WOW-DEV FAQ + WoW client download

[jeeter]

Ok guys, I'm starting a post about more FAQ's that so many n00bs (no offense) keep asking over and over. Many of us are getting a bit annoyed with these everyday common questions. And yes, we understand that you don't know what to do because you are new to it, and some of us understand that searching leads to no topics about what your question is. Just know that if someone says "Search for it", then look to this post (eventually) or search other places.

Now that we have that out of the way, I want you to know that this page is an ongoing post...and it will be editted many times. I will be adding more and more FAQ's all the time. If you have a question, try sending me a PM on here first and if I can't answer from my own knowledge than I will search for you, therefore saving the others trouble from having to tell you to search...

MUST-KNOW STUFF:

What is WoW?
World Of Warcraft is MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) developed by Blizzard (the same who created Starcraft, Warcraft and Diablo).

What is the official homepage of this game?
World of Warcraft Community Site

Is this game free?
No, if you want to play you have to pay blizzard for this game. Of course, you can play in emulated private servers.

Do I have to pay money if I want to play in emulated servers?
No, this is totally free in most cases, but some server admins may require compulsory donations for more features available to you or the server may be monthly subscriptions-based.

What do I need if I want to play the game?
The newest WoW client (usually). Links below.

How to connect to a private server
1. The user has to edit realmlist.wtf file located in WoW client's directory. It should look something like (&after editing):
set realmlist your.ip.address.or.dns.address
(set realmlist 127.0.0.1)
or
2. The user has to make a shorcut to WoW.exe file and edit the shortcut. He should add -console to the end of the path, i.e.:
"C:\Games\WoW\WoW.exe" -console
And then during the game in the login screen he should press "~" key (tylde) and then enter:
realmlist your.ip.address.or.dns.address
(realmlist 127.0.0.1)

Note: the login username and password is different for each server, so you have to register on every separately where you intend to play.

Is emulation illegal?
I don't know for sure. Many argue on this but there is clearly written in EULA of WoW that emulation, reverse engineering, tunneling, etc. is forbidden, but then again if you don't ever agree to the EULA, you can't be turned in for something you didn't agree to. :) Later emulators acually uses some files from WoW client, so it's easier to get sued now.

What are the main problems of WoW emulators?
The worst thing is that there can't be many players online in one server because new server get errors and can't join the game. Some servers currently are able to handle up to 1200 users, but those server files aren't public.

What is the size of WoW client installed?
4.5-6GBs

What is the size of WoW server installed?
With all maps - ~400MBs, without maps - ~40MBs

What are the system requirements for WoW client?

800 MHz or higher CPU
256 MB or more of RAM
32 MB 3D graphics card with hardware transform and lighting, such as GeForce 2 or better
4 GB or more of available hard drive space
DirectX® 9.0c or above
A 56k or higher modem with an Internet connection

933 MHz or higher G4 or G5 processor
512 MB RAM or higher; DDR RAM recommended
ATI or NVIDIA video hardware with 32 MB VRAM or more
4 GB or more of available hard drive space
MacOS X 10.3.5 or newer
56k or higher modem with an Internet connection

How do I know what version of WoW I have?
Launch the game and look to the very bottom-left.

What is wrong if I see the message about unknown version during the try to login?
This means that your client version is not supported by the server you are connecting to. The versions should match. You should use proper vanilla client or hackpatch if the server requires one.

The game exits while loading the world.
This happens when the latency is too big and there are many users online in the server you are connecting to.

I can't patch the game. I want to apply x.x.x patch but the patch gives errors even if my current version meets the patch requirements.
Delete wow.exe and then run repair.exe. Then the checker will degrade your WoW client to 1.0.0 (it usually downloads some required files from the internet).
Then download proper patch (full one - those usually are a lot bigger than minor patches). All patching depending on your machine can take some time. Even hours.

What are the registry strings for wow?
(usually useful when you re-install your Windows and are forced to re-install WoW client, because patches can't be applied when the patcher does not know you have the game client installed)

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Uninstall\World of Warcraft]
"DisplayIcon"="D:\\Games\\World of Warcraft\\WoW.exe"
"DisplayName"="World of Warcraft"
"UninstallString"="C:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\Blizzard Entertainment\\World of Warcraft\\Uninstall.exe"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Blizzard Entertainment\World of Warcraft]
"UninstallPath"="C:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\Blizzard Entertainment\\World of Warcraft\\Uninstall.exe"
"InstallPath"="D:\\GAMES\\WORLD OF WARCRAFT\\"
"GamePath"="D:\\GAMES\\WORLD OF WARCRAFT\\WOW.EXE"

Edit it to suit your system conf.




Some info about emulators

History (by [lexx] - as long as I remember)
The first emulators ever for WoW was WoWpython and RunWoW developed years ago. Those both had quit the business because of legal problems with Blizzard - the owner of WoW. Apparently Blizzard won. There were some fixes, improvements of WoWpython by many developers as it was open source project, but no serious group took the development it their hands, so the emulator stopped.

Then one Latvian developer called WAD created WoWemu - pretty nice emulator. But the developer was disliked because he required money for his emulators. Obviously his emulator releases were leaked by people who brought it by money to others so WAD decided to protect the emulator. But nothing is uncrackable. But WAD didn't let his hands down, and added even more hard-to-crack protections. But they were bypassed again.
After ~year the development of WoWemu was stopped. No reason was given. The sources were never available to public.

WoWD, Ludmlilla and MaNGoS - were introduced soon each after another. All of them are WoWpython based as far as I understand from some source snippets.

WoWWoW was released somewhere between those posted above. It was quite stable and had most of features and the setup required just to change few things in one file and launch the executable. The emulator was closed source, but there are source somewhere around available to everyone who wants it. As far as I know, no one continues the development.

Ludmilla was developed in a closed group, but time by time some files were leaked to public. People said it was about to become WoWemu-like - people to be asked to pay for the emulator. But the emulator soon went underground and even said to be dead. But months after Ludmilla was told to be alive (now called Kobold).
There isn't many info on Kobold which was continued by russians. The project seems to be very closed and almost no info about devs is available. They tend to release 'lite' versions of emu, which are pretty decent to play on.

MaNGoS is an open source emulator. The development is really active. You can track down the updates in SourceForge.

DelphiEmu is a closed source emulator under Delphi written by Russians. The emulator performance is quite nice, but it's in early development stage.

Database requirements:
WoWpython - MySQL
WoWemu - text file
WoWWoW - text file
Ludmilla - MySQL
MaNGoS - MySQL
DelphiEmu - MySQL
The databases aren't compatible one to another, but there are tools to convert between emulators.

Proper emulator for you
>Take WoWemu if you want easy setup. But it's dead so no compatibility with newer clients. You will need hackpatches which are hard to find/install/remove(!). You will not be able to use that client with any other emulator or official server
>Take DelphiEmu, Lumdlilla or MaNGoS if you are not afraid of setting up MySQL database. It takes some time before you know how and what to set up, but it's worth of it.
>Take WoWWoW if you are not against playing with 1.8.4 client.
>In my opinion, only MaNGoS has a bright future.



Download game client
1)HTTP: (2 parts)
Boomtown - Download
Boomtown - Download
2)Torrents:
world of warcraft || isoHunt - World's largest BitTorrent and P2P search engine
Torrentspy.com - The Largest Bit Torrent Search Engine
www.torrent.to - Die besten und schnellsten BitTorrent Downloads im Netz
TorrentReactor.Net - Search for torrents
3)Official downloader:
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/downl...-download.html
4)FilePlanet link (http) (for registered users)
FilePlanet: World of Warcraft - Trial Client

*NOTE: all client installations comes with Windows and MAC installers - so it can be installed on both architecture machines.

Patches
FileFront - The Most Gaming Files on the Web
World of Warcraft: Patches Downloads -- Strategy Informer
wow-patches.info - Your World of Warcraft Patchsupply

Links
MaNGOS
DelphiEmu
List of private servers
The official World of Warcraft FAQ

LINUX
http://forum.ragezone.com/world-warc...ux-196502.html

Credits
This is RageZone World of Warcraft FAQ written by jeeter and [lexx]. Please don't forget credit the RZ and thread if you use this thread elsewhere.

[MentaL]

[[lexx]]

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I Don't want anyone posted here unless you got anything important to share. You may not ask here anything. This thread is for giving info ONLY.
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[jeeter]

*Edit: Slowly but surely the good ol' FAQs will come rolling in again. Anything that you think needs changed, please send [lexx] or I a PRIVATE message...anything thrown up on this board will be deleted.*

1. Q-How do you setup a website to create accounts and have a list of players that are online? (this is for WoWEmu only atm)

A-Ok, first thing you have to do is get your IP. So go to Start ---> Run... ---> Type in CMD ---> Once the black window pops up, type in 'ipconfig' without the ' and it will show something like this:

IP-Address......: 172.184.69.145
Subnet Mask.....: 255.255.255.255
Default Gateway.....: 172.184.69.145

Obviously the one next to IP-Address is your IP =) So open up your Wow.key with Notepad and where it says 'ws_host=' there should be 127.0.0.1, that number is for a single player server, but that's not what we're talking about making =) type your IP-Address that you just found into the spot that 127.0.0.1 is at. If you've done it correctly it should look like this:

[host]
keyver=4
user=orangevirus
copyright=Copyright (c) 2004,2005 by WoWEmu team, contact:wad@inbox.lv
counter=http://wad.eclub.lv/wowemu/counter.php?ver=
server_name=Woryer/Jantzen's Free Server of LAG!
ws_host=172.184.69.145
ws_port=8085
hw=0AD1024D-AC98
key=TUJB6H-3YP44-GB663-L5BJR-KXLE7-HJU6M-4L4DH-83FZA-Q5F7Z-WZRGS-UBZSY

After this, save the file and close it. Next thing you have to do is go to your Hosts file. To do this go C-Drive (main harddrive) ---> WINDOWS ---> system32 ---> drivers ---> etc ---> Hosts
Or just copy paste this into your address bar: C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc
Where C is the letter of your main harddrive which is the default for most everyones =)

Double-Click Hosts and edit it with Notepad, once open it has a bunch of junk about making new Host things, you don't need this because it doesn't do anything except take up a byte of space ;-) so delete all that and put this in

127.0.0.1 YOUR-IP-HERE
127.0.0.1 wad.eclub.lv
127.0.0.1 localhost

If we were using that fake IP-Address that I used in the WoWemu.key example than it would look like this:

127.0.0.1 172.184.69.145
127.0.0.1 wad.eclub.lv
127.0.0.1 localhost

Save and close the file (obviously don't use 172.184.69.145, you'd put your IP...).

Now that we have those 2 files setup go back to your WoWemu folder and double click WoWemu.exe and let it load until it looks like this:



Once your WoWemu.exe is fully loaded as shown above, open Internet Explorer and put this in the address bar (put your IP address where 172.184.69.145 is):

http://172.184.69.145:8080

If everything has been done correctly it should work and the account sign up page should show up. In the case of it not working...please, recheck over this and make sure everything has been put correctly. And...please please remember not to put in 172.184.69.145...use your own IP >.>

Also, you might have to configure your router, for this do the following:

Router configuration:
First things first, configuring the router. I will be using my Belkin router as an example. for the record, Belkin makes junk routers.
Begin by opening your command prompt. you can do this by pressing Start->Run. in the box that pops up, type "command.com" without the quotes, and press OK. a black screen with text will now pop up. now enter "ipconfig" without the quotes. make note of your 'default gateway'. this is your routers IP address. now open firefox (or internet explorer), and in the location bar type this: http://your_router_IP_here
for example: http://192.168.0.1
now the webpage for your router will come up and maybe ask you to login or something. once you get the option, look for "port forwarding" or "virtual servers". this will be most likely under your "firewall" section, if there is any.
heres an example image for the router config you will need:
http://home.mchsi.com/~seph/router_config.jpg
your "inbound" and "private" ports should match. you will need 3 sets: 8080, 3724, and 8085. this should go without saying, but the private IP address should pont to the computer in the network you are running the server on. you can again get this by running the "ipconfig" command on the server computer. ignore the section about port 80 in the image, that is used for my own website. if you changed the ports in configuring your WoW server, then u will need to be consistant with those ports here. this is all relativly straight forward so i wont go into anymore detail here unless asked. if for any reason you have a problem forwarding your ports, you can also look into DMZ, however this is not recommended because it does not protect you from hacker attacks at all.
at this point, your router should be able to handle the connections on these ports and forward them to your server's IP address. so moving on...

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Good luck,

Jeeter

[jeeter]

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2. Q-How do you set the exp that Mobs (Creatures) give?

A-This is actually very simple and you do not need a program to do this, so if you're looking for one, STOP =)

First thing that you do is go to your Scripts folder in your WoW Emu directory. Next, double click on the file Startup.tcl

Once it's open, go to down to where it says this:

set base_xp [expr {(100.0*($killer_level-1))+50.0}]
set xp $base_xp

right now mines set to 100.0 but i think the default is 5.0, anyway, it should look something like that. Change the number where 100.0 is to whatever you'd like. It goes as follows:

5.0 = Normal Rate (Blizzlike)
10.0 = x2 Rate
50.0 = x10 Rate
100.0 = x20 rate

So as you see hopefully, it's every 5.0 that increases the exp by x2, so please don't set it to 2.0 thinking that it'll make it x2 exp rate =)

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Good luck,

Jeeter

[jeeter]

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3. Q - I log into the server and it just sits at 'Connected' Status. How do I fix this?

A - One thing you can do is go to your WoW folder (not the emu folder but the WoW directory that the game is stored in) and delete your WDB folder and the WTF folder. Then run the game and try again.

If that doesn't solve it, then when the 'Connected' comes up, click 'Cancel' and it should ask you to find a realm. Click 'Accept' and then it'll just put you into your realm. Again, 'Connected' will pop up. Keep hitting the 'Enter' key on your keyboard (many many times) and eventually it should retrieve the character list and you're good to go :)

(Note: This may take well over 50+ times of pressing 'Enter'.)

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Good luck,

Jeeter

[error0024]

Noobs huhh? you're a noob once why not you say your self? huhzzz but im not like those asking :D

[Sluap14]

THANKS 4 THE INFO ABOUT THE WOWEMU I ALSO HAVE WOWEMU BUT ITS VERY INCOMPLETE CAN I ASK 4 HELP WHERE CAN I DOWNLOAD WOWEMU v.1450 OR WOWEMU FOR WOW CLIENT 1.2.1 HOPE YOU CAN HELP ME THANK YOU EMAIL ME AT sluap142720@yahoo.com

[Sluap14]

THANKS 4 THE INFO ABOUT THE WOWEMU I ALSO HAVE WOWEMU BUT ITS VERY INCOMPLETE CAN I ASK 4 HELP WHERE CAN I DOWNLOAD WOWEMU v.1450 OR WOWEMU FOR WOW CLIENT 1.2.1 HOPE YOU CAN HELP ME THANK YOU EMAIL ME AT sluap142720@yahoo.com

[Blackfinal]

Dude, WoWemu is Dead stop using it also stop Capslock

Tr4shm4n postet the WoWemu that Supports Client 1.12 and such shit

http://forum.ragezone.com/world-warc...er-206169.html

but you will also need Mysql

Edit: And double post

[eL3v3nz]

WoWWoW is not dead btw, and it has an emu for 1.10 (which is quite stable IMO) so you should edit that post and instead of 1.8.4 put 1.10.2, also, I think wowwow is preparing for a 2.0.5 release some time in the near future :)

[baozilla]

sry.
wrong post.
someone delete this for me thx.

[speedkiller110]

can vista people play this mu

[Algren_San]

can vista people play this mu

this is not mu you write on the wrong place....


BTW PEOPLE mmmm so many people are looking for the right client/expansion for the TBC so i will attach the enGB downloader i did it and went great so no problem what so ever...

just execute it go to sleep let it download by himself and then it will install on your old warcraft (non expansion and any version).

so enjoy :D

if you need the enUS just let me know aswell the enDE... or enES....

bye.

[shandy01]

my client version is 2.0.12 but i can't play wow burning crusade... why? T_T

[Darkthrone]

my client version is 2.0.12 but i can't play wow burning crusade... why? T_T

You have to install the burning crusade manually it cant be done by patches, just like normal wow with an installer search around for the downloader/installer.

can vista people play this mu

ROFLMAO

[spindiggy]

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