I'm not talking about bugs. I have no problems with the arcade except the optimization of it and Futureal has already addressed that a more optimized version was in the works.

I'm asking when it's coming out.

:) I can't speak for him so no clue .. hoping soon,

I'm trying to seperate the games page and the high score page and make it look pretty at the moment ;)

I'm not sure if this has been mentioned before in the 81 pages of this thread, but it would be nice on the page where you add a comment if a person had a choice not to submit their score... Sometimes it just doesn't make sense if the game ends right away and they have a score of 1... lol..

once we add more games the list is pretty long, it might be good to have a drop down menu to select which game to modify instead of list the games out directly

thanks!

Heres this little mini-hack I made. :)
It makes all of the Vbproarcade templates into one category.

can't anyone answer this?? :banana:

Try using Internet Explorer (assuming you aren't doing). All cases I've heard with this problem are using Opera, or maybe Netscape, and frankly Netscape is SAID in the details for this hack to not be very compatible with ProArcade.

That's cool, I meant to get around to that sometime but never had a chance. If you don't mind, I'd like to toss that into Beta 2.1 as an optional step.

sure, i don't mind :)

This is weird... Whenever a custom usergroup on my forums trys to access the arcade, they get a "You do not have permission to access this page" message. Any ideas as to how I can fix this?

hmm, try doing this:

go into phpmyadmin run this query:

[sql]SELECT *
FROM `arcadeconfig` LIMIT 0 , 30[/sql]

edit the row in the table. Find the "useraccess" row.
the value should say something like this
add all the usergroup ids that you want access to the arcade.

for example, if i want my "A group" to have access to the arcade and their usergroup id is 9,
i would do this:
hope this helps :)

or another way you could do this is edit it via Admin CP. lol :D

go into the general options of the arcade.
Find "Current Groups that can Use Arcade"
you should be able to add/remove the user groups below that.

Bah, I dont have the option that Digital stated... I have v1.0 installed :(

hmm i installed this hack checked it 3 times templates sql php modification etc but all i get is a blank white page :(

www.lomcn.co.uk/forum/proarcade.php

any ideas please?

thanks in advance.

Do you have a test account we could use to look at it? All we see is the "You need to register" message.

How can I get the background of my arcade page to look like this:
http://www.atmyparty.com/network/proarcade.php

And not like mine:
http://www.graphical-illusions.com/proarcade.php

I don't want the graphics in the background, just the colored tables =\

yes sorry futureal

name:TheSurvivor
password:testing

also link again:

www.lomcn.co.uk/forum/proarcade.php

Futureal, is there a way I can upgrade to Beta 2 without having to go through the tedious process of uninstalling Beta 1?

In your Forum Admin go to the edit templates area. Under Custom templates there will be a bunch of templates that start with vbarcade or something to that effect. You have to find the proper templates that include the tables you want to change and change the bg colors.

Fi_InCogNiTo

Its and issue with your style table background image, it's loading a background image in the table fields of your main forum's style.

You need to find where table background is loading in your forum style and either delete just the background image, aka background="image.gif" it or change the vb arcade code to use a background other than the table background ;) did that make sence?

Hopefully that will help ya. or point you in the right direction...

So, can anyone answer my question? :p

Is it possible to upgrade from Beta 1 to Beta 2 without having to go through uninstalling Beta 1 first?

GaleForce: Sadly, not really.

The templates you could probably just replace with never versions, rather than removing the old ones.

The SQL tables should be removed and then re-installed.

The actual code changes will mostly be in the same places, but not necessarily. That's why I've recommended uninstalling the original Beta 1 before installing Beta 2.

I don't have the instructions to Beta 1 installation, could you attach those so that I can download them and use them to uninstall beta 1? Thanks.

You'll find them here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...610#post352610

Thanks!

I have a slight suggestion for scoring options... Rather than record every score, how about just like the top 10 or 25, like on a real arcade machine.... ;)

Because what if you want to know who came in 674th place?!?!?! :p

This is what is done for Beta 2.1 so far:

- Fixed SQL Error in User Detail Screen
- Fixed Game Ordering in User Detail Screen
- Fixed $bburl in User Detail Screen
- Fixed Mini-Scoreboard Display to show "Nobody" when a game is new
- Added Additional $_GET security (check for GET variables)
- Optimized Mini-Scoreboard Display, now 1 query per game
- Added Additional Statistics to Arcade Page (total users, games, time)
- Added Browser Compatibility Disclaimer

Before I release this sucker, can anybody think of anything else (major) that needs to be addressed?

I don't plan on adding any new features to the Arcade until there is a close-to-100% stable version that I can actually call a true release. I am more focused on fixing bugs and compatibility problems right now.

I keep getting that error whenever I try to play. Other than that, the new arcade (Version 2) is very good. Would you mind modifying the 2.1 instructions a bit so that us 2.0 users could just upgrade instead of reinstalling it? Or you could just offer it as an upgrade, like install 2.0 first, and then install this "patch" :)

Also, how can I reduce the font size used for the $vpachamptext variable?
-- Nm, figured that one out, just need help with the others now.

futureal
My mind is blank, I just came onto install beta 2, but if your close or need someone to test beta 2.1 I can wait. if you want to PM me. :) Most of the ideas I have would be for addon's aka stock hack and point jackpot system updated for beta 2.1 ;)

give me tell if you need help,

I checked out your demo site, it looks great, did you change the admin cp at all? otherwise from an outside look I can't wait to install it :)

I don't know if this is the case with the proarcade but i read a page with the warning of a vulnarabilty in highscores (in general), where people can alter the score if they know the way it is set to the database, for example http://www.test.com/forum/proarcade....You&score=**** or something like that. I did'nt test this though and i hope this is a problem already solved or irrelevant. ;)

It doesn't work, just tried it on my forum... at least I dont believe it works. I changed You to my Username and Score to a number, and nothing happened except bringing me to the main Arcade screen.

You can't, because the page send the flash thing a hash, and then the flash page does something and sends the hash back...

That is why there is a hash code in the settings... it's what prevents people from cheating so easily...

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Upgrading from Beta 2 to Beta 2.1 will be quite simple. Just upload the new files and make a few small template changes (so far).

Since I decided to stop adding features until an actual release is made, the table structure has not changed at all.

ok i moved from /forum to /root/ for my forum but now i get "vbProArcade Error: Invalid game name specified (todo: put something pretty here later)" once the game ends and it sends you back to proarcade.php

w00t, you rule. :D

Also, when you release the Full Release, will you include upgrade instructions?

Do you have a sample login/password for your site?

There will be upgrade instructions for all future releases. Beta 2 to 2.1, 2.1 to release (or whatever). There were no instructions for going from Beta 1.x to Beta 2 because I changed just about everything... there really was no possible upgrade path.