Major Additions - [DBTech] vBArcade v2 (vB5)

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. Streamlined import and editing managers put games from mochi, v3arcade, ibproarcade and more into your arcade with ease. 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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Documentation
https://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/docs/vbarcade

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Major Features:

Modular Game Handling: Currently supports games from pnflash, ibproarcade, v3arcade, mochi, (plus armor, kongregate, flashgamedistribution, spilgames in pro) and more can be added with a single file.

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.

Lite

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

"Most Trophies" Module

• Lists top 3 players and how many trophies they hold
• Displays avatar and link to member profile
• Displays username if avatars are turned off
• "Show Avatars" module configuration
• Respects user's choice to hide avatars if applicable

"Longest Players" Module

• Lists top 3 players and how long they've played
• Displays avatar and link to member profile
• Displays username if avatars are turned off
• "Show Avatars" module configuration
• "Maximum Players to Show" module configuration
• Respects user's choice to hide avatars if applicable

"You Might Like" Module

• Displays a semi-random game similar to existing one
• Fetches random game from the same category if one exists
• "Show Game Icon" module configuration

Global Scoring Integration

• Synchronises scoring with the Global Scoring system
• Displays Global Champion if enabled

Commenting

• Add / Edit comments for your scores on games
• AJAX-powered

Score Alerts

• Receive Email and/or PM notifications when your score is beaten
• Respects vBulletin's notification settings
• Contains link to the game for quick play

Score Tracking

• latest and champion scores
• most winners and longest players
• average scores, plays and playtime
• yourself and locally
• local rankings

General / Other

• Modern streamlined appearance with AJAX for replay and searching
• Tweet, Like, Pin, or +1 a game
• Easy game resizing
• Ajax ratings
• Set descriptions, instructions, controls, keywords - even authors and copyrights
• Assign games to multiple categories - with icons descriptions
• Manually or one-button mass install games from any source
• existing arcade installation (plus scores and settings): ibProArcade, v3 Arcade
• package upload or ftp directory: pnFlash, ibProArcade v3 Arcade, Mochi
• featured games feed: Mochi
• Obtain local scores from supported APIs: ibProArcade, v3 Arcade, pnFlash, Mochi
• Use time played as backup score when unsupported
• Retrieve scores from global network of participating sites
• See global champions with links
• Automatically archive old or duplicate scores

Additional Features (Pro)

Tournaments

• 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
• Invite/Reminder Email/PM alerts, with notifications
• 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

Tournament 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
• 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

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

Score Alerts

• Automatically create a new thread or post on highscore
• Uses vBulletin APIs to insert the content
• Works with vBulletin features like commenting

Category Passwords

• Set passwords to your categories
• AJAX input password before game list loads
• No reloads necessary

General / Other

• Submit your scores to the global network for global display
• Play games from Spil Games, FlashGameDistribution, Armor and Kongregate
• Get local scoring support from GamerSafe games
• Show off the legacy champion even if you archived all scores
• 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

Features Still Missing (Lite)

General / Other

• post your score to your Facebook wall
  FB integration with vB5 isn't 100% complete yet, this will be re-examined when that time comes.
• Show off your trophy collection in your postbit
  The vB5 postbit isn't designed to be as cluttered as the vB4 postbit can be, so this will be on the shelf for the time being.

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[kylek]

ACP issues look like they are now working, was able to add a couple of categorys and bulk import some games.

Still have issue of seeing blank page when you click on Arcade. If you edit the page you see everything there - 9 modules, but when page saved its just a blank page.

I can go in and play a game by entering: http://xxxxxxx.xxx/forum/vbarcade/pl...BilliardsCombo and game plays but doesn't save score.

When on the admincp page - Manage Games - and you click play you get a funky url:

http://xxxxxx.xxx/forum/admincp/http...BilliardsCombo

And still getting the database error of "Table 'pokerlau_testvb.games_cats' doesn't exist"

[kylek]

Been playing with this a bit today and now do not have a blank arcade page anymore. When you edit the arcade page at first all the modules are in a group and nothing shows. I started to move them around, removed them and added them back and now they show.

Still cant get games to score. When a game is finished and score submitted a page shows for a few seconds that says "A systems error occurred" "the software has experienced a systems error" .

[DragonByte Tech]

Are you sure the game supports local scoring? Pretty much all of the game sites that once were supported for remote scoring have since shuttered so their scoring systems will no longer function.

Fillip

[kylek]

I am not using games from remote sites that do remote scoring. All are uploaded to our site.

The same games I use on 4 sites that have vBArcades (vb4) and have no problems saving scores are the ones I am trying on the vb5 vBArcade version.

Curious about something - when installing a vb4 version of vBArcade there was a bunch of stuff added to the htaccess file where you either added it manually or cmodded to 777. Was this changed for vb5 vBArcade?

vb4 htaccess:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on

# Set to vbulletin directory
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 legacy scores to arcade instead
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} newscore\.php [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} viewgame\.php
RewriteRule .* arcade.php?sendscore=legacy [L,QSA]

# Send hardcoded legacy scores to arcade instead
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} func=storeScore [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} autocom=arcade [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} act=arcadelib [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} act=Arcade
RewriteRule .* 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>

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by kylek

I am not using games from remote sites that do remote scoring. All are uploaded to our site.

All games are stored on your site regardless, but some games such as Mochi ones are scored by submitting to a remote server.

Originally Posted by kylek

Curious about something - when installing a vb4 version of vBArcade there was a bunch of stuff added to the htaccess file where you either added it manually or cmodded to 777. Was this changed for vb5 vBArcade?

As far as I can tell, this should no longer be needed.

While I have noticed some errors in the product that have been resolved locally, I can't replicate the DB error posted before.

Could you please provide a screen recording of this issue in action?


Fillip

[WildSharky]

I have vb 5.2.2 and fresh install the arcade installed and I even imported some games but if you click play on the game just take you to the forums home page. I have to type or copy part of the url from the admincp to play the game and the score are not working. anyway you can check this out and see why its not working right. ill pm you all the info you need.

Here link to the site http://www.gadgets-n-games.com

[WildSharky]

This is in the error logs

[10-Jul-2016 10:30:56 Asia/Kuala_Lumpur] PHP Strict Standards: Only variables should be passed by reference in /home/gadgetsn/public_html/core/packages/dbtechvbarcade/actions/admin/import.php on line 270
[10-Jul-2016 10:30:56 Asia/Kuala_Lumpur] PHP Strict Standards: Only variables should be passed by reference in /home/gadgetsn/public_html/core/packages/dbtechvbarcade/api/vbarcade/scoring/ipa.php on line 520
[10-Jul-2016 10:30:56 Asia/Kuala_Lumpur] PHP Strict Standards: Only variables should be passed by reference in /home/gadgetsn/public_html/core/packages/dbtechvbarcade/api/vbarcade/scoring/ipa.php on line 524

This is the link the games try to load to send the score is this right?
res://ieframe.dll/http_500.htm#http://www.gadgets-n-games.com/index...de&do=newscore

[DragonByte Tech]

Hi there,

Could you please try downloading a fresh copy from here: http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/store...cade-vb5-beta/ and let me know if this works for you? I seem to recall making similar hotfixes in the past, but I'm not sure if I actually uploaded them to vB.org yet.

Thanks!


Fillip

[WildSharky]

sure and ill let you know how it goes

[WildSharky]

uninstalled and upload files and reinstalled and same thing plus I forgot to add that in admincp when you click play it take you here Invalid Page URL. http://www.gadgets-n-games.com/admin.../bloodyorcaspp