Wow. I am soooo relieved. Welcome back and we're waiting patiently. Keep us informed, please. Thank you so very much!! :D

John, good to have you back. Hope this new release (the one before the Pro Version) will be worth the wait.

We are NOT alone!

The Great Arcade Coder is back.

For generations, young arcade users listened intently as their elders talked of days gone by when the Great Arcade Coder, now just a legend, actually existed! Their stories were met with laughter and derision by those who never knew the old ways. But now....now they will laugh no more...for this is....THE THIRD COMING OF THE GREAT ARCADE CODER!

It has been prophecised in the games.

With the big 'We are dead' message on v3arcade.com over the last six months, most people probably never even knew

http://www.v3arcade.com/support/index.php

still worked.

Thats cool!!!!

Dude, you lost your reputation! You lie to us every single dam time! You take peoples money and decide to work for someone else or do something else.

To be honest you can not be trusted.

Basically hes the time line of v3arcade..

1. John returns and decides to code the arcade for 3.5.x

2. He plans 3 releases..NONE ON TIME BTW!

3. He tells us about his plans (ie arcade pro and massive feature list)

4. He disappears, no word telling us why etc, deadline is coming for the next release

5. Returns, tells us it will be done in a few weeks time.

6. A few days later, you close the forum saying you have forum problems and will move server, sort out the skin AND release a new version WHICH HAS NOT BE DONE FOR MONTHS NOW!!!

7. You return..probably because you want to gain reputation to sell your product or something and make even more money and you make excuses blaming this and that.

The short stort:
1. Your support is JUNK!
2. Your product is going to simple die now as people move to the fantastic ibpro product which has OUTSTANDING support (24 hours response!) while you say it takes up to a week to get a response from your support (which btw has a converter (from v3arcade to ibpro) meaning anyone can move with no data/games lost)
3. You are a lier and simply can not be trusted with anything like this.

Just leave and dont make people pay for something they will not be getting full advantage of! People are sick of this to be honest. (Even though I dont pay for it as it doesnt deserve it, but you know what I mean.)

Now dont get me wrong, you are a fantastic coder, when you want to be, but you are very lazy!

Thanks :)

And for all times sake..why did you not announce v3arcade (for 3.0.x) but released it until version 1.0.3 and then same as here - forum closed, us, the users are alone?

Dont keep your hopes up, it will never be done.

how can i get games for this ?

<a href="http://www.vbulletingames.com/" target="_blank">http://www.vbulletingames.com/</a>

Just a question, isent V3Arcade free? :X

Has anyone tried upgrading to vBulletin 3.6 without breaking v3 Arcade?

---MAD---, he is back now so move on and leave the past as it is. If you have a problem with him, it would be best for us all to message him or post on his forums and/or support site.

I just installed vb3arcade on vB 3.6.0, and when i go to add any games via AdminCP, i get the error "There are no more games to import"

It shows no games in my gaming section at all, but there are games in admincp/games to import.
I installed this on 3.5.4 and had no issues, is this a problem with 3.6.0? The product says its fully compatible with 3.6.0, but i have no idea what to do to try and resolve this problem.

Thanks in advance for any help..

When i go to register there, i get this error message while registering??

"Please insert a valid Email address"

Did you bother to read the site?

I respect your comments cause he did leave alot of people high and dry who bought a branding free version (which was suppose to have support). But on the other hand hopefully john changes someday and can compete with ibpro and the support and updates given there.

I bought the branding free version too, branding free dont give you special version of the hack, it s like giving him a donation for the great hack he build up for all of us, some times ppl just forget that this coders are here helping for free and building up this great hacks for us to use.
Remmember, you dont have to pay to use this! this a free hack.

Has anyone converted over to IBPro yet? New games for V3 Arcade are almost non existent.

Myself and a friend have both still been supporting the Arcade via the support center, here: http://www.v3arcade.com/support - we have a 1-3 day turnaround on replies, the reason a lot of people (such as yourself) have been saying we have crap support is that we had a technical issue with our Kayako/vBulletin integration which meant that some tickets were automatically closed by accident, and our broken mail piping stopped responses from getting through. It's all fixed now, though.

Regarding your accusation that I took people's money and deserted the project, the only thing I have ever sold is branding-free licenses, bundled with premium support. If I was running a "pro", paid-for version, things would be very different with regards to updates. But unfortunately, I'm a very busy person. There's no way I can get around that unless I start doing the Arcade full time. You call me lazy, but would you give up your job to make sure you can keep a free addon fresh?

I will keep on updating the Arcade, but I can only release updates when I have spare time. Hospitalization was the reason for the last delay - after which my spare time has been kind of limited, sorry about that.

Thanks for your reply.

Lots of people including me :).

i have just uninstalled this and about to install that as the games for this dont seem to work anymore importing them that is sadly

One forum is still running it (vb 3.5.4 patched) (as I want to be lazy and not worry about it breaking if I convert it and fixing it and such)) and my new forum on vb 3.6 is running IBPro due to the lack of activity here by John. Didn't see the point in installing a hack, that appeared not to be supported by its author. He showed up as active on vb.org but hadn't posted a response in a major hack/mod that he had done. I figured he was done with it, or just didn't care.

Sometime in the future I will be more than likely converting to IBPro Arcade, mainly because I know the support is there.

I know we all have lives with real jobs that pay the bills, but spending a quick 5 minutes to make a post every so often stating that you are still around, but loaded with work for work (that pays the bills) or such really isn't that hard to do. And us folks who use your hacks/mods free or paid, would be more on the bandwagon cheering you on, if we knew you were around or even active enough to post once a week. I was once supporting you, but I fell off that wagon. I guess only time will tell if the new version is coming or will be a contender with IBPro Arcade.

You can import many IBPro games into v3 arcade. That's what I've done for the most part. Though some will not score correctly. But a good 30-45% or so will import just fine.

Did it all go to plan, the conversion?

yeap :). No problems what so ever.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=119704

Thats the link :).

What about the existing V3Arcade files that are still there? Manually Remove them after the conversion?

I still use v3arcade and it's working perfect on my vB 3.6.0 board. No need to convert to crappy IBP which looks ugly as hell (especially the error messages). Used it before but was happy to convert it to v3arcade. :)

Just take your time to make a new version, John.

Much appreciated. :)

kinna harsh "crappy" this is the reason why HALF of the good coders dont wanna code anymore....you prefer one its your choice...but qualifying someone's work to "crappy" when you have no VALID reasons (ugly error message) and probably cant even code HALF of this work is really uncalled for....

Hi John,

I'd just like to add my support to all the other support you've been receiving on the thread. :)

I added vBArcade some months ago and love it. I actually use it to give away prizes for top scorers ;)

I've signed up on vbulletingames.com and am now waiting on my activation. Is this site run by you and is it the best place to get add on games as I only have the standard 5 games and I'd like to add more.

All the best,

Patrick :)

Hi Patrick,

Nope, vbulletingames.com isn't run by me - it seems to be a good service though, although I don't know if it's still active. A friend of mine registered on the site a few months ago and his account was never activated. As it stands it's the best place to get hold of games right now, let me know if you have any luck with it. :)

Robert (aka PixelFX) is helping me compile a collection of games to upload through the online game store, I've been working on adding them - although my health has been a bit shakey recently and I'm not sure when it'll be up and running. In the meantime. vbulletingames.com is probably your best bet.

Thanks for your support. :)

I run that site and it is still active. All of those that have verified their e-mail addresses are now active. I am configuring the forums now and will be migrating all existing games over from the old format.

John, your friend might not have validated their e-mail address. You can always get them to try again. And thanks for the kind words, there!

You have to remove them manually.

good site to get games is here:
http://www.gaming-heaven.com/forum/index.php?act=idx

i get all mine from there now..

is this mod compatable with 3.6.0, as it is listed under 3.6.0
i keep getting this error message:

Getting this when trying to use iB "Pro" Arcade - Mass Game Import:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /admincp/arcadeadmin.php on line 742

Any ideas?

That's common with most IBPro games, its a bit hit and miss with them.

ok i have an old database of games, and idea on how to export them?

they look like this I just need to know what fields im missing.

Compared:
http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/2...are2jt9.th.png

I'm not saying Zero Tolerance made a crappy hack. It's just that I didn't like the hack and it was not working really well and the support back then for IPB was really bad.

Cool but careful what you say cause it might cost OTHER ones who might like the hack...see my point?