Addon: Custom Midi/Mp3 for each Arcade Page in Johns V3 Arcade Mod.

This is a simple template modification with will play a different Midi file on each page in John's V3arcade.

I made this because some flash games come without music on them and i know sometimes playing a game in this arcade with no background sound can be really annoying. So I made this so i can have a MIDI/MP3 playing in the background that sounds like it goes with the Flash Game.

People will always be able to turn it off incase they dont want to listen to the music.

So Here is the little modification:

Step 1:

First you want to look for the Midis or Mp3's you wish to play during certain games. Find the games you want to have Midi files to play and name them exactly the name of the Flash Game Name. If your game was "asteroids", name the file "asteroids" .mid or .mp3 or whatever.

Upload these files into a folder called media in your images/arcade folder in your forums directory.

Step 2: Easy Code Addition

In the arcade_play template find this line. There are 2 instances of it.

<td class="thead" colspan="2"><span class="smallfont">$thisGame[title]</span>

After that place this code:

<br><object 
  id="mediaPlayer" 
  classid="CLSID:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95" 
  codebase="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=5,1,52,701" 
  standby="Loading Microsoft Windows Media Player components..." 
  type="application/x-oleobject" 
  height=70> 
  <param name="fileName" value="$stylevar[imgdir_arcade]/media/$thisGame[title].mid"> 
  <param name="animationatStart" value="1"> 
  <param name="transparentatStart" value="1"> 
  <param name="autoStart" value="1"> 
  <param name="autoSize" value="0"> 
  <param name="showControls" value="1"> 
  <param name="loop" value="0"> 
  <param name="ShowDisplay" value="0"> 
  <param name="ShowStatusBar" value="1"> 
<embed type="application/x-mplayer2" 
       pluginspage="http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/Downloads/Contents/Products/MediaPlayer/" 
       filename="$stylevar[imgdir_arcade]/media/$thisGame[title].mid" 
       src="$stylevar[imgdir_arcade]/media/$thisGame[title].mid" 
       name=NSPlay 
       showcontrols=1 
       showdisplay=0 
       showstatusbar=1 
       height=70> 
</embed> 
</object>

The first instance covers the Challenge page and the second instance covers the normal page.

The above code is set for midi files. You can easily change it or customize it to mp3 or whatever file you wish to use as long as the PATHS remain in tact.


Have fun with it.

Adam Kauth

[BlackxRam]

Originally Posted by msimplay

how do i loop the music ?

Its already set to repeat forever

[msimplay]

Originally Posted by BlackxRam

Its already set to repeat forever

not for mozilla it isn't

[msimplay]

Originally Posted by Hialls

Very very cool! One modification i have made, allowing there to be an option in usercp "Play music while playing games" As some members complained about loading times. As i have been playing high quality songs

could u please post this as i also need it

[602 Streets]

Can I use this to replace the music on games that have music already, or only on games with no music? My site is a Hip Hop site and it would be nice if I could make all games have Hip Hop playing.

Thanks.

[JTMON]

Originally Posted by 602 Streets

Can I use this to replace the music on games that have music already, or only on games with no music? My site is a Hip Hop site and it would be nice if I could make all games have Hip Hop playing.

Thanks.

You should be able to pass the flash movie a command to stop all music then have it tell vbarcade to start the mp3.

Something like _root.stopAllSound or whatever the flash command is.