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

[wtfaatp]

No scores are being saved to the site? Did I maybe do something wrong?

[orGaz]

so, i wanted to install this mod, which didnt work with this msg:

# Place this code into the top of http://bla.blablabla.bla/.htaccess 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 /vBulletin4

# 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 pnf+ipa scores to arcade instead
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} func=storeScore [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} autocom=arcade [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} act=Arcade
RewriteRule .* 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>

so i added this to the .htaccess file (once i tried on root (with the dir added where is vb installed) and once in the dir where vb is installed), with the resultat, that nothing was accesible in the dir (and sub dirs). so something is wrong with that code, but i have no clue what (and the .htaccess file was empty, so nothing other inside)

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /index.php on this server.

[ice.Prince]

es werden keine Punkte ?bertragen bei einen v32 game

wie ist die l?ssung ?






There are no points transferred from one game v32

as is the l?ssung?

[Darkwaltz4]

Thanks guys for nominating vBArcade for MOTM! Now go vote for something

Originally Posted by wtfaatp

No scores are being saved to the site? Did I maybe do something wrong?

Originally Posted by ice.Prince

es werden keine Punkte ?bertragen bei einen v32 game

wie ist die l?ssung ?






There are no points transferred from one game v32

as is the l?ssung?

Please run though this quick scoring troubleshooting checklist and let me know if that does / does not help you: http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/f104/...-scoring-6487/

Originally Posted by orGaz

so, i wanted to install this mod, which didnt work with this msg:

so i added this to the .htaccess file (once i tried on root (with the dir added where is vb installed) and once in the dir where vb is installed), with the resultat, that nothing was accesible in the dir (and sub dirs). so something is wrong with that code, but i have no clue what (and the .htaccess file was empty, so nothing other inside)

If you had a blank .htaccess, it would probably be easiest to clear it out, make it writable (chmod 777) and import the product file again. It should then complete without issue.

[orGaz]

Originally Posted by Darkwaltz4

If you had a blank .htaccess, it would probably be easiest to clear it out, make it writable (chmod 777) and import the product file again. It should then complete without issue.

ok, that worked, atleast it installed, and then there was again:

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /admincp/index.php on this server.
Apache/1.3.36 Server at bla.blabla.bla Port 80

so i removed the .htaccess (needed to, bcs the site was nomore accesible, so there must be some failure somehwere;( ), seems to work. but every game i tried out has no scores submited ;((.

[Darkwaltz4]

Yes, the arcade needs the .htaccess file for scoring to work.
Nothing in there is related to access permissions though, just some rewrite rules.

Can you send your host the .htaccess file that vbarcade generated? They can verify if they disabled any of the directives listed within it for your site in particular.

[ice.Prince]

Hallo Darkwaltz4

Die VBarcade ist klasse
und wir wollen sie kaufen !

nur haben wir den fehler in der light version
das Keine 32v spiele laufen Hiscore
wird nicht ?bertragen

das haben wir gemacht ohne erfog



google Englich ! sorry


Hello Darkwaltz4

The class is VBarcade
and we want to buy them!

Only we have the error in the light version
Not the 32v run games hiscore
is not transmitted

what we did without Erfog













http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/f104/...-scoring-6487/

[wtfaatp]

Originally Posted by Darkwaltz4

Yes, the arcade needs the .htaccess file for scoring to work.
Nothing in there is related to access permissions though, just some rewrite rules.

Can you send your host the .htaccess file that vbarcade generated? They can verify if they disabled any of the directives listed within it for your site in particular.

<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 pnf+ipa scores to arcade instead
  RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} func=storeScore [OR]
  RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} autocom=arcade [OR]
  RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} act=Arcade
  RewriteRule .* 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>

Just to note..
VB is in the main directory of my site...
Currently still using /admincp & /modcp


To make sure the game posted scores I grabbed one that was on your site... Still nothing..

[ice.Prince]

geht nicht

Einige spiele haben diesen unterordner mit Gamedata
alle spiel die v32 format haben
?bernimmt er nicht die hiscore
mein Forum liegt im ../forum/dbtech

alle spiele werden mit 0 Punkte ?bertragen ?????

bitte wer kann helfen ?????






does not go

Some games have this subfolders with GameData
all play the v32 format have
does not he the hiscore
my forum is located in the .. / forum / includes

All games are transmitted with 0 points??

Please who can help me??

[orGaz]

Originally Posted by Darkwaltz4

Yes, the arcade needs the .htaccess file for scoring to work.
Nothing in there is related to access permissions though, just some rewrite rules.

Can you send your host the .htaccess file that vbarcade generated? They can verify if they disabled any of the directives listed within it for your site in particular.

thx for your help!

i contacted the hostsupport and they told my i should add:

Options +FollowSymlinks

before "RewriteEngine on" in the .htaccess file. now it works.