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]

You haven't uploaded flash.php to that directory.

http://ensim.ionhosting.com/~admin71/forum/flash.php

doesn't work. So of course your URL doesn't work.

[Julio]

Erwin:

Just to let you know.... I just deleted everything from my .htaccess file, and just left the Re-write files and the Permanent Redirect...

Now the games work!

Strange... I had nothing to cause that, but since I had to edit it for other reason, I decided to delete some lines...and it worked.

(Just wondering...did you received my PM?)

[theoneandonly]

hey i have another question now, i got the link, finally, on the forumhome and when people click play tetris, tetris wont load. is there anything else i have to do besides upload flash.php and add the 2 templates and upload tetris.swf.. is there anything else i need to do besides that? again i added the link to the forumhome but the game wont load.

[Erwin]

Post the URL to your site, and let me take a look.

[theoneandonly]

<a href="http://ensim.ionhosting.com/~admin71/forum" target="_blank">http://ensim.ionhosting.com/~admin71/forum</a> there

[Erwin]

Try this:

http://ensim.ionhosting.com/~admin71...hp?play=tetris

Remember, if the filename is with a capital letter, the URL must reflect that:

http://ensim.ionhosting.com/~admin71...hp?play=Tetris

Try both and see. Should work. Make your the tetris.swf file is in the same directory as the flash.php file.

[theoneandonly]

thats not my problem man, im saying the link works, its just tetris wont load... the flash box comes up and it shows the loading thing on there and a blank screen where the tetris game should be.. tetris the game itself wont load.

edit: and tetris.swf is in the same directory as forum

[Erwin]

The tetris game loads up for me no problems on your server. The file IS there.

Give me a test account to log onto on your forums - just a normal member one - I can't test it as the flash player only works for members.

[theoneandonly]

ok i set up the account username: test account password: testy

[Erwin]

You're right, the file is there, but it's not showing up. The path is wrong somewhere.

Okay, make sure you are using the "flash" template as it is without any change from the ZIP file.

If that's so, go into your Admin CP, vBulletin Options, and make sure the forum directory is set to:

http://ensim.ionhosting.com/~admin71/forum

It should work then.

Worse comes to worse, go into your "flash" template, and replace $bburl with

http://ensim.ionhosting.com/~admin71/forum

- do this in BOTH places in the "flash" template. It will work.