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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[Scans007]

Anyone know why some games scores would be submitted and others wouldn't. So like archery submits a score fine, but then like bonnyballs just always reports a 0 no matter what the score is.

The permissions for you and that game have not been set to Score (as opposed to Play or Record)
- How do you set it to score - I've looked everywhere (I've found this - and I have all and any games open to all users - and set to Score) So now 2 outta 3 are eliminated on why I can't submit a score on some games.

The game has been set to not accept local scoring
- How do you set this

The game has been set to the wrong scoring system
- What is the right scoring system? (I assume the default it chooses is correct - IE ibProAcrcade) NOTE - I tested switching the scoring to V3 arcade and it froze the game - so I know this setting is at least right =)

Feel free to go look - http://www.firefightcompany.com/arcade.php

[doctorsexy]

Think some games just dont score.. have you tryed the same game from a diferent site..
that some times works

[Darkwaltz4]

Originally Posted by SpikeSaunders

Hmm. Hey guys, I recently rebuilt our forums, and installed DBTech vBArcade on vb 4.0.9. however when viewing some profiles it outputs the following error that ties to the arcade mod. By viewing profiles I mean from their posts/who is online boxes.

Every game was imported off ibProArcade.

Everything else works flawlessly making this an excellent addition!
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Database error in vBulletin 4.1.9:

Invalid SQL:

        SELECT gid, gtitle
        FROM games_list
        WHERE gid IN (0Array);

MySQL Error   : Unknown column '0Array' in 'where clause'
Error Number  : 1054

Is 0Array a typo maybe? It is only happening sporadically it seems, and I haven't been able to curbtail if it's just the 'champions' or not.

That error is not related to vBArcade code - looks like ibproarcade. You should at least disable it.

Originally Posted by CharlieDelta

Hi Darkwaltz, I was reading through your documention and your "Manage Permission" feature sounds like it will help fix the problem I am having here.

Can you confirm that it would fix this issue and also is the permission manager a pro only feature?

Manage Permissions in vBArcade does take the secondary usergroups into account, and usergroup support is available in the lite version

Originally Posted by Scans007

Anyone know why some games scores would be submitted and others wouldn't. So like archery submits a score fine, but then like bonnyballs just always reports a 0 no matter what the score is.

The permissions for you and that game have not been set to Score (as opposed to Play or Record)
- How do you set it to score - I've looked everywhere (I've found this - and I have all and any games open to all users - and set to Score) So now 2 outta 3 are eliminated on why I can't submit a score on some games.

The game has been set to not accept local scoring
- How do you set this

The game has been set to the wrong scoring system
- What is the right scoring system? (I assume the default it chooses is correct - IE ibProAcrcade) NOTE - I tested switching the scoring to V3 arcade and it froze the game - so I know this setting is at least right =)

Feel free to go look - http://www.firefightcompany.com/arcade.php

Local scoring (and its correct implementation) is up to the individual game. Also, the importers usually will select the right properties for you.

If you've gone through the list here and you think you have everything covered, send me a PM with an admin login and I will diagnose further for you:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....9&postcount=97

[Slayerz]

I uploaded tar files to the proper directory, yet it doesn't show when I go to import.
Read your documentation, can't you explain how to mass install games via ftp.

[Darkwaltz4]

Go to admincp > vbarcade > import games

The Upload Games section will tell you the correct folder you can place all tar files into, as well as a note to make sure it is chmod 777. When you submit it, should list the games from within them.

If you want to verify your folder is correct and the files you are using are correct, upload it through the single file upload, and it should at least find the game, or display errors about the folder not being properly readable/writable.

If no error and no game, send me a PM and I will check the tar file you are using - ive run into bad tars in the past.

[Munch98]

I'm having issues with the scoring too.

I've noticed that under the score section it's putting playtime.. Any ideas why?

http://ww2.urbangamers.org/forum/arcade.php

[sinistergaming]

Fatal error: Call to undefined function is_facebookenabled() in .../sinisterservers.com/arcade.php on line 400

[ellinofatsa]

any help step by step how to safe scor?

[ellinofatsa]

Originally Posted by Darkwaltz4

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?



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.

i have do that all bud score dont save i see here i am not the only one with that problem

[GhostHunter2010]

DragonByte Tech i like most of ur mods but there is a small problem wich im sure most of users dont like it to much lol and that problem is the copyrights they are to big an they show every page will be great if u can reduce them make it smaller and show it only in 1 page like most other mods.. this is my opinion anyways.. and for that reason i havnt install none of ur mods