Add-On Releases - v3 Arcade - Professional vBulletin Gaming (vB4)

v3 Arcade is now a member of the vBadvanced family!

http://www.vbadvanced.com/forum/showthread.php?t=47571

The support forums & data from v3Arcade.com have been merged into the vBadvanced.com site.



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v3 Arcade for vBulletin 4.x.x
For vBulletin 3.x.x, please see here.
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Please note... until v3Arcade.com is upgraded to vBulletin 4, some demo sites can be found here. Also, because of styling changes introduced in vB 4.0.8 to allow customized user profile pages, this version requires 4.0.8+ to be installed.

"v3 Arcade" is the premiere arcade system written specifically for vBulletin. It's coded from scratch - not a port of an older version - and because it was coded specifically for vBulletin it uses the product system for code modifications & utilizes AJAX technology throughout. Here's a brief rundown of the features in this version of v3 Arcade.

Supports MochiAds, v3 Arcade and IBPArcade games!

• Download THOUSANDS of *legal* free and premium games directly from Mochi Media to your v3 Arcade installation. Earn money from people playing games on your site! With just a few mouse clicks you download games directly from within your ACP or from the Mochi Media web site. You have to check it out it to see just how easy it is.
• Tournaments! Challenge your friends to see who the champ is!
• Integrated arcade statistics on your user's profile pages!
• AJAX based instant ratings, for simple to use game ratings.
• AJAX based inline score moderation.
• AJAX based instant game searching.
• Tabbed, customizable categories.
• Challenge system for one-on-one contests.
• User-permission based settings for email/PM notification, challenge settings.
• Streamlined viewing modes for users with lower resolutions.
• AJAX based quick stats, for viewing statistics by passing the cursor over a username.Mass import tools for importing games in bulk.
• Reverse and decimal based scoring.
• Arcade-only closure with customizable message.
• Per game criteria, allows you to control access to games by reputation, posts, registration length.
• Postbit based awards.
• Personalized recommendations for other games users might like, based on what they?re playing.
• Quick stats, letting a user know how many other scores are above and below theirs.
• Score ranking.
• Admin customizable ?score feedback?, displays a message based on how well as user has done.
• Numerous Admin CP settings to control things like popup opacity, maximum comment length, hover delay length, and numerous other behaviors.
• Full admin control over the types of content allowed in comments (BB code, HTML, smilies, etc.)
• Usergroup based access permissions.
• Fully phrased, for each translation into other languages.
• An ever growing collection of third party add-ons
• A slick, professional layout.
• Edit-free template updates!
• User ability to specify viewing resolution while playing games.

v3 Arcade for vBulletin 4 also has some feature differences versus v3 Arcade for vBulletin 3. Currently that list includes....

• The separate Arcade navbar has been replaced with the options being moved up to the standard vB navbar. Be sure to turn on the navbar link! (ACP => v3 Arcade => v3 Arcade Settings => v3 Arcade General Settings => Navbar Link Position)
• When viewing a game categories other than the 'All' category, the category name will now be included in the navbar breadcrumbs.
• Added a new template "v3arcade_postbit_userid_trophy_wrapper" to allow adding some HTML around the arcade award images in the postbit.
• The category tabs shown on the main page will use the vB styling instead of their own defined styles. As we go forward the vB4 version of v3A will lose more & more of it's custom styling and instead use more of the new vB4 styling features elements.
• New option to display a "New" game category tab that will display all games in newest to oldest order. In addition to the new tab a "New Games" link will also be shown in the vB "What's New" navbar link. (ACP => v3 Arcade => v3 Arcade Settings => v3 Arcade Homepage Settings => Display "New" Category Tab)

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Branding Free
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All v3 Arcade installations carry and require a small "v3 Arcade" logo in the footer, as well as the text "Powered by v3 Arcade" which links to http:www.v3arcade.com. For information on legally removing the branding, please visit www.v3arcade.com.


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www.v3arcade.com
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If you're looking for more games, add-ons, support, tutorials, or anything Arcade related - www.v3arcade.com is the place to go.


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Copyright
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All code & images distributed in this zip is Copyright ?2010 CinVin, with the following exceptions:

• class_tar.php - Credits within.
• All games & associated images, unless otherwise noted.

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Many thanks to...
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• All branding-free customers and donors, for supporting the project!
• John, the original founder behind the v3 Arcade platform.
• Tigga, the v3 Arcade lead developer (as well as all of the vBadvanced products! )
• Everybody who has provided feedback & suggestions to help us make v3 Arcade to be the best arcade platform.

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Change Log
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For the complete change log, please click here. The change log is getting too big to include inline with this thread.

[KW802]

Originally Posted by OldSchoolDSL

If I upload a .tar file or .zip file... And tell it to mass import, all I have ever gotten is

Importing Games
There are no more games to import.

You'll want to upload the IPB .tar files. If you check the link Gemma gave, there are pointers in there to help resolve any issues you may be having.

Originally Posted by OldSchoolDSL

... Brings up a nice list, but you can not search by title ... ie... type in a name and get the exact game you want.

Check my response above. If you need to do a search for a specific Mochi games, your best best is to search MochiMedia.com directly and then install from there. If you have your Mochi account configured correctly (see item #6 of the v3A Mochi FAQ) then all you would need to do to install games from the Mochi site is listed in item #7 of the FAQ.

[OldSchoolDSL]

Originally Posted by KW802

You'll want to upload the IPB .tar files. If you check the link Gemma gave, there are pointers in there to help resolve any issues you may be having.
Check my response above. If you need to do a search for a specific Mochi games, your best best is to search MochiMedia.com directly and then install from there. If you have your Mochi account configured correctly (see item #6 of the v3A Mochi FAQ) then all you would need to do to install games from the Mochi site is listed in item #7 of the FAQ.

Click the link, nothing in there seems to apply to me. I do not get any error messages. Only that the system tells me there is nothing to import.

[Gemma]

Originally Posted by OldSchoolDSL

Click the link, nothing in there seems to apply to me. I do not get any error messages. Only that the system tells me there is nothing to import.

Make sure the transfer type is set to auto or binary when uploading, if it is set at ASCII the files won't be found

[OldSchoolDSL]

Originally Posted by Gemma

Make sure the transfer type is set to auto or binary when uploading, if it is set at ASCII the files won't be found

Was originally setup for Auto. Changed to Binary, just to be sure. Same results.

Attached is a simple v3Arcade games I've tried to import. No luck.

(Would upload the IB game also for an example, but can not upload tar files here)

[KW802]

Originally Posted by OldSchoolDSL

Was originally setup for Auto. Changed to Binary, just to be sure. Same results.

Attached is a simple v3Arcade games I've tried to import. No luck.

(Would upload the IB game also for an example, but can not upload tar files here)

{After looking at the zip file}.... the problem you're running into there is that it is a rather old file and the database names & installation methods have changed the last few years for v3A formatted games.

For that particular games, unzip the file to a folder, then modify the PHP file to replace the entire contents of the file to be this instead:

<?php

// ######################## SET PHP ENVIRONMENT ###########################
error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);

// ##################### DEFINE IMPORTANT CONSTANTS #######################
define('CVS_REVISION', '$RCSfile: airfox.game.php,v $ - $Revision: 1.35 $');
define('NO_REGISTER_GLOBALS', 1);

// #################### PRE-CACHE TEMPLATES AND DATA ######################
$phrasegroups = array();
$specialtemplates = array();

require_once('./global.php');

print_cp_header("v3 Arcade - AirFox");

// welcome step
if (!isset($_POST['do']))
{
 $gameexists = $DB_site->query("SELECT * FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "v3arcade_games WHERE shortname='airfox'");
 if ($DB_site->num_rows($gameexists)==0) {
  print_form_header('airfox.game', 'stepone');
  print_table_header("v3 Arcade - AirFox");
  print_description_row("This script will install AirFox for your v3 Arcade.<p>
  Make sure you upload the following files:<br>
  airfox1.gif -> /images/arcade/airfox1.gif<br>
  airfox2.gif -> /images/arcade/airfox2.gif<br>
  airfox.swf -> /games/airfox.swf<p>
  Click on \"Install AirFox\" to begin the installation.");
  print_submit_row("Install AirFox", 0);
 } else {
  print_form_header('airfox.game', 'stepone');
  print_table_header("v3 Arcade - AirFox");
  print_description_row("AirFox is already installed!");
 }
}

// #############################################################################
// step 1
if ($_POST['do'] == "stepone")
{
 $DB_site->query("INSERT INTO " . TABLE_PREFIX . "v3arcade_games (shortname, gameid, title, descr, file, width, height, miniimage, stdimage, gamesettings, highscorerid, highscore) VALUES ('airfox', NULL, 'AirFox', 'Blast your way thru enemy ships in this space shooter.', 'airfox.swf', 300, 320, 'airfox2.gif', 'airfox1.gif', 29, NULL, NULL)");
 $DB_site->query("
  INSERT INTO " . TABLE_PREFIX . "gamenews (newstext,newstype,datestamp) VALUES ('New game installed, <b>AirFox</b>','newgame'," . TIMENOW . ")
 "); 
 print_form_header('airfox.game', '');
 print_table_header("v3 Arcade - AirFox");
 print_description_row("Installation Complete! (PLEASE DELETE THIS FILE.)");
}

?>

The only change being that the table name is now "v3arcade_games" instead of just "games" (the table name changes were done as of v3A 2.0.0).

After that, upload the two .gif files to your /images/arcade folder and the .swf file to your /games folder. Upload the .php file to your /admincp folder and run the PHP file (eg:http://www.mysite.com/forums/admincp/airfox.game.php) and that will install the games settings for you into the tables. After that delete the airfox.game.php file from your server (but leave the rest).

[OldSchoolDSL]

Wow. To much work for all the games I have.

Wonders if my IB games are out dated as well.

Attached one for review (please).

It's a zip, then inside that is the original .tar

[KW802]

Originally Posted by OldSchoolDSL

Wow. To much work for all the games I have.

Depends on how old they really are. The v3A formatted games should've switched over to a PHP format some time ago where instead of having a stand-alone installer the PHP is instead just the variables need to be picked up by the installer in the ACP. Those games should install fine. It is just the really old files, like the first one you posted, where they still have their own stand-alone installer script.

Originally Posted by OldSchoolDSL

Wonders if my IB games are out dated as well.

Attached one for review (please).

It's a zip, then inside that is the original .tar

For that one, it looks like it should work fine if you upload just the .tar file to your server and then go by the normal IPB install directions. I'll try to take a look tonight at my test server with installing that one.

[OldSchoolDSL]

Someone just sent me a link to a place to get IB games and they imported (Thank you).

Only issue now is when the game ended... Rather then submit the score... I got this...

Your submission could not be processed because a security token was missing.

If this occurred unexpectedly, please inform the administrator and describe the action you performed before you received this error.

[KW802]

Originally Posted by OldSchoolDSL

Someone just sent me a link to a place to get IB games and they imported (Thank you).

Only issue now is when the game ended... Rather then submit the score... I got this...

Your submission could not be processed because a security token was missing.

If this occurred unexpectedly, please inform the administrator and describe the action you performed before you received this error.

Try this for IPB games & the vB4 Suite....

http://www.v3arcade.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3215


And before Gemma says it, that is covered in her problem solving thread also.

[RichieBoy67]

Could you please either post the link or send it to me for the games?

In regards to the security token, I have not encountered that issue before. Are those games protected maybe??

Thanks,
Rich