Topic: Most of my games are giving me an error?

[TheOriginalNox]

On many of the games I’ve installed I get an error when I attempt to submit a score. The quote below is from the error log.

Error while saving score for game "RandomGameName". Submit system might be invalid, should be "ibp32" or user tried to cheat.

I saw a thread about some games needing an /arcade/gamedata/gamename/ folder so I created that, however, none of the games had a gamedata subdirectory in the tar file. They contain a php file, an swf file and a couple of graphics. Can someone give me an idea of what I'm doing wrong. Sorry, if this has been answered somewhere before but I didn't see it and I'm a noob to SMF Arcade.

(FYI: I’m running SMF 2.0 RC3 and SMF Arcade 2.5 RC1.)

[ozzie]

Error while saving score for game "RandomGameName". Submit system might be invalid, should be "ibp32" or user tried to cheat.

when u see this error,you need to click edit game and in the edit screen u will see score type, use the drop down and set it to "ibp32" you will need to do this to all games reporting that error

[Underdog]

If the game(s) in question are in fact v32 save types then they should have included a gamedata folder with extra files in it in the zip/tar archive.
 
You can write your own gamedata file if you know the proper score variable used in the game that has been edited with that save type.

gamedata folders must contain a folder with the proper game file name (same as swf file - minus the swf suffix) which then contains other folders (these differ depending on the game).
One of which will be a text file (game_name.txt) possibly containing something like this:

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&scoreVar=_root.score&blah=1

The score variable used for the example shown above is: _root.score

An application such as Sothink SWF Decompiler will allow you to read the swf file for locating the main score variable. (READ ONLY!)

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Your proper solution would be to download your games from a source that includes the needed gamedata folders.
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[TheOriginalNox]

@ozzie

The Submit System drop down list had these options:
-   SMF Arcade v2 (Actionscript 2)
-   SMF Arcade v1
-   Custom Game (PHP)
-   IBP Arcade
-   IBP Arcade v3
-   IBP Arcade v3.2
-   V3Arcade
-   PhpBB (ActivityMod)

I’ve tried setting it to each of the IBP options but the games generate the same error for each.


@Underdog

I picked these up from ibpArcade Downloads. I was told it is a good site for games.

[Underdog]

That is a good site for downloads and they include the proper files.

The save type setting for a game giving that error is: IBP Arcade v3.2 and any game that is actually set to save like that requires its own gamedata/game_name folder tree.

[TheOriginalNox]

Okay, just as a test I went to their v32 section and selected 'Go Go Pets' from page 3 (at random). Then I downloaded it and viewed the tar with PeaZip. It only shows 4 files and no directories. But if I understand you correctly, I should be seeing a folder with more files in this tar or any other I get from their V32 area? Could this be a problem with PeaZip?

[Underdog]

I meant the original zip file from the ipb site. The arcade installs the folder from the zip archive to: arcade/gamedata/game_name/ ... files

[TheOriginalNox]

It looks like my problem was Peazip. I went to your sight and downloaded Pinboliada as a zip file. When I opened it with Peazip it didn't show a gamedata folder. However, when I opened the same zip file with Explorer it showed a gamedata folder.

I couldn't look at the tar files from ibp with Explorer so I was relying on Peazip to tell me what was there. Now I'm thinking that if I find a different tar extractor I will find that the files I downloaded before have gamedata folders as well. I don't know why the crap Peazip doesn't show the folders but it isn't.


Just a final confirmation. I downloaded a copy of 7-Zip and reviewed the tar files that appeared to be incomplete in Peazip. Each of the tars had a gamedata folder that wasn't showing up in Peazip.

[Underdog]

It looks like my problem was Peazip. I went to your sight and downloaded Pinboliada as a zip file. When I opened it with Peazip it didn't show a gamedata folder. However, when I opened the same zip file with Explorer it showed a gamedata folder.

I couldn't look at the tar files from ibp with Explorer so I was relying on Peazip to tell me what was there. Now I'm thinking that if I find a different tar extractor I will find that the files I downloaded before have gamedata folders as well. I don't know why the crap Peazip doesn't show the folders but it isn't.


Just a final confirmation. I downloaded a copy of 7-Zip and reviewed the tar files that appeared to be incomplete in Peazip. Each of the tars had a gamedata folder that wasn't showing up in Peazip.

7zip is good. I use winrar to decompress all my archives and for the arcade games I use winzip to compress them.
However,  winrar will not compress files into tar, for this I would use 7zip but I prefer to compress my arcade games in zip format (my preference).
In fact, the download option in my arcade does this automatically.

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You have confirmed that you have the proper files for these v32 games but for some reason your arcade is not presetting these save types properly.
The only time I had this problem I fixed it by uninstalling my arcade (and deleting its files from install list) and then installing it again.

I am guessing that there may have been flagged errors during install that were not manually parsed. This means the arcade is possibly missing an edit to a file that it needs to function properly.

Do you remember if the arcade installed properly without flagging any errors? You can try what I mentioned above and if there are any editing errors, you must do those edits manually.

[TheOriginalNox]

I've done a reinstall and stared loading the games. It looks like the problems are solved. *crosses fingers*