vB Flash Player - Play Any Flash Game or Movie - Tetris, Pacman, Frogger, Minesweeper

vB Flash Player 1.3 - Play Any Flash Game or Movie in vB!
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NOTE: This used to be my vB Tetris 1.2 hack. It's been improved to play any Flash game or movie.

Purpose:
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Install this hack ONCE and you can play any SWF game or movie totally integrated inside your forum! The name of the game or movie will be automatically shown in the page title, forum nav bar, and table heading! Just upload the SWF file to your forums directory and then use this URL (changing it to suit your forum directory):

http://www.your-forum.com/forums/flash.php?play=filename
"filename" being the name of the SWF file (without the .SWF) - the name must be exact (including the capitals or small letters)

You can even set the width and height or background color of the Flash movie or game using the URL command line and parameters.

http://www.your-forums.com/forums/flash.php?play=filename&w=1024&h=768&b=000000

Good for those of you who run your site at HIGH resolutions. If you don't enter the width or height parameters, the Flash game or movie will automatically default to 600 x 400. If you don't enter the background color, it will default to your forum page background color. Only registered members will be able to play the game or movie - unregistered users will get the "no permission" log-in page.

Installation
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EASY! Takes 1 minute. All you need to do is create 2 templates, and upload 1 file, and you're done. (No db queries to run, no php file edits! )

1) Create 2 templates with the text files included - just copy the contents of the text files into the templates with the same name:
flash
error_flash
2) Upload flash.php into your forum directory. The hack is finished!

Then, to play any Flash SWF Game or Movie inside your forum:
1) Upload the SWF file to your forum directory.
2) Link to this URL (change it to suit your forums directory):
http://www.your-forum.com/forums/flash.php?play=filename
"filename" being the name of the SWF file (without the .SWF) - the name must be exact (including the capitals or small letters)

Parameters:
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play = name of SWF file (without the .swf extension - make sure the capitals and small letters are the same!)
w = width of Flash movie or game
h = height of Flash movie or game
b = background color of Flash movie or game (in hex WITHOUT the # - eg. 000000 for black or FFFFFF for white)

To use default width and height is 600 x 400, or default background color which is your forum background color -
http://www.your-forum.com/forums/flash.php?play=filename
"filename" being the name of the SWF file (without the .SWF) - the name must be exact (including the capitals or small letters)

To set your own width or height:
http://www.your-forums.com/forums/flash.php?play=filename&w=1024&h=768&b=000000

Tetris
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For example, with this hack I've included the Tetris SWF file that was included in my original tetris hack. This game is public domain. To let your members play good old-fashioned Tetris on your forums:

1) Upload tetris.swf to your forums directory (included in the zip file).
2) Link to this URL (change it to suit your forums directory):
http://www.your-forum.com/forums/flash.php?play=tetris
The Tetris Flash Game will play integrated into your forums. This works for any Flash game or Movie.

Flash Games Attachments:
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Snipers

Attachment: snipers.zip
A very cool FPS game.

Asteroids2000

Attachment: asteroids2000.zip
The classic Asteroids game now in 3-D.

Mars Massacre

Attachment: mars3d.zip
A 3-D with twin cannons to shoot spaceships.

Spaceship

Attachment: spaceship.zip
Spaceship shootemup with nice graphics.

Minesweeper

Attachment: minesweeper.zip
The classic windows game.

5Stones

Attachment: 5stones.zip
A classic Chinese board game.

Samurai Warrior

Attachment: samurai.zip
A fighting game that's quite high quality.

Flash Pacman

Attachment: flashman.zip
The classic!

Frogger

Attachment: frogger.zip
Another classic!

Galactic Warrior

Attachment: warrior.zip
A Space Invaders-like game.

Pong

Attachment: pong.zip
This is a very basic version.

Donkey Kong

Attachment: DonkeyKong.zip
The classic game!

Other Flash Games:
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Go here to download 27 other free Flash games that you can integrate into your site using this hack:

http://www.miniclip.com/experienced.htm

Just upload the SWF file into your forums directory, put the name into the URL and you and your members can play integrated Flash games in your forums! You can basically play ANY Flash game or even MOVIES! If you have any other cool Flash Games to share, or a link to a site with good Flash Games or Movies, just post in this thread!

Addons:
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1) Hellsatan's Game's Info and Listing
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=42693

2) Demonslayer's DCR format addon
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=42744

3) Lanigironu's flash gallery hack addon
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=42674

To receive updates if there are bug fixes or upgrades to this hack, please click the "Install" link at the bottom of this thread.

The vB Flash Player ZIP File:
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[Erwin]

Update to version 1.3 - the ability to set different background colors for different games

Using the &b= variable at the end of the command URL. If you don't include this, the background color will default to your forum page background color.

Current Parameters:
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play = name of SWF file (without the .swf extension - make sure the capitals and small letters are the same!)
w = width of Flash movie or game
h = height of Flash movie or game
b = background color of Flash movie or game (in hex WITHOUT the # - eg. 000000 for black or FFFFFF for white)

To use default width and height is 600 x 400, or default background color which is your forum background color -
http://www.your-forum.com/forums/flash.php?play=filename
"filename" being the name of the SWF file (without the .SWF) - the name must be exact (including the capitals or small letters)

To set your own width or height:
http://www.your-forums.com/forums/flash.php?play=filename&w=1024&h=768&b=000000

To upgrade to version 1.3 - download the ZIP file.
Replace the flash.php with the new one.
Replace the "flash" template with the new one.

[crossova]

Originally posted by Erwin


Unless I've specified in my post that the game is public domain (as in Tetris or Frogger) you CANNOT modify the games because they are copyright. You can play them and let your members play them, but not modify them.

well for tetris i want to put a intro image that will fade out as the game begins. it will replace the current one.

[Erwin]

There is a tetris.fla file in this thread - just browse through it.

[crossova]

yea the version of tetris i had didn have that file.

[crossova]

Any of the masta hackaz in here plan to create a score board for sniper, frogger, samurai games?

[Erwin]

Originally posted by crossova
Any of the masta hackaz in here plan to create a score board for sniper, frogger, samurai games?

You cannot modify the Snipers and Samurai games because they are not public domain - you can let your members play them, but do not modify them unless the game authors give you permission.

Frogger is public domain, and thus can be modified. John.eovie can probably do it. He's done it with a few other public domain arcade games already.

[BigJohnson]

What is the news on the tetris for the store?

[Erwin]

Originally posted by BigJohnson
What is the news on the tetris for the store?

Well, john.eovie has got it running on his site already. Please ask him in his tetris thread.

[kmfdm_kid2000]

This is my FAVORITE Hack here!! Having Games at a gaming forum has really rounded out the experiance, and my members absolutely love it!! Simple installation, with absolutely NO problems!! I wish there were more hacks like this, fun, functional, and easy...

[Lanigironu]

Maybe you should try my hack, it gives you a neat gallery with all the games you have on your site. Much simpler than making HTML links for each new game.