SMF Arcade

[Chen Zhen]

Harvester,

  The instructions inform you to install & then just uninstall it. The installation of the mod commits the changes.

Uninstall/delete that tool and then see if your arcade works properly.

[Harvester]

Harvester,

  The instructions inform you to install & then just uninstall it. The installation of the mod commits the changes.

Uninstall/delete that tool and then see if your arcade works properly.

Oh I missed taht point when i read the install read me. woops!

Youre awesome! That worked great! So now all my tables are the same utf8_general_ci?

[Chen Zhen]

Harvester,

  The tool adjusts all table collations to be uniform based on whichever collation is your default.

[Harvester]

ok next issue... http://www.smfarcade.info/ goes nowhere but to a spam page that has nothing but ads... so I have no clue where to go to get games to add to the arcade.

[Chen Zhen]

Harvester,

  The game packs that used to be on SMF Arcade are located here:
http://www.docskillz.com/docs/index.php?action=tpmod;dl=cat4;dlsort=id;desc;p=0

I should actually ask Skhilled to use the emended game packs that used to be on the SMF Arcade site but those will suffice.
Keep in mind that those are really old games. There are lots of sites that provide games which are compatible with SMF Arcade.
You can Google search IBP games download or SMF Arcade games download to find sites that provide them.

Regards.

[Harvester]

Seems when I try to install games.. I get this error:

Unable to move directories from "/home3/jared867/public_html/fishinpedia.com/fishin-forums/Games/backgammonv32micro/gamedata" to "/home3/jared867/public_html/fishinpedia.com/fishin-forums/arcade/gamedata/backgammonv32MICRO". Please do it manually!

now I have done exactly as it says BUT I stil get that error even when trying to install totally different games.
I also got the exact same error when going to Arcade Admin and trying to run "Update GameCache"

Not sure whats happening.

update: I actually get this error no matter what I click on in admin panel for the arcade. I just downloaded gamepack 2 and went t0 upload it, When I clicked on upload... I got the same error. I also get it when I click on "Install Games" and "Edit Games"

[Chen Zhen]

Harvester,

  Install the Arcade plugin from this thread: http://webdevelop.comli.com/index.php?topic=6.0 which should fix your issue.
It allows .tar compressed files and replaces the game upload routine. It also adds some other features that you can leave disabled if you do not wish to use them.

After running the game installer if you find that backgammon game has an entry in the install list that will not disappear, you may have to manually delete the folder: ../Games/backgammonv32micro_1  (<- just that game folder specifically)

[Chen Zhen]

vertese,

  The PDL/Skin combo errors to custom template language files are most likely due to you transferring the previous theme files to your newer site. I am assuming those files were already edited by the PDL installation on your old site and perhaps because you did not previously uninstall the pdl mod, those edits remain. This will cause those errors when attempting to install the PDL mod anew because the place markers it is looking for have changed since those files already contain the PDL edits.
 
  Your saving score issue is most likely due to improper path settings within the Arcade admin which fwitt has already suggested. Did you double check those settings?

[Chen Zhen]

vertese,,

  Those arcade language files that are currently located in your custom themes language folders (specifically) can be deleted so long as you leave the ones in your default theme. You do not need those language files for every theme as SMF will use the ones in the default no matter which theme is being used.

[vertese]

Hi Underdog
Thanks for the reply.
What I have now done is renamed the newtemplate to newtemplate1 so I can completely start a fresh.
The install went well with no errors , however it still dosent save the bl**dy scores !
I have no idea why , I also deleted the language files and still nothing - before new install
Please help if you can
Many many thanks

[Chen Zhen]

vertese,

  My comments regarding the extra language files in your custom themes was to thwart the PDL installation errors and had nothing to do with your score issues. I stated that Imo your scoring issue is url and/or path related settings from within your Arcade admin section.

[bholderby]

I just wanted to post here and say thanks to ALL who has chimed in a helped with arcade errors...

Got 2.5 RC2 up and running with the PDL pack just fine on SMF 2.0.7...

Thanks! 

[vertese]

underdog,
Sorry I didn't mean to be rude to you , I was just showing my frustration.
I  think I have now found what the problem is !!
I am running wordpress in the root , which I am aware can cause problems which it has .
The intial problem I had was that the it didn't like having the forum in a sub directory as it would just show the frontpage with the error - page not found.
The way I fixed this was to add some text to the htaccess file as shown here -
# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/forum/(.*)$
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [L]
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
# END WordPress

This then allows the url /forum/index.php to not be check by word press ands lets the url work as it should.
Now here's the problem I have discovered with the arcade , the url for the games is - http://chill4uscarers.co.uk/forum/Games which is correct , however when you enter that into the url bar word press blocks it again and shows the same error as before.
Sooo what I think I have to do is somehow add some allow text to the htaccess so that it doesn't check it and in theory the games should then save ?

So if anyone knows what text I should add to the htaccess I would be most most grateful.

Fingers crossed we are nearly there ! 
thanks everyone

[Chen Zhen]

vertese,

  Current directory reference should perhaps be the parent directory on your last rewrite rule. If the current directory is referenced (as in your code) then there should not be a space prior to the first directory separator.

Try this in your .htaccess file in its stead:

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# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/forum/(.*)$
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [L]
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ../index.php [L]
# END WordPress


[vertese]

Hi Underdog,

Thanks for your help , but sadly that didn't work.
the URL http://chill4uscarers.co.uk/forum/Games  now gives a 500 Internal Server Error , and obviously the games still do not save.
I am pretty sure that this must be the problem with wordpress , so we are very close now, but sadly I have no idea how to fix it 
I really appreciate your help .
Thanks

[Kindred]

wordpress is, unfortunately, an ugly piece of coding that does not play nice with ANY other software running on the same domain...

[Chen Zhen]

vertese,

  Imo you have an issue with a directory setting somewhere or perhaps incorrect rDNS configuration.
Currently no one can register on your site because the Captcha shows an invalid referer error.
Whatever is causing an error for the Captcha script could possibly be causing an issue with the actionscript for saving scores.

Unrelated:
Also there is some XHTML syntax issues such as a couple of image tags not being closed.
You have a duplicate js code for your StatCounter script (<- remove one of them & fix the img tag).

Also... I attempted to tell you that if your original script is being used with the last rewrite to the current directory that you have a space prior to the first directory separator that has to be removed.

Code Select Expand


# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/forum/(.*)$
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [L]
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ./index.php [L]
# END WordPress


[vertese]

Hi Underdog
Thanks for the reply and the problem with the captcha.
I have now fixed the captcha , it was using the old code from the old domain , so I just added a new site to captcha and added the new code.
I added the new htaccess and sadly that didnt fix it.
What i have however discovered is that the submit score buttons , do not actually go anywhere - ie. one should go here - www.chill4uscarers.co.uk/forum/index.php?action=arcade;sa=highscore;game=763;start=0
but it dosen't link to anything, could this somehow be a flash incompatability issue?
Many thanks again

[vertese]

it appears that when moving the site each game settings in advanced needs to be saved or changed again.
The submit settings need to be set to IBP Arcade and then saved again.
Once this is done the games should then save.
Many thanks for all that helped and hope this solves the problem completely and helps anyone else that has similar problems.
A special thanks goes to underdog who has spent a lot of time trying to help , thank you

[Chen Zhen]

vertese,

  Save types should not have changed if you had just copied your old database to the newer host. Perhaps there are details that you did not include here to give a hint to the issue.
ie. attempted to install ibp 2.5 games prior to installing the pdl mod, the conversion tool was used from e-arcade to smf arcade or converted from smf 1.1X to SMF 2.0.7.
Imo these are the only things that should cause what you described as the issue.

Anyhow, glad to hear that you fixed your scoring issue.

Regards.