Add-On Releases - v3 Arcade - Professional vBulletin Gaming (vB4)

v3 Arcade is now a member of the vBadvanced family!

http://www.vbadvanced.com/forum/showthread.php?t=47571

The support forums & data from v3Arcade.com have been merged into the vBadvanced.com site.



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v3 Arcade for vBulletin 4.x.x
For vBulletin 3.x.x, please see here.
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Please note... until v3Arcade.com is upgraded to vBulletin 4, some demo sites can be found here. Also, because of styling changes introduced in vB 4.0.8 to allow customized user profile pages, this version requires 4.0.8+ to be installed.

"v3 Arcade" is the premiere arcade system written specifically for vBulletin. It's coded from scratch - not a port of an older version - and because it was coded specifically for vBulletin it uses the product system for code modifications & utilizes AJAX technology throughout. Here's a brief rundown of the features in this version of v3 Arcade.

Supports MochiAds, v3 Arcade and IBPArcade games!

• Download THOUSANDS of *legal* free and premium games directly from Mochi Media to your v3 Arcade installation. Earn money from people playing games on your site! With just a few mouse clicks you download games directly from within your ACP or from the Mochi Media web site. You have to check it out it to see just how easy it is.
• Tournaments! Challenge your friends to see who the champ is!
• Integrated arcade statistics on your user's profile pages!
• AJAX based instant ratings, for simple to use game ratings.
• AJAX based inline score moderation.
• AJAX based instant game searching.
• Tabbed, customizable categories.
• Challenge system for one-on-one contests.
• User-permission based settings for email/PM notification, challenge settings.
• Streamlined viewing modes for users with lower resolutions.
• AJAX based quick stats, for viewing statistics by passing the cursor over a username.Mass import tools for importing games in bulk.
• Reverse and decimal based scoring.
• Arcade-only closure with customizable message.
• Per game criteria, allows you to control access to games by reputation, posts, registration length.
• Postbit based awards.
• Personalized recommendations for other games users might like, based on what they?re playing.
• Quick stats, letting a user know how many other scores are above and below theirs.
• Score ranking.
• Admin customizable ?score feedback?, displays a message based on how well as user has done.
• Numerous Admin CP settings to control things like popup opacity, maximum comment length, hover delay length, and numerous other behaviors.
• Full admin control over the types of content allowed in comments (BB code, HTML, smilies, etc.)
• Usergroup based access permissions.
• Fully phrased, for each translation into other languages.
• An ever growing collection of third party add-ons
• A slick, professional layout.
• Edit-free template updates!
• User ability to specify viewing resolution while playing games.

v3 Arcade for vBulletin 4 also has some feature differences versus v3 Arcade for vBulletin 3. Currently that list includes....

• The separate Arcade navbar has been replaced with the options being moved up to the standard vB navbar. Be sure to turn on the navbar link! (ACP => v3 Arcade => v3 Arcade Settings => v3 Arcade General Settings => Navbar Link Position)
• When viewing a game categories other than the 'All' category, the category name will now be included in the navbar breadcrumbs.
• Added a new template "v3arcade_postbit_userid_trophy_wrapper" to allow adding some HTML around the arcade award images in the postbit.
• The category tabs shown on the main page will use the vB styling instead of their own defined styles. As we go forward the vB4 version of v3A will lose more & more of it's custom styling and instead use more of the new vB4 styling features elements.
• New option to display a "New" game category tab that will display all games in newest to oldest order. In addition to the new tab a "New Games" link will also be shown in the vB "What's New" navbar link. (ACP => v3 Arcade => v3 Arcade Settings => v3 Arcade Homepage Settings => Display "New" Category Tab)

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Branding Free
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All v3 Arcade installations carry and require a small "v3 Arcade" logo in the footer, as well as the text "Powered by v3 Arcade" which links to http:www.v3arcade.com. For information on legally removing the branding, please visit www.v3arcade.com.


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www.v3arcade.com
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If you're looking for more games, add-ons, support, tutorials, or anything Arcade related - www.v3arcade.com is the place to go.


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Copyright
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All code & images distributed in this zip is Copyright ?2010 CinVin, with the following exceptions:

• class_tar.php - Credits within.
• All games & associated images, unless otherwise noted.

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Many thanks to...
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• All branding-free customers and donors, for supporting the project!
• John, the original founder behind the v3 Arcade platform.
• Tigga, the v3 Arcade lead developer (as well as all of the vBadvanced products! )
• Everybody who has provided feedback & suggestions to help us make v3 Arcade to be the best arcade platform.

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Change Log
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For the complete change log, please click here. The change log is getting too big to include inline with this thread.

[RichieBoy67]

Originally Posted by OldSchoolDSL

Someone just sent me a link to a place to get IB games and they imported (Thank you).

Only issue now is when the game ended... Rather then submit the score... I got this...

Your submission could not be processed because a security token was missing.

If this occurred unexpectedly, please inform the administrator and describe the action you performed before you received this error.

Could you please either post the link or send it to me for the games?

In regards to the security token, I have not encountered that issue before. Are those games protected maybe??

Thanks,
Rich

sorry for the double post..

[OldSchoolDSL]

This indeed was a useful link:
http://www.v3arcade.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3602

The fix there worked.

The site someone just passed to me was http://www.feckie.eu

Found a lot of games there.

[teamshultz]

Is it possible to still access the files for the previous versions? My forums are almost entirely custom so I'd like to wait to upgrade to 4.0.8 until I have the time to make all the template updates. That being said, I'm using 4.0.7 but I'd love to have the arcade back up.

Are there archived files anywhere for 4.0.7?

[teamshultz]

Ok, I'm looking in the download section of your website and I see a list of version options. Which one is for 4.0.7?

[KW802]

Originally Posted by teamshultz

Ok, I'm looking in the download section of your website and I see a list of version options. Which one is for 4.0.7?

You'll want the "2.0.1 (vB4)" version from the drop-down list when downloading at v3A.

[teamshultz]

Originally Posted by KW802

You'll want the "2.0.1 (vB4)" version from the drop-down list when downloading at v3A.

Thanks a lot! Got it all set up now. This is so much better than the leading competitor. I had to make absolutely zero template edits.

*Only suggestion: Place the sample games in their respective categories automatically.

Is it possible to add a game to multiple categories?

[OldSchoolDSL]

I've run into only 1 bug that is not listed anywhere (that I could find) and its an odd one.

When looking at the games score, the system is ranking them backwards.... ie.... The lower score is ranked #1 and the highest score is in last place.

Anyone know what's up or how to fix this?

[Gemma]

Originally Posted by OldSchoolDSL

I've run into only 1 bug that is not listed anywhere (that I could find) and its an odd one.

When looking at the games score, the system is ranking them backwards.... ie.... The lower score is ranked #1 and the highest score is in last place.

Anyone know what's up or how to fix this?

Is that happening with every game? (IPB, v3 and Mochi ones?)

Go to your phpmyadmin and run the query..

UPDATE `v3arcade_games` SET isreverse = 0

It will set High scoring for all the games, however if there are some scores which require low scoring you will need to edit them manually.

There is also an option when managing games AdminCP > v3 Arcade > Manage Games to set the scoring to either high or low for each game.

I know some IPB games I've installed automatically set the score type to low when it shouldn't be - this is usually due to a poorly written php file by the game encoder (not setting the highscore_type correctly)

[OldSchoolDSL]

Originally Posted by Gemma

Is that happening with every game? (IPB, v3 and Mochi ones?)

Go to your phpmyadmin and run the query..

UPDATE `v3arcade_games` SET isreverse = 0

It will set High scoring for all the games, however if there are some scores which require low scoring you will need to edit them manually.

There is also an option when managing games AdminCP > v3 Arcade > Manage Games to set the scoring to either high or low for each game.

I know some IPB games I've installed automatically set the score type to low when it shouldn't be - this is usually due to a poorly written php file by the game encoder (not setting the highscore_type correctly)

No it's not happening to every game. Only some games & thankfully only the IPB games.

So will I need to manually edit ever game this affects? I think I'd sooner remove the game, then going around and playing with phpmyadmin

EDIT: This seems to work..

There is also an option when managing games AdminCP > v3 Arcade > Manage Games to set the scoring to either high or low for each game.

Thank you

[mattcaswell]

Won't import in products for VB4.1... just get ":" and it sits there. Was wanting to replace IBPRO with this, but at least IBPRO works.