I haven't read the whole thread, because it's quite long, but I wonder if someone could help me out here.

I have installed this hack, and I have in the list of games, Chopper Attack, and Copter. What I didn't know when I installed them is that these contain porn links in them, which does not go well with my site. I would like to completely remove these games, is there any way to do this, or am I out of luck?

Porn links????????
I never saw pornlinks...

but you can remove games indeed... Just go to admincp... arcade=>gamesettings
you can (de)activate each game separatly ;)

Tru Smiles & nycunderground:

It's hard to tell what could be wrong according to the info you both provide...
Best suggestion i can give is to convert the init.php file to the original state and start over again. Beware: a little "," or "}" to less or to many could mess up the whole thing

success

I tried setting everything to no, but that didn't remove the specific championships when shown in the arcade profiles. It did remove them in the postbit though.

i tried a few times.. i dont know i must be missing something somewhere.. can anyone send me their init to compare it to mine.. email dew@nycfragginfiber.com

its driving me nuts that i cant do this.. :( i installed some stuff already i just got vb3 the other day.. love it :)

I'm sorry to hear about the emails you've been receiving. I remember getting your email address a couple months ago, and emailing you a couple questions. Who in their right mind would demand more games, add-ons, etc? https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2004/03/6.gif I hope you don't hault the converting of more games just because of a couple people that chose not to be polite. https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2004/03/7.gif

I appreciate the work you've put into it, John. I really do. And my members love the arcade hack! If you choose to, I look forward to seeing some more games. Take your time, though. https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2004/03/8.gif

Agree with the above statement .. you have done some excellent work on the Arcade and Games John, and it is very much appreciated by many, I am sure . so don't let a few mindless morons dampen your enthusiasm M8 .. keep up the excellent work :cool:

John -- You're doing a great job..... don't listen to these guys. The Arcade is inredibly popular on my board -- and I have close to 200 online users at a time. They love it!

The only gripe I had -- I came up with my own solution. It was with the high scores. The people who were champions were getting angry that they were losing their spot after a prune.

I just redid the code a little bit where I manually change these myself if someone breaks a score. The scores are so high anyhow -- I rarely have to change anything. It's a quick workaround until a better solution is in place. Mine is very "crude" to say the least.

I would personally be willing to donate or use my board as a testing ground for NetPlay.

If you can't go backwards and uninstall a hack -- you probably shouldn't be making modifications to your board anyhow.

Great work John!

You maybe have to delete some chars in the sql table for that, but i'm no sql expert...

I'm afraid some of the guru's here need to help you out with this ;)

Hmmm, my init.php is modified in different ways, that wouldn't help you out,
but i could take a look at yours if you wanna...
Put it in a txt file, set it online somewhere and mail me the link maybe...

cheers

Getting rude is no good idea, I agree.

Hello John,
First lemme say: AWESOME HACK!!
Everybody loves it :D

Install went smooth on RC4.
One prob though.... same as some others have posted: From time to time the highscores don't get submitted. I have 35 members playing the arcade since i installed it friday, and atm 602 games have been played. Of those games, 10 users reported a highscore submit failure (15 failures total on 600 games, about 2,5 percent), each time only if they got a new highscore.
When i look into the db i see this (15x)
INSERT INTO `gamesessions` VALUES (385 'asteroids' 13 1079106926 NULL NULL 'No Comment' 0 0 1 " NULL);"
Notice that the finish and ping are null
All other games sessions score fine.

I just spend 3 days reading all 3 arcade threads, which is over 1990 posts in 128 pages... omg! I know you told peepz over and over to check the code and i did (i use notepad for all c/p'ing). Can't find any error (not saying there is, but i can't find it if my life depended on it :(
I tried the solution from LightBringer: changing IE language settings to English (US) but most users have the language set correctly so that didn't solve it.
I can't try what Detomah did, upgrade to RC3 since i already run RC4. Too bad he never found the solution to the prob, it just "went away"....

I installed the hack on a fresh RC4 forum with no other hacks. I checked the db and there are no high pings, none that come close to the 4500 you mentioned earlier.

Hope i gave enough info and that someone here has any idea what the problem is or what i'm doing wrong.
The ++++ty part is, that if the error was randomly i couldn't care too much. But it happens when someone gets a new highscore and since the scores are getting higher and more difficult to beat, users get sad when their effort to finally beat a highscore doesn't get recorded :(

The funny thing is, i installed the hack on my gf's board too and she has no probs... yet (well not too funny actually ;)

I have been checking my code again and saw this:

Hack says, in showthread.php

Find::
Replace this with:
So my file becomes:
I dunno much about php coding but isn't that last comma before the closing ); one too much?? (i'm only looking for weird things that might explain my prob so don't shoot me if i make a dumb coding remark ;) )

But even this i did just like the install file said. Can't find anything that isn't like it said.

hi, John, can i first of all say that the arcade is an absouletly stunning hack, and i hope u realise how many people have used ur arcade throught the internet with over 300+ installs, i have a small board and all my users love it i cant imagine any forum that doesnt.

ok i was running on RC3, but have recently upgraded to RC4 so i could intall a certain skin, i have reintalled most my hacks but the arcade is causing me a bit of fuss.

No matter what i do nobody at all can reach the arcade, as nobody has permission :S . I have done everything on the admincp in terms of permissions and stuff but still dont know why it does this. PLEASE help!

thanks

I was looking at the error log on my server... It appears that the Towerball game is trying to call "songpack.swf" that doesn't exist... (not that it matters) just wondering. :)

Great hack! Job well done! :D

I want to make a subdomain for this hack.
instead of using the forums url..

i want to make it work like

games.mydomain.com

instead of

mydomain.com/forums/games

Is this acheivable ?? i want to put up this link on the HOMEPAGE. like i have a seperate arcade section for my board ;)

Please make this possible..in future release.

Best Regards,
Sandy...

you can do this with some hosting packages you get, hard to say unless you speak to your host.
I can do it on mine, i just make a subdomain and point it to the folder which i want! (or file!)

I installed this hack and it works mint:

www.carstyledirect.com

Sweet, members love it. :mad:

Not sure if this has been mentioned. But will the original vbtetris be available for this hack? I loved the music! I think it was much nicer than the one from paul neave.

thnx for ur prompt reply m8 :)

one last question before installing
is this 100% CHEAT PROOF ?

as i had Arcade for ipb installed. and people used to cheat a lot :/

Nothing is 100% cheat proof
But it will be hard to cheat for the arcade, not impossible but it will take a LOT of effort since the game interfaces with vbb during the game and not just send the score like the old arcade hacks.

I believe 1 or 2 flashgames have a little bug in them that allowed cheating, but those should have been fixed. IF you find another just let it know here.

It's more cheat proof than any other version.

whenever i try to play .. i recive this msg...


AAA, you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:

Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?
If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.
Log Out Home


did i forget to change somthing ?

i'm using vb3 rc3

I've added the arcade on RC4 and I get this message when I try to run install..

Parse error: parse error, expecting `')'' in /home/macinnis2/public_html/boards/includes/init.php on line 856

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/macinnis2/public_html/boards/includes/sessions.php on line 171

Any help would be great as my forum will not load. :(

Doug, you haven't installed it properly then.

I had one code in the init file above instead of below. Fixed it and I'm installed!Funny how one little thing makes a difference. I'm the dumb guy tonight haha. :o Great hack!

There have been 329 successful Arcade installations.

Given that, what do you think the problem is?

Help Please....

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whenever i try to play .. i recive this msg...

AAA, you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:

Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?
If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.
Log Out Home

did i forget to change somthing ?

i'm using vb3 rc3

I think YOUR problem is that your head is shoved so far up your own arse you can't see straight.

I find it incredibly asinine that you flaunt your "updates" and "honors" through a mailing list ("- v3 Arcade wins the first ever vBulletin.org Hack of the Month (for a vBulletin 3 hack) Thanks to everyone who voted! :) - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=61385") - a mailing list that I didn't subscribe to, yet throughout this entire thread you offer no real support to people who need it. A third-grader could write a better install script than you have provided, but weeks have come and gone and you have failed to take initiative to correct something that should have never been released in the first place.

Reading through your posts, both here and at your site, it seems to me that you have created this hack not to provide a service to the vB community, but to make a name for yourself. When an author of a hack agrees to offer support, he obligates himself to address issues vB users have with the hack. If you don't want to offer support, that's fine... but don't be one of those "over-worked and under-appreciated" programmers who thinks the whole community should lick his ballz just because he "said so." If such a number of webmasters, people who obviously are somewhat html/php savvy, are having problems with your instructions, you may want to reconsider how clear your instructions are.

"Given that..." if it's fame that you're seeking, you may want to consider an attitude check as yours is one of the most childish and arrogant ones I've seen on the net in a while. If you genuinely want to offer something to the vB community, you need to learn that your way isn't always the right way and listen to the people who are using your hack. Even if you don't take their suggestions to heart, there's no need to be a prick about it. - "Doug, you haven't installed it properly then." I'm sure Doug appreciates the support. :disappointed:

whoo slow down a bit m8

im glad u are a minority voice as your post is way ott - John is right is what he said - there have been many successful installs of his hack and it does work fine - infact id have to go so far as to say it was one of the easiest i have done.Skill level for this hack is deffo easy so back off a bit cause you aint getting what you want.

Is it any wonder hackers are getting pissed off at people cause they release hacks only to get abuse from members?

If you cant get the hack to work and support aint adequate in this thread for u then put it down to experience that this hack aint for u and move on - dont come flamin in the post as that aint gonna get you nowhere.

As for John sending out an email - good on him - if i won Hack of the month id do exactly the same - id shout it from the rooftops as well if i was crazy enough so fair play to the guy and let him have his glory without some tosspost ruining it for him.


Also i see u are on post 1 - so u regged to abuse this post,anyway like john says

Originally Posted by John
There have been 329 successful Arcade installations.

Given that, what do you think the problem is?

Dont reckon you will get help from anyone with that sort of attitude and i to be honest i thought i had a bad one but even i know when to back off.

Who says I wasn't able to install the hack? I was able to install it just fine, schmoe. Of course, it took me rewriting part of the install script in order to get the templates to install for all styles, but I managed.

GREAT! There have been 329 successful Arcade installations. How many people have posted here that they had problems installing this hack? And of those users, how many have received a response from John stating something to the effect of, "You don't know what you're doing. It's not my fault"? If you're going to have such a self-righteous attitude, it would be best that you keep your hack to yourself for private use on your own forum.

As for the unsolicited e-mail... that, my friend, is called SPAM. So, if you got hack of the month, you would e-mail everyone bragging about it? Chances are the people who installed the hack also keep up with the thread, so really it's pointless. Hey lasto... I just busted a nut. What's your e-mail address? I'm so excited, I could shout it from the rooftops - so I figured I may as well e-mail you to let you know about it as well. Please.

Point being: if John wants to be seen as someone who contributes to the vB community, he better change the way he handles his business. If things continue in the manner they are going, you won't remember who he is by the time vB 3.2 is released. I've seen it happen... it's up to him what he decided to do about it.

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Originally Posted by Nikodemeus I think YOUR problem is that your head is shoved so far up your own arse you can't see straight.

dude.

the hack workz perfect for all the users on the board.
as john already said, there have been 300+ installations of this HACK WORLWIDE.

Sandy...

Sandy. Well put. Now...

It seems as though you can't read either... *shakes head sadly*

Not that it's any of your business, but I AM a licensed user of vB, and have been for a number of years. I have no desire to post my common username nor my URL because I'd have to spend half of my day modding and banning well spoken netizens such as yourself. Admins are more than welcome to check my IP (as if I could prevent it), but if they ban me, a paying member of vBulletin, for stating my opinion on how hack support is being handled and they don't take action against posters of gibberish such as, "STUPID PEOPLE, LIKE U COME HERE JUST TO PISS THE GREAT CODERS, HACK MEMBERS. U PEOPLE DESERVE TO DIE," then we will have a serious problem on our hands.

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Originally Posted by Nikodemeus Sandy. Well put. Now...

if you are a registered user have the GUTS OF SPEAKING FROM UR OWN SHOES.
instead of using a new name..
if something is wrong.. then YOU SHOULD have the GUTS TO SPEAK about it USING UR OWN NICKS..
There was no point in registering a new username and FLAMING IN THE TOPIC.

just reading through whats going on i fully applaud John for his efforts with this hack but just a criticism on what you said sandeep coz it doesn't make sense
even if he is a registered member whose to say he has to post here at all
i mean he could have just been downloading hacks
and installing them as he seems adequate in the development dept
he wouldn't need help he could just do it himself
also everyone has their right to an opinion

i mean i personally don't agree with it however everyone has the right to it

yeah but he deffo a whinger - no other words for it - in fact why whinge in the first place ?
The hack is made by someone using their own time - and support is offered by someone using their own time as well so looking at them two points why whinge.
Also if he wa`nt a member of johns site he would`nt of got the email he so did`nt want to get so he took the time to register there as well.

[high]* lasto thinks some people are so ungrateful for other peoples time.[/high]

hmm i see ur point

@Nikodemeus : I find your comments against the author of this hack rude. The message you quoted from John was simply stating that the hack has been installed by many people so it is not likely to include a bug in the installation. Although I do not agree this 100%, given the error message at hand (Parse error), it is clear that the problem is related to the installing user, not the script.

We want some respect for the hack authors here in vb.org. They are providing a free service to all vbulletin community and we want them honoured, not put down or most importantly discouraged. I know that such comments like yours are very discouraging to hack authors, so I'll remove it if John asks for it and I kindly ask you NOT to repeat it in the future. Thanks for understanding.

@san-deep : I also find your comments against Nikodemeus rude and unnecessary. You should have used "report" button instead of flaming the thread more, don't you think? If Nikodemeus asks for it, I'll remove your post either.

@ALL: Please do not clutter the thread with such arguments, otherwise it proves to be unreadable to people who are seeking support for the hack. For personal comment about eachother, please use PM (and be nice!) :)

Thank you

hi Logician,
Sorry for those NIFTY words. But i couldnt controld myself on someone, uselessly pointing out giribish things to author of a great hack.. That was very discouraging..

I would recommend you to please clear off all my not worhty posts 2 above and this one from current thread.

Thnx :)
Sandy...