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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[Darkwaltz4]

I am working on the screen size bug in ie9.

Have you already imported dozens/hundreds/? of mochi games already?

30 seconds is usually plenty for php, unless you have some sort of network issue with mochi responding to you, which I can only imagine if you have already downloaded many mochi games. Otherwise, extending that will require your host to make a php.ini edit.

[kenp]

I have downloaded about 150 so far. I just switched hosts today. I will check it out after the migration and hopefully it will be resolved by doing this. The host company that I was with are horrible. Thanks for the reply on the matter

[glen290]

Having an issue with Mochi games not saving scores locally, so even though the jackpot goes up per play, its not able to be won..

[Darkwaltz4]

Do you mean locally as in localhost? If so, mochi cant ping your scores back to localhost, since its not a global address. If you dont mean localhost, are you sure youve entered your mochi id and secret in your vbarcade settings? Have you set up your site's address with mochi? Is your site behind a password prompt?

[glen290]

No idea what you mean with localhost, but in know that the mochi id and secret are there, my site is set up with mochi from when I had the v3 arcade installed.
I have a game on my site that you have on dragonbyte-tech.com and it saves the scores on there, but not on mine.

[Reinier324]

The scores don't seem to update/send, Im using Mochi games.
(http://zakum.org/arcade.php)

[Darkwaltz4]

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 (as opposed to Play or Record)
• The game has been set to not accept local 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
• Your site is behind a server password prompt
• Mochi: you do not have your publisher id or secret filled in
• Mochi: you are running the arcade from localhost

ALMOST ALWAYS is it the first bullet, check that first, 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 sixth bullet should at least show some scores from somewhere being saved. Usually games can't post through your password prompt, and especially not if you are using mochi, which sends scores from their remote servers without your forum session.

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 with arcade access so I can look into it.

[Reinier324]

Originally Posted by Darkwaltz4

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 (as opposed to Play or Record)
• The game has been set to not accept local 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
• Your site is behind a server password prompt
• Mochi: you do not have your publisher id or secret filled in
• Mochi: you are running the arcade from localhost

ALMOST ALWAYS is it the first bullet, check that first, 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 sixth bullet should at least show some scores from somewhere being saved. Usually games can't post through your password prompt, and especially not if you are using mochi, which sends scores from their remote servers without your forum session.

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 with arcade access so I can look into it.

Send you a PM.

[Reinier324]

Okay, well are there any updates related to the Mochi games?

[Darkwaltz4]

I've been replying to you via PM..