vB Arcades ?

[MarkFL]

Originally Posted by stangger5

I thought there would be more than 9 votes...lol..

When you originally posted this poll, we had the v3arcade system on our site, with a handful of old games, and many wouldn't save the score. No one was using it and I just didn't vote.

Since then we've upgraded to ibProArcade v2.7.3+, and with your generosity and HUGE selection of games from which to choose on your site, we now have a wide selection of games for our users and they are really enjoying it. :up:

[Ashlar217]

I had always incorporated ibProArcade into my communities back in the day, when I used it on it's 'Native' platform. Always loved it, and always want a functioning one for my members.

I'm running VB5 now, so I'm eagerly watching all the related threads to see who develops a stable one first. But with VB5 development the way it seems at the moment, I wont be holding my breath.

It's a shame, because I really do like the VB5 platform, and would hate to have to go back to VB4 simply because of lack of available Mods, especially (for me) the arcade.

[BirdOPrey5]

I'd be shocked if anyone was still working on an arcade that played flash games in 2016 for any forum platform, most of all VB5. I wouldn't plan on seeing one anytime soon, if that means using VB4 then that is what you should assume.

[Ashlar217]

Yeah shame. I know you guys invest the time where the demand is, and currently more people still stay with VB4. But sigh... I shall persevere lol.

[dmm2020]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

I'd be shocked if anyone was still working on an arcade that played flash games in 2016 for any forum platform, most of all VB5. I wouldn't plan on seeing one anytime soon, if that means using VB4 then that is what you should assume.

My games are all flash games. I am working on a separate script of my own that I hope to export to vb5 once I figure out vb syntax.

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Originally Posted by Ashlar217

Yeah shame. I know you guys invest the time where the demand is, and currently more people still stay with VB4. But sigh... I shall persevere lol.

I got licenses for both but I stayed with vb4 because of the mods available and still more stable.

[Mark.B]

I use two...v3arcade and ibProArcade, both heaviliy modified:

v3Arcade
www.bowlandcentral.com/forum/arcade.php

ibProArcade
www.bowlandcentral.com/forum/ibproarcade.php

I coded some pages to help merge the two together to some degree, such as a latest scores page that covers both:
http://www.bowlandcentral.com/forum/latestscores.php?

And also a leaderboard that covers both:
http://www.bowlandcentral.com/forum/leaderboard.php?

There is also a Chatbox (not coded by me, but certainly modified) that only logged in users can see, it appears at the top of every arcade page (but nowhere else on the forum), meaning that there is still some community 'posting' goes on, even among those who are only interested in the games.

Arcades are still a significantly popular part of my site and the people that use them will simply manually enable Flash in their browsers when the browser makers start disabling it by default.

[Ashlar217]

The problem I see with staying with VB4 and continuing to mod it out, is that eventually in the not too distant future, VB4 will be nothing more than a legacy version. All those that stick with VB4 will be stuck on that version and unable to port everything to VB5 because of the many differences in how the platforms are coded. If you do move to VB5 then you will lose all those mods and have to reinstall them from scratch.

So I will stick with VB5 and be patient for the Mod developers to start moving their focus this way

[dmm2020]

I eventually do plan to upgrade to vB5 but waiting for more mods to catch up in the vb5 section, especially my favorite ones.

[Ashlar217]

Originally Posted by dmm2020

I eventually do plan to upgrade to vB5 but waiting for more mods to catch up in the vb5 section, especially my favorite ones.

I can understand that. For me, I'm starting my community fresh again after a 5 year absence, so it's better for me to start with VB5 and watch the progress.

[goxy63]

Not using any at the moment!
My members want to hang me, upgraded from VB4 to VB5 and no more arcades....
I have some unofficial "promisses" from "MrZeropage" that ibproarcade will be upgraded.
I think we should "force" him to do that ASAP, with some small donations