So many people have been asking me what is so good about Arcade Trade Script (ATS for short) so i thought i would check out what all the fuss was about and give a detailed review of my experience from ATS and what it can achieve with a little work done to it.

With our recent copy of ATS we put it to the test to see how great the functionality was and I can tell you now that it’s by far the easiest arcade script to set up that I’ve ever seen. It has tons of important features missed out by the other arcade scripts like SEO Tags, Additional Descriptions and Traffic Trading with partners, Statistics, Supports different file types, Up to 3 game images and much much more!

I set up some trading with other arcades and it provided quite useful to gain a  higher traffic flow through my arcade and with the admin statistics it was great to see which partners where doing better and which are doing terrible so i could remove them. All the SEO options and tools inside the script made it quite easy to optimize my site and rank highly on some keywords early into the life of the arcade. With a little imagination you can create great arcade ideas like Flash Game Search and create a whole new arcade site based on one idea.

We recently contacted the owner of ATS to get a review about what he thought about the script and what is going to happen in the future with it:

ATS out did my expectations in it’s first year and I have very happy with the continually growing number of choosing to use or convert to ATS. More and more people are coming out with ATS related mods and templates and I think it is only a matter of time before we become one of the big 3 arcade scripts. Now into it’s second year and with summer now here we plan to release some new ATS products, templates, and possibly some mods over the next few months to help sites get ready for the new school year rush this Fall. Some new version enhances are planned as well.

RSS feeds are coming in the next update as well as some more cheat protection to help in case of incorrect plug URLs. We are trying our best to help protect our customers sites from webmasters that try to take advantage of others. Version 1.2 is expected to be released in the early to mid summer.

Brad
ArcadeTradeScript.com
Intergo, LLC

What will the future hold for ATS?
In Development is version 2.0 which will be focusing on users and the community. Things that will be added involve are Profiles, Friends, PMs, Comments and more. It is a fantastic improvement for a great script and I’m sure a lot of the webmasters cant wait the get there hands on it.

Thanks,
Foxy

After some time reviewing some Arcade Banner Exchanges I’ve come to noticed a lot of them trying to cheat users into joining them by making them appear more popular than they really are. This can include adding fake clicks/impressions, Fake accounts, Sudden bursts of traffic out of no-where, Offering large ammounts of free clicks/impressions without the users to supply them and a lot more.

Without labellingany of the exchanges I’ve come across, I’m going to give them a chance to straighten up and show you a few ways to detect a cheating in arcade banner exchanges so that you will not waste your time, Ad space or money. The most basic way to check if the site is a scam check the Info/Stats page of the exchange, If you can see millions of clicks and impressions and its a new or unknown exchange it would be a good idea to check the ammount of users it has. Don’t be fooled though, Some banner exchanges you might not know everyone else might know about and it may be one of the few really popular exchange websites. Below is a list of the exchanges we currently know of:

List of Arcade Banner Exchanges

When looking at an exchange try to find out as much information as you can. Some exchanges have more information than others such as top users, Site Directory, All ads and even a contact form. All this information serves you a good purpose in studying how the website  is doing and it lets you compair the site to see if its telling the truth or not about its stats. Also a tip is to look at the users banners and grab one that really takes your attention. This way you can get some pretty neat animated gifs for your arcade ads.

Some exchanges have a directory.php to improve SEO and display who has accounts with them. Try having a look at it and see how many of those websites really are using the exhange ( http://domain.com/directory.php ) it is a great way to pull out cheating websites to if you can see them sending impressions on the top list but not ads on there website.

Few other links that might come in handy:
http://domain.com/list.php?size=1 <- Ads + Accounts with teh exchange.
http://domain.com/info.php <- Stats.
http://domain.com/contact.php <- See if you can contact them.

Some exchanges might have re-named/deleted these links to hide there real stats. If you have never heard of the exchange before and you cant find any information like stats or users i highly recommend not trying it. Even if it temps you with free click/impressions it wont be worth it if in return they want ad space for super long periods of time.

Benefits of a Known/ Trusted Exchange:
- Experience in what there doing.
- You can trust clicks to your exchange being real.
- Good Support and Help.
- Real CTR
- And much much much more!

So next time you consider to join an arcade exchange website make sure what the website is really like that you’re dealing with.

Thanks,
FoxyGamers
Arcade Banner Exchange – Spawn Ads

So you’ve just sponsored a game and now you need to distribute it for more traffic? It isn’t that hard if you have a list with you. Directly below me  is a list where you can submit your games:

AddictingGames.com
ArcadeTown.com
BigFunTown.com
CarGames60.com
DailyFreeGames.com
Flash-Game.net
FoxyGamers.com
FreeGamesOnline.com
FreeGameToyz.com
FunArcadeOnline.com
GamersGo.com
GamesChart.com
GameGum.com
HangOutArcade.com
HeavyGames.com
I-Am-Board.com
LameCulture.com
Leenks.com
KickingGames.com
Kongregate.com
KontraBand.com
HallPass.com
NewGrounds.com
SexyGamesClub.com
SmashingGames.com
TalkArcades.com
ThisArcade.com
TimeKiller.com
t45ol.com
UGOPlayer.com
UGoTo.com
9Mine.com

If your website accepts games or you know some sites that do let me know, Im more than happy to add them so you can get some more games on your website.

Thanks,
Foxy

Do i have a treat for you this week. Spawn Ads is the latest in Arcade Banner Exchanges, With a 10:9 exchange ratio and fantastic support you would be silly to give it a miss.  An Arcade Banner Exchange is a website which lets you create and ad and display it on other arcades while you display there ads on your arcade. It is a fantastic and easy way to gain more traffic to your arcade websites. Especially if you are new or just looking for those extra users to get some more ad revenue from your arcade website..

Features Spawn Ads Provides:

• 10:9 Exchange ratio.
• Exchange accounts are free!
• 100x100px Banner Support + more coming soon.
• Support Setting up Banners.
• Advanced Anti-Cheat Software.
• Automatic + Manual Checking of Accounts.
• Free Impressions/Clicks handed out.
• Sign up is free!
• 99.99% website up time.
• Free banners already made.
• Super detailed ad statistics

With all these features you would be silly to not at least give it a try and see how well it goes for you. Don’t forget that it is FREE and we highly recommend it! We’ve even gotten you 500 free impressions if you sign up with this link:
http://spawnads.com/index.php?coupon=b

So what are you waiting for?
Sign up now!

Thanks,
Foxy

So we have our list of banner exhanges here but what banner exchange should we use? Well don’t worry, I’m here to guide you all on how to pick a  correct banner exchange and get the most out of it. First of all,  A banner exchange is like an advertisement on your website, Only instead of making money from it you get more visitors. The main sizes for a banner exchange websites is 100x100px so if you have an extra 100x100px slot than you’re in luck for some extra traffic.

Before joining a banner exchange you need to have a  look at what features they offer, Some things might sound great but they are a real dis-advantage to getting more visitors. An example is:

“The more you clicks you send to us, The more we will show  your ads.”

This might sounds good but if you don’t send them much traffic they will hardly send you any. Not all exchanges are like this though and many are honest 9:10 exchanges. Most exchanges offer 9:10 which means every 10 impressions you send them they will send you back 9 or every 10 clicks you give to them they will send you back 9. The other 1  is usally sold so the exchange can make enough money to stay online.

After reviewing many arcade exhange website i would still have to favourite would be SpawnAds.com, PwnBanners.com or BannerFlux.com but if you have a favourite make sure you let me know in the comments so i can check them out.

Thanks,
Foxy

Its been just over a week send i changed domain names and made a post so i think now is a good time to have another one. Today I’ll be showing you some websites where you can get some games for your website or personal use to download and use.

Recommended:
Mochi Media: https://www.mochimedia.com/pub/catalog/all

Websites:
Armor Games: http://armorgames.com/free-website-games
Crazy Monkey Games: http://www.crazymonkeygames.com/download.php
Elite Games: http://www.elite-games.net/free-games.html
Flash Jolt: http://www.flashjolt.com/webmasters/
Free Games for your Website: http://www.freegamesforyourwebsite.com/
Games Free: http://www.gamesfree.ca/download.html
IBP downloads: http://www.ibpdownloads.com/ipb/index.php?autocom=arcade
Kongregate Games: http://www.kongregate.com/games_for_your_site
Mochi Media: https://www.mochimedia.com/pub/catalog/all
TA Game Feed: http://www.talkarcades.com/gamefeed.php
Ultimate Arcade: http://www.ultimatearcade.com/content/games-for-your-site

Hope you find the list useful and remember if you have free games on your website let us know by commenting below. We also love to hear your reviews, it really helps decide what websites we recommend.

Thanks,
Foxy

Forums are a great way to learn more about your arcade website, Get visitors, Advertise and get knoweledge into new tatics to get more users to your arcade website. I’ve compiled a list of arcade forums with information about them that you can join or look at. I hope that you learn something from these websites and mabye get some new ideas as well as some great knoweledge on how to run your own arcade website.

ArcadeBB – Arcade Webmaster Forum
http://www.arcadebb.com

ArcadeBB is a fairly new arcade forum for webmasters. It is getting posts everyday and even has a adsense sharing revenue which lets you put your publisher ID from adsense into your profile and displays your ad sometimes on the website. Currently there are only three main categories that relate to ArcadeBB, Arcades in general and Off Topic, There will be more categories added once the community grows.

Talk Arcades
http://www.talkarcades.com

Talk Arcades is by far the largest and most used arcade webmasters forum. It provides a new feature which is a GameFeed™ Distribution Network which is simple to install and provides games to your website. There is MOD’s enabled on it that lets you buy and sell things and threads usally get replies to them within  a few hours, No matter what the post is about.

GSS Mods
http://www.gssmods.com – Game Site Script Support

The value of GSS Mods is it is really the only site to offer the vast array of free fixes, mods, custom themes, as well as an exclusive Deal with Designmods.com for custom jobs at a significantly reduced price. At GSS Mods you can get it all. For those not aware, Frank the owner of GSS was going to use these forum’s fixes to make the GSS 4.5 bug fix version.

GSS mods enables you to implement the fixes, mods, and tweaks as a “hotfix” without resulting in an overwrite of your script- and in the end will give you the equivalent of the new version of GSS, or even a script that surpasses it as 4.5 is solely a “bug fix” -no changes or mods, no new features will be incorporated into it. Alot of what you can get here in the forums, will most likely not be in the version 4.5. If you want a truly outstanding GSS arcade script, One that has tons of mods, tweaks, and fixes to truly make it stand out and excel, then you have come to the right place!

More forums that will be  added soon:

http://forum.avscripts.net – AV Arcade Support
http://www.arcadesters.com – Arcade Webmaster Forum
http://www.arcades-forums.com – Arcade Webmaster Forum
http://www.freearcadescript.net/forums/index.php – Free Arcade Script Support

Got a forum you want to see on this list? Simply leave a comment and i will add it within 24 hours, That’s a promise.

Thanks,
Foxy

As many of you know and are now aware, I was the owner of FurPicnic an arcade blog that provided useful information, themes and script to the arcade community. Well now im changed my domain name to give it a little bit more of that… Arcade feel and grab some more people onto my website. So i hope everyone who has supported me through FurPicnic to my new and wounderful domain name:

My Arcader – Arcade Information, Scripts and Themes

With a large amount of people looking each day (So much i had to change my hosting plans) i hope you enjoy all the articles and free content it offers as well as get something from it. New articles regularly!

Hope to see you all there,
FoxyGamers

PS: Im going through forums, posts and websites i’ve palced with a furpicnic link in it, If you have on on your website or bookmarked please change it.

Today i am going to be giving a step by step installation guide for AV Arcade Pro. I have been seeing a lot of people who want a guide or video on how to install AV Arcade Pro so i thought i would make a guide. Simply follow the text and picture below and you can have your AV Arcade Pro installed in no time.
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1) Downloading and getting the Activation Key

a)First off we want to go onto the main AV Arcade website which is located at http://www.avscripts.net/arcade/ and click on the customer area.

b) Next screen that pops up we have to enter our username and password into to log into the customer area of AV Arcade. If you have forgotten your username there is option there to get it sent to you again. If it skips this page and says you are already logged in just skip this step and move to the next one.

c) Once logged in we see can see some new options that we couldn’t see before, We cant to click on Packages. Packages shows all the items you have brought from AV Arcade. If you haven’t purchased it yet you might want to go back and purchase it. If you have purchased it and nothing is inside your packages then send an e-mail to support@avscripts.net and let Andy know that you haven’t received your script.

d) As you should now see there are links to where you can download and see your AV Arcade activation keys. Download your script, Right now you wont need your activation key but you will once your script is installed.

2) Uploading and setting up the Database

a) Now unless you have a free host you should need to upload your files your server. If you have do not know how to do this then i suggest not opening an arcade at this time since you do no have much knowledge. If you insist on opening an arcade website feel free to comment here and i will install it for a small fee. Place all the files on your web server inside the /public_html/ file, once everything  is uploaded onto it, It should look something like this.

b) Now comes the database, This is the most hardest bit to explain since every website can be different. I’m going to be showing you what to do through CPanel. First login to your CPanel which should be located at http://www.(your domain name).com/cpanel. Then login, If you don’t know your login you need to contact the person who manages your web server. Otherwise try your FTP login as most of the time that is what is used.

c) Once inside your cpanel find your databases section and select “MySQL® Database Wizard”. Next type the name of your database in. I suggest  using “arcade” without the quotation marks but it can really be anything. Next select a username and password to use for that database. Don’t worry you will only need to remember this once. After that the last thing will be to select what privileges you want your user to have. Select all of them. Congradulations you just created a database with nothing in it.

d) Last but not least you need to make your script talk to your database. We need to open config.php file on the web server FTP and edit it. So open up your FTP where all your files are on the server and open config.php. When its open we need to edit from lines 3 to 6, I have placed in brackets what needs to be edited with your own information. After that is done close the file and make sure it uploads to the server again.

3) Installation of AV Arcade Pro

a) Alright now if everything above is done correctly this should be very simple. If there appears to be an error with anything to do with the database make sure your config file has the right code in it. Go to your website “http://www.(your domain name).com/install/” and click install.

b) The next page lets you change the title of your website and create and admin account. Make sure you remember your username and password otherwise you need to edit it a new account to become admin in the database.

c) It should now come up with a page saying to delete your install file. To do this open up your FTP, login to your server and then simple delete the file that says install. Congratulations, Go to your website and it should now look nice with an arcade script installed.

4) Activating AV Arcade

a) Remember how in step one “Downloading and getting the Activation Key” i showed you where to find your activation key? Well now you need to use it. Login to your arcade and click “administration” in the user area up the top, It will ask for your activation key. Simply place your activation key provided and you’re done.

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Well Done Arcaders, AV Arcade Pro is now installed and ready to be edited and have games added. If you have come across any errors or want me to install the script for you for a small fee leave a comment including your e-mail and i will get back to you. Also have an arcade script you want an installation guide for? Let me know.

Thanks,
Foxy

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Free Arcade Script, or FAS for short, has come a long what in its relatively short lifespan. Having been one of the people who has helped work on some of the script i can give you all a good review on what it is capable of.

FAS began life as a project by someone called Danny who was the original coder. He sold the script to Robbie who brought on board me as the lead coder. A few other people like Adam have helped out and who have contributed to how FAS is now. Moving along, I had a great concept of where the script needed to go to be among secure, user friendly, enjoyable, admin friendly, easy to maintain,  easy to modify and create templates, easy to make money with and last but not least SEO.

Following on with what i had planned, A few features were added in a short amount of time but was cut short when it was decided that the script needed to be changed to enable all the features in the plan.  Once we changed the script we started adding more features once again and we developed some scripts to add that were just found in premium scripts.

Some of the feature that FAS has:

• SQL Caching. This is a feature that not even all premium scripts have. It helps cut down on the number of system resources that is needed to run the script. This allows the arcade to be ran from a shared hosting account for a longer period of time before having to move to a more expensive hosting.
• Integrated Blog. Some more experienced arcade owners know how much traffic an arcade blog can bring in from simple thing like SEO. This feature can be turned off in the administration panel.There is also a feature which enables you to add members to members without needing to make them an admin. Letting others control your site for you.
• Game adding privileges can be given to members without needing to make them admin. Again this lets others control your website you out you needed.
• Extensive profiles for users. This script is almost a social networking script the way it is set out. Users can send private messages back and fourth. More is being added as we update the script.
• Built in newsletter. No script that we know of comes with a newsletter script built into it.
• Custom pages. The admin can set in custom pages from the admin panel which can user Javascript and HTML inside them.
• Each page can have it’s own meta tags and meta description defined for SEO purposes, including for each different game.
• Advertising can be set up different for each specific game. Great for game sponsorship revenue.
• Game auto sizing for games uploaded through the admin panel.
• Support for the script is incredible! You would never guess that it is a free script by the way problems have been handled in the past. Most issues have been addressed in hours if an admin is in the board, not days. There have been a few that have taken longer, but they got worked on till they were dealt with in one fashion or other.

There are of course other features that are more common among arcade scripts: link trading system, ad management, RSS feeds for games, search, member management, game management, template management, etc.

Some of the feature that FAS is missing:

• Tokens were left out, at least for now, on purpose. It was felt that telling a visitor they can only play 50 games before they have to register would only irritate them, and chances are they would leave, perhaps never to return.
• Some arcade owners like to have an ad page appear before the game page. This was also left out on purpose for the time being. Same reason applied, it might irritate some visitors. This is something that the owner is considering putting in though in such a way that it needs to be purposely activated in order to work.
• Banning users has not been a problem that has come to light in the support forums, so it was held off for a bit while other features were given priority. This is already been coded into what is shaping up to be in the new version v2.1.

What features are coming in the future?

Well, I can tell you that banning a user is already coded in to v2.1. The basic structure for a forum, much requested by members in the support forum, has already been laid out. The ability to give members a choice in templates is in the works. Video, music, funny pics, and jokes, are planned for. I have heard rumor that a high score mod is almost done, just waiting on the contractor to finish and send it. More profile additions such as adding friends is already being coded in. Different languages, rotating ads, game plugs, shop, XML site map, and more, are all things in the works.

Yes, it may still have a few things some people would like to see changed but no script is perfect, and for a free script, it really is hard to beat.

Thanks,
Kurt
http://www.freearcadescript.com

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Well guys what do you think of his review? It explains a lot of the life story of the scripts and has great details of what is in the script and what is coming in the future. For a free script i must say that i have to rate this 10 / 10 it has gone further than what most free scripts do and and still going. The only thing that i can see what is missing is a integration to a game distributor such as Mochimedia, Flash Games Distribution or Game Feed.

With that said guys feel free to send in reviews for your arcade or an arcade you like. I will be reviewing this script in the future and you can compare the difference from a developer to a user.

Thanks,
FoxyGamers