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wienerschnitzel
04-19-2004, 08:00 AM
here (http://mods.ibplanet.com/db/?mod=2401) is an addon for ipb 1.3

it adds an arcade that has a bunch of games


this (http://www.ibproarcade.com/index.php?act=Arcade) is what it would look like


i think this would make this forum more intresting and a lot more fun for some people.

Rip The Jacker
04-19-2004, 08:04 AM
Sounds like fun. :)

BawA
04-19-2004, 09:36 AM
very Good idea and helps this board to GearUp :lol:

SeK612
04-19-2004, 12:29 PM
I've got an arcade on my forum. To be honest though I don't think it would suit this forum. Its more suited for smaller forums. Also most of the games are rips from ones already on sites like shockwave.com so you can just play them there...

Barbarossa
04-19-2004, 01:00 PM
Yay, lets have an arcade! :D

Benno
04-19-2004, 01:08 PM
Originally posted by barbarossa@19 April 2004 - 13:00
Yay, lets have an arcade! :D
If the oldes still active member says so :P

Yeah lets have it

rookiecrd1
04-19-2004, 01:14 PM
Looks good. I will see what can be done. I could only imagine though what it would do to our bandwidth though.

Brian

Illuminati
04-19-2004, 01:17 PM
v3arcade (the vBulletin & AFAIK the original version) was recently installed on the vB board of AS Hosting (my webhost :)). It's been going through a lot of uses so far and there's been a lot of banter related to it on the board.

Put simply, it's been a lot of fun and a great success so if the same can be done for an IPB board then I'd say go for it :D Been one-time champion on four games so far (Tetris, Space Invaders, Asteroids, Breakout) :D

However, personally I'd recommend that if we get this installed then one of the team takes a position to the arcade like BOT does our CMS/news system. Main reason - Games come & go, fads change. It could be useful having someone manage the arcade and the games on it, bringing in new ones and removing games no longer used - Perhaps our Gameworld moderator, Rip The Jacker :smilie4:

wienerschnitzel
04-19-2004, 09:53 PM
Lets just put it up for now and see how it goes. i dont think it will slow down the board and if it does take it down.

i just want "tetris champion" next to my name.

Illuminati
04-19-2004, 10:06 PM
Originally posted by wienerschnitzel@19 April 2004 - 22:53
i just want "tetris champion" next to my name.
Bah - I'd be taking the FST Tetris Championship as I did the ASH Tetris Championship :P

Whether I'd keep it though is another matter altogether :D

h1
04-19-2004, 10:24 PM
I love it.

FuNkY CaPrIcOrN
04-19-2004, 10:43 PM
;) I think Yahoo All Stars would be better.Alot more Games.A few of us wanted to do that for the Forum over a Year ago.But could not find enough People to Pitch in the $60.At $5 a Person would of only needed 12 People to Cover the whole Year.

Rip The Jacker
04-19-2004, 11:53 PM
I just joined a forum with an arcade and a store. And I think the whole thing is pretty neat!

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103 Games!

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Me playing Donkey Kong! :lol:

Rip The Jacker
04-20-2004, 12:03 AM
Airballs Champion! B)

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bulio
04-20-2004, 12:20 AM
let's get an arcade and the store!!!!!!!!!

ooo
04-20-2004, 12:30 AM
yea its a good idea..

if anyone wants to test out the arcade n store... i'll give them a testing account and a link (PM me)

FuNkY CaPrIcOrN
04-20-2004, 12:35 AM
:huh: Will it have Spades.....Poker.....Checkers? :huh:

ooo
04-20-2004, 12:42 AM
theres an annoyin part to the arcade... u have to add the games urself... :/ meaning first you gotta upload the game thro ftp and then you gotta go the the ADMIN ACP and add in the game settings n stuff...

@ funky
i think they made those games for the arcade :P

bulio
04-20-2004, 12:44 AM
still, we need something to perk the members up

FuNkY CaPrIcOrN
04-20-2004, 12:46 AM
:01: Yahoo All Stars! (http://leagues.games.yahoo.com/central) :01:

:P

bulio
04-20-2004, 12:46 AM
Originally posted by FuNkY CaPrIcOrN@20 April 2004 - 00:46
:01: Yahoo All Stars! (http://leagues.games.yahoo.com/central) :01:

:P
ewwwwww :ghostface:

anyways, maybe even an ib shop?

ooo
04-20-2004, 12:48 AM
yahoo allstars cost money... lol...

FuNkY CaPrIcOrN
04-20-2004, 12:49 AM
;) Just saying some more Games then just Arcade style.

Card Games for us Guys that like to sit back and have a few Beers after work or what not.Plus haveing Tournaments with Teams is always fun. :)

And lets not forget.Women love Card Games. :P

internet.news
04-20-2004, 01:20 AM
Originally posted by Rip The Jacker@19 April 2004 - 23:53
I just joined a forum with an arcade and a store. And I think the whole thing is pretty neat!

me too :D

:01: http://img12.photobucket.com/albums/v31/samsamsamsam/sam4divegame.jpg :01:

Filliz
04-20-2004, 01:28 AM
I sure like the idea :)
Do they have arcade pool too?
That would be awesome :01:

moviez
04-20-2004, 01:40 AM
:01:

FuNkY CaPrIcOrN
04-20-2004, 01:41 AM
:( I do not see Checkers on that List. :(


:P A List that somebody took down! :P

ooo
04-20-2004, 02:59 AM
lol... no checkers... probably didnt add it on yet :/

wienerschnitzel
04-20-2004, 04:12 AM
go to http://stlrc.com/forums/index.php?act=idx for another 200+ games you can add

Rip The Jacker
04-20-2004, 04:58 AM
Originally posted by samsamsamsam+19 April 2004 - 17:20--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (samsamsamsam @ 19 April 2004 - 17:20)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Rip The Jacker@19 April 2004 - 23:53
I just joined a forum with an arcade and a store. And I think the whole thing is pretty neat&#33;

me too :D

:01: http://img12.photobucket.com/albums/v31/samsamsamsam/sam4divegame.jpg :01: [/b][/quote]
Congrats sam. :)

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Theres even a game for CS fans. B)

FuNkY CaPrIcOrN
04-20-2004, 05:03 AM
;) Well whats the word Birds?How many Games are we going to have?And what kind of Tournaments?

Come on MODs.Let us in on what is going on. :P

Illuminati
04-20-2004, 08:38 AM
Originally posted by Rip The Jacker@20 April 2004 - 05:58
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Theres even a game for CS fans. B)
Now that&#39;s gotta be a Photoshop job :P

Although, knowing the intelligence of some smart-ass programmers it COULD be... :wacko:

4th gen
04-20-2004, 09:12 AM
I just played breakout on that board and got the third highest score on my first game :lol:

Afronaut
04-20-2004, 11:57 AM
Im going to go play some...

Im wondering if anyone has any idea how much more Bandwith or
stress this would bring to our server?

I wouldnt want to make this board a slow or much slower that it is.

:cool2:

rookiecrd1
04-20-2004, 12:18 PM
I&#39;ll see what can be done however, I&#39;m not sure if this will work well on this server. We are already using a lot of resources, I can only imagine how much games must take up.

Don&#39;t get your hopes up

Brian

thewizeard
04-20-2004, 12:23 PM
What about the server that was used for the KLF radio, is there a way to configure that for the arcade/casino?

shn
04-20-2004, 01:00 PM
It just keeps getting better and better on this board, does&#39;nt it.

When your dying you&#39;ll do just about anything to live. Sad to say an arcade ain&#39;t gonna help&#33;

Illuminati
04-20-2004, 01:26 PM
Originally posted by nigel123@20 April 2004 - 13:23
What about the server that was used for the KLF radio, is there a way to configure that for the arcade/casino?
Okay, I&#39;d better admit this - The radio station was run on the board server. There was no "radio server".

When I started on the radio, I thought it was a second server myself. When I took over, it still took me a bit to figure it out :(

As many people didn&#39;t listen to it and it only ran on weekend evenings and (during the Lounge era) in the middle of the night, the slowdown wasn&#39;t noticed that much. It was a plan that if the Lounge was successful and there were enough listeners to put a significant load on the server, we&#39;re consider a seperate server. However, that situation never happened and so we didn&#39;t consider it further.

firefox
04-20-2004, 04:04 PM
games would be cool&#33;

thewizeard
04-20-2004, 04:10 PM
Originally posted by Illuminati+20 April 2004 - 13:26--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Illuminati @ 20 April 2004 - 13:26)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-nigel123@20 April 2004 - 13:23
What about the server that was used for the KLF radio, is there a way to configure that for the arcade/casino?
Okay, I&#39;d better admit this - The radio station was run on the board server. There was no "radio server".

When I started on the radio, I thought it was a second server myself. When I took over, it still took me a bit to figure it out :(

As many people didn&#39;t listen to it and it only ran on weekend evenings and (during the Lounge era) in the middle of the night, the slowdown wasn&#39;t noticed that much. It was a plan that if the Lounge was successful and there were enough listeners to put a significant load on the server, we&#39;re consider a seperate server. However, that situation never happened and so we didn&#39;t consider it further. [/b][/quote]
Well that is news..In any case perhaps it is possible to use another server for the arcade, any one offering to donate one? :)

rookiecrd1
04-20-2004, 07:58 PM
I&#39;m not too sure how that would work. In order to integrate an arcade into this forum wouldn&#39;t it have to be on this server?

I will see what I can do. I like the idea as well, but something like this may take some time.

Brian

ooo
04-20-2004, 09:48 PM
the arcade has to be in the same folder where the forum is currently held... each game ranges from a few kbs to 1mb at most... so you can do the math... to see how much bandwidth it would use... with 30 members in a week i&#39;ve used 2665.92 Megabytes (bandwidth) :/ you have like thousands of members... so you can calculate...

bulio
04-20-2004, 10:12 PM
Still, an arcade would bring joy to members, and keep them active here ;)

FuNkY CaPrIcOrN
04-20-2004, 10:15 PM
:P Forget your Arcde.Bring on the Spades&#33; :P


*Spades is an American Card Game.*

ooo
04-20-2004, 10:17 PM
lol wasnt it checkers before?

bulio
04-20-2004, 10:18 PM
Originally posted by Soul814@20 April 2004 - 22:17
lol wasnt it checkers before?
lol, I just want games. No preference :P

h1
04-20-2004, 10:22 PM
I&#39;ve never heard of spades before. :ninja:

What we need is something good... Texas Hole (Commie Poker) lol. :lol:

ooo
04-20-2004, 10:32 PM
first of all you guys need the arcade&#33; lol before the games..

rookiecrd1
04-22-2004, 01:27 AM
Ok I am trying to get the arcade installed as soon as I can. Could be a couple weeks. Please also understand that this is going to cost me quite a bit more for the installation and the extra bandwidth, so next time you complain about the advertising please understand that I can not always foot the huge bill all by myself.

Brian

FuNkY CaPrIcOrN
04-22-2004, 02:06 AM
Originally posted by rookiecrd1@21 April 2004 - 20:27
Ok I am trying to get the arcade installed as soon as I can. Could be a couple weeks. Please also understand that this is going to cost me quite a bit more for the installation and the extra bandwidth, so next time you complain about the advertising please understand that I can not always foot the huge bill all by myself.

Brian
;) That is why some of us was talking yahoo Sports All Stars.Or a service like that.We would of helped Pay on that because we knew how much that Cost.

Now I am not saying we are not thankfull.....we are.But just asking how much this Arcade is going to Cost.

I mean if People are not willing to Pitch in lets say &#036;10 - &#036;20 for a whole Year of Gameing then fuck em.I know that is not any sort of Money but it helps.


I understand why People laugh at the Yahoo All Stars thing.Simply because of Yahoo being behind it.But they do offer a Community setting with Tournaments for the Games they offer.Just Pay them and they do it all for you.

h1
04-22-2004, 02:48 AM
:huh: Since when did it cost money to install a mod?

FuNkY CaPrIcOrN
04-22-2004, 02:56 AM
Originally posted by haxor41789@21 April 2004 - 21:48
:huh: Since when did it cost money to install a mod?
:D MODs cost Money man.You have to Pay for their Beer at least. :D

h1
04-22-2004, 02:58 AM
Slightly beefier arcade (http://mods.ibplanet.com/db/?mod=2427)

rookiecrd1
04-22-2004, 03:16 AM
It costs me money because I&#39;m not good with that stuff. Last time I tried installing the a mod I screwed the entire forum up.

The amount of money for installation will be nothing. The real expense will be additional bandwidth usage.

h1
04-22-2004, 03:32 AM
If you want, I can mod it myself and email you the files.

This is a crap option though since this board has several major mods on it already which probably changed the affected files. :)

wienerschnitzel
04-22-2004, 07:34 AM
[I]well i wanted to see how hard it was to install an acrade myself so i tried it.

the offical directions are located here

http://www.ibproarcade.com/index.php?act=ST&f=8&t=599

The entire installation took me about an half hour, which is pretty good concidering that ive never installed a mod before and have almost no PHP experence. The directions given were very clear, it just took a while to make a bunch of small changes to many different files. Once i finished i only had one error. I search though the forum and found out what i did. I didn&#39;t replace a line in the topics.php file. Once i found out what i did it was really easy to fix.

I think that anyone call install this mod if they know how to copy, paste and use find in notepad.

Ill be glad to help with any errors during installation.


next om going to try installing a new game. it already comes with about 10 good ones but i want to install the counter strike game ( http://stlrc.com/forums/index.php?act=Arca...play&gameid=182 (http://stlrc.com/forums/index.php?act=Arcade&do=play&gameid=182) )


edit : That was alot easier then i though. put the game in the arcade folder, put the picture in the images folder and then go to add game in the admin cp. Then you fill out about 5 boxes with the information given in the zip file that the game was in.

SeK612
04-22-2004, 11:42 AM
Its pretty easy to install. I did have problems later on when trying to set it up on another skin (I got a load of My SQL errors and error text above the top of the forum when viewing topics). I did eventually get it sorted (with the help of people from the ibproarcade forum).

If your unsure about installing you should ask the admin 7th. He seemed to know alot about forums and installed many of the existing mods and tweaks so he can tell you of clashes. He should also be able to help with backups and things in case it all goes wrong.

RGX
04-22-2004, 11:54 AM
Originally posted by rookiecrd1@22 April 2004 - 01:27
Ok I am trying to get the arcade installed as soon as I can. Could be a couple weeks. Please also understand that this is going to cost me quite a bit more for the installation and the extra bandwidth, so next time you complain about the advertising please understand that I can not always foot the huge bill all by myself.

Brian
Really appreciate what you are trying to do for the community rookie, nice to see you are taking suggestions onboard and doing something about them. :)

ooo
04-22-2004, 11:01 PM
eh yea maybe if you send me the file i can give it a try too... i set it up on my forum but i didnt change skins so it might be a little different... the arcades will use up alot more money because of bandwidth...