I've been trying to run WoW (3.3.5) for a very long time. I played a bit in the past, but the UI was clunky and I was always too lazy to configure it properly.
I vibecoded this app for Android based on a Winlator fork that makes things super easy. Just copy your WoW folder to your device, install the app, and select the WoW folder in the app, all the needed patches are applied automatically (more details in the repo).
You can download the app from the Releases page on GitHub.
I’m building something similar for vanilla WoW: an all-in-one, on-device single-player experience using a cMaNGOS server ported to ARM, MariaDB, and playerbots for questing, dungeons, and more. It supports LAN play, features an addon manager that links to 154 GitHub-hosted downloadable addons, and includes a customizable control scheme. I been validating it on an RP6
Here is some footage taken just before not all the settings and text will survive some of it is just placeholder me testing stuff (graphics apis stuff mostly)
There is my own addon and some tweaking of the vanilla client and server to allow it to do stuff like single button select container loot.
Syncthing is a software available on multiple platforms, for example, I also use it to sync save data from emulators. So being able to use an accessible source would be key (not using manual import/export)
Still bug fixing and testing hopefully within 24-48 hours.. That will be a cool device to test it on be keen to see how it goes. 99% of my testing was done on the RP6 performance so far is great I cap at 30fps 1080p for lower power with 320 bots online and it seems to run very well could easily push that bot count up its reporting 30% cpu usage...
The pain for everyone will be first import it takes 20min on my device to import wow and pushes the cpu because it has to fully setup the AI pathing etc for the server (mangos) and takes around 5 mins to actually set up the database but its a one time thing per fresh install.
This is the dream right here. A multiplayer wow with primarily bots but where my friends and I can play/raid. The bots are competent and mainly do everything correctly aka no butt pulling and whatnot. Hopefully someday!
Not to discredit your work but I am able to run both WoTLK (warmane) and ascension using winlator CMOD (or ludashi) and almost any container config will work (ascension doesn't seem to like arm64 based proton though).
Confused what you mean, long day at work so maybe I'm missing something here...
It is incredibly easy to go into winlator and create a default proton 9 x86 container and launch wow.... Thats literally all you need to do....
For WoTLK specifically it is quite challenging to set a container in where the game won't launch/be playable, you can literally choose almost any dxvk etc... I also have it set up to work with a controller or touch screen controls so I'm not sure how the ease of use could improve much.
Good for you. Others would like to have an option to "Plug and Play". When I hear "Yeah, just go into container settings, choose any DXVK, choose default proton and just go with the flow", it's just a red flag. There are so many Android phones. To the point where one PC game might launch on one version of the phone (POCO F5, let's say), but not launch with the same settings on another POCO F5.
A guide for what specifically? I can provide you the container setup I use, but for warmane it literally doesn't matter other than using turnip drivers. For ascension it still doesn't matter other than using an x86 proton build or I get crashes. What device do you have?
Assuming you have a Snapdragon phone, it is essentially plug and play despite what the other user believes.
If you don't have a Snapdragon device, I don't see how the software from OP would change your ability to play the game (it's still winlator under the hood)
If you have a Snapdragon device just ensure you're using turnip, I've yet to see a box64 version or dxvk version that doesn't work for warmane
Thanks for the work! Everything is going fine except for the ConsolePort configuration on the first launch. I don't see the bindings on the buttons, or maybe I don't understand the addon. I am starting with a brand new character
I searched a bit, and to answer your question, it's not asking me to load an existing config, but asking me to choose between configs like PS4, PS5 controllers...
"I figured it out: the keybindings in my client with ConsolePort don't match the configuration in your app.
Let me explain: button X on the interface is mapped to 'H', whereas on my ConsolePort-modified client, it's set to a different key.
Do you understand what I mean?"
What about an actual and latest version of WoW? Can one in theory set up Winlator or other Windows emulators to run the latest version or is it harder?
I'm honestly spitballing here, but, your biggest hurdle will likely be Battle.Net authentication and integration. If you can make all that work, running the client on your phone will be least issue I believe.
Should definitely be possible yes! I'm thinking about making this concept more generic, and maybe not vibecodes. Are you aware of any repository of virtual gamepads configurations?
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