There is no 100% certain way to identify the kind of tags we need, but they NEED to be described like this: I would advise ordering tags off of Amazon due to the generous return policy for first-time buyers, and ONLY using AliExpress if you are 100% confident in what you are getting. So, we need special “magic” tags made by Chinese manufacturers where block 0 is blank and able to be written to.īut we run into an issue – sellers on ebay, amazon, and aliexpress all mis-indentify tags and use a million different, sometimes meaningless or deceptive, ways to describe them. block 0 is special because it contains the unique UID number of the tag, and guess what Skylanders games use to identify skylanders – that’s right, the UID. This means that the block cannot be written over or changed. “Normal” NFC tags have the first block, block 0, locked by the factory. Skylander toys in particular use the Mifare Classic standard, which divides each tag’s storage into sectors and blocks. Without getting too technical, Skylanders and other NFC toys use NFC tags to transmit information. This is the most confusing part of the tutorial. Again, I cannot stress this enough, buy an ACR122u for the easiest time. For more advanced NFC work you might want to get the proxmark3 or Chinese GRID PN532 but we won’t need them here. However, the ACR122u is cheaper and more readily available. There are many other NFC writers on the market the PN532 and proxmark3 come to mind. Due to availability, price, and ease of use reasons I strongly recommend you purchase an ACR122u. The ACR122u is the tool we will use to write data to our fake skylanders, and is easy to buy on Amazon or AliExpress. I will try to make this as straightforward as possible:īefore we begin, you must acquire four things:

We will only be using GUIs on Windows, so no Linux, command prompt, or coding experience is required. Hello fellow skylander enthusiast! If you’ve been searching for a way to clone any skylander to 10 cent NFC cards or modify their data (modify data coming soon), look no further! This is the one-stop, easy tutorial for making skylanders yourself using bin files on the internet.

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