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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• 1 Link to Product Description page of this modification

[Code Monkey]

Yeah I don't think it's a good idea to let mods write to .htaccess files.

[astdirect]

Installed on4.1.9 suite and over old ibproarcade.

No scores came across and after importing the games

games have all gone into UNCATEGORISED. I don't see any way to move games to new category.

Menu doesn't work at top of arcade : Leaderboard Tournament Create New Tournament Misc. Menu
Settings All just clicks to main arcade homepage

Postbit showing trophies mucks up forum - appears trophies are too wide for postbit

Those are what I noticed so far. Any help appreciated. Looks neater than IBPro

[astdirect]

found how to move games to new categories, remove from todo list

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Code Monkey

Yeah I don't think it's a good idea to let mods write to .htaccess files.

Then back up the file prior to performing the import and compare it afterwards

We have had 0 reports of broken .htaccess files as a result of having to perform this temporary change

Originally Posted by astdirect

No scores came across and after importing the games

We've not had any reports of this happening before, can you please walk me through what you did step by step?

Originally Posted by astdirect

Menu doesn't work at top of arcade : Leaderboard Tournament Create New Tournament Misc. Menu
Settings All just clicks to main arcade homepage

What does the URL show when you click the pages?

Originally Posted by astdirect

Postbit showing trophies mucks up forum - appears trophies are too wide for postbit

That seems like an issue with your skin, you may need to contact your skin dev and/or your graphics artist to create some new images for you


Fillip

[astdirect]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

We've not had any reports of this happening before, can you please walk me through what you did step by step?

What does the URL show when you click the pages?

That seems like an issue with your skin, you may need to contact your skin dev and/or your graphics artist to create some new images for you


Fillip

Hi Filip,

I done exactly what it said in the readme file I'm not too fussed about the scores not coming over and neither are the members- just makes them play again

When I click on one of the menus such as "create new tournament" it shows the URL as it should :

http://bonusbanter.com/arcade.php?&a...=createtourney

But the page actually just looks the same as the homepage for the arcade. Same thing happens for all top menu items and submenus.

RE: postbit - I have modified the postbit so the issue probably lies there thanks.

[DragonByte Tech]

I'll need FTP and AdminCP information to debug that issue further.

Fillip

[John Lester]

Wanted to update this as I had my site offline for unrelated reasons and ran into trouble

Uninstalled Lite v1.0.1 (or whatever) and uploaded v2.0.2 (Lite). Went to import the XML and received the following message in the ACP;

# Place this code into the top of http://www.braintalkcommunities.org/.htaccess so certain games can process scores, then try importing again:


RewriteOptions inherit
RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^braintalkcommunities\.org$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.braintalkcommunities\.org$
RewriteRule ^forums\/?(.*)$ "http\:\/\/www\.braintalkcommunities\.org\/archives\/06_11\/$1" [R=301,L]


# vB4 Error Pages by gezuvor
ErrorDocument 400 /400.php
ErrorDocument 401 /401.php
ErrorDocument 403 /403.php
ErrorDocument 404 /404.php
ErrorDocument 500 /500.php

# vB arcade
<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>

<Files 403.shtml>
order allow,deny
allow from all
</Files>

deny from 91.236.74.
deny from 211.157.104.
deny from 60.29.10.
deny from 188.143.233.
deny from 176.8.247.
deny from 46.119.

deny from 46.118.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://braintalkcommunities.org/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://braintalkcommunities.org$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.braintalkcommunities.org/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.braintalkcommunities.org$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://braintalkcommunities.org/archives/06_11/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://braintalkcommunities.org/archives/06_11$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.braintalkcommunities.org/archives/06_11/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.braintalkcommunities.org/archives/06_11$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|bmp)$ - [F,NC]

<IfModule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresByType image/gif A2592000
ExpiresByType image/jpeg A2592000
ExpiresByType image/png A2592000
ExpiresByType application/x-javascript A2592000
ExpiresByType text/css A2592000
ExpiresByType image/x-icon A2592000
</IfModule>

Umm that is my .htaccess file ... I don't see anything new to add to it

[DragonByte Tech]

Please temporarily CHMOD your .htaccess file to 0777, then try the import again. Once it's completed, change it back to 0644


Fillip

[John Lester]

Ty that did it

[John Lester]

Filip sir, why is it that only my super admin account can do anything with the arcade? I'd love to have my normal admin account be able to do ... well everything but at the very least add/move/remove games.