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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[Mukashi]

Getting a very odd error with this again on our test forum. After updating to 4.1.9, this message appears on the top of any CMS article. It vanishes when this addon is disabled.

Warning: array_key_exists() [function.array-key-exists]: The second argument should be either an array or an object in [path]/includes/class_postbit.php(345) : eval()'d code on line 4

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[Darkwaltz4]

Sorry on the delay... im getting jackpot/price integration working before im happy with the next update.

Originally Posted by glen290

Is there a time limit whenplaying games, installed a few games today and if your only on for a short time it saves ok, but if your on them for a long time it does not save, in the arcade box a small shot of my forum appears and thenjust goes back to normal and no saving of the scores..

Are you playing in IE? did you apply this? https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....4&postcount=64

Originally Posted by Mukashi

Getting a very odd error with this again on our test forum. After updating to 4.1.9, this message appears on the top of any CMS article. It vanishes when this addon is disabled.

Warning: array_key_exists() [function.array-key-exists]: The second argument should be either an array or an object in [path]/includes/class_postbit.php(345) : eval()'d code on line 4

Warning: array_key_exists() [function.array-key-exists]: The second argument should be either an array or an object in [path]/includes/class_postbit.php(345) : eval()'d code on line 4

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did you apply this? https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....5&postcount=23

[Mukashi]

Originally Posted by Darkwaltz4

did you apply this? https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....5&postcount=23

I hadn't. Wasn't experiencing those particular errors it was mentioned as a fix for. Just put it in....and it seems to fix the problem. *phew*

[Darkwaltz4]

Thanks again to our beta testers, the gold version has proven quite stable!
Nonetheless, the few bugs reported have all been fixed, and vBArcade v1.1.0 is now available!

Notable updates:
Improved legacy IE support
Benign import error fix
Postbit trophy fixes
Optional footer ad for lite
Improved guest phrase use
New code and template hooks
Nice screenshots

Also now available is a free optional vBArcade: Jackpots and Prices addon! This bridges any points hack you have installed to allow you to charge to play games in your vBArcade, and build jackpots that are awarded to the champions!
Includes in-depth integration with vBCredits II Deluxe, but is not required.
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=275532.

Thanks to some of the IE fixes, I am much closer to vB3.x support - it works perfectly, just needs some vB3 compatible styling. Look for that in the next update!

[kenp]

I am trying to download games from Moshi but half the time that I do I get a time out error like this. (Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded) I just don't see on what page I can extend the limit? Any help would be appriciated. Thanks

[ellinofatsa]

please any help scores dont safe after instal [DBTech] vBArcade (vB4).

[Darkwaltz4]

Originally Posted by kenp

I am trying to download games from Moshi but half the time that I do I get a time out error like this. (Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded) I just don't see on what page I can extend the limit? Any help would be appriciated. Thanks

Have you already imported many pages of mochi games? Has the import gotten slower the more you import? Or is this the first time you are importing from mochi and you are getting this error?

Originally Posted by ellinofatsa

please any help scores dont safe after instal [DBTech] vBArcade (vB4).

Here are the current reasons why scores might not be submitting on your site:

• The permissions for you and that game have not been set to Score
• The game has been set to not accept scoring
• The game has been set to the wrong scoring system
• Your game session has not submitted the score
• Your .htaccess file has not been altered correctly (usually indicated by errors during product import)
• Your arcade is set to archive your non-best scores, and that was not your best score

The first bullet is most likely, the next two are USUALLY set automatically, MOST games will have a well-informed score submission time (though I've seen games that send without telling you, and some that don't actually send despite claiming it), the fifth bullet will usually throw installer errors/messages, and the last bullet should at least show some scores from somewhere being saved.

Do only specific games, or specific scoring systems, or all games not save scoring for yourself, specific usergroups, or everyone?

If you have checked all of those and think its all correct, please PM me an admin login and FTP so I can look into it.

[gamerscms]

Im not sure why it does not work when using the advert crazy arcade games.

I have moved onto V3arcade which works fine and support seems fine to me.

Not really sure what you ment about good luck finding support elsewhere, i have a working arcade system and does not require the author to make edits to my files.

and wish you luck with support if you decide to try elsewhere.

I would say that is a perfect addon :P

I think you need to tone down your silly comments like that and you may see yourself winning MOTM but not this time around .

I wish you the best of luck with YOUR arcade system

[Darkwaltz4]

Thanks for trying it at least, as well as getting back to me, and sorry I could not guess my way to the solution to what the problem was for you :/ the description is simply not enough if I nor others can reproduce it.

As explained before, I meant good luck getting support in general if you are unwilling to allow anyone personal access to your site, not that I was the only person willing to provide support. I apologize if you thought that.

[kenp]

I have imported a few games but I have been getting the error from the beginning. I would say about 50-75% of the time. Also I apologize about stating the bug for ie for the reduction of screen size when attemping to play and not getting back to you sooner. I hadn't seen that you replied.