vB Flash Player - Play Any Flash Game or Movie - Tetris, Pacman, Frogger, Minesweeper

vB Flash Player 1.3 - Play Any Flash Game or Movie in vB!
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NOTE: This used to be my vB Tetris 1.2 hack. It's been improved to play any Flash game or movie.

Purpose:
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Install this hack ONCE and you can play any SWF game or movie totally integrated inside your forum! The name of the game or movie will be automatically shown in the page title, forum nav bar, and table heading! Just upload the SWF file to your forums directory and then use this URL (changing it to suit your forum directory):

http://www.your-forum.com/forums/flash.php?play=filename
"filename" being the name of the SWF file (without the .SWF) - the name must be exact (including the capitals or small letters)

You can even set the width and height or background color of the Flash movie or game using the URL command line and parameters.

http://www.your-forums.com/forums/flash.php?play=filename&w=1024&h=768&b=000000

Good for those of you who run your site at HIGH resolutions. If you don't enter the width or height parameters, the Flash game or movie will automatically default to 600 x 400. If you don't enter the background color, it will default to your forum page background color. Only registered members will be able to play the game or movie - unregistered users will get the "no permission" log-in page.

Installation
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EASY! Takes 1 minute. All you need to do is create 2 templates, and upload 1 file, and you're done. (No db queries to run, no php file edits! )

1) Create 2 templates with the text files included - just copy the contents of the text files into the templates with the same name:
flash
error_flash
2) Upload flash.php into your forum directory. The hack is finished!

Then, to play any Flash SWF Game or Movie inside your forum:
1) Upload the SWF file to your forum directory.
2) Link to this URL (change it to suit your forums directory):
http://www.your-forum.com/forums/flash.php?play=filename
"filename" being the name of the SWF file (without the .SWF) - the name must be exact (including the capitals or small letters)

Parameters:
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play = name of SWF file (without the .swf extension - make sure the capitals and small letters are the same!)
w = width of Flash movie or game
h = height of Flash movie or game
b = background color of Flash movie or game (in hex WITHOUT the # - eg. 000000 for black or FFFFFF for white)

To use default width and height is 600 x 400, or default background color which is your forum background color -
http://www.your-forum.com/forums/flash.php?play=filename
"filename" being the name of the SWF file (without the .SWF) - the name must be exact (including the capitals or small letters)

To set your own width or height:
http://www.your-forums.com/forums/flash.php?play=filename&w=1024&h=768&b=000000

Tetris
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For example, with this hack I've included the Tetris SWF file that was included in my original tetris hack. This game is public domain. To let your members play good old-fashioned Tetris on your forums:

1) Upload tetris.swf to your forums directory (included in the zip file).
2) Link to this URL (change it to suit your forums directory):
http://www.your-forum.com/forums/flash.php?play=tetris
The Tetris Flash Game will play integrated into your forums. This works for any Flash game or Movie.

Flash Games Attachments:
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Snipers

Attachment: snipers.zip
A very cool FPS game.

Asteroids2000

Attachment: asteroids2000.zip
The classic Asteroids game now in 3-D.

Mars Massacre

Attachment: mars3d.zip
A 3-D with twin cannons to shoot spaceships.

Spaceship

Attachment: spaceship.zip
Spaceship shootemup with nice graphics.

Minesweeper

Attachment: minesweeper.zip
The classic windows game.

5Stones

Attachment: 5stones.zip
A classic Chinese board game.

Samurai Warrior

Attachment: samurai.zip
A fighting game that's quite high quality.

Flash Pacman

Attachment: flashman.zip
The classic!

Frogger

Attachment: frogger.zip
Another classic!

Galactic Warrior

Attachment: warrior.zip
A Space Invaders-like game.

Pong

Attachment: pong.zip
This is a very basic version.

Donkey Kong

Attachment: DonkeyKong.zip
The classic game!

Other Flash Games:
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Go here to download 27 other free Flash games that you can integrate into your site using this hack:

http://www.miniclip.com/experienced.htm

Just upload the SWF file into your forums directory, put the name into the URL and you and your members can play integrated Flash games in your forums! You can basically play ANY Flash game or even MOVIES! If you have any other cool Flash Games to share, or a link to a site with good Flash Games or Movies, just post in this thread!

Addons:
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1) Hellsatan's Game's Info and Listing
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=42693

2) Demonslayer's DCR format addon
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=42744

3) Lanigironu's flash gallery hack addon
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=42674

To receive updates if there are bug fixes or upgrades to this hack, please click the "Install" link at the bottom of this thread.

The vB Flash Player ZIP File:
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[kenny@ecn]

Damn it John, stop teasing us!!! lol, release how to do it

[John]

I've said how to do it before, but it's not a simple task

I've nearly finished now, but I can't decide why to put under the "Icons and Stuff" header. (That's a temp header by the way!)

Any ideas?

[kenny@ecn]

<a href="http://www.exoticcarforums.com/tetris.php?s=" target="_blank">http://www.exoticcarforums.com/tetris.php?s=</a>

Thats my customized Tetris. My graphics guy hasn't touched it yet, but it does its job. I want to change the graphics, but don't know how. (For instance, the "Start" button and the "GAME OVER" and "Pause").

[John]

Ok, in the large gap in the middle I've decided that it'd be good if users could leave comment on their score. So, if they get a score of 100,000, a user could leave the comment "Ha ha! I rule, you all suck!"

After they've finished their game of Tetris, they get the chance to enter their comment:



More screens soon...

[DestyNova]

Nice!

[John]

I'm not looking forward to writing the install text for this...!

[Mr_P]

Originally posted by JohnWarwick
I'm not looking forward to writing the install text for this...!

Shame as im looking forward to installin it

[DanIAm]

Originally posted by Erwin


Make sure you've downloaded Version 1.2, not 1.0 or 1.1 - check your "tetris" template - make sure the path to tetris.swf is correct (there are 2 occurrences of tetris.swf in that template). The correct path is "$bburl/tetris.swf". Make sure you have uploaded the tetris.swf file into your forums directory.

Thank you for the help...
Although, I am 100% confident that I have installed this hack correctly. I have gonbe back and double checked what you have suggested. However still, when I try to pull up the game at:

http://www.mentalmingle.com/forums/tetris.php

it says the page remains on 'opening page tetris.php' as seen in the status bar????????

[John]

lol, I'm not using any of the original code at the moment!

[John]

Originally posted by DanIAm


Thank you for the help...
Although, I am 100% confident that I have installed this hack correctly. I have gonbe back and double checked what you have suggested. However still, when I try to pull up the game at:

http://www.mentalmingle.com/forums/tetris.php

it says the page remains on 'opening page tetris.php' as seen in the status bar????????

Can't see it, I'd have to register to view the forum. And I can't be bothered to do that...