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vbProArcade Beta 2 · **Released**: 08-28-2002

vbProArcade Beta 2

1/5/03: Beta 2 released
9/12/02: Beta 1.03 zip updated to include safe mode fix
9/3/02: Beta 1.03 released -- small bug fixes, see below
9/1/02: Beta 1 of vbProArcade has been posted. Please see below for installation instructions.

Background Information

vbProArcade is a fully-customizable Flash arcade add-on for vBulletin, complete with game-by-game scoreboards, forum integration, a "champions" system, statistics, and more.

This is an extensive hack that is still in BETA form, and I don't recommend installing it if you are not willing to work through potential issues and future updates/upgrades! I am working on making the installation instructions as easy as possible, but it will probably be some time before it is perfect.

Watch this post for updates as they happen, and check out screenshots from the list below. If you would like to see the hack in action, you may visit my Shadows of Namek forums. You will need to register to play, but you can view the scoreboards and the arcade itself as a guest.

Credits

This hack materialized thanks to work and help from a number of people and forums. Here they are:

Original vbTetris Hack by Erwin Loh
Original vbTetris Leaderboard Hack by John Warwick (john.eovie)
One of my users, Simon Steel, for work on Flash coding/recoding
The users of one of my forums, Shadows of Namek, for their extensive testing of the system
And The Kryptonian for pre-release and release candidate installation testing.

Games

So far, there are FIVE GAMES that work correctly with this hack. They are:

Breakout
Pacman
Snake
Space Invaders
Tetris

All five .SWF files are included in the release archive.

There is now a Flash Games Development Thread for the purpose of modifying existing games to work with vbProArcade, or for creating new games to be compatible with vbProArcade. If you have a game that you wish to see modified but don't know how, post the .FLA source in that thread and hopefully somebody can assist you.

Installation Instructions

Download the file attached to this post, unzip it and familiarize yourself with the contents BEFORE doing anything.

There are TWO separate files worth reading, the Documentation and the Installation Instructions. I recommend that you read both BEFORE doing anything else.

Once you have done this, the instructions to be followed are contained in vbproarcade-install.txt. Follow them as precisely as possible. If you encounter an error somewhere, it is likely that you missed a step or made a small error. Please double-check your work BEFORE posting about problems here.

And it cannot be said enough: read that file before you do anything, and if you are unsure of something, please post your question(s) before attempting to install the hack.

Problems and Fixes/Workarounds (as of 1/5)

None

Known Bugs/Limitations

Here is the list of stuff that I know does not work. I will be working towards correcting these bugs BEFORE adding new features for the next release.

Netscape will allow you to play the games but not record scores
If a user uses the "Back" button to go to the game screen, and does not refresh before playing, the score will result in a Security Violation. This is by design.

Screen Shots for Beta 2

Here is the list of posts from this thread that contain screen shots for the new version. Check them out!

Main Arcade Screen: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...106#post292106
Game Screen: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...107#post292107
Game Over Screen: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...109#post292109
Scoreboard: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...110#post292110
Top Score Board: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...111#post292111
Admin Modify Game: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...112#post292112
Who's Online Display: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...113#post292113
User Detail Screen: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...811#post337811
Admin Score Editor: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...736#post338736
Champ System in Postbit: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...745#post338745
Modify Games in Admin CP (contracted): https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...858#post389858
Modify Games in Admin CP (expanded): https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...859#post389859

Upcoming Features

This is the stuff that is in progress for future release:

Complete Admin Panel Scoreboard Editor
Additional integration with vB
Even better Who's Online screen

Some have emailed or PM'd me asking if I would accept donations for my work on this hack, and yes, I certainly will, and any and all support is greatly appreciated. With over 2,000 lines of original PHP code, in addition to HTML and Flash work, I have spent a great deal of time developing and debugging the source for this, and it is a great feeling to have people like it so much that they want to give something back.

All donations received go directly back into supporting my websites and my design activities. You may click here to donate via Paypal. Note that donations are by no means required, and not donating does not mean you won't get support for the hack.

Last but not least, thanks for checking this out!

drumsy · #**902** 01-12-2003, 01:21 AM

I also have problems with the user detail page for my members.

Example:

ethics · #**903** 01-12-2003, 09:31 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by NTLDR
For those of you who don't want to add all 22 odd templates individualy and have the template backup hack by FireFly installed then here are the Beta 2 templates as individual text files.

You are the best. Thank you very much for doing this.

BrAinZ · #**904** 01-13-2003, 06:00 PM

Excellent Hack - Thanks futureal!!

One question.. until the score group section is fully working, what's the easiest way to reset the high scores?

Martin64 · #**905** 01-13-2003, 06:36 PM

Upgraded, lost 2000+ scores, and now I'm holding a little contest to encourage people to play. Like 50% of the people in my who's online are viewing the arcade. Seems to work. 1.8M Tetris score already.

Thanks for this nice hack.

drumsy · #**906** 01-13-2003, 08:44 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by drumsy
I also have problems with the user detail page for my members.

Example:

Hmmm, now it's working, odd....

Martin64 · #**907** 01-13-2003, 10:32 PM

I'm just wondering, does it sound like this user cheated:

"Tetris Statistics
Times Played: 1
Time Spent Playing: 92 Minutes, 2 Seconds
Average Game Duration: 0 Minutes, 5 Seconds
Most Recent Game: January 13th, 2003 at 4:49 pm
Highest Score: 1,820,828
Lowest Score: 1,820,828
Average Score: 1,820,828
Unique Comments: 1
Random Comment: That took me all afternoon (at work! hehe)"

If he has played only once, how can the average game duration be 5 seconds? Also, the total time spent playing is 92 minutes.

*confused*

nymyth · #**908** 01-14-2003, 05:20 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by xxxsaint
I was able to get this action-script info out of the snake game :

now , being a flash rookie - is this enough info to be able to start adding our own games because I really want to add flash casino games in there , I've posted that all over these forums with no luck.

unfortunatly not my friend, im a flash designer....what u have right there, is useless to you in trying to design your own game, every game is unique and therefore the actionscript is unique also.......the only part that is of relevance is:

PHP Code:


			
vpaver = "100B";

snakescore = score;

action = "gameover";

game = gamename;

score_loc = location + "/proarcade.php";

getURL(score_loc, "_self", "POST");

cuz thats what goes into our DB.......i would be able to configure most of these games if i could figure out that dang "score" bit......

Peace

Christy · #**909** 01-14-2003, 06:20 AM

A casino type game would be fun, if you did a top scorer by who had the most money

EvilLS1 · #**910** 01-14-2003, 06:44 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Da`Nacho

I've figured out the cause... It's the $vbchamptext and $vbchampicon if you use it in the postbit templates. Any time a browser reads a thread with a champion in it, online.php sees them as 'Playing in the Arcade' because they are being served the champtext or champicon from proimage.php.

I'll just pull the variables from my postbit templates for now, but it would be cool if there was a way of fixing this.

Anyone have any idea how to fix this while still being able to use the crown and text in the postbit?

Tigga · #**911** 01-14-2003, 01:33 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Martin64
I'm just wondering, does it sound like this user cheated:

"Tetris Statistics
Times Played: 1
Time Spent Playing: 92 Minutes, 2 Seconds
Average Game Duration: 0 Minutes, 5 Seconds
Most Recent Game: January 13th, 2003 at 4:49 pm
Highest Score: 1,820,828
Lowest Score: 1,820,828
Average Score: 1,820,828
Unique Comments: 1
Random Comment: That took me all afternoon (at work! hehe)"

If he has played only once, how can the average game duration be 5 seconds? Also, the total time spent playing is 92 minutes.

*confused*

Maybe not... For some reason the Average Game Duration part isn't working for Tetris on my site either. :ermm:
They did make that score pretty quickly though. It took me 140 minutes to score 1.5 million (and I messed up w/ 60 lines left, so I could have gone longer).

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