Major Additions - [DBTech] vBArcade v2 (vB4)

vBArcade is a professional modular flash arcade game system. Easily converts your old favorites, and finds thousands more with the click of a button.

This new modern arcade uses AJAX to enhance the playing experience and encourage users to compete both locally and globally among participating sites. Fine-tuned access and scoring tools allow you to keep competition fresh and exciting, as well as social network tools to bring new users in to your site!

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Major Features:

Access and Score Tools: Set exactly when users can play certain games, and for how often. Archive extra or old scores to allow room for new champions.

Social and Global: Not only can games be sent to all the major social networks, but participating sites can rank their scores together and display champions everywhere.

Beautiful Modern Design: Streamlined and professional, using AJAX to enhance and simplify the playing experience, like searching, replays, full screen and cinema mode, and category tabs.

Fast Paced Competition: Ultimate tournament system that rewards fast players while mitigating no-shows, allowing all your matches to finish strong, and everyone has fun.

Notable Features (Lite)

• Modern streamlined appearance with AJAX for replay and searching
• Tweet, Like, Pin, or +1 a game, and post your score to your Facebook wall
• Forum block for latest scores/champions or any number sorted games
• Easy game resizing and full screen
• Featured and Suggested games while playing
• Ajax ratings, and commenting
• Set descriptions, instructions, controls, keywords
  • even authors and copyrights
• Assign games to multiple categories
  • with icons descriptions
• Use time played as backup score when other scoring is unsupported
• Retrieve scores from global network of participating sites
  • See global champions with links
• Automatically archive old or duplicate scores
  • Get alerts when your scores are beaten
• Show off your trophy collection in your postbit
• Maintain arcade statistics overall, per user, and per game
  • latest and champion scores
  • most winners and longest players
  • average scores, plays and playtime
  • yourself and locally
  • local rankings

• Tournaments
  • Overall
    • Any local scoring game, with unique titles and descriptions
    • Shown as a detailed horizontal tree, while playing the game
    • Auto-prune tournaments that don't reach minimum players
    • Convert related settings from other arcades
    • Dedicated tournaments page with stats and personal standings
    • Game specific tournaments shown on tab, while playing game
    • Latest tournament shown on arcade portal
    • Invite/Reminder Email/PM alerts, with notifications
  • Matches
    • Each tournament sets number of play attempts per match
    • Active match highlighted, with clear status messages
    • Playing all attempts optional, can be manually forfeit/completed
    • Enforced time limit per match, or automatically forfeit/completed
    • Notifications throughout, or optional reminder Email/PM alert
    • Remaining attempts shown with live countdown for time limit
    • Select between best, latest, or average attempt as match score
    • Optionally hide scores until match is completed
    • Match ties broken by first player who reached that score
  • (Pro/Lite*) Knockout
    • Familiar multi-round format
    • Players pair up, winner of each match advances
    • Winner of the final round declared champion
    • Currently available up to 6 rounds (64 players)
    • Begins immediately on finally required player joining
    • Players who win their match can play next match prior to pairing
    • Friendly Challenges
      
      • Automatic 1 round tournament of 2 players, with preset config
      • Initiated from simple username prompt, while playing a game
      • Can disable certain games from eligibility
      • Auto-pruned if either player declines invitation

* Lite version limited to friendly challenge tournaments

Additional Features (Pro)

• Submit your scores to the global network for global display
• Show off the legacy champion even if you archived all scores
• Automatically create a new thread/post on highscore
• Cinema mode darkens the screen while you play
• Mark games on your personal favorites list
• Retrieve and display global stats to compare
• Get all of your scores ranked globally, with function to sync local scores
• Set passwords to your categories

• Tournaments
  • Overall
    • Live countdowns shown for tournaments set in the future
    • Invite specific users and/or allow specific usergroups to join
    • Optionally auto-confirm all invited players to begin immediately
    • Create recurring tournaments and optionally rematch players
    • Optional privacy hides tournaments from nonparticipants
    • Track all matches, with results and standings, from admincp
    • Easily search, sort, begin, clone, mass delete from admincp
    • Optionally disallow practicing a game a player is competing in
  • Matches
    • Replays automatically switch to the relevant match with AJAX
    • Random player chosen to advance in a double forfeit
    • Fast players can advance to future rounds and pair up early
    • Optionally count tournament scores towards regular leaderboards
  • Group
    • vBArcade exclusive round-robin format
    • Every player matches every other player once
    • Player with the best win record at the end declared champion
    • Supports any number of players, including odd
    • Begins at end of tournament countdown, if minimum is met
    • Players paired sequentially, then randomly with unplayed players
    • Players can move to new opponent even if match not decided

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This mod displays a copyright notification in the footer of pages generated by this mod which includes:

• 1 Link to DragonByte Technologies homepage
• 1 Link to Product Description page of this modification

[Emeralda]

I keep getting this error after uploading a game: http://prntscr.com/62kga

And that's when there was only one game. With second one, there was twice more errors, third game, triple that.

In other news: http://prntscr.com/62lfe the two links there led me to http://prntscr.com/62lg2

http://prntscr.com/62lzf <- I can't find an option to disable the trophies in postbit

[ellinofatsa]

Originally Posted by Emeralda

I keep getting this error after uploading a game: http://prntscr.com/62kga

And that's when there was only one game. With second one, there was twice more errors, third game, triple that.

In other news: http://prntscr.com/62lfe the two links there led me to http://prntscr.com/62lg2

hi there is your score safe after play?

[Emeralda]

Depends. For games downloaded from Mochi, scores don't save. Games in IBpro format (installed locally) it works ok so far: http://prntscr.com/62mn8

What's the link to v3arcade live install? http://prntscr.com/62mc0

[ellinofatsa]

can you help my how do you do that?my scores dont safe i only work ibpro format games

[ellinofatsa]

if you can post image from Current Permissions whats your setings there?

[Emeralda]

Suddenly this started happening: http://prntscr.com/63of0

I just noticed that the button Begin Playing leads to SiteName.com/#, does this have anything to do with it?

[Cerbero1000]

Hi, I'm interested in this mod but I would like to say 2 info:

- Is there a profile tab with user score?
- Are there usergroup permissions like max daily play?

Thanks

[Darkwaltz4]

Thanks for waiting everyone! My wife recently gave birth to our second son

Originally Posted by Munch98

I'm having issues with the scoring too.

I've noticed that under the score section it's putting playtime.. Any ideas why?

http://ww2.urbangamers.org/forum/arcade.php

Games that do not support local scoring will fall back on using the time played as the score. Not ideal, but better than nothing.

Originally Posted by sinistergaming

Fatal error: Call to undefined function is_facebookenabled() in .../sinisterservers.com/arcade.php on line 400

What version of vBulletin did you install this on?

Originally Posted by ellinofatsa

i have do that all bud score dont save i see here i am not the only one with that problem

Thanks for sending me your htaccess in a PM! Again, apologies on the delay - I would like to work more with you on fixing your problem.

Also @emeralda - thanks for summarizing your issues on dbtech; I will continue with you there.

Originally Posted by GhostHunter2010

DragonByte Tech i like most of ur mods but there is a small problem wich im sure most of users dont like it to much lol and that problem is the copyrights they are to big an they show every page will be great if u can reduce them make it smaller and show it only in 1 page like most other mods.. this is my opinion anyways.. and for that reason i havnt install none of ur mods

DBTech recently released a (I believe) free mod which compiles all of your dbtech copyrights into one copyright line, for the great fans we have out there You can find it on our site.

Originally Posted by Cerbero1000

Hi, I'm interested in this mod but I would like to say 2 info:

- Is there a profile tab with user score?
- Are there usergroup permissions like max daily play?

Thanks

There is a arcade user page which holds all of their stats and latest scores. I put it there because theres too much to stick on a profile tab.

Max daily plays are a pro feature.

[Darkwaltz4]

Important template patch for mochi scoring: http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/f111/...849/#post37849

This will be in the next version coming soon, just wanted to make this available asap.

[whitey92lx]

When I try to import the .xml file I am getting this message.

# Merge everything after this line into your forum root's .htaccess file so certain games can process scores, then try importing again:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on

# If vbulletin is in a subdirectory, add it here
RewriteBase /

# Retrieve gamedata requests and send to new dbtech locations
RewriteRule ^arcade/gamedata/(.*) dbtech/vbarcade/media/$1 [L]

# Retrieve crossdomain requests and send to new dbtech location
RewriteRule ^crossdomain\.xml dbtech/vbarcade/crossdomain.xml [L]

# Send hardcoded ipa scores to arcade instead
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} act=Arcade [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} autocom=arcade
RewriteRule ^index\.php arcade.php [L,QSA]

# Send hardcoded pnf scores to arcade instead
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} vbarcade_session
RewriteRule ^index\.php arcade.php [L,QSA]

# Reroute v3arcade liveinstaller
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} do=liveinstall
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} v3arcade_admin\.php

# If you renamed your admincp directory, change it here
RewriteRule .* %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/admincp/arcade_admin.php?%{QUERY_STRING}&do=review&import= browse&system=v3a [L,R=301]
</IfModule>

When I edit the htaccess.txt file accordingly, it still gives me the same message.

I am using vb 4.1.10.