Downgrade to 4.0.6 from 5.0.4
I've pretty much just always lurked around the community and such, however my friend
recently ran into an issue trying to play my server when he had to re-download WoW, but they
had moved into Mists of Pandaria. So anyway, I just thought I would contribute to the
community since I had to do this for him anyway.
NOTE: If you have a Cataclysm version and just want to go from 4.x.x down to 4.0.6, skip
step #2
For 5.0.5, you MUST do the new step 5, as Blizzard changed how Realmlist works..
1. If you do not have WoW yet, head over to
http://us.battle.net/en/ , sign
in or register, and download the client (I have found out that you only need to download
about 1GB from the official launcher, as private servers still install data in-game anyway).
2. Once that's done, head into your WoW folder (for typical Windows it will be either
C:/Program Files/World of Warcraft or C:/Program Files (x86)/World of Warcraft). Once there,
head into Data and delete expansion4.MPQ. Within that same folder, go into enUS and delete
expansion4-locale-enUS.MPQ and expansion4-speech-enUS.MPQ (if you don't have them for some
reason, then don't worry about it).
3. This next part is another tutorial which I used to fix my WoW a few times and since
all the same ideas apply here, I'll go ahead and quote his thread to accredit him for this
portion of the guide.
Quote Originally Posted by AspecT View Post
1. Download this folder which contains the data for version 4.0.6 - Needed:
http://www.4shared.com/rar/fzZ-W6Oy/...ecognized.html
2. Delete all files within /World of Warcraft "Don't Delete Folders! only the files".
3. Go to /World of Warcraft/data and delete (alternate.MPQ - alternate.MPQ.lock -
placeholderArchive.temp - wow-update-base-15211.MPQ). - Only if you have these files.
4. Delete the "cache" folder in your World of Warcraft directory.
5. Now open the downloaded "Data by Unreconized" and extract all of the files to your
wow main directory
6. Open the file "By Unrecognized.exe" and wait few minutes. It will download the
necessary files (in the background) and will open WoW at the end of it. Close WoW once it
has succesfully opened. (5-20m depending on your internet connection).
7. You are all set but remember NEVER open the launcher because u will update to the
latest version!!!! [U can play on p. servers now xD]
Note: The download file has been checked with antiviruses: ESET NOD32 Antivirus 5 ,
Avast, Kaspersky, Norton Securyity
Viruses: 0%
4. Make sure that you grab a cracked launcher. I don't know how many times I have re-
installed my game and tried to play a PS, just to find out hours later that I forgot to get
a cracked launcher (You can download the exact launcher that I use here if you do not have
one).
5.For 5.0.5, Blizz essentially removed Realmlist.wtf and use a file called Config.wtf
instead, however it doesn't seem to be compatible with older versions. So, go to your WTF
folder, copy Config.wtf, go to /Data/enUS and paste it. Rename it realmlist, edit the file,
remove everything and paste the setting for the old realmlist:
set realmlist us.logon.worldofwarcraft.com
set patchlist enUS.patch.battle.net
set realmlistbn ""
set portal us
Then, simply set up the realmlist for your server, just as before!
So there it is, I have done this myself and I did this for my friend, it has worked 100%
for us both, so I doubt you will have any issues.
If you do have problems you can contact me on here, however I am nowhere near an expert
in this stuff, so I can't make any promise :I
AspecT's original thread
CREDITS:
95% - AspecT for his original tutorial which I added onto to work for MoP.
5% - Me for going through trial and error to get a working downgrade from MoP as soon as
I could.
P.S. sorry for the wall of text, I'll try to make it prettier sometime :I
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