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

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.

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

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

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

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 ........

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

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

would be nice to get a Galaga game on here

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

*deletes extralargepost*

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

w000h0000!! Thankx Xenon! ;)

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

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

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

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.

:banana:

What a New Year treat !!

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

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.

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/showthrea...529#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.

We love you.

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

The Flash Games Development thread has been created, and all existing Flash source files have been released, here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...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.

Well worth the wait! Thanks futureal! :)

How do I uninstall this??

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.

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

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

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

In the installation file it says:

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
-- 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!
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(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

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...

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.

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 ?

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.

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.

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

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:

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.

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.

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

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?

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

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.