SMF Arcade

[geo32101]

All my members cant seem to play, they say that it just tells them that there is o games.
Why?
But I could see them and play them.

[Ertado]

Check your permission settings.

[TrueSatan]

Both the general permission settings and the settings for each game need to be checked and made correct.

[PETERVENNING]

i HAVE INSTALLED THE ARCADE, BUT i GET THIS ERROR WHEN TRYING TO INSTALL GAMES.

Directory /web/gamemasterz.org/Games is not writeable and chmod didn't succeed. Please make it writeable manually.

iF ANYONE CAN HELP I WOULD APPRECIATE IT AS IM PRETTY TO ALL THIS STUFF.   THANKYOU

[TrueSatan]

Firstly please don't shout:

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You need to go to ACP>Packages>Options>Installation Options and set the fields according to your hosting details then on the same page go to Cleanup Permissions and select All files Writeable and run the cleanup...check via ftp that CHMOD of all your files is now 777 or 775 according to the peculiarities of your hosting and if not recheck the settings you made in Installation Options and run the cleanup again...continue as needed until you get the right settings.

[Ertado]

Could someone try and fix my problem please? I'm killing myself adding games here.

[Ertado]

I did explain my problem.

When I am adding games to the arcade, I can only add them as disabled and then enable them individually. When I try to add them as enabled, I get this error:

No files selected!

I don't think it's practical to add large numbers of games without resolving this first so any help is appreciated.

Well actually, I can't install from zip files on my server so I unzip them beforehand, upload them to the games directory then add them through the admin section. Is there a way to make the install as enabled thing work with them this way?

[TrueSatan]

@Ertado

Your problem is an unusual one and thus people may be finding it difficult to suggest helpful actions for you to take.

I would suggest that you open a fresh/test forum and on it put only the Arcade mod then see if your problem continues in that...if it does than you have an issue with your hosting and there may be little we can do to help you save to suggest a change to a better host...if it does not then you may need to replace the files of your forum with fresh versions...to do this first back up all your forum files then get the latest SMF 1.1.4 package and unpack it on your local machine...from it overwrite all files and directories on your forum save for your Attachments directory and Settings.php and Settings_bak.php in your forum root...you will then need to re-add all edits, mods and themes you wish to use.

[Ertado]

That's pretty much out of the question, unfortunately. I have a lot of mods installed and I installed them manually because the package manager doesn't work with my host. Reinstalling everything would take weeks.

Could it be that the game installation script is looking for a zip file when I try to install as enabled  instead of a .swf and doesn't recognize the .swfs I select?

[TrueSatan]

Hmmm that you can't use the Package Manager speaks of problems that could well rear up in other forum issues.

Normally installing by ftp ing the unpacked games in place should work without a problem but in your case if the rest of the site has problems I can't be that surprised that you have this issue as well.

[JungleFever]

Ok, I have a good one for you very intelligent people. 

I am using a theme other than default.  Actually, this problem happens on the default too.  I checked it out. LOL

Just about everyone on the forum can see the games EXCEPT for 3 of my staff ranks. 

My sister is one of my admins so I even changed her rank to Global Mod and then she was able to see it.  She was able to see the Arcade games with every rank but Admin.  I'm putting a screenshot in this post so you can see the message these three staff ranks get when they go into Arcade.  Oh, and I do have the permissions set in the control panel.  And we checked this in IE & FF.

I thought maybe it was because of my theme I created so I switched to the Core theme and the problem still occurs.

I have no clue what is going on here.  Can someone please help me?

[jathulan]

I have the same error today. I don't know if it has something to do with the staff ranks, but it's been happening to a person on mine as well.

[Skhilled]

Try changing Categories to none in the settings. I'm assuming that you do not have usergroups enabled in the categories.

[Ertado]

Does anyone have a way of displaying a user's avatar next to their username in the "latest scores" section? I really need this. Preferably with adjustable size but it doesn't matter too much if you can't do that.

[pythias]

I am sure that this should be easy.......but I am sorta new to alot of this.  I installed Arcade and some games......everything works fine..........but I am missisng graphics for somebuttons I would guess.    http://mandaloriansmsd.com/forums/index.php/index.php?action=arcade [nofollow]

Seems the ones missing are"Random Game" "Add to favorites" and "Show Favorites Only" 

Would just look alot better if I could fix this......just not sure where to look or where to get em.   I am using TP if that makes a difference.  Any help is appreciated.

Also, maybe you could tell me how to bring up the Arcade by itself on a _blank vs being a part of the program the whole time......not that its a big deal.  But would be cool, and maybe a little bigger now being a part of the left block.

[rider]

I am sure that this should be easy.......but I am sorta new to alot of this.  I installed Arcade and some games......everything works fine..........but I am missisng graphics for somebuttons I would guess.    http://mandaloriansmsd.com/forums/index.php/index.php?action=arcade

Seems the ones missing are"Random Game" "Add to favorites" and "Show Favorites Only" 

Would just look alot better if I could fix this......just not sure where to look or where to get em.   I am using TP if that makes a difference.  Any help is appreciated.

Also, maybe you could tell me how to bring up the Arcade by itself on a _blank vs being a part of the program the whole time......not that its a big deal.  But would be cool, and maybe a little bigger now being a part of the left block.

Ok try this.Unzip the arcade and open themes>default>images.Copy the gif images to your themes directory>your theme>images via your FTP and paste them there.That should take care of the images missing.What you can do since you're using TP is create a menu block and add a link to the arcade.When doing so you can choose to have the arcade open in a diff.window.Is that what you want to do?

[fwitt]

Does anyone have a way of displaying a user's avatar next to their username in the "latest scores" section? I really need this. Preferably with adjustable size but it doesn't matter too much if you can't do that.

the bit of code that does the contents of this box is in Arcade.template.php

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foreach ($context['arcade']['latest_scores'] as $score) // Print out latest scores
  printf($txt['arcade_latest_score'], $scripturl . '?action=arcade;sa=play;game=' . $score['game_id'], $score['name'], $score['score'], $score['memberLink'], strip_tags($score['time']));


$score['memberlink'] is the reference to the champion and is of the form
<a href="http://yoursite/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=usernumber">username</a>

[Ertado]

Yes but how do I get the avatar to display?

[SgtMic]

Any fix on Admins not being able to see the games? If I log on as my test name (with no Admin) I can see and play the games just fine.

[Ertado]

You might not have installed it properly. Admins are always allowed to do everything.