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It should be much more doable now!

• Added "Lootle" a daily item find/deduction type game with prizes. I have been tweaking and improving this for about a week. I think it's in a decent spot now.
• You can now research a specific rarity level for an item set for cheaper.
• The Item and Avatar Guess games now feature auto-completing inputs of previous guesses.
• Added a new avatar set.
• Added a new item set.

Stuffs:

• Fixed select boxes not showing in the treasure room.
• Added the Auctioneer village NPC. Going once, going twice, sold!
• The personal feed now lets you know if you used all your item/avatar guesses for the day.

I'm going to be working on some more daily activities. It worked for Neopets!

All activities on the site provide different odds and ranges on items. Some max out at 4, while others can give a 5; and some don't give magic/foil, while others grant that possibility.

More things!

• The "Most Popular Games" on the home page and games page is now based on total game plays.
• The Item Slot Machine now costs 100 to play and 3 items = 100 return (both up from 50).
• Fixed forum columns being resized strangely.
• Made the score submit registration message a bit more appealing for non-registered users.
• Made the village pages provide more context and look more appealing/provide a call to action to register and login.

• The personal site feed now mentions if you haven't entered the lottery yet.
• The researcher now offers different prices for some things.
• You can't edit your profile without playing some games first. Let's hope bots can't play games.

Uhhh... I have no idea how that is possible.

Things and stuff:

• Added three new games.
• Fixed the fullscreen button not working.
• Fixed an error when using Affinity gear.
• Added a new "Researcher" NPC.
• Added an "audio" section to the User CP. This allows you to mute all games and/or change the starting volume globally.
• Updated the footer links.

• Added a new avatar set.
• Added a new item set.
• Fixed hover shines and foil glows expanding past the item in some cases.
• The games and highscore pages are no longer paginated, showing all games at once instead of multiple pages.
• The inventory display system has been redesigned, allowing dynamic loading and fixing server issues.

New mechanics, in my game site from 2009?!? Remember how equipment didn't do anything for like 2 decades?

• There's a new equipment slot called "pocket" which allows you to add any item that doesn't have a specific "equipment" slot set.
• Items that are magical and/or are a foil item now give one extra stat each for equipment.
• Equipped items make it more likely to find items within the sets that are equipped (multiple of the same set equipped will combine). The chance increases with the rarity of the item and its magical/foil status. This is called "Affinity".

MOAR

• Fixed the new item set not having an equipment set.
• Fixed the CAPTCHA not working on the registration.
• Increased the minimum and maximum lengths on passwords.
• Added the new CAPTCHA to other forms on the site.
• Medallions are now grouped together on the profile page.
• Medallions now look more like medallions, so that you might think that they are medallions. Medallion.
• Medallions now show the set icon next to the medallion.

Unfortunately, they need to be a specific type to work with the systems we have here. After looking for a few days, I finally found a working forum that has some downloadable still. All the other forums that have games are privated/no longer working currently. This is a dying art. Let me know if you can find any good ones to add from here: https://ipsproarcade.com/index.php?/ipsproarcade/

If you want me to add them quicker, I also need the following for each game when I add them:

1. Author name/website link
2. Description
3. Minimum score for submission
4. Gold offset - we divide the score by this value to give a gold amount.
5. Score value that grants full rewards - this is usually a high/really good score, but not necessarily the highest score.
6. Maximum chance of an item. This is anywhere from 5 to 20, depending on how long the game takes or other factors.

I'll have to verify everything of course, but it would save me a lot of time, haha.

New stuffs:

• Added a total times played statistic for games (includes guests).
• Item and Avatar guess now provide way better rewards, but can only be played 10 times per day each.
• The avatar page now displays how many unique avatars you own versus how many are available.
• The collection collector now lets you know how many sets there are.

It did seem like it wasn't checking for foil/magic items in the collection collector properly. When it was displaying what sets you had full, it would skip magic/foil items, but not when actually returning it - it could grab magic/foil items still.

There shouldn't be an issue returning magic/foil items to the item collector, should there? You have to individually select the items. I think it would be okay to choose to get rid of some magic items here. I wouldn't do foil necessarily, but if you are already maxed out on magics, I think it's okay, no?

I return!

• Added a new item set.
• Added a new costume set.
• Fixed the glitched version of Power Arrow.
• Updated Ruffle (Flash player emulator). Let me know of any compatibility issues!
• Added a real site CAPTCHA for registration. Begone bots!
• Fixed the login form looking weird in some browsers.
• Added more compatibility messages to games. Thanks for the reports!
• Fixed some games that were not able to submit scores before, including Box of Chocolates, Kangaroo Jack, and Minotaur (partially).
• Fixed the collection collector finding foil/magic items when collecting the item set.

One thing I was working on was a way to analytically balance the games in terms of gold/item drops. Things may now be out of whack after my changes. Send me an email if you are interested in taking a look at them all in detail and suggest any changes, since you are probably the best person to understand things in better detail. I know it will probably spoil some of the magic.

Woooooooo!

There's lots of traffic to the site, but not many actually make accounts. They just play a game and leave. Either that, or they are bots. The guest tally stays active for hours after somebody has visited the site, so the number can be pretty high sometimes.

I'll look into modifying this.

I think we're going to need some kind of item limit. Not sure how to implement it yet, haha. From the code:

   case 1: $quest = "energy"; break;
   case 2: $quest = "shot"; break;
   case 3: $quest = "shell"; break;
   case 4: $quest = "boots"; break;
   case 5: $quest = "deku"; break;
   case 6: $quest = "bomb"; break;
   case 7: $quest = "mask"; break;
   case 8: $quest = "mushroom"; break;
   case 9: $quest = "potion"; break;
   case 10: $quest = "sword"; break;
   case 11: $quest = "fire"; break;
   case 12: $quest = "red"; break;
   case 13: $quest = "key"; break;
   case 14: $quest = "blue"; break;   
   case 15: $quest = "magic"; break;   
   case 16: $quest = "bag"; break;
   case 17: $quest = "green"; break;
   case 18: $quest = "shield"; break;
   case 19: $quest = "small"; break;   
   case 20: $quest = "coin"; break;
   case 21: $quest = "hat"; break;
   case 22: $quest = "ring"; break;
   case 23: $quest = "letter"; break;   
   case 24: $quest = "armor"; break;   
   //
   default: $quest = "balloon"; break;

Some new stuffs:

• Added the ability to gamble 10 or 25 times in a row in the Item Slot Machine.
• Upgraded the Ruffle player on the site.
• Added a compatibility section for games that are not fully supported by Ruffle. Let me know if you find any that have issues!
• Fixed not being able to comment on games.
• Fixed not being able to post in the forums.

MOAR

• Fixed item pagination showing the next page in instances where there was no next page of items.
• The vendor house now sorts items sold to others at the bottom of the list.
• Added the Treasure Room to the village which uses keys to open deterministic or "themed" chests.
• When submitting a score, it now lets you know who got the bonus 10 gold for being the champion.
• Player's latest highscores are now shown in player profiles.
• Fixed some places where magic status was not showing properly.
• Slightly increased the chances of getting a magical item when dropped/given normally.
• Added ultra-rare foil items that count towards a new leaderboard statistic.

• Re-balanced item collector based on most common item names.
• Added more valid equipment types and corrected many incorrect items being equippable.
• There is are now caps on the magic effects of items.
• Messages that include effects of magical items now reveal your total percentages.
• Fixed certain places where item amount and ranks were not recalculated.
• Added Avatar Guess village game.
• Added a new game.
• Added more avatars.

Is this thing on?

• The item in Item Guess is now saved to stop exploiting.
• There's now more separation when doing actions in the village, making it easier to see the results.
• Added the Blackmarket to the village.
• You can now reset the lottery if the last entry was more than 5 days ago.
• Player equipment is now shown in their profile.
• Added a new item set.

Talking to the void like it's my friend:

• Added a daily login bonus.
• The profile fields and linking have been modernized. Goodbye, MySpace
• Your personal highest score is now recorded/displayed and does not get reset.
• Fixed item slot machine showing blank items sometimes.
• The "Newest Highscores Set" on the home page will now only show one highscore per user.
• Improved delivery of updates on site so users don't see broken layout/changes.
• Added a new game.

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• Added two new games.
• Highest records of all time have been calculated (some older games didn't have records yet).
• Fixed incorrect badge count on some profiles.
• Avatars now feature a different, less generic look with more art from their respective games.
• Added some new avatars.
• The home page now features a new listing of newest highscores set and avatars.
• Fixed the look/feel of collection collector item returns.
• Games image boxes have a different look so they don't look like avatars/items as much.
• Removed old unsold items to users in vendor house.
• "Restart Game" button has been moved and now reloads the game instead of the page.
• Daily gold games now give double the gold instead of a flat "15" gold.

And then?

• The gold counter now displays more accurately after losing/gaining gold.
• Your placement is now displayed when submitting a score.
• Avatars now also feature a card-like aesthetic.
• Fixed game linking errors.
• Added a new item set (had to relearn this process).
• Added a new game (had to relearn this process).
• Added additional cheating detection/prevention.

Babe wake up, new patch notes just dropped:

• Fixed the contact and forgot password forms not sending emails.
• Added some new items that were missing from sets.
• There are now controls under each game that will mute them or enter fullscreen mode.
• Modified and normalized many games that did not give out enough rewards (or too much) using the power of DATA!
• Increased the maximum gold per game from 300 to 3000.
• Fixed some games not submitting the correct score.
• Fixed some games that were not tracking time spent properly.

Even more stuffs:

• Removed old affiliates (these are no longer a thing?).
• Removed the "Help" entry in the forums that did not function properly.
• Items will now load faster.
• Item sets will now be numbered within their own set, all distinguished with a symbol.
• Animated items will now be a bit less frenetic.
• Increased the chance of item drops from games.
• Reduced the chance of rarity 5 drops.
• Items now have a different style and have 3d card-like hover effects.

More stuffs:

• Improved and/or fixed the look of several elements on the site.
• Fixed several instances where magical items did not show their magical status.
• Magical items now sell for more in the Marketplace.
• You can now have up to 25 favourite games.
• You now can't favourite the same game twice.
• You can now sort games by low/high average playtimes.
• The top 50 high scores are now posted on the high score pages.
• The all-game high scores page now shows the time.
• Fixed registration not working correctly.

• Restored the website to most of its former glory (now that Ruffle exists - long live FLASH!).
• Removed Twitter/Facebook functionality and linking (nobody used this anyway).
• Recent topics on the home page have been reformatted to match the site feed better.
• The games page now shows how it is sorted by and which game numbers it is showing.
• The games page now shows 50 games at a time instead of 25.

There are still quite a few bugs around. The transition to upgrade the forums, flash games, and back-end server tech has not been an easy process.

So, the site has been down and broken for a couple of years now.

No longer! Flash lives again thanks to Ruffle! FLASH FOREVER!

More to come! Check out the Changelog post for future updates: https://www.kokaro.com/forum/index.php/topic,51.0.html

Thanks for playing TucanOG! This site has been dead for years and years, but I'm not like most people that would just take it down as it still kind of functions; just in a frozen state, hah.

As many people probably know, all my free time goes towards my new passion project: Wayward (http://store.steampowered.com/app/379210/).

Who knows, maybe I'll spend some more time on Kokaro in the future!

Currently, Legendary is the highest!

Either hacking or a glitch... which could it be? 

I believe there is a couple more after Grandmaster.

Don't click this link.

Does a R5 accessory exist? Highest I got is a R4.

Wow, talk about carpal tunnel syndrome! I'll add it soon

I don't use cPanel

Make sure you clear your browser's cache.

Updated Onslaught 2!

Making the games or finding them? Heh.

You can attach images in the forum easily. It's part of the toolbar.

What's the point of spamming your website if you have so many members?

Will add this next time

Try logging in on this page:
http://www.kokaro.com/login.php

Don't use the top form, use the second form. Did you install any new anti-virus programs? Any new software at all? Can you log in to other sites?

Have you tried with another browser on your computer at all? I've had nobody else report this issue. Many people here, including myself use Chrome and works fine. See if another browser will let you on... if not, it's possible some anti-virus software might be blocking you, or if it does work, it's possible some Chrome plugin/setting is blocking login? I'm not sure.

I can't tell you why. Any errors pop up? Are cookies enabled on your browser? What browser are you using?

That's because you can't buy your own items. Additionally, you have the option to remove them for sale if you want. The vendor store is for selling your items to other players, you won't get the money until somebody else buys them. If you want to sell them directly, you can sell them at the Marketplace.

• Fixed being able to post (or spam) links in the comments. Use the forums instead if you want people to check out links.
• Fixed a bug where you would submit the same comment twice if you commented, then played the game and submitted your score.

Fixed a bug that allowed a 1% chance to fail on giving an item or avatar that was guaranteed to be given.

I believe I have fixed this issue. Let me know if you get it again. I assume it only happened once to you?

• Fixed a bug that would make it so the "404" page would come up if you went to multiple pages or refreshed the page too fast. I put this in to stop people exploiting the item stumble, but I set it up differently so it still stops it from happening, but doesn't give the 404 page.
• Item stumbling is now a bit more common.
• Added a new random event that would reset the Seeker of the Rare.

That's a good idea, I'll look into it.

I'll see what I can do.

I'll try to put something together this weekend

Sorry couldn't find a version of it compatible

Any more ideas?

Sorry couldn't find a version of it compatible

Any more ideas?

Hello, Dubstep here. I was banned for "cheating" while playing Spear toss. This is the second time it happened. I would email but I don't use my old email account anymore. Can you please figure out what this bug is and please fix it and maybe fix my banning. Thank you -Dubstep

Unbanned

The automatic cheating detection system is not 100% yet, sorry about that.

Can't you just sort by "Name"?

Added an item for you.

• Added a new item set.
• Fixed magic item information page example.

If you are learning PHP and a bit of MySQL, i'm sure you could

Maybe some rewards would be in order

Thanks, added to the never-ending to-do.

I'm surprised you've even figured that out hehe. Great idea on being able to change the medallion item after the fact. I'll look into this.

So any more suggestions, or did you give up?

I know about this one, it's part of one of the to-do items

There's no way to lose your account. Even if you are banned, your items and account still remains in the system. There really should be no reason to keep two accounts, but again, having multiple accounts won't get you banned directly; however, if you are using many at a time, trying to scam or exploit, or doing some other naughty stuff, they could ALL be banned.

You can now see all your medallions on your profile page by clicking the "View All" button. Button will only show if you have more than 28 medallions.

Fixed more saving bugs with the User Control Panel.

Game Badges are worth more "Leaderboard" points now.

The Rules page has now been added:
http://www.kokaro.com/rules.php - Read it and weep

There hasn't been much progress made on Kokaro in the last month or so, just due to other projects I am working on, but there should be a new item set coming up soon.

Also, keep in mind there's a lot of behind the scenes stuff that I work on that I don't announce since it's just bug fixing and server-related stuff.

There will be much more than 4 new items; however, I only "reveal" 4 of them.

It was reduced to 4 to avoid spoiling surprises. New item set coming soon

Again, I've said, if you have any suggestions for games, please let me know. I've also said, I can't add all games suggested, but I will do my best to get the on the site if they work.

Some people like hard games, liking, loving, hating or disliking is a personal preference. A game you call "crappy" might be the same game that somebody loves. I can't please everybody.

Stupid Ameoba 1 MORE TIME AND IM LEAVING THIS SITE THESE GAMES ARE STUPID GRR!!!!! .

Did you want some cheese with your wine? You do realize everybody here knows who you are right?

Didn't add the wrong game.

• You didn't give me a link to any game.
• After searching for it, adding it to the site, it did not work.
• I do not have the ability to modify any game.
• I have previously linked where the games come from - use that resource.
• Speartoss has been added.

Good idea.

If I didn't add a particular game mentioned on the forums it is because I couldn't add it. As in, it had no score submission version available or one that did not work with the site's interface. You are free to suggest any game, but I am at the mercy of other people converting games over to score submission versions. Until then, I just add other games that I find fun or interesting in some way.

Hmmm... me too, I will look into this.

No, I have to.

Fixed. Thanks.

Good idea. I think it will definitely be changed up a bit in the future.

Seeker of the Rare.

I'll have to do it manually, just shoot me an email from the contact page.

Hey, this is Renegade. About two weeks ago I was playing Albatross Overlord (yeti sports game with the penguin and seagulls) and in between games I got an error screen saying the account has been banned. There didn't seem to be any problems with the game from what I could tell, but my account is now locked nonetheless. Could I get some help, please! Thank you!

You should of emailed when it happened. Unbanned.

Added a couple more things tonight.

Some quick updates:

• Fixed some refreshing exploits.
• The "Surprise Bag" has been added to the Marketplace. Be careful with your gold. Although I got pretty lucky and got a level 5 rare right off the bat.
• Leaderboard balancing: most notably, badges are weighted more now while some other statistics have been reduced in effectiveness.
• The game Insurgo Remix has been fixed: http://www.kokaro.com/insurgoremix.php

I've looked at the To-do list the next thing will be The Thief by the way what will it do when you next update this site.

I don't exactly follow it all the time, but there's a good chance, yes.

Some quick updates:

• Fixed some refreshing exploits.
• The "Surprise Bag" has been added to the Marketplace. Be careful with your gold. Although I got pretty lucky and got a level 5 rare right off the bat.
• Leaderboard balancing: most notably, badges are weighted more now while some other statistics have been reduced in effectiveness.
• The game Insurgo Remix has been fixed: http://www.kokaro.com/insurgoremix.php

Hey now, not all updates are announced. And not all updates are "fun" stuff. Fixing exploits, fixing bugs and other stuff are technically updates too

Updates are very sporadic on this site. I don't have much time to dedicate to it now as there's less traffic during summer. But you should expect to see something new every month - new items, new avatars, new features. A new game appears every Friday.

I recounted the items on the site... all of them should be accurate for now. Still have to fix it permanently though.

Maybe I won't add any games? 

If you want to give me suggestions, please go ahead. If you are feeling extra helpful, you can take a peak on this site:
http://www.ibpdownloads.com/ipb/index.php?app=arcade

For games to add - they work directly with Kokaro.

We have those here:
http://www.kokaro.com/items.php?item=potato

Fixed

If it's super offensive, I have been known to edit/change them, but it's only happened a couple times.

Have you seen this happening anywhere else on the site?

Hmm, how are you doing that?

What is their charge?

Instead of all that, just use the Log Out button when not on the site

Also, don't check the "remember password" button.

That's the name I am giving the idea suggested. Basically you buy a surprise bag from the marketplace, and inside is a random item.

I have added the "Surprise Bag" idea to the to-do list.

Hmm .. Did I do something wrong? I definitely do not cheat if that is implied, but I'm sorry the yes voters feel that way. I like to wind down after a hard day's work with a few mini games, and this site provides me with the relaxation I'm looking for.

I wouldn't worry about it

They "can" be added, but the issue is "when" they will

Great idea!

I'll try to find it and let you know.

I can't deny people were exploiting X-Training. I have since fixed it. The issue is, I don't have exact stats on WHO was exploiting it enough to punish anybody; however, I'm thinking of an item or gold reset of some kind.

Thats not all he is stealing gold and items and hacking gold and hacking medallions

Do you have any proof or extra information on this?

I'm sure you will find a lot of "bad" words in the comments unfortunately

Done!

The Question like cheating exploiting racism etc.                                             

Well, to be honest, there is no concrete rules at this time. I usually just play it by ear. In general, don't be a dick. Don't do things if they are considered "wrong".

Don't cheat, don't exploit (a lot of people don't listen to this one), don't be racist, don't be a dick. I have no problem banning and or punishing players in some way if they choose to  do "bad" things.

I will add it to my "to-do" to add a concrete rules page. Thanks!

Can you add rules?

What do you mean rules?

Like, do you mean, like hints on how to play on Kokaro, or do you mean more like, no cheating/exploiting, racism, etc.?

When you recall the stock, you should get the items recalled.. Good idea?

Not for $5000

Recalling the stock functionality has been added.

Couple new updates:

• There's now a personal site feed on the home page that displays any items attempted being sold to you. More will be added to this later.
• Some Marketplace balances.
• Some Leaderboard tweaks.
• Transmogrifier balance.
• Players can now recall the Marketplace stock.
• New avatars.
• New items.

Also I just noticed the prices vary at different times of the day?  Has this always been like this?

It sure has

Just giving everybody the same deal I gave a couple members the other day. If you are somehow cheating or exploiting some system on the site, here's your chance to explain how you are doing it to avoid being banned. A fair trade, no?

Some of the people with the insane amount of items may want to take me up on this offer

*EDIT* If you want to do this private, just use the contact form and your identity will be safe.

If you are truly the champion, you get 10 extra gold, it just doesn't mention it in the payout.

These have been shifted a bit.

Done.

If you have ideas on which type of items to add, please let me know!

Thanks <3

Tell me how you are messing with the lottery and I won't ban you. Simple as that.

Unfortunately I can't get it in the format I need to work with the site

Any other suggestions?

This has been added, you know, because we totally need more zombie games on this site. 

New tweaks have been put in, although the automatic process that changes it up a bit every month might do some shifting as well.

I agree, I will do a bit of manual shifting again.

Very very very slowly, hehe.

Just a quick fix in the user control panel. You are now allowed to save fields as blank if you want to remove your social networking fields.

Highest scores are now in! I will be publishing some new site feed notifications for this a bit later once more new highest scores come in.

shouldn't the current highscores be the all time highscore?

The systems are separated right now. Yes, I could just exported them all over, but where's the fun in that? This is a new system, so players can have some fun trying to set the NEW  highest score of all time, even though, technically, it may not be

I edited your message a bit. Also, I don't agree with this at all. I've seen him with lots of girls.

Take a look at this message's image:
http://www.kokaro.com/forum/site-discussion/to-do/msg565/#msg565

There's some special plans for Avatars

Sorry about that. There's an equalizer thing in place that changes the weights on certain things every so often. If I had to make a guess with the weights right now, it's probably the gold weight that got hit the most (I can't remember what it was at before), but considering you have the most on the whole site, that's probably it. Without going too far into it, it's based on everybody's current totals. Don't worry, i'm sure you'll be in first again soon enough with the rate you are going at

Another small tweak:

The 200 gold limit per game has been increased to 300.

Magic item collectors rejoice!

The following changes have been made:

• Wealth bonus has changed from 0.05% to 0.25% extra gold on games.
• Bartering bonus has changed from 0.1% to 0.25% less to buy price in the Marketplace.
• Persuasion has changed from 0.2% to 0.5% more to sell price in the Marketplace.

Also changed is the site feed will no longer report on items reserved for other people (this stops a lot of spam). I will be adding this back in a later date in a newer system that will show a site feed dedicated only to you in which you can get email notifications and other cool stuff.

This has been fixed, thanks. Have some praise

Updates:

There is now a search bar located at the bottom of inventory-based pages like the Vendor House or the Enchanter. This will help you find items easier. A LOT EASIER. You no longer have to "view all items" to get the filtering you need.

There's also a new set added.

One there for ya

Great idea! I'll add it to the list.

I've been working on some ideas, including "Special Events" things that mix up some of the Village locations a bit - there's no telling when they will happen or what will happen specifically. I just tested an example today:

Let me know if it's now better for you. I couldn't see it on my end, but the tweak should of fixed it on yours.

Oppsies, I will fix those 2 not showing up there; however, for the menu, that seems strange. Do you know which browser you use?

See if doing CTRL+f5 (hard refresh) on the website helps, I know sometimes the caching will mess with stuff like this.

Unfortunately I wasn't able to find a score-submit version of those games

I found another game called Heist though that was kind of fun

Quite a bit of new stuff loaded. There's a large collection all from the same game, but some other games mixed in as well. Gotta Catch Em' All!

Put one up.

Upon further inspection, I definitely need to add more avatars with the crazy amount of people that now play on the site. I'll try to add some tonight.

I add new avatars and items every once and awhile (not too common), but I can see about some new stuff soon

Hmm, I'll take a look and let you know if it's possible. Thanks!

Hey there,

It's a little hard to say, since it's based on an average of players, and then based on all the statistics of your profile. Gold, items, avatars, medallions, badges, games played, quests, forum posts, forum virtue. They all matter, but some matter more than others, like medallions and badges.

Most players looking to get a higher rank might want to go the route of getting as many badges, avatars, and medallions as they can. Collecting magic items of "Virtue" will also help your ranking directly. Or, you could go the reverse and grab as much gold and items as you can. There's a couple different strategies.

But, like i said, anything you do on the site will ultimately boost your ranking if you don't want to worry about it so much, so keep playing!