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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[Black Snow]

When I try and set a price for a game, it doesn't work. It still shows as free. Anyone else had this issue or anyone know how to fix it?

[uofa]

I've installed it and it gives me this error :
"The administrator has disabled playing games for your usergroup." when trying to play any game.
PLZ help !

[uofa]

Originally Posted by uofa

I've installed it and it gives me this error :
"The administrator has disabled playing games for your usergroup." when trying to play any game.
PLZ help !

Can anyone please help ?

[Khent334]

Great mod! I have one issue so far.

Expanding an arcade game ruins the design of my forums. Is there a way to disable this option? Or is there a way to limit the dimensions of expansion?

I like the resize option-- I think that's enough for users to get by without the need for a full screen expansion.

[carntheroos4eva]

I seem to be getting an install error.
I did all the right things and I got this error message

Unable to upgrade or install vBArcade as http://www.aussiefootyforums.com/for..._installer.php does not appear to exist!

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by carntheroos4eva

I seem to be getting an install error.
I did all the right things and I got this error message

It appears as if you have uploaded the files incorrectly. Please drag and drop the contents of the upload folder (use Ctrl+A to select all files) to your public_html folder.

Chris

[Malpheus]

Warning: file_get_contents(No/matches) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/class_postbit.php(345) : eval()'d code on line 36

Persistent after installing the dbyte mods as a whole, even after uninstalling the arcade this will happen if I have my plugin's enabled. Help?

[jaffaman]

Installed and testing so far so good thanks for making this arcade

[Darkwaltz4]

Originally Posted by Slayerz

Dark can you make me a list of things causing a 404 on submit score issues.
So I can review them?

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

Originally Posted by uofa

Can anyone please help ?

Looks like you didnt fully overwrite the arcade.php file from ibproarcade with the one from vbarcade.

Originally Posted by Khent334

Great mod! I have one issue so far.

Expanding an arcade game ruins the design of my forums. Is there a way to disable this option? Or is there a way to limit the dimensions of expansion?

I like the resize option-- I think that's enough for users to get by without the need for a full screen expansion.

You can set a Maximum Game Width in the vbarcade settings, precisely for that.

Originally Posted by Malpheus

Warning: file_get_contents(No/matches) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/class_postbit.php(345) : eval()'d code on line 36

Persistent after installing the dbyte mods as a whole, even after uninstalling the arcade this will happen if I have my plugin's enabled. Help?

If it happens when vbarcade has been uninstalled, the error is not being caused by vbarcade.

[wildheart]

Originally Posted by Darkwaltz4

If you PM me an admin login with style and vbarcade permissions, i can try fixing it for you.

Thank you. Sorry for my absence we were just very busy at work, I will pm you.