[DOWNLOAD] Converter (from v3arcade to ibProArcade)
 

Anybody who has v3arcade running on his site and wants to migrate to ibProArcade... Here is the solution :cool:


This will automatically convert your installed games and, if you want to, even all the scores from v3arcade to ibProArcade.
The converter is designed to be used on a fresh ibProArcade-installation as you will lose all installed games and scores in your ibProArcade.


The Converter is compatible to:

• vBulletin 3.5.x / 3.6.x
• ibProArcade v2.5.9+ and later
• v3arcade 1.0.6 (for vBulletin 3.5.x)
  usage with <1.0.6 are untested yet, please let me know if/how this works

Just follow those steps to migrate:

1) don't touch your v3arcade-installation yet, just close the arcade
2) download ibProArcade and install it
3) upload the attached converter to your forum's root-directory and run it

That's all, the converter is interactive and will tell you what to do ect.


Don't forget to remove the converter.php after everything is done !


The converter will let you choose if you want to remove v3arcade after conversion or not.

After you successfully converted, feel free to click UNINSTALL for v3arcade


Note to the sceptics ;)
If you want to take a look on ibProArcade first while not losing your v3arcade, make sure you rename your /arcade.php to /v3arcade.php before you install ibProArcade. Then, after conversion is done, do not remove v3arcade at this time and test ibProArcade.
If you feel comfortable with it, remove v3arcade later via vBulletin's Product-Manager or (and that is what I point you to) run the converter again, it will provide a link for uninstallation on the first page and then guide you through the complete uninstallation (will even tell you which files and folders to remove, which the Product-uninstaller does not!). Remember to remove the renamed /v3arcade.php too ;)
If you dislike ibProArcade, please let me know the reason and uninstall ibProArcade via the Product-Manager, then rename your /v3arcade.php to /arcade.php and you can use your v3arcade again.



If you find any bugs, if you have any improvements, ideas ect. please let me know :)

Please do me a favour and post something here in this thread if you used the converter, just information if everything worked well and how you like your new Arcade ;)

Thx!

Sorry i havent posted earlier, but Vb.org was down:P

Everything went smoothly, IbproArcade is on the house:D

Ps

The only thing u must add imho in your directions, is that after u uninstall V3Arcade via the Converter, u must also uninstall any related addons u may installed. It may sounds like a common sense, but i didnt do it till my site went down (i had an error) and vb.org was also down and i was little freaked out:P But after i got my senses back, everything went smoothly:D

good point.

I have just tested this with 3.6.x beta 3.

It worked sucessfully without a flaw!

It also took about..30 seconds to convert.

I have some suggestions though:

• Make the converter look like the vbulletin forum upgrade pages
• Link to the ibpro arcade download page when it says the ibpro arcade is not found (So that people can download it).
• Add a page to tell people where the v3arcade files are so that they can remove them (ones in admincp, includes, images etc).

Thats about it :) Great stuff!

Also: This converter works with ibpro arcade 2.5.4+ (when moving data from v3arcade to 2.5.4+) as I did that on vbulletin 3.5.x (I forgot I had 2.5.4 not 2.5.6 :p)

That already is included, just start the converter and click "remove v3arcade" ...

It will tell you all steps that need to be done :)



I will set the Link to download ibProArcade, good idea !

;). Germany Won Btw!!

It look fine for me until I go to arcade page... I can see you the game score but not the images. Do I have to manualy move the image or this script will automatic take care me. thnks

Yes, if you are in step 3 of the converter it tells you how to move which files :)

Not much to do:
move all .swf-Files from /games to /arcade
move all .gif-Files from /images/arcade to /arcade/images

That's all :)

Yeah its not hard, just move the pictures and swf files and youll be happy once its all sorted :)

thnks for the quick the relply It work like a charme now

great stuff.

What vb version and arcade version where you using?

HOLY CRAP, THIS ARCADE ROX.
THIS CONVERTER IS SUPER NICE TOO (its pretty much a v3 arcade uninstaller as well)
i wish i knew about this arcade first since i installed v3arcade, but having this convert reallllly helped me out in the uninstall process for v3arcade and really a cinch to install this one.......and much nicer looking

Welcome to the real world ;)

I was lucky enough to be one of MrZero's test bunnies on this. As usual, excellent work.

Great :)

Today I made the change to Ibproarcade. Out with the old, in with the new.

I used the converter to bring over all the scores from V3 arcade, but there is one problem. It brought over every score ever set, even though I only want members highest scores to show. I have the ACP set to "only save users top score", and that seems to be working just fine now, but how do I go back and update the leaderboards to delete every score except the highest for each user? I have ran all of the updates in score tools, and none of them had an effect.

I dont have too many users so I could just go through and prune each users scores individually, but if there is an easier way to do this, please do tell.

Thanks!

@altdelete47:
Thanks for using ibProArcade :)
That is a thing I thought of to integrate in AdminCP for next v2.5.7+: prune all lower scores of a user per game if setting is changed to "save only users top score", or just provide a function in "Score Tools" for that.
By now there is no option to do that automatically, sorry.

thank you for such a fabulous mod, and the great converter - worked wonrderfully to do the conversion, and the removal of v3 - everything was very clear and easy to do! I was so thrillede to be able to include the old games and old high scores so easily.
wonderful job!
jilly

It worked, but the other Games that come with Ibpro .. like Pacman etc are missing, even though they were their before i did the Conversion.

Yes, because of unique GameIDs all Games are pruned before converting the existing Games, and I did not implement to re-add them after all games from v3arcade are converter to avoid double-games, as most of standard-games are the same in v3arcade.

Feel free to add them manually ;)

worked well but i deleted all my scores afterwardsand it still shows a member saying "got 109 times
the High Score of all time "

Any ideas on what went wrong?

you deleted the scores afterwards and thus the best results remain as being independent from pruning ect.

ibProArcade v2.5.7+ will come along with a feature to delete some/all best results, until then you have to wait or run the following queries:

UPDATE games_list SET bestscore=0
UPDATE games_list SET bestmid=0

Thank you. Worked a charm :D

Is it possible to run both the old Arcade and the new converted one simultaneously? For example one as a private and one as a public?

Not really, as the games submit their score to /arcade.php
Beside it would not really make sense as you would have two score-tables ect.

I was thinking because of some of the adult games I would want to keep them seperate. Np, I appreciate you response! I think I will give this a try!

-Jason

You can keep Games separate this way with ibProArcade:

put the adult games in a category ("adult" or something like that) and adapt the permissions that only one specific usergroup can access this category.

Then you can easily manage who can access those games and who not :)

main:
vBulletin 3.0.8
v3arcade 1.0.2

what should I do to upgrade?

the Converter only works for the new v3arcade done for vBulletin 3.5.x

so you could uninstall your v3arcade and start over with a fresh ibProArcade
this ibProArcade v2.5.6+ is compatible to vBulletin 3.x.x

thank you for your reply

I don't know how to uninstall it?
should I only remove the old files ?
what about the tables for the old version in my DB?

please what should I do to uninstall it?

thanking you

there never was real uninstall-function for v3arcade, sorry, even not for those who paid for "premium support" ;)

If you want I can manually do the uninstallation and install ibProArcade on your site, I just need full AdminCP+FTP Access and myphpadmin, send me all access-data via PM.

If you place a little donation via PayPal for that work I would be happy :)

One thing I noticed is it did not transfer over the categories from v3.. Is this something not implimented in the converter, or did I miss something?

this is not implemented, if I will do another version I will look for that, but my current focus is set on ibProArcade v2.5.7+ :)

click "installed" on ibProArcade itself ;)

I did as you said now v3 games work and yours do not.

why I ever stuck with v3arcade - i don't know. Your arcade is great! Thanks!

I must admit being fairly new to PHP & vB that I was scared to death to move from vb3arcade to IBproArcade.

This installed effortlessly and without flaw!

Awesome Job on this mod ... kudos!!!