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I am completely unable to get this to work for some reason (first time using it). Can anyone help? Emuiibo is not registering anything as amiibos. It shows a folder for the amiibo has been created, but it just has a ".." next to the name instead of the A button. I've noticed no mii files are being generated, could that have something to do with it? Also weird thing: I actually did get one to work using the fork (Amiigo mod), not sure if that gives anyone any hints about what's going on. I would just use that, but unfortunately it's very glitchy and keeps crashing so it's not a viable option.
 
fekerin said:
I am completely unable to get this to work for some reason (first time using it). Can anyone help? Emuiibo is not registering anything as amiibos. It shows a folder for the amiibo has been created, but it just has a ".." next to the name instead of the A button. I've noticed no mii files are being generated, could that have something to do with it? Also weird thing: I actually did get one to work using the fork (Amiigo mod), not sure if that gives anyone any hints about what's going on. I would just use that, but unfortunately it's very glitchy and keeps crashing so it's not a viable option.
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At the root of your SD card you should have an emuiibo folder
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Inside the emuiibo folder you shoul have an amiibo folder
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Inside the amiibo folder you name the folders after the games that support amiibo, like this example
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For example, with Zelda, the folders containing the amiibos

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And inside each folder you must have at least these 3 files

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The emuiibo overlay must be activated with ultrahand before launching the game.
 
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At the root of your SD card you should have an emuiibo folder
View attachment 549320
Inside the emuiibo folder you shoul have an amiibo folder
View attachment 549321
Inside the amiibo folder you name the folders after the games that support amiibo, like this example
View attachment 549322
For example, with Zelda, the folders containing the amiibos

View attachment 549324

And inside each folder you must have at least these 3 files

View attachment 549325

The emuiibo overlay must be activated with ultrahand before launching the game.
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EDIT: I originally wrote a whole post here because what you said still didn't work so I was asking some more questions, but I just figured it out! Thank you for your help anyway.


I am not a coder so I apologize if this is painful for anyone to read, but this is what I did to fix it, in case anyone has the same issue. I don't understand how it's working for everyone else but not for me so maybe something is wrong on my end, but I'm assuming someone will run into this issue again at some point so I'll post this anyway.

I basically compared the files from the amiibo I did get to work (the one made with the fork) to one made with the original program, and I noticed two things: one, there was no mii-charinfo.bin file, and two, in the amiibo.json file, the information under the "mii_charinfo_file": "mii-charinfo.bin" line was different. So I changed:

"name": [
number
number
number, etc.
],

to:

"name": "(amiibo name)",

Essentially it's just replacing the whole name section with the amiibo name in quotations and deleting all the numbers, skipping right to the "uuid" section. I do not know what this does or if it messes something up but as far as I can tell it's fine lol.

Then, I copied a mii-charinfo.bin file from emuiibo/miis and pasted it in the folder (edit: turns out not necessary). And finally it worked! Yay. I think I'll have to manually edit each amiibo like this after generating them, so I guess it's not a completely computer-free program, but oh well. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I'm just glad I got it working!
 
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@fekerin Is it now entirely within Amiigo? Or do you still need to edit the files manually?

If so could you describe how you fixed it? I have never encountered the issue you are describing before so it would be useful for me to know so that I can try to reproduce it and then fix it for future users.

Knowing more about your set up would be useful too. I assume you are using Amiigo + Overlay? Did you change anything in the Amiigo settings menu?

Fwiw mii-charinfo.bin is not actually needed for the Amiibos to work, which is why Amiigo does not generate them. I can add that feature though.

Edit: I figured out what the bug is with the name. I moved the Amiibo name data type from a regular string to a wide string in version 2.4.0 so that I can support non-ASCII names. I guess the JSON library I use does not support wide strings so it interprets it as an array of bytes instead.
 
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fekerin said:
I am completely unable to get this to work for some reason (first time using it). Can anyone help? Emuiibo is not registering anything as amiibos. It shows a folder for the amiibo has been created, but it just has a ".." next to the name instead of the A button. I've noticed no mii files are being generated, could that have something to do with it? Also weird thing: I actually did get one to work using the fork (Amiigo mod), not sure if that gives anyone any hints about what's going on. I would just use that, but unfortunately it's very glitchy and keeps crashing so it's not a viable option.
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I have the same problem and none of the previous answers solved it, please help
 
fekerin said:
I am completely unable to get this to work for some reason (first time using it). Can anyone help? Emuiibo is not registering anything as amiibos. It shows a folder for the amiibo has been created, but it just has a ".." next to the name instead of the A button. I've noticed no mii files are being generated, could that have something to do with it? Also weird thing: I actually did get one to work using the fork (Amiigo mod), not sure if that gives anyone any hints about what's going on. I would just use that, but unfortunately it's very glitchy and keeps crashing so it's not a viable option.
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so i think the reason people are saying its working is because they like me have generated amiibos from the previos version of amiigo that still work with emuiibo but i just tried to generate new amiibos that i did not have in my list and its like you said i get the -- instead of the a button prompt but compsciorbust already said he was going to fix so ill just wait for it
 
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froggy55 said:
so i think the reason people are saying its working is because they like me have generated amiibos from the previos version of amiigo that still work with emuiibo but i just tried to generate new amiibos that i did not have in my list and its like you said i get the -- instead of the a button prompt but compsciorbust already said he was going to fix so ill just wait for it
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emutool is no longer working, it's impossible to connect to the server that hosted the JSON files.

There's emugen, but it requires Java to be installed on your PC.
I haven't tried it
 
Andre63 said:
emutool is no longer working, it's impossible to connect to the server that hosted the JSON files.

There's emugen, but it requires Java to be installed on your PC.
I haven't tried it
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yes emugen still works i actually generated sylux from metroid 4 with it and amiigo generated the json for the individual amiigos in the folder its just we can no longer update to any newer for the database at least thats what CompsciorBust said in a previouse post when he informed us that the api was going offline if i misunserstood something im happy to be corrected the other thing is amiigo is not generating the mii-charinfo.bin files which i think is what comsciorbust is working on fixing for amiigo version 2,4,1 release per his last post

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yes emugen still works i actually generated sylux from metroid 4 with it and amiigo generated the json for the individual amiigos in the folder its just we can no longer update to any newer for the database at least thats what CompsciorBust said in a previouse post when he informed us that the api was going offline if i misunserstood something im happy to be corrected the other thing is amiigo is not generating the mii-charinfo.bin files which i think is what comsciorbust is working on fixing for amiigo version 2,4,1 release per his last post

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here is an update emugen still works if you have the last api file when i last used emugen it was on christmas eve so i have the very last one that was posted as emugen auto downloaded so as long as you have the api file in the same folder as emugen it will work
 
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@fekerin Is it now entirely within Amiigo? Or do you still need to edit the files manually?

If so could you describe how you fixed it? I have never encountered the issue you are describing before so it would be useful for me to know so that I can try to reproduce it and then fix it for future users.

Knowing more about your set up would be useful too. I assume you are using Amiigo + Overlay? Did you change anything in the Amiigo settings menu?

Fwiw mii-charinfo.bin is not actually needed for the Amiibos to work, which is why Amiigo does not generate them. I can add that feature though.

Edit: I figured out what the bug is with the name. I moved the Amiibo name data type from a regular string to a wide string in version 2.4.0 so that I can support non-ASCII names. I guess the JSON library I use does not support wide strings so it interprets it as an array of bytes instead.
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Sorry for responding so late! Does your edit mean you have figured out what the issue was? If not I can still give you my setup info (to the best of my ability anyway lol).

Andre63 said:
@fekerin

Can you try with the files contained in the archive?

They work for me.

To be placed in emuiibo/amiibo/
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Hmm, it works for me too. I could have sworn in my testing that just changing the amiibo.json without also adding a mii file didn't work, but I just tried deleting the mii file in one of mine and it still works. Guess you don't need to copy the mii file over after all?

Edit: Upon looking on the SD card again it looks like the mii files have actually been automatically generated for the one you sent me and the one in which I deleted the mii file, but still, I at least didn't have to manually copy it in there myself.

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I have the same problem and none of the previous answers solved it, please help
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If your answer to this is yes then I unfortunately cannot help, but just in case, I have a question: if you look in the folder for the amiibo you generated, does it have an amiibo.png file? If not then none of my steps will work. I can tell you how to get it though :)
 
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Sorry for responding so late! Does your edit mean you have figured out what the issue was? If not I can still give you my setup info (to the best of my ability anyway lol).


Hmm, it works for me too. I could have sworn in my testing that just changing the amiibo.json without also adding a mii file didn't work, but I just tried deleting the mii file in one of mine and it still works. Guess you don't need to copy the mii file over after all?

Edit: Upon looking on the SD card again it looks like the mii files have actually been automatically generated for the one you sent me and the one in which I deleted the mii file, but still, I at least didn't have to manually copy it in there myself.


If your answer to this is yes then I unfortunately cannot help, but just in case, I have a question: if you look in the folder for the amiibo you generated, does it have an amiibo.png file? If not then none of my steps will work. I can tell you how to get it though :)
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The .png file doesn't appear, but this file worked. How can I get the others to work?
Andre63 said:
@fekerin

Can you try with the files contained in the archive?

They work for me.

To be placed in emuiibo/amiibo/
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Help mee
 
k0neer said:
The .png file doesn't appear, but this file worked. How can I get the others to work?

Help mee
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Hello,
Unfortunately, there is currently no solution.
The amiibo_API website that enabled the conversion no longer exists.
We must wait for a developer to take on this issue.
 
Andre63 said:
Hello,
Unfortunately, there is currently no solution.
The amiibo_API website that enabled the conversion no longer exists.
We must wait for a developer to take on this issue.
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if you use emugen you can use emuiibo i have the latest api if you need it for emugen you just need to put it in the same folder as emugen for it to work once you generate your amiibo you can transfer them the the amiibo folder on your sd card located inside emuiibo folder
 
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froggy55 said:
if you use emugen you can use emuiibo i have the latest api if you need it for emugen you just need to put it in the same folder as emugen for it to work once you generate your amiibo you can transfer them the the amiibo folder on your sd card located inside emuiibo folder
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This is what I have in my folder

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And this is what happens when I launch emuiigen.

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