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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[whitey92lx]

ah ha! I was using cpanel to look, but I found it with no problem using filezilla. Let me edit and see what happens.

[whitey92lx]

Done!

Thanks for your help!

[PakStarTv.com]

said error is RESOLVED

[whitey92lx]

mySQL query error: SELECT arcade_access, p_require FROM vbwsm_usergroup WHERE usergroupid = 1

mySQL error: Unknown column 'arcade_access' in 'field list'
mySQL error code:
Date: Wednesday 29th 2012f February 2012 10:10:36 A

[whitey92lx]

working on it.. still had other stuff on server from other arcade plugin.

[stemmy]

When importing the product I was asked to edit the htaccess file - I did this and yet on install it asks the same question ??

[Darkwaltz4]

You need to edit the one in your forum installation root.

[stemmy]

Originally Posted by Darkwaltz4

You need to edit the one in your forum installation root.

I have edited the htaccess that resides in my forum root ??

[whitey92lx]

fixed

[whitey92lx]

fixed