The thing is I installed the portal mode and other mods with no problems at all , why the arcade ??

Yeah when I install a site using their quick install , it automatically creates the database I can not create one myself it doesn't let me they put that at the end so there's no conflict between anyone on their servers . I will try the update grade.php but I am using 2.1 tyvm for trying

Now that I look more at the following, I haven't seen numbers in a hosting's path like this in a LONG time and I've been surfing the net for 35+ years...after '/home/sites/'.

You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MariaDB server version for the right syntax to use near '-353035397ab4' at line 1
File: /home/sites/36b/7/7588baaf12/public_html/Packages/temp/arcadeinstall/Database.php
Line: 16
I'm no expert but I'm thinking that it's either hosting related to the db and/or up may need to upgrade your forum, db, etc. to the latest versions starting with using SMF's upgrade.php which will make sure that the your db is upgraded to the latest version. Other than that, I've got nothing else...

I get a permission error forbidden when I try to use package manager manager to upload the file

I have other mods that installed with no problems so why this one

Looks good yes

If you have access to phpmyadmin, you might also want to check the db and see if all of the table collations are the same AND are the same that the server is set to...

Quote from: Vincent Titus on Today at 09:29:50 AMits because my host has special characters in the database name EX:  '-353035397ab4' the dash and me or them are unable to change it they said

Ask vgamer to help you with this.

its because my host has special characters in the database name EX:  '-353035397ab4' the dash and me or them are unable to change it they said

yeah didnt work lol i think i need a database of the arcade allready installed on a copy of smf the file you gave me installed no problem but still shows i need to install it all on smf and i get the error

ex: install smf
    install arcade
    export the whole data base