My server admin just contacted me about the archives - so I'll be removing them in a few minutes.

Cheers!

Hold on, let me just mirror them, Your server admin wont like this ;)
wget http://community.shwing.com/forum/ar...arcade.tar.tar
16500K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 2% 11.06 MB/s

Are you downloading? If so, let me know when it's done.

done, do these filesizes look right to you?

arcade.tar.tar (628M)
arcade2.tar.tar (86M)
590_v3arcade_games.rar (185M)

yes they do!

Bandwidth?

nope, just paranoid, I think.

628 M

how many games are there?

give me links so that i can wget too ;)

The reason I asked if it was bandwidth, could it be maybe someone complained about banned games being in there? I don't know if there are any or not in there, but all it takes is someone saying there is. ;)

Well, I rent a server and it's managed by a very efficient, sometimes paranoid admin.
Even I don't know what's in those archives, specifically.

it's someones entire arcade folder tarred up so it contains both the compressed and uncompressed games, totals about 1226 games.

I wonder if the games will work in the new arcade. ??? I hope they do!

Yes they work fine. As a matter of fact, I just converted 5 more games last night and today. ;)

I can't wait for this! I have been reading through this entire post (slow at work today) and got even more excited!! Just one question...where will the download be available? Should I just keep checking here?

BTW Zero
YOUR KUNG FOO IS THE BEST :D

Its nearly depressing how badly people here are disregarding copyrights. :(

A lot of the games avauilable now have been cleared by the authors and okayed. There are still some floating around out there that aren't, but most users are well aware which ones they are and should avoid them.

Well since there is alot of downloading going on.
Here is a list of games not to use.

I'm sure there are others not listed

Please edit the post and add it as a text file? Others might want to download it for the info. ;)

And ALEX IN DANGER was my boo-boo. :(

But it was a hell of a conversion. ;)

If there is a need for one more tester to convert from ibProArcade v2.5.1 to the new version please drop me a pm, thanks.

Not sure what you mean and why you quoted me?

I assume you can provide evidence for this scurrilous accusation?

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I like to know about what is it exactly you are saying? I know the arcade coder is removing and redoing the hack, and the games they place are really upto the site owner. If it is links to games here that have not proof of author's use, then those links should be deleted until proven otherwise.

The quote was from clicking the wrong button. Edited.

As for examples, take a look at one of the pages in this thread. Instead of going on the basis of only installing games that have approval, people go more for the "dont use games that have been banned." Thats basically like saying is fine to steal unless you get caught. What are the odds that a developer will accidently come upon a random forum and find his games stolen?

Atleast v3 has taken some responsibility. It would be nice if the general public would follow the same respect. I find it hard to believe that people with 100+ games have permission for all of them.

Edit:
Wait a tick, going back two pages lists three posts with over 700 examples of stolen software posted publicly on these forums without moderation:

You better wake up, my friend. v3Arcade was more notorious for it than IBProAracde ever was. They were charging to download the games and that is what the authors really get mad about, making a profit off of their games.

You better wake up, my friend. First off, how about some moderation on all that stolen software?

Back to waking up, have you seen the v3 developments lately? John is implimenting a system for independant developers to sell their own games and isnt allowing anyone on the v3 forums to link to stolen games. Really, they dont need to since they can come to vBulletin.org and get all the stolen games they need.

I think the site that was charging for games was called something like v3arcadegames.com or something, but was not affiliated with John. Again, I think that's true.

Please do not misuse this Hack-Development-Thread for any Game-Discussions !

Ummm... this thread has been used for about the last 10 pages for posting links to stolen games, for which both you and a moderator have posted in regards to without any action taken. :up:

If this keeps up I will close the thread and Zero will be free to open another thread without the discussion of games. Be forwarned. ;)

I guess I will need to subscribe to another thread if it does? Unless vB.org has some kind of hack that links to other new thread if this gets close down.

If not I see if any news on the release here on Friday or weekend?

Forgive the ignorance, however, how are we determining these are stolen games?? There are a lot of game out there for public use, am I wrong?

just check my signature for any news and links about the final release when it's out :)

No panic.
Wait for MrZeropages Release and we will see. :nervous:

Don't start here the same mindless discussion before the Release as on v3arcade.com. :ermm:

It WILL be out by the weekend, if not before. He's just putting the final coat of wax on it and getting it ready now. ;)

That's the best darn news I've been waiting for! Thanks heap!!!

Yes, thx. MrZeropage rocks !!!

Yea nice 3.5 upgrade here i come.

Better get myself a free day then lol.

Always one step ahead....:)
Brilliant, thanks.

*twiddles fingers* :squareeyed: