Mobile WOW possible?

Grimsin · 03-14-10, 10:30 AM

So i got a droid the other day, the reason i have not been on much lately. This thing is CRAZY to say the lest. Ive noticed some things in going over hacks and apps and this that and the others. I think that it is highly possible to play WOW via your Android phone. Not well or anything but enough to say... check your in game mail, or post/bid on auctions. maybe even do some of the easy daily's. Better yet do some of your holiday achives while on the road for the holidays lol.

So before i go to town making droids run wow...

I have a question.

Does anyone know is it possible to play WOW via remote access through some sort of network admin software? its been awhile since i have messed with such things but back in the day things like sub7 or BackOrifice would allow you full access to another computer remotely.

Theoretically, the remoteaccess apps for the droid could allow you to play wow by running wow on your home system and then accessing it via the remoteaccess application.

It is also possible to hotwire keyboards and mice to the droid. Also possible with other mods to the OS to attach bluetooth keyboards and mice to the droid.

Just throwing this out there see if anyone else has had this idea...

Shadowcat101 · 03-14-10, 12:22 PM

I believe it is possible mainly because if I remember correctly ... when the iPhone first came out people were able to install wow on it and play wow (not well like you said) via their iPhone.

Spectrezh · 03-14-10, 12:25 PM

wouldn't that be a little hard to move around and attack and such? plus the screen's tiny on the iPhone lol, gnomes will become truly impossible to see!

cloudwolf · 03-14-10, 12:30 PM

The concept has been done where the Iphone is the displaya nd the input. The thing however lagged SO horribly on the iphone that all the person was able to do was chat to people. So yes you can stream the stuff from a pc to a phone. Its laggy and hard to control unless the droid is about 50x stronger than the iphone i'm not sure it would be beneficial.

Grimsin · 03-14-10, 12:35 PM

Yea i think it would be possible with the droid to. Im almost positive that you could do the remote access deal.

The droid only comes with a 16gig SDHC card though and i dont think wow will fit in 16gig's... maybe i have not checked the size lately.

possible the droid can read 32gig SDHC cards but i have not tried yet, im sure if it does not it will soon enough since it would only be a change in the software not the hardware.

Assuming you could squish wow on there though technically with a mod to the OS you could run it. Granted forget running addons

but it would still be cool.

If the remote access thing works though you would be basically playing with your home setup IE all addons and such. Not sure how well the droid will interface with the game but... if a custom app was written specifically for remoteaccess to WOW im sure it could be made to work quite well. Then throw in some sort of mouse and keyboard and you would have full mobile play

tiny graphics but hell...

In reality this is all trivial to me since i already made my droid do wifi tethering and my laptop hooks in just fine at amazing speeds to considering im using a cellphone as a wifi router.... but still have to carry the laptop.

Grimsin · 03-14-10, 12:38 PM

side note: droid is stronger then iphone hardware wise, can be overclocked to 800mhz fairly easily. and if that is the case when the HTC H2D comes out it has a 1ghz snapdragon processor on it that can be OC'd to like 1.4ghz or more. so it would for sure run it and maybe even half way decent.

Im going to look into it more. One other thought to is if a specific app was written just for doing this you could have the app shutoff all unnecessary apps/functions/services to help decrees system lag and net lag.

Ill say right now the droid is unfreakingbeliaveable.

Grimsin · 03-14-10, 12:42 PM

The screen issue, your right it would be rough lol gnomes are hard to see as it is, how ever with pinch zoom and double touch and most of the remote access apps i have seen so far allow for fit on screen or pinchzoom functions as well as general actual view scroll around. I dunno like i said it might not play well... certainly would not want to raid with it or anything but i think if you had to run a holiday daily and kill a mob or two you could pull it off.

certainly could dink with your mail and auctions. that alone is enough incentive for me to try it

Gautr · 03-14-10, 12:59 PM

To play wow you gotta have Open GL or DX, if the device doesnt support either you are doomed.