Hey John, If you need any beta testers please let me know as I have 2 vb licences, and a couple of test boards set up. Plus im a premium member from your site so would like to get in on the action early. and i have now over 22 thousand members that would be willing to test anything out on the test board etc.

thanks.

I completely fubared my arcade. I was shuffeling files around, thinking they were in the wrong place and now most of my games don't work, and the game listing is missing all the game icons. Can someone tell me specifically where each type of file goes? Right now I have the swf's in the root folder called "games". I have the jpgs in the "images/arcade" folder and the php's I don't know where they go. eep.. help please?

Do I need to delete all the game files and just reinstall them fresh?

Hi there again... please, could someone tell me about the best way to translate the script to spanish... I know that it is possible by changing it from the original product-plugin, but I am worry that by doing so I might loose the gamers data created so far. Please, I just need to know the procedure to translate it.

hola iglobal,

you should be able to translate most of the text by opening the xml file in your favorite text editor and editing the phrases. the phrases that you will want to change start at about line 2201 - do a text search for :
<phrasetype name="Arcade" fieldname="arcade">
and start editing there.
all the phrases are in the format:
<phrase name="phrase_name"><![CDATA[Phrase Text]]></phrase>

**don't touch the phrase_name** only change Phrase Text

you may also want to change the error phrase line 2381:
<phrase name="invaliduserid">...

and the frontend redirect messages just below that:
<phrase name="commentdeleted">...
<phrase name="commentsaved">...

that should allow you to translate most if not all of the front end text. if you also want to change the control panel text, just modify all the rest of the phrases in that same section.

once your changes have been made, just save the .xml file and re-import it. you shouldn't have to re-upload any of the other files. this shouldn't mess up any of your users high scores or settings, but i take no responsibility if it does for some reason.

Can someone tell me the correct way to install games?

Will do. Although don't expect much from the next release, it's mostly bug fixes and Admin CP changes. (Added functionality for admins, mainly.)

Let's say your arcade is installed here: http://www.yourdomain.com/forums/arcade.php

Your games need to be here:
http://www.yourdomain.com/forums/games/

The images for your games (icons and such) need to be here:
http://www.yourdomain.com/forums/images/arcade/

That's all there is to it. :)

So....what do I do with the php files?

I did the above, and I'm not seeing the game I just installed.

I just upgraded from 1.03 on vb3.60. I uploaded all files and overwrote, the imported the XML and overwrote as well. How do I zero out all the scores for all users now? One at a time would take me days.

I was just explaining how to recover an Arcade installation if the files have been moved around.

If you want to install new games, simply extract them into one big folder, and upload them to admincp/games. Then use the mass installer in the "Game tools" section in the Admin CP.