Major Additions - [DBTech] vBArcade v2 (vB5)

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. Streamlined import and editing managers put games from mochi, v3arcade, ibproarcade and more into your arcade with ease. 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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Documentation
https://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/docs/vbarcade

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Major Features:

Modular Game Handling: Currently supports games from pnflash, ibproarcade, v3arcade, mochi, (plus armor, kongregate, flashgamedistribution, spilgames in pro) and more can be added with a single file.

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.

Lite

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

"Most Trophies" Module

• Lists top 3 players and how many trophies they hold
• Displays avatar and link to member profile
• Displays username if avatars are turned off
• "Show Avatars" module configuration
• Respects user's choice to hide avatars if applicable

"Longest Players" Module

• Lists top 3 players and how long they've played
• Displays avatar and link to member profile
• Displays username if avatars are turned off
• "Show Avatars" module configuration
• "Maximum Players to Show" module configuration
• Respects user's choice to hide avatars if applicable

"You Might Like" Module

• Displays a semi-random game similar to existing one
• Fetches random game from the same category if one exists
• "Show Game Icon" module configuration

Global Scoring Integration

• Synchronises scoring with the Global Scoring system
• Displays Global Champion if enabled

Commenting

• Add / Edit comments for your scores on games
• AJAX-powered

Score Alerts

• Receive Email and/or PM notifications when your score is beaten
• Respects vBulletin's notification settings
• Contains link to the game for quick play

Score Tracking

• latest and champion scores
• most winners and longest players
• average scores, plays and playtime
• yourself and locally
• local rankings

General / Other

• Modern streamlined appearance with AJAX for replay and searching
• Tweet, Like, Pin, or +1 a game
• Easy game resizing
• Ajax ratings
• Set descriptions, instructions, controls, keywords - even authors and copyrights
• Assign games to multiple categories - with icons descriptions
• Manually or one-button mass install games from any source
• existing arcade installation (plus scores and settings): ibProArcade, v3 Arcade
• package upload or ftp directory: pnFlash, ibProArcade v3 Arcade, Mochi
• featured games feed: Mochi
• Obtain local scores from supported APIs: ibProArcade, v3 Arcade, pnFlash, Mochi
• Use time played as backup score when unsupported
• Retrieve scores from global network of participating sites
• See global champions with links
• Automatically archive old or duplicate scores

Additional Features (Pro)

Tournaments

• 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
• Invite/Reminder Email/PM alerts, with notifications
• 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

Tournament 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
• 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

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

Score Alerts

• Automatically create a new thread or post on highscore
• Uses vBulletin APIs to insert the content
• Works with vBulletin features like commenting

Category Passwords

• Set passwords to your categories
• AJAX input password before game list loads
• No reloads necessary

General / Other

• Submit your scores to the global network for global display
• Play games from Spil Games, FlashGameDistribution, Armor and Kongregate
• Get local scoring support from GamerSafe games
• Show off the legacy champion even if you archived all scores
• 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

Features Still Missing (Lite)

General / Other

• post your score to your Facebook wall
  FB integration with vB5 isn't 100% complete yet, this will be re-examined when that time comes.
• Show off your trophy collection in your postbit
  The vB5 postbit isn't designed to be as cluttered as the vB4 postbit can be, so this will be on the shelf for the time being.

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[Coder2016]

Can the Arcade support HTML5 or will it come? If so, when ?

Flash is out and there are almost no new flash games anymore out where you can adapt for the arcades. I am myself gamecoder where flash games adapts.

[jkotlowski]

Originally Posted by WildSharky

is anyone using this arcade that has these same problems?Ive tried everything so Im wondering if its my server or all having problems
thanks a lot I love the arcade just no scores

Just replying to say I've got the same problem with the weird URL in AdminCP and with the play button not working. Clicking play simply returns me to the home page. Quite frustrating, I can't figure out what the problem is.

[chriske]

Could not get the score system working. Had a working version on vb4. Imported the games to vb5 forum.

Error Message same as this post: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....7&postcount=84

Anyone have a clue?

[jkotlowski]

Originally Posted by chriske

Could not get the score system working. Had a working version on vb4. Imported the games to vb5 forum.

Error Message same as this post: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....7&postcount=84

Anyone have a clue?

Same issue, I got some other problems I was having worked out, but this one eludes me. It almost ruins the point of the mod, since members often like to compare their scores. I asked about the status of the mod on DBTech's website and the owner replied with this;

As far as I'm aware, 99% of Arcade game providers have shut down as a result of Flash being blocked by default in a lot of web browsers.

Furthermore, our vB5 mods have not been tested on the latest version of vB5 yet. If you are interested in running custom modifications on your site, I would strongly recommend avoiding vB5 at all costs, as you will not find many working modifications for that platform.

I'll re-test our mods with the latest version of vB5 as soon as I have time

Hopefully he finds some time soon to get some of the kinks worked out for us poor suckers who thought using VB5 was a good idea.

[shimei]

Originally Posted by jkotlowski

Hopefully he finds some time soon to get some of the kinks worked out for us poor suckers who thought using VB5 was a good idea.

If not, you might want to try http://vbmods.rocks/

Seems like the developer, Glenn, hasn't an issue with Vb5 and making things work according to customer request. Although there isn't enough of Glenn to go around at this point.

Enjoy,
William

[jkotlowski]

Originally Posted by shimei

If not, you might want to try http://vbmods.rocks/

Seems like the developer, Glenn, hasn't an issue with Vb5 and making things work according to customer request. Although there isn't enough of Glenn to go around at this point.

Enjoy,
William

Aye, I'm well aware of Glenn. I've actually purchased a few of his mods already.

I'm going to get him to work on a different project for me in a few weeks, though. So I don't want to bother him with this too. haha

[WildSharky]

why even bother to develop an arcade that the scores don't work?
vb5 was a total waste of money
nothing about it works right and the arcade doesn't work for sure

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by WildSharky

why even bother to develop an arcade that the scores don't work?

Unfortunately we don't control when 3rd party sites shut down, so their scoring systems won't work anymore

Originally Posted by WildSharky

nothing about it works right and the arcade doesn't work for sure

You need look no further than the amount of modifications released for vB5 to realise that it will never become as popular as vB3 or vB4, sorry to say


Fillip

[WildSharky]

Unfortunately we don't control when 3rd party sites shut down, so their scoring systems won't work anymore
it scores good using vb4 so its not from a site shut down that its not scoring

[Coder2016]

Hi

Will the Arcade support HTML5 games?

If no, will it come and if so when?

Only HTML5 games come out again. Almost no new flash games.