Download: iArcade System 1.0.0 Final

[Collin1000]

Ok I know how to install games but now I have a few questions.

Might sound stupid but here goes.

Where are the settings for the game path?

Where are the permissions settings so I can play the games and allow others to play them?

Click on the settings button in the iArcade tab in your ACP.

[Amy T]

I knew there had to be a way to do it as I was there once before.

I think i just got confused as I have seen a lot of other mods have the settings and permissions else where which is really confusing.

The Calendar is the biggest example of that.

[Collin1000]

iArcade has a ton of great features, including a challenge system, favorites, a clean game ranking page. It also supports a .tar importer to quickly import games in just 2 clicks. iArcade has shown its power on about 3 dozen test boards during our signup phase. We hope to release iArcade to everyone very shortly. Now is the time to get in on the action! Here is a video demonstrating some of the power that iArcade Beta5 brings to the table: http://screencast.com/t/MjQ3MmY5 For those of you who have been waiting almost a year for an arcade, the wait is no more. iArcade will leave the private beta testing and will begin its first round of public beta testing on March 1st, 2010. We encourage you to subscribe to this topic, browse some of the posted screenshots, and stay tuned. Thanks for all your continued support! Side Note: Andy will be taking time off as he eagerly awaits becoming a first time father. He has told me he expects to have little to no time to check the IPS forums. As such, I will take over full development of iArcade during the final release stage.

What Is iArcade?

iArcade is the first (and only) free highscores arcade system for IPB3.

[saggsab]

Thanks for the video showing a bit about iArcade!

I haven't seen iArcade in action so just have a few questions, hope you don't mind.

1. Will it display games in alphabetical order? I noticed in the video the games were mixed.
2. Does it have a search function to locate the game you want to play?
3. Can you open the game in another window (many of my users like this!!)?
4. What kinds of game restrictions are there? I know that one of the older arcades had a list of games you could not use.
5. Are there any demo sites that don't require you to register?

Thanks!!

[Collin1000]

Thanks for the video showing a bit about iArcade!

I haven't seen iArcade in action so just have a few questions, hope you don't mind.

1. Will it display games in alphabetical order? I noticed in the video the games were mixed.

2. Does it have a search function to locate the game you want to play?

3. Can you open the game in another window (many of my users like this!!)?

4. What kinds of game restrictions are there? I know that one of the older arcades had a list of games you could not use.

5. Are there any demo sites that don't require you to register?

Thanks!!

1. This will be a feature. The default option sorts by order added (newest games first).
2. It did for about an hour. It was semi-resource intensive so im still considering the best way to go about doing this.
3. Popout full screen windows were discussed earlier. I will continue to consider this.
4. It supports all flash games, and the scoring system supports ibparcade v2 format. There are over 4,000 games you can download from sites like ibpdownloads.com
5. Because we are still in a private beta, there is no current demo site. This will change shortly as we near public beta.

[saggsab]

Thanks for the answers!
I'm looking forward to seeing the finished project!

[Andy Rixon]

Since Collin didn't go to much into the settings, heres the video: http://www.screencast.com/t/ZjIwMjI3Yj

[Amy T]

Is there going to be game categories ?

[Collin1000]

Is there going to be game categories ?

You can manually configure categories on your own right now.
Ive found that there is no uniform categories in the tar importer, so that seemed a bit useless.

[Collin1000]

Andy, you sound awful. Go to bed.


"Pagination... I dunno what its called"

"Submitted by one of the con... ta.... ya know what i mean. someone who submits files"

[Andy Rixon]

Andy, you sound awful. Go to bed.

"Pagination... I dunno what its called"

"Submitted by one of the con... ta.... ya know what i mean. someone who submits files"

I feel it too Collin.

I couldn't get the words out, they where at the tip of my tongue though lol

[wEbAddEr2]

Got it working, i did first deleted at the database the installed games, and removed the first "/" from the Web Location so it looks now like: admin/applications_addon/other/iArcade/games/all
Great arcade, cant wait for the ftp install because more then 7300 v2 games 1 by 1 installing .....

[JustinFreebie]

Hi,

First thanks for doing this, Just have a couple of questions sorry if they have been asked. Will you have the stuff that goes on top of the forum like Top 3 Arcade Champions, Arcade Scoreboard, ibProArcade Board Panel ?

Thanks :)

[Collin1000]

Got it working, i did first deleted at the database the installed games, and removed the first "/" from the Web Location so it looks now like: admin/applications_addon/other/iArcade/games/all

Great arcade, cant wait for the ftp install because more then 7300 v2 games 1 by 1 installing .....

1) Yes, the ACP says to remove the leading slash if you are having trouble.

2) Here. Here is the rough, unskinned FTP code.
WARNING: It does not check if a game is or is not already installed yet. Sooooo you might end up breaking some stuff. Dont come crying to me.
Its a rough hack until the next beta.




Open /admin/applications_addon/other/iArcade/modules_admin/games/import.php

Find:

public function showForm() { $this->html->form_code = 'module=games&section=import'; $formcode = 'save'; $title = 'iArcade Game Importer'; $button = 'Upload File'; $form['iArcade_upload'] = $this->registry->output->formUpload(); $this->registry->output->html .= $this->html->import_page($formcode,$title,$button,$form);

Add Below:

//Begin FTP Hack $location = IPSLib::getAppDir( 'iArcade' )."/sources/tars/"; if ($handle = opendir($location)) { Echo "quick hack (NOT SUPPORTED!) to import games that are already in ftp. only click one at a time, please and thankyou. <br>upload new files to $location <br> WARNING: It isnt smart enough to know what files have already been installed. Im working on that. This is a quick hack for those of you who want FTP support.<br><br><br> "; while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) { if ($file != "." && $file != ".." && $file != "index.html" && $file != "gamedata") { $sname=str_replace(".tar", "", $file); $sname=str_replace("game_", "", $sname); echo " <li><a href='index.php?adsess={$_GET[adsess]}&amp;app=iArcade&amp;module=games&amp;section=import&amp;do=untar&amp;tarfile_name=$sname&amp;tarfile=$file'>$file\n</a></li><br> "; } } closedir($handle); } //End FTP Hack

Hi,

First thanks for doing this, Just have a couple of questions sorry if they have been asked. Will you have the stuff that goes on top of the forum like Top 3 Arcade Champions, Arcade Scoreboard, ibProArcade Board Panel ?

Thanks :)

First of all, welcome to IPB!
Thanks for taking an interest in iArcade.
Top Champions is planned and will be shown in the gamescp area.
Im not sure what you mean by "arcade scoreboard".

What is the arcade board panel?

[wEbAddEr2]

2) Here. Here is the rough, unskinned FTP code.

WARNING: It does not check if a game is or is not already installed yet. Sooooo you might end up breaking some stuff. Dont come crying to me.

Its a rough hack until the next beta.

Will try this today, and for having no problems i will delete again all games at the database.

Thanks :thumbsup:

[Andy Rixon]

I just had a thought for next major release (not beta or rc or final but major release), why not have top games by rating maybe :D just occured to me when I was ranking a game :P

[Andy Rixon]

1) Yes, the ACP says to remove the leading slash if you are having trouble.

2) Here. Here is the rough, unskinned FTP code.

WARNING: It does not check if a game is or is not already installed yet. Sooooo you might end up breaking some stuff. Dont come crying to me.

Its a rough hack until the next beta.

Open /admin/applications_addon/other/iArcade/modules_admin/games/import.php

Find:

public function showForm() { $this->html->form_code = 'module=games&section=import'; $formcode = 'save'; $title = 'iArcade Game Importer'; $button = 'Upload File'; $form['iArcade_upload'] = $this->registry->output->formUpload(); $this->registry->output->html .= $this->html->import_page($formcode,$title,$button,$form);

Add Below:

//Begin FTP Hack $location = IPSLib::getAppDir( 'iArcade' )."/sources/tars/"; if ($handle = opendir($location)) { Echo "quick hack (NOT SUPPORTED!) to import games that are already in ftp. only click one at a time, please and thankyou. <br>upload new files to $location <br> WARNING: It isnt smart enough to know what files have already been installed. Im working on that. This is a quick hack for those of you who want FTP support.<br><br><br> "; while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) { if ($file != "." && $file != ".." && $file != "index.html" && $file != "gamedata") { $sname=str_replace(".tar", "", $file); $sname=str_replace("game_", "", $sname); echo " <li><a href='index.php?adsess={$_GET[adsess]}&amp;app=iArcade&amp;module=games&amp;section=import&amp;do=untar&amp;tarfile_name=$sname&amp;tarfile=$file'>$file\n</a></li><br> "; } } closedir($handle); } //End FTP Hack

First of all, welcome to IPB!
Thanks for taking an interest in iArcade.
Top Champions is planned and will be shown in the gamescp area.
Im not sure what you mean by "arcade scoreboard".

What is the arcade board panel?

Arcade Board Panel - a hook that shows on the board index that displays things like 5 top scores, 5 top games, 5 latest games.

I think this could be a good idea :D

[Calvin39]

Arcade Board Panel - a hook that shows on the board index that displays things like 5 top scores, 5 top games, 5 latest games.

I think this could be a good idea :D

If that was the case, I would certainly hope there would be a way to turn it off, its not a facility we would need, and no other arcade ever had it. It would just bloat the board panel even more, so sorry no I do not think there would be any advantage to having this mate. >_<

[Andy Rixon]

If that was the case, I would certainly hope there would be a way to turn it off, its not a facility we would need, and no other arcade ever had it. It would just bloat the board panel even more, so sorry no I do not think there would be any advantage to having this mate. >_<

Well it could be developed as a seperate hook :P

[Amy T]

I like the idea but yes it needs to be separated.

[Andy Rixon]

I like the idea but yes it needs to be separated.

Thats how I'd do it, a seperate (optional) downloadable hook, bit like how Bouncy Radio Center is, it has a couple of optional downloadable hooks to place radio stats else where on the board index, and this is how I would do a board panel for iArcade.

[Collin1000]

Andy, if you want to add it as a hook, write it. We are co-devs ;) Personally, I think its bloat in terms of code and screen space. I have no plans for adding one.

[Arianna]

I like the idea of the hook for games. In fact i would really appreciate it lol.

[Smokey-Rev]

Could be added as a seperate hook included in an extras folder in the next beta/RC. :) That'd work, so that those who want to use it, can, and those who don't want it, don't have to. :)

[Amy T]

Could be added as a seperate hook included in an extras folder in the next beta/RC. :) That'd work, so that those who want to use it, can, and those who don't want it, don't have to. :)

Great idea.