wehavephones
Winlator fork for running World of Warcraft and Battle.net on Android.
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Details
- External ID
- 1411647471
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- wehavephones
- Website domain
- github.io
- Launched
- Oct. 9, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 26
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.53
- Tags
- android, arm64, fex, proton, wine, winlator
Enrichment
- Niche
- software and system emulators
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- windows emulator fork for running world of warcraft on android
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Forking and modifying Winlator (a complex Wine and Box64/Box86 emulation layer on Android) to run x86 DirectX/anti-cheat gaming binaries like Battle.net and World of Warcraft requires deep low-level systems and graphics driver engineering.
What it would actually take: Requires low-level C/C++ development interfacing with the Android NDK, Wine, Box64, FEX, and Vulkan translation layers (DXVK/MVK). Developers need deep expertise in CPU instruction translation (x86_64 to ARM64), memory virtualization, GPU driver emulation (Turnip/Adreno drivers), and reverse-engineering Windows system calls and anti-cheat hooks.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 733 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #375 of 734 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 338 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Vynody · hn · 2026-10-01 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- stelliberty_android · github · 2026-09-28 · 36 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- AEmulator · github · 2026-09-24 · 35 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- riff · github · 2026-10-04 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- wetype-ime-linux · github · 2026-09-23 · 227 upvotes · similarity 0.47
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