Mists of Pandaria 5.0.5 emulator [Sandbox]

*This is a work in progress project*

It has working auth loop, but no movement packets.. (Built off arctium, credits to fabi). Also:
- Working auth login
- Working wolrd login
- First movement packet (camera) and spell
- Spawn
- Opcodes
- Encryption algorithms
- Stable auth with grunt instead of battle net 2
- Built off Arkcore


Source code: https://github.com/Arctium/Arctium
Repack: download

Get in contact with the developer via Skype: Bigwill600

Regards,
Will

WoW: MoP - probable Sandbox

Well I find out today an awesome preview of Mist of Pandaria Beta, in something which resembles a sandbox (private) server, altough the title of the video says otherwise.

What is a sandbox server?
Sandbox server is usually for a private use and it contains no NPCS (meaning you can't kill anything, you can't take quests, there are no mobs and so on), however, you have full access to all of the mist of pandaria maps (i've shown some of the names in this blog already) and you can spawn pretty much every creature and game object, see each new territory, new instance and so on.

So, the question now is 'who did the allegedly first 5.0.1 Beta private server and when can we expect it's public release'. The only info we have is the uploader's name - manu05a. I somehow assume that this is done either by the Machinima developers or the MMO-Owned community. Originally I found the clip posted on the ownedcore forums.

Regarding the strange writing 'MANTIS' at the end of the video, that is a zone, it's not done by the video maker (at first I thought it's his credentials as many others did). Proof:

 

You can see this the map here.

Anyway, for now enjoy this amazing footage of the new world of warcraft expansion and the awesome trance music (The Blizzard - Piercing the Fog (Original Mix) (Download) ) :)


PS: yes, I'm aware that there were rumors about some WoW: MoP Alpha F&F (Friends and Family) alpha, but it was for some early pre-Beta build. And yes, I'm aware of the title of the video. I can read (and write, badly, but still), hence this post.
 

EDIT: 

Actually months a go I saw what it is, just never edited the post. Actually it's an exploration video, the guy recorded all new places in the beta which, as usual, have no creatures spawned yet. It's not a sandbox, it's not on a private server, it's nothing like that.

Current progress with WoW MoP Beta Servers/Sandbox

So far all that I've found about the current progress is that on one hand you have people like Crommon who have managed to made a primitive sandbox with which you can go to the character creation and customisation screen (See video)

And on another hand there are people who are trying to run an actual server, based on StrawberryCore (link below) and the main contributor so far is Fabi (link below). The main problems currently remain:
* finding all of the needed OP_CODES client<->server
* creation a proper map_extractor for MoP MPQ Data files
* getting all of the needed MAPs, DBCs and VMAPs, even doh for a sandbox you're not 100% necessary to all of them.
* Creating and populating a MoP World SQL DB. WoWDB is working rapidly in to creating a good enough DB. Many contributors and alone-developrs are also working daily on that.

A great help is any packet sniff&dump, Cache folder data, WTF folder data and so on.

StrawberryCore-  https://github.com/Strawberry-Pr0jcts/StrawberryCore (A 4.3.3 private server emulator core)
Fabi's Core - https://github.com/Fabi/StrawberryCore-501Beta (A 5.0.1 private server emulator core BETA)

More inf:o: http://www.wowdb.com/, http://mop.wowhead.com/, FluffyFrenchy

It's only a matter of time now ;)

Edit 5. September 2012:

development is not dead just slow.
==PROGRESS==
-we had login working few patches ago, (fabi fixing it)
-monk / panda support
-chi and new power types added (only chi is 100%)
-updated enums for MOP
-scenario map type support
-Twin peaks (mod of WS), battle for guineas (mod of AB), ctf3 (mod of WS) <- done.
-silvershard mines and temple of komagu still in dev.
-tol'vir arena scripted (just needs testing)
-new instances (basic support enter and leave instance)

with mop going up on live servers now should see development pickup

Disscussions regarding WoW MoP Sandbox Beta Server

You can follow discussions regarding MoP Beta Sandbox / private test servers at these places:

Fabi's WoW: MoP 5.x.x test server (github repo)
OwnedCore's forums - you can find probably the most info about this here, they are quite ahead in the pre-Development.
WoWCore's Sandbox - the provider of the Cataclysm Alpha and Beta sandboxes (RomanRom2, codded in Delphi oO)
Another blog which you could check which has in general more information regarding the MoP itself is fluffyfrenchy.com and more speicifially Boubouille.

[Russian] Discussion on the russian mangos forums about it