vB3 Flash Player - Play Any Flash Game / Movie - Tetris, Pacman, Frogger, Minesweeper

vB Flash Player 1.1 - Play Any Flash Game or Movie in vB!
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vB3 RC 2 version
Updated: Added instructions to fix Who's Online location!
Updated: Fixed browser width bug!

This is such a simple hack I am almost embarassed to re-release it. But people wanted me to update it, so here it is.

Purpose:
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Install this hack ONCE and you can play any SWF game or movie totally integrated inside your forum! The name of the game or movie will be automatically shown in the page title, forum nav bar, and table heading! Just upload the SWF file to your forums directory and then use this URL (changing it to suit your forum directory):

http://www.your-forum.com/forums/fla...?play=filename
"filename" being the name of the SWF file (without the .SWF) - the name must be exact (including the capitals or small letters)

You can even set the width and height or background color of the Flash movie or game using the URL command line and parameters.

http://www.your-forums.com/forums/fl...h=768&b=000000

Good for those of you who run your site at HIGH resolutions. If you don't enter the width or height parameters, the Flash game or movie will automatically default to 600 x 400. If you don't enter the background color, it will default to your forum page background color. Only registered members will be able to play the game or movie - unregistered users will get the "no permission" log-in page.


Installation
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EASY! Takes 1 minute. All you need to do is create 1 template, 1 phrase and upload 1 file, and you're done. (No db queries to run, no php file edits! )

Create a new "games" subdirectory and upload your SWF files there.

********** optional ******************************
To show that the member is playing using the Flash Player in "Who's Online", you can edit another file and add a Who's Online Phrase - instructions added.


Parameters:
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play = name of SWF file (without the .swf extension - make sure the capitals and small letters are the same!)
w = width of Flash movie or game
h = height of Flash movie or game
b = background color of Flash movie or game (in hex WITHOUT the # - eg. 000000 for black or FFFFFF for white)

To use default width and height is 600 x 400, or default background color which is your forum background color -
http://www.your-forum.com/forums/fla...?play=filename
"filename" being the name of the SWF file (without the .SWF) - the name must be exact (including the capitals or small letters)

To set your own width or height:
http://www.your-forums.com/forums/fl...h=768&b=000000


Tetris
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For example, with this hack I've included the Tetris SWF file that was included in my original tetris hack. This game is public domain. To let your members play good old-fashioned Tetris on your forums:

1) Upload Tetris.swf to your games directory (included in the zip file).
2) Link to this URL (change it to suit your forums directory):
http://www.your-forum.com/forums/flash.php?play=Tetris
The Tetris Flash Game will play integrated into your forums. This works for any Flash game or Movie.


Flash Games Attachments:
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Snipers

Attachment: snipers.zip
A very cool FPS game.

Asteroids2000

Attachment: asteroids2000.zip
The classic Asteroids game now in 3-D.

Mars Massacre

Attachment: mars3d.zip
A 3-D with twin cannons to shoot spaceships.

Spaceship

Attachment: spaceship.zip
Spaceship shootemup with nice graphics.

Minesweeper

Attachment: minesweeper.zip
The classic windows game.

5Stones

Attachment: 5stones.zip
A classic Chinese board game.

Samurai Warrior

Attachment: samurai.zip
A fighting game that's quite high quality.

Flash Pacman

Attachment: flashman.zip
The classic!

Frogger

Attachment: frogger.zip
Another classic!

Galactic Warrior

Attachment: warrior.zip
A Space Invaders-like game.

Pong

Attachment: pong.zip
This is a very basic version.

Donkey Kong

Attachment: DonkeyKong.zip
The classic game!


Other Flash Games:
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Go here to download 27 other free Flash games that you can integrate into your site using this hack:

http://www.miniclip.com/experienced.htm

Just upload the SWF file into your forums directory, put the name into the URL and you and your members can play integrated Flash games in your forums! You can basically play ANY Flash game or even MOVIES! If you have any other cool Flash Games to share, or a link to a site with good Flash Games or Movies, just post in this thread!


The vB Flash Player ZIP File:
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[Natch]

Found the bugger (the extra bit of code needed to make the column wide enuff) ... it was explained in the vBIndex thread, but I skipped that page, and found it the hard way

[Allan]

hello

It's compatible with RC3 ?

[Kewl]

Originally Posted by Socrate

hello

It's compatible with RC3 ?

yes working fine

[Natch]

Originally Posted by Socrate

hello

It's compatible with RC3 ?

Definitely - and both HTL and text file versions are in this thread: sorry for taking your thread off-topic Erwin

[13th_Disciple]

here is the issue i have.. i have to put all of these games, and the games from v3 arcade in the games folder.. i tried putting thse in flash_games.. and in the flash template, using embed src="flash_games/$play.swf" and everything seems ok.. made sure that the little addon from Natch pointed to the same directory.. but when you try to play a game, you only get the white boc.. look at the embed src like in the source of the page, it says flash_games/gamename.swf with whatever the current game name is.. in the flash template, should i have used /flash_games/$play.swf or is there something i am missing? the way it is now, all the swf files in my games directory appear under both addon from Natch instead of showing correct games for each addon.. not to mention, would be good to know how to use a different directory than the default games directory..

edit--

just so folks understand.. here is what i have got.. http://www.dbcenter.org/forums/flash...lay=DonkeyKong

all if shows is a white box.. i modified the flash template for flash_games/$play.swf

does anything else need to be modified for the hack to recognize a different directory?

[Natch]

Originally Posted by 13th_Disciple

here is the issue i have.. i have to put all of these games, and the games from v3 arcade in the games folder.. i tried putting thse in flash_games.. and in the flash template, using embed src="flash_games/$play.swf" and everything seems ok.. made sure that the little addon from Natch pointed to the same directory.. but when you try to play a game, you only get the white boc.. look at the embed src like in the source of the page, it says flash_games/gamename.swf with whatever the current game name is.. in the flash template, should i have used /flash_games/$play.swf or is there something i am missing? the way it is now, all the swf files in my games directory appear under both addon from Natch instead of showing correct games for each addon.. not to mention, would be good to know how to use a different directory than the default games directory..

edit--

just so folks understand.. here is what i have got.. http://www.dbcenter.org/forums/flash...lay=DonkeyKong

all if shows is a white box.. i modified the flash template for flash_games/$play.swf

does anything else need to be modified for the hack to recognize a different directory?

Mate - you need to modify the "flash" template from Erwin's hack to point to a different directory, and then alter my hack "$flashdir" variable to point to the same directory ...

All Erwin's non-modified Flash games should be in this other directory, and the games from the Arcade should be int eh forumroot/games dir ...

[13th_Disciple]

yeah.. i had yours set right.. i just missed the other location in the flash template.. thanks for pointing that out to me Natch.. i am just too sleepy to function.. goodnight folks..

[Kalakov]

how can i link the flash movies/games from a other site ? so its not downloading from the same site where the forum is at

[Kalakov]

got a strange prob all the flash movies works fine with mozilla firefox but when i use Internet Explorer the movie doasnt load

[Chruser]

Hmm, what about highscores? Maybe I missed something about them when I read through the installation file, but is it possible to get a list of highscores from these games?