World of Warcraft Emulators

[BinaryPriest]

I have followed the instructions for setting up the Hearthstone core and the database files that it needs, however when I run the hearthstone-world.exe program it gets stuck on the spell.dbc file citing a compatability issue, is anybody aware of any alternate sources for the .dbc files or could you point me in the direction of a fix ?

[Clain]

Stormcraft(Dead)
Stormcraft was the first wow emulator started by someone with little programming experience and also had little knowledge about "packets", But as the first seems to be the dead.

Lax was a genious programmer and hacker. He made the first functional emulator without even playing on a server; You know Innerspace(LavishSoft)? He runs that.

How could someone without programming knowledge code the townhall stuff in a week >.>

P.S - You forgot WCell.
P.S.S - Do some more research before you post.

[Henkke]

Yep a bit outdated info, Wcell is missing, mangos's git repo :
git://github.com/mangos/mangos.git
"But until patch 2.4 came out and Burlex kept 2.4 for himself for a while for some reason,"
- he kept it for himself since this was the time when he hated the people who just take his work and do money with it

TrinityCore is missing btw.

"It has not proven its stability but it has proven to make people learn the feeling of a Emulator"
- It's way more stable than arcemu and hearthstone, they seem to go the wrong way (Arcemu more, hearthstone hinders between)

I suggest reading GotWOW? , it does not have the most updated info, but valid one.

[Clain]

Theres WSharp aswell... but thats been closed source and pretty sure its going to stay close sourced and probably never released. Codeserver - Revisions 1001 to 975

[CoolManBob]

Theres WSharp aswell... but thats been closed source and pretty sure its going to stay close sourced and probably never released. Codeserver - Revisions 1001 to 975

I think he talked about releasing it and going opensource with it sometime in the future, exactly when I have no idea :/

[Hunterplay]

I smell a sticky

[Henkke]

I'd not say this to be a sticky, atleast in current state. It gives a wrong preview of the emulators, and doesnt include everything worth noticing at this date

[Gastricpenguin]

I smell a sticky

I don't .

[W@WAdict]

I have followed the instructions for setting up the Hearthstone core and the database files that it needs, however when I run the hearthstone-world.exe program it gets stuck on the spell.dbc file citing a compatability issue, is anybody aware of any alternate sources for the .dbc files or could you point me in the direction of a fix ?

I had the same problem with ArcEmu when I tried to set it up for 3.0.9, I deleted the dbc directory from my server directory and re-extracted the dbc files and map/vmap files from the client and copied them over. At first I had used dbc files that were for another 3.0.9 emu, but after re-extracting them it worked fine.

I am not real familiar with Hearthstone, but being a derivative of Ascent like ArcEmu, it should work basically the same as far as dbc files are concerned.

[runiker]

How would this hurt peoples feeling?

Some people tend to flame othe emus or try to promote others ect.

[W@WAdict]

Some people tend to flame othe emus or try to promote others ect.

That is true runiker.

Some people tend to flame other emus, and in some cases they do not really have any idea what they are talking about.

Over the years I have tried several different emus and played shortly with some of them, but I have found that EVERY emu has it's good points and it's bad points.

Unless they have attempted to actually write an emu or work on one, they do not realize the HOURS that it takes to get one working anywhere near playable.

Some times you just have to overlook what people are saying. And take the flames for what they are worth, some people just like to keep things stirred up.

[jeremymcc]

i like the effort in forming a summary guide of the various emulators out there but more information will need to be added. perhaps more community contributions rather than flaming. so far he seems willing to make adjustments to the post based off of other people's feedback. i applaud the person who posted the newer mangos download link and the ones contributing emus not yet mentioned and hope to see this turn into a well written source of information for all wow emulators.

[LaAevie]

WCell you missed.

[runiker]

What about the EMU CMB is working on i dont know its name but i know hes working on one.

[mager1794]

Runiker CMB is working on spurious isn't he?