???? or somthin similar to that cheers !

everything is working great with this hack, i love it!! currently the only issue we are having is, it refuses to keep one of my members scores, we have no idea whats goign on with it, I even created her a test account to try and it still isn't working. I'm positivie it's somethign on her side, but im clueless as to what it could be. Any ideas?

The main reason it is beta, and probably will be beta for some time, is because of the high incidence of abnormal behavior that we see. With all of the browsers and server configurations out there, it seems like 5%-10% of them do not work with this hack for some reason.

I have been able to solve most problems, but not all.

On top of that, there are the security issues. I have plenty of ideas but none have come to fruition yet. I am still working on stuff and with more experienced Flash developers on FlashKit to see what we can come up with.

I apologize for all of the delays (see above message for some info on why) but rest assured that it is still coming.

A big reason I have been offline is that we just had a huge LAN party at my apartment these past 4-5 days. At its peak we had 16 computers set up and a few X-Boxes linked together. Once I get this place cleaned up, it's back to the grind... :)

LOL! I've done 4 x-boxes linked with 16 players on Halo before, at my house, with 4 TVs (2 projectors). :) It was great!

Thankl you, it worked :)

Cheers.

Its ok... your the hackmaker - not me ;)

You've done a fantastic job and i can't wait for the next version so i can install this on my boards :)

Regards

- miSt

Repost...and lil more

Ok I installed this GREAT HACK...everything works very well EXCEPT I can not seem to upload thumbnails for the games...
I tried the safe mode fix with no luck. I do not get any errors it just doesnt change the thumb. Any Ideas?

In addition the champions system doesnt seem to work. Is there anything that I should check over to get it up -n- runnin?
Thanks.