Find this in proarcade.php:
You have to add each usergroup here that you want to allow to use the arcade.

thanks guys that did it :)

I re-downloaded the zip and replaced the file and i get the same error, can someone send me the old proarcade.php file please?

The zip that is currently in the first post has the correct file. I just double checked it and it does not contain the line of code that you are getting an error on...

I am going through known bugs and whatnot with the Flash player to see if I can find anything, and asking around some other places on the net.

I am not sure what kind of information would be most useful to gather from people. We've already determined it's not based on the browser version or the plugin version. Do you have anything odd in terms of a net connection, like a robust firewall, internet connection sharing or anything of that sort?

edit: Also if possible, let me know what your security settings are in IE, and whether or not you are going through a proxy server. I have been reading stuff on FlashKit about anomalous behavior with Flash and IE -- those are just a couple of the possibilities.

further edit: Another idea I've had is that it might have something to do with your caching options. In IE, check the "Settings" under "Temporary Internet Files" and let me know what it says (Always check, Check when IE starts, Auto, Never). Thanks.

eckels2: I went ahead and modified one of the games (Pacman -- one of two that I have access to right now) with one of the ideas that I had.

Please upload this to your arcade dir and change the filename in the Admin CP to match pacman-beta.swf (this way we'll know for sure that you're testing the new version of the swf) and give it a shot.

My hunch (and it's only a hunch, believe me) is that this is a browser cache issue of some sort. As a result, I hardcoded the action and game into the URL that Flash is passing to the script, and then appended a randomly generated number to the URL to force the browser to think that it's a new (or rather, unique) page. The chances of this actually fixing the problem aren't that high, but it should at least give us a better idea of what we're dealing with.

The file is attached here. Thanks!

In other vbProArcade news, I got inspired tonight to make the navigation bar ($navbar) easier to use.

The end result is that there is now a hierarchal navbar much like standard vBulletin.

All pages have:

Your Forum > Arcade

Sub pages have:

Your Forum > Arcade > Game Title
Your Forum > Arcade > Game Title Scoreboard
Your Forum > Arcade > Game Title Top Score Board
etc.

And with Beta 2, there will be sub-sub-pages, such as:

Your Forum > Arcade > Game Title Scoreboard > User Name's Scores for Game Title

But the best part about this system is that it uses the vBulletin navigation system, which means the template code has been reduced to simply "$navbar" and it will incorporate any changes you make the following templates:

navbar
nav_joiner
nav_linkoff
nav_linkon

This should make life easier from an Admin point of view.

These changes WILL be in Beta 2.

do you have aim or icq or something I can talk to you on? because I am still getting this error go to http://www.mtgshoebox.com/forums/proarcade.php to see it for yourself.

Works for me dude. You might want to Enable all of your games, though :)

your kidding? I still get the same error....why? lol