How can I make my own amiibo with amiibo bin files? I am unqualified to opine on this myself. From what I was told a few years ago, the files have to be combined because they’re two halves of the encryption file – and technically don’t violate the law. The legality of this file is unclear to me – if I understand encryption law correctly (which I am not qualified to do), sharing the “full” version of an encryption algorithm that is patented is a violation of U.S. Key-Retail is, as best as I understand, the combined version of Locked-Secret and Unfixed-Info. There’s a similar file called Key-Retail that some of the newer amiibo technology uses. When combined, they activate a program that decrypts your amiibo – separately, they can’t do anything. These two files are the tools to decrypting the amiibo. What are the Locked-Secret and Unfixed-Info bin files? If you’re only wanting to emulate a few amiibo, then just buy the cards through online sellers. I estimate that in a given year tens of thousands of fanmade amiibo cards are sold through Etsy alone, and many more through eBay. Most people just use amiibo bin files to make amiibo cards, and often sell them online for a minor profit. Be loaded into emulators so the emulated game believes it’s had an amiibo scanned in.Load into Powersaves for Amiibo for use on a Powertag.Create NTAG215 chips and amiibo cards, which function identically to normal amiibo.How do I use amiibo bin files?Īmiibo bin files are used in a lot of different ways. They’re specifically generated for Wumiibo, so you probably need files from this page, not the Wumiibo generator page. Please note: Wumiibo 3DS amiibo files are not normal amiibo bin files. On the console side of things, the Switch doesn’t know the difference – which is why you can’t get banned for using fake amiibo. The only difference between ROMs and amiibo in practice is that you’re not emulating an amiibo through software – you’re actually tricking the Switch with real, legitimate amiibo hardware into thinking that an amiibo has been scanned in. Reproduction cartridges are NTAG215 chips – they hold the bin file for use but can’t be rewritten (although the save data on the cartridge/NTAG chip can be).Flash cartridges are Powersaves for amiibo – they hold the bin file for use and can be rewritten.Much in the same way that ROMs are used in emulators and flash cartridges, amiibo bin files are used to emulate amiibo. It looks that byte 08-27 are some checksum or something like that.An amiibo bin file is basically the ROM image of an amiibo. I changed values with the cheat tool and analyzer afterwards the decrypted bin. I played around with the hex tool and also the cheat tool. Maybe if I have some spare time in the future I'll try to figure out what values are stored in which spaces. I just bought an amiiqo so once it finally ships I'll play around a bit more with these values and see if the game will even recognize them, it seems like the maximum value I can set it to is 255 (FF) but I honestly doubt the game would accept it, although it would be interesting if you could actually use an amiibo with impossible stats. bin it was C7 (199) and in the other it was C8 (200), so it looks like I found where the actual numbers for the stats are, although I don't know how negative values work since it moves quite a bit of stuff around. I opened them both up in one of those difference checking things and a big chunk from the 9th through 40th values were different, what stuck out to me while comparing them though was the 238th value in one. bin files of a blank amiibo and used the amiibo cheat tool to manually set values for strength/defense/speed, they were exactly the same except one had strength set to 199 and the other set to 200.
I know next to nothing about hex, but I made two.