vbProArcade v1.0 Flash Games Development

vbProArcade v1.0 Flash Games Development Thread

This thread is intended to provide support for those who wish to find new games for their Arcades, or wish to assist in the development of new games for vbProArcade, or wish to modify existing, open-source Flash games for use with vbProArcade.

Note to vbulletin.org moderators: I could not find an appropriate place for this thread, other than the Beta Hacks forum, so here it is. If you feel this should be moved somewhere else, by all means do so. An additional reason I posted it here was because, to my knowledge, only registered users can view this thread, which may contain hack code at one point or another.

For the hack itself, you will need to see this thread. The Flash Development thread that you see here is just that, and should only be for the discussion of creating/modifying games to work with vbProArcade. Any discussion of or support for the hack itself will be conducted in the other thread.

For documentation on how to modify a game to work with vbProArcade, please see the vbProArcade documentation, which will always be contained in this post. I will try and update this post whenever I update the documentation itself.

A list of current games can you find in the second post.

Before you modify ANY game's source or post it here, you must MAKE SURE that you have the author's permission to modify and redistribute the code, compiled or otherwise.

As games are modified and posted, I will update this post to list them, so that people running vbProArcade may find and install them more easily.

[auz1111]

I am still having trouble getting the scores for hexxagon to record. Is there anyway you guys could inform me with your exact variables and HTML code. I used the code from post #165 and am using score variable $hexxagonscore, but it is not working.

[Mr L]

Is Frogger actually working?

I've seen some comments of people looking at it, but no confirmed yes or no, it's all ok?

[Tigga]

Thanks to everyone who have modified the new games. I just added 6 new ones to my site earlier and my users are loving them. It's so funny to see everyone competing just to have a little crown by their name.

[Osmosis]

Yesterday at 05:05 PM auz1111 said this in Post #330
I am still having trouble getting the scores for hexxagon to record. Is there anyway you guys could inform me with your exact variables and HTML code. I used the code from post #165 and am using score variable $hexxagonscore, but it is not working.

The HTML code for hexxagon that I'm using is :

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0" width="400" height="500">
<param name="movie" value="$vpa_gameurl?location=$vpa_bburl&gamename=$game&gamehash=$gamehash&s=$session[sessionhash]">
<param name=loop value=false> 
<param name=menu value=false> 
<param name=quality value=high> 
<param name=bgcolor value=#000000>
<embed src="$vpa_gameurl" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="500">
</embed>
</object>

The score variable is $hexxagonscore and the hash offset is (as always) 5.

Where the smiley is in the code, it should be fullcolon D

[auz1111]

Thanks Osmosis! It is working now.

[Osmosis]

My pleasure!

As a sidenote here, and I"m not sure how this will be taken by you all, but I've managed to create a wrapper for an SWF file that works on my forums arcade. I've successfully taken an swf from the web, wrapped it, and made the scores submit to the arcade.

Now, I am not posting it here for 2 reasons. First of all, this is essentially a way to pirate copyrighted games (if they arent copyright, they have source code), and I dont want to be the one to spearhead this pirate ship. Secondly, I've only used this wrapper on one game so far (Pedestrian Killer), and it certainly doesnt work perfectly... i.e. the game has a built in high scores table that essentially appears and then the game submits the players score to the arcade.

BUT, hopefully thats incentive for you all to learn a bit more about flash I certainly hope a post like this doesnt get me banned from these boards, and if it will please let me know ahead of time so I can delete this post.

[The Wedge]

Warning: If you reached this page via your browser's "Back" button, you must refresh this
page before playing Simon Says, otherwise your score will result in a security violation.

i get that error when i try to isntall Simon Says.... any help?

[The Wedge]

also the swf file doesnt appear....

[The Wedge]

01-31-03 at 02:56 AM Sanni said this in Post #112
problem fixed. I ended up adding it manually via running the following sql statement that futunreal posted (i think he was the one who posted it):

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and it works now. Not sure why i couldnt get it working via the admin cp (had no problems with simon says).

one thing that did throw me is that it doesnt add the score unless you fill in/complete the entire board. I sat there testing it for ages trying to figure out why my score wasnt being added :speechless:


anyway, i hope the above helps anyone else who was having simular problems

i get this error


MySQL said:


You have an error in your SQL syntax near '\'hexxagonFinal\', \'Hexxagon\', \'Try to get the most stones.\', \'hexxagonFina' at line 1


Run SQL query/queries on database - i go through there....

[Osmosis]

I dont know why you'd want to send that SQL query when you can add the game thru the admin CP no problem.