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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[ellinofatsa]

i edit 10 games today from ipb to mochi Scoring System and i see the scor save any help now how to edit 4300 games!!!!!!!need to long time...

only safe scor if i have Score Sorting Local scoring unsupported
Scoring System Mochi
Score Format and Rounding Decimals:0

any help please how to make all the games not one by one?

[ellinofatsa]

please any help

[John Lester]

Originally Posted by skol

When you say scoring works fine,which game type are you using? Tar or a feed? Feeds are great but if your members have adblock+ installed on their browser (firefox) they won't show the ads but they also won't submit the scores as the submitting of scores is also on the ad server.

Tar. I use FF mainly and I have no issues submitting my scores, or keeping them local (which is what we'll probably wind up doing).

[skol]

Originally Posted by ellinofatsa

please any help

I don't really understand why you should be editing ibp highscore games to work with Mochi!They'll never work.

Originally Posted by John Lester

Tar. I use FF mainly and I have no issues submitting my scores, or keeping them local (which is what we'll probably wind up doing).

Seems to me it works well with feeds,but not with tar..

[ellinofatsa]

Originally Posted by skol

I don't really understand why you should be editing ibp highscore games to work with Mochi!They'll never work.


Seems to me it works well with feeds,but not with tar..

with tar files only safe the time play bud not the hiscore...

[M.Iftikhar]

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on

# If vbulletin is in a subdirectory, add it here
RewriteBase /forums/

# Retrieve gamedata requests and send to new dbtech locations
RewriteRule ^arcade/gamedata/(.*) dbtech/vbarcade/media/$1 [L]

# Retrieve crossdomain requests and send to new dbtech location
RewriteRule ^crossdomain\.xml dbtech/vbarcade/crossdomain.xml [L]

# Send hardcoded ipa scores to arcade instead
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} act=Arcade [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} autocom=arcade
RewriteRule ^index\.php arcade.php [L,QSA]

# Send hardcoded pnf scores to arcade instead
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} vbarcade_session
RewriteRule ^index\.php arcade.php [L,QSA]

# Reroute v3arcade liveinstaller
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} do=liveinstall
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} v3arcade_admin\.php

# If you renamed your admincp directory, change it here
RewriteRule .* %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/admincp/arcade_admin.php?%{QUERY_STRING}&do=review&import= browse&system=v3a [L,R=301]
</IfModule>

please tell me how can i do that........when impporting xml file......it display this error....

[Darkwaltz4]

Originally Posted by John Lester

Yes I have commas just no spacing

The users having problems with the arcade games are using (the other admin has a mac notebook and even tried safari or whatever), IE, FF, and/or Chrome (all were updated when asked and tested again with no success).

Yes scoring works just fine I myself can play the games (on FF and IE both the latest versions) on 3 accounts (admin, mod, regular member), one of my moderators can play on their mod account and their regular account.

One of my mods can't play on their mod account or their regular account (exact same permissions).

LoL silly not thinking to look where I make changes to other templates

So was it a matter of template edits needing to be reverted on some of your styles?

Originally Posted by iyama

After getting crazy of the arcade long fix list from hippy, getting again crazy.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on

# If vbulletin is in a subdirectory, add it here
RewriteBase /forum/

# Retrieve gamedata requests and send to new dbtech locations
RewriteRule ^arcade/gamedata/(.*) dbtech/vbarcade/media/$1 [L]

# Retrieve crossdomain requests and send to new dbtech location
RewriteRule ^crossdomain\.xml dbtech/vbarcade/crossdomain.xml [L]

# Send hardcoded ipa scores to arcade instead
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} act=Arcade [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} autocom=arcade
RewriteRule ^index\.php arcade.php [L,QSA]

# Send hardcoded pnf scores to arcade instead
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} vbarcade_session
RewriteRule ^index\.php arcade.php [L,QSA]

# Reroute v3arcade liveinstaller
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} do=liveinstall
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} v3arcade_admin\.php

# If you renamed your admincp directory, change it here
RewriteRule .* %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/admincpx/arcade_admin.php?%{QUERY_STRING}&do=review&import=browse&system=v3a [L,R=301]
</IfModule>

Its just copy paste, right?
To the forum htaccess?
And than again the xml import?

Still geth the same asking to edit the htaccess.

Yes, and if you got the same error, you didnt apply it to the right file. The message includes the path to the file.

Originally Posted by Heardy

I don't know if this has been posted already but the little menu buttons don't seem to be above the line on my forum.

http://www.mindlessjunk.com/arcade.php

Any ideas why? It's happening with the Shop mod as well.

Looks like more recent versions of vb broke that part of the style, I will fix it soon.

Originally Posted by PakStarTv.com

is there not a additions to add random games in sidebar ...............
Please provide any solution to add it

I have a forum block functionality ready, but trying to decide if I should move it to its own addon.

[Darkwaltz4]

Originally Posted by skol

When you say scoring works fine,which game type are you using? Tar or a feed? Feeds are great but if your members have adblock+ installed on their browser (firefox) they won't show the ads but they also won't submit the scores as the submitting of scores is also on the ad server.

The import method has no bearing on scores (the end results of each are stored locally). However, scoring system matters. Tar games are usually ipa type and need the .htaccess working

Originally Posted by ellinofatsa

please any help

Thanks for posting a support thread at our site - we'll continue there

Originally Posted by M.Iftikhar

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on

# If vbulletin is in a subdirectory, add it here
RewriteBase /forums/

# Retrieve gamedata requests and send to new dbtech locations
RewriteRule ^arcade/gamedata/(.*) dbtech/vbarcade/media/$1 [L]

# Retrieve crossdomain requests and send to new dbtech location
RewriteRule ^crossdomain\.xml dbtech/vbarcade/crossdomain.xml [L]

# Send hardcoded ipa scores to arcade instead
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} act=Arcade [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} autocom=arcade
RewriteRule ^index\.php arcade.php [L,QSA]

# Send hardcoded pnf scores to arcade instead
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} vbarcade_session
RewriteRule ^index\.php arcade.php [L,QSA]

# Reroute v3arcade liveinstaller
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} do=liveinstall
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} v3arcade_admin\.php

# If you renamed your admincp directory, change it here
RewriteRule .* %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/admincp/arcade_admin.php?%{QUERY_STRING}&do=review&import= browse&system=v3a [L,R=301]
</IfModule>

please tell me how can i do that........when impporting xml file......it display this error....

The error message should have included the instructions on what to do with it - namely that you need to edit it into the .htaccess file specified and import the product again. If you get the same message, then you did not edit the right thing.

[Darkwaltz4]

If anyone has trouble with getting .htaccess edits in properly, PM with both the contents of your original, and what vBArcade wants you to use, and I will respond back with the completed one.

Also - I am improving the installer on automatically detecting where it can insert the code it needs to cut down on the confusion

[ellinofatsa]

Darkwaltz4 it safe for my only Longest Players
how can i safe Latest Champions,Latest Scores ???