Amiibo
Amiibo are NFC figures made by Nintendo, used in games in different forms (different in each game). It can be used with the New3DS and the Old3DS with an IR peripheral.
Technical specifications
See also here.
Specifications can be found on this image, which is a compilation of screenshots made by scanning a Samus amiibo with the Android App "NFC TagInfo":
See here regarding the Amiibo encryption.
The NFC tag for Amiibo is NTAG215.
AUTH_PWD
The NFC 32bit password for the PWD_AUTH command(for enabling write-access to the encrypted NFC pages / etc), appears to be generated from unknown data that doesn't change when the Amiibo data pages are being updated.
NTAG215 commands
Amiibo reading
- GET_VERSION
- READ, startpage=0x03. The read page data for page[0x3] must match little-endian 0xEEFF10F1.
- PWD_AUTH
- FAST_READ: startpage=0x00, endpage=0x3B
- FAST_READ: startpage=0x3C, endpage=0x77
- FAST_READ: startpage=0x78, endpage=0x86
Therefore, *all* pages from the Amiibo NFC tag are read, including the configuration pages at the end.
Amiibo writing
- Use the same commands under the above reading section, then use those first 3 commands again.
- Multiple WRITE commands for writing to pages 0x04..0x0C. The first byte for page[4] is zero here.
- Multiple WRITE commands for writing to pages 0x20..0x81.
- Use the last 3 commands from the above reading section.
- WRITE: page=0x04, same data as before except first byte is 0xA5 this time.
- FAST_READ: startpage=0x04, endpage=0x04
NFC pages
Each page is 4-bytes, there is a total of 0x87/135 pages. Minus the configuration pages at the end, the total is 0x82/130 pages. The following is the structure of the NFC pages:
| NFC page | Total pages | Raw byte offset in EEPROM | Total byte size | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0x0 | 0x4 | 0x10 | 0x10 | Same as standard NTAG215: 9-byte serial-number, "internal" u8 value, two lock bytes then the "Capability Container (CC)" page. |
| 0x4 | 0x1 | 0x10 | 0x4 | Last 3-bytes here are used with the following HMAC where the size is 0x1DF-bytes. The u16 starting at byte1 is used for the first two bytes in the 0x40-byte input buffer for Amiibo crypto init. The first byte is normally 0xA5. The remaining bytes are initially(before the Amiibo is written to) all-zero. Byte[2](maybe big-endian u16 starting at byte1?) here is incremented each time the Amiibo is written to. |
| 0x5 | 0x8 | 0x14 | 0x20 | The system crypts 0x1A0-bytes with some data from here, see below. |
| 0xD | 0x8 | 0x34 | 0x20 | SHA256-HMAC hash. The first 0x18-bytes of this hash is section3 in the encrypted buffer. |
| 0x15 | 0xB | 0x54 | 0x2C | This is plaintext data, see below. |
| 0x20 | 0x8 | 0x80 | 0x20 | SHA256-HMAC hash over 0x1DF-bytes: first 3-bytes are from the last 3-bytes of page[4], the rest is over the first 0x1DC-bytes of the plaintext data. |
| 0x28 | 0x45 | 0xA0 | 0x114 | This is section1 in the encrypted buffer. |
| 0x6D | 0x15 | 0x1B4 | 0x54 | This is section2 in the encrypted buffer. |
Structure of the data starting at page 0x15
| Offset | Size | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 0x0 | 0xC | ? |
| 0xC | 0x20 | Probably a SHA256-HMAC hash. |
Encrypted data buffer structure
| Encrypted buffer offset | Raw byte offset in NFC EEPROM | NFC page | Byte size | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0x0 | 0x14 | 0x5 | 0x20 | |
| 0x20 | 0xA0 | 0x28 | 0x114 | |
| 0x134 | 0x1B4 | 0x6D | 0x54 | |
| 0x188 | 0x34 | 0xD | 0x18 | This data is included in the crypto buffer, even though this data isn't actually encrypted(this is part of a hash). |
Structure of the plaintext data
| Offset | Size | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 0x0 | 0xB0 | Amiibo settings are stored within here. |
| 0xB0 | 0xD8 | AppData, for the user-application specified in the above Amiibo settings. The data stored here is application-specific. |
| 0x188 | 0x18 | Not used in "decrypted" form, since this isn't encrypted to begin with. |
Structure of Amiibo settings
| Offset | Size | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 0x0 | 0x1 | Flags. The low 4-bits here are copied to the struct used with NFC:GetAmiiboSettings. The below setup date is only loaded when bit4 and/or bit5 here are set, otherwise value 0 is used instead for the date. Bit4=1 indicates that the Amiibo was setup with amiibo Settings: NFC:GetAmiiboSettings will return an all-zero struct when this is not set.
Bit5=1 indicates that the AppData was initialized. NFC:InitializeWriteAppData will return an error if this is value 1, when successful that command will then set this bit to value 1. |
| 0x1 | 0x1 | Unknown. The low 4-bits here are copied to the struct used with NFC:GetAmiiboSettings. |
| 0x2 | 0x2 | ? |
| 0x4 | 0x2 | u16 big-endian date value, see below. This is the date for when the Amiibo was initially setup in amiibo Settings. |
| 0x6 | 0x2 | u16 big-endian date value, see below. This is the date for when the Amiibo was last written to. |
| 0x8 | 0x4 | CRC32 over unknown data. |
| 0xC | 0x14(10*2) | UTF-16BE Amiibo nickname. |
| 0x20 | 0x60 | Owner Mii. |
| 0x80 | 0x8 | Big-endian application programID/titleID from the application which initialized the AppData, zero otherwise. This is only written, not compared with the user application titleID: doing the latter would break games' cross-platform compatibility with 3DS<>Wii U(Super Smash Bros 3DS/Wii U for example). |
| 0x88 | 0x2 | u16 big-endian. This value is incremented each time the Amiibo is written to. |
| 0x8A | 0x2 | ? |
| 0x8C | 0x4 | ? |
| 0x90 | 0x20 | Probably a SHA256-HMAC hash. |
Format of the big-endian date values:
| Bit | Description |
|---|---|
| 0-4 | Day |
| 5-8 | Month |
| 9-15 | Year, relative to 2000. |