So I have the XF Arcade. Where can I get games?

No need to fill out surveys (unless they changed), and besides, I have all of these. Just need to know where to send them
 
You will be very hard pushed to find any IPB compatible games that have legal consent to be decoded and used in forum arcades.
So true unless they are one off`s but i had a vb site with most of the ibpdownloads.com games on it minus the Adult and had no hasssle from orignal artist of the software
 
As an additional resource; If there's a game that you'd like to use with XFArcade, or a past conversion you're using that looks hacky and/or has the flashing "Powered by Sothink" text that you'd like to be re-done, then within reason (there will be exceptions) you can PM me on here only. Either once I get access to the private beta (I'm unable to donate financially right now), or when the public beta is available.

I will try to source original versions of the games (or if you can supply a link, that'd be great), and convert them from scratch using the latest methods available, to have an almost perfect integrated copy. Let me say right now, it isn't legal. Therefore I will not charge for this service, but I doubt whether I can submit them here for mass use either, it depends on Kevin and Steve (if either of you would like to discuss this, please PM me).

However, I would suggest some kind of disclaimer;
If you are the copyright owner of this game, and do not wish for it to used on this website, or indeed, any website using the XFArcade script; Then please contact us and we will, as soon as feasibly possible, remove the game and communicate this with the XFArcade community.
 
Legal copies of games are extremely hard to find unless you use stuff like Mochi or integrate with Armor. I try and make sure what I have is legal but it's tough.
 
The fact is that if it wasn't bad enough originally not asking for permission to integrate the games, the horrible conversions that have been done, totally destroy the hard work and efforts that have originally gone into them. It's no wonder that their authors don't want to have anything to do with forum arcade scripts. Unfortunately the damage has been done, and it's now come to the point where staying legal results in an almost bare arcade.

Having a disclaimer such as above, shows that you're willing to co-operate with any removal requests, pass them on as a community (as long as you do it, and not just ignore them), and opens a much bigger catalogue of quality games. I encountered some issues with this in the past on v3arcade though.. If I could offer such a service for the masses, I'd expect compliance with these removal requests and would hopefully receive support from Kevin and Steve that, in the event they were ignored, the offending admin was banned and/or had game downloading rights suspended.
 
It was mentioned early that Mochi Games would be supported. Is that still planned? I'm very excited for this.
 
It was mentioned early that Mochi Games would be supported. Is that still planned? I'm very excited for this.
That is still the plan. I personally prefer getting games from Mochi than trying to grab IPB/v3A games but most site admins end up grabbing IPB v32 games so those need to work as flawlessly as possible first.
 
Unfortunately the damage has been done, and it's now come to the point where staying legal results in an almost bare arcade.
Yep. :(

If I could offer such a service for the masses, I'd expect compliance with these removal requests and would hopefully receive support from Kevin and Steve that, in the event they were ignored, the offending admin was banned and/or had game downloading rights suspended.
You've got my support! Let me know what I can do (we can take it to PC if you prefer).
 
Why do you prefer Mochi?
Primarily because the vetting process is upon Mochi, not me, to weed out games that aren't supposed to be shared. There is still a chance that games might be offered by Mochi that really shouldn't be but when push comes to shove if I get an email asking where did I get that game from I can point the email sender in the direction of Mochi's site rather than trying get around saying that the game came from a downloads site. It does not hold me harmless but it alleviates the issue a little bit.
 
Primarily because the vetting process is upon Mochi, not me, to weed out games that aren't supposed to be shared. There is still a chance that games might be offered by Mochi that really shouldn't be but when push comes to shove if I get an email asking where did I get that game from I can point the email sender in the direction of Mochi's site rather than trying get around saying that the game came from a downloads site. It does not hold me harmless but it alleviates the issue a little bit.
So it's not necessarily because they're better quality?
 
So it's not necessarily because they're better quality?
Correct. When we introduced Mochi with v3 Arcade & testing it, I ended up going through a ton of games that were, to be blunt, junk. For example, only "Leaderboard" enabled Mochi games support posting the scores back to the client that the scores can be locally tracked by the host app (eg: v3A) but yet there didn't seem to be any check in place for games actually adhering to the Mochi coding. What that ended up meaning is that there are Mochi games that are flagged as being Leaderboard enabled but don't actually work with the Mochi published code to capture the scores. There was also the problem of tons of games being nothing more than jigsaw puzzle games that had no scoring, no options, and were nothing more than one picture that you had to reassemble the pieces for. Totally worthless to offer on an arcade site.
 
IN addition, Mochi brings money to the devs where other games do not. I think that's a huge plus.
Good point. :smiley: By using Mochi the game developers get a percentage of the ad revenue so they have incentive to create popular games; they more sites that use their games, the more money they get. That is completely different from the game download sites where the ad mechanisms are often ripped out.
 
So? I'd rather get into something where I pay a couple of bucks and get a kick-ass LEGAL game that supports the dev while being one of the few sites that have it.
 
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