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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[Alan_SP]

For some reason, when I try to install vBArcade, I couldn't pass htaccess part of installation.

I uploaded all files, made three directories chmod 777 (needed to create temp one), and then I try to import xml.

I tried to upload files multiple time (just in case some file was missing), tried to change .htaccess line ending encoding (windows, linux) in case it couldn't be read properly (server is unix, this could be problem in some cases).

I'm trying to install it on my test server that has protection from access, I removed it temporarily to test if it causes problem with installation.

Nothing helps, installation asks that I add this code into htaccess and that's it:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on

# Set to vbulletin directory
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 legacy scores to arcade instead
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} newscore\.php [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} viewgame\.php
RewriteRule .* arcade.php?sendscore=legacy [L,QSA]

# Send hardcoded legacy scores to arcade instead
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} func=storeScore [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} autocom=arcade [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} act=arcadelib [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>

EDIT: I also downloaded lite version from DBTech site, I see there's minor byte difference, didn't checked code to know what's different, but the result is the same.

EDIT2: I had a time and wanted to know if I can do something more. Anyway, thanks ozzy47 for suggestion, I went to your site and downloaded older version v1.3.0 from there.

Installation went smoothly as it can go. No problems with htaccess.

Ok, I thought it may solve problem with v2.0.2, reuploaded appropriate files, tried to import product, same error. So, problem is, at least on my setup in version 2.0.2.

I decided to test it further. I downloaded v2.0.1, reuploaded files, tried to import product, error. v2.0.1 doesn't work, at least for me.

And, finally, I downloaded v2.0.0, done what needs to be done, product was imported without any problems.

Now I'm on v2.0.0, it's on my test site, but I certainly have problems with versions v2.0.1 and v2.0.2. On the other hand, v1.3.0 and version v.2.0.0 works as it should. Maybe this info help you pinpoint where the error is.

[wampforum]

this is working great for me and the import is so easy to use, excellent work mate.

Can I ask something though. i am trying to find where the game data is written to?
I have some users playing a game that builds up a cash amount (toss the turtle) but they by mistake reset it so I wanted to give them a lump sum to restart but cant find anywhere in the database that holds this. I looked in the dbarcade prefix tables but can only see scores in there.

Is there somewhere else game data is written to?

[seventhaxis]

Using vB 4.1.10 and arcade v2.0.2 but I'm running into an issue at the moment where, when I click 'Begin Game Name' on the game's page, it loads my website within the .swf's frame and then reverts to the 'Begin Game Name' button. It also highlights your latest score at the bottom as if you just submitted it.

Anyone heard of this or know of a fix?

[Mukashi]

I'm getting the same error as Alan_SP reports above, on vBulletin 4.2.2. We had vbArcade already installed, and got the error when trying to update the mod to the current version.

[coolhula]

Originally Posted by Mukashi

I'm getting the same error as Alan_SP reports above, on vBulletin 4.2.2. We had vbArcade already installed, and got the error when trying to update the mod to the current version.

I am also getting this ^^

[DragonByte Tech]

You can temporarily CHMOD your .htaccess file to 777, import, then change the permissions back to their previous value.

Fillip

[seventhaxis]

What database entry would I need to edit/delete in order to change the total time played for a user?

[kylek]

I see when you start a Moichi game in your arcade you get a notice that says Moichi Media is closing on March 31 and that the game has to be removed unless you have permission from the game developer. Probably doesn't matter if you do not have permission, the scores will not be recorded.

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[Digital Jedi]

I'm not familiar with Mochi, but here's their rundown on what's happening with their service, if it helps anyone: http://mochiland.com/articles/mochi-...e-of-3-31-2014

[Alan_SP]

I hope DBTech will support any (or all) new sites like Mochi.