ChameleonMini vs l2auth

ChameleonMini

The ChameleonMini is a versatile contactless smartcard emulator compliant to NFC. The ChameleonMini was developed by https://kasper-oswald.de. The device is available at https://shop.kasper.it. For further information see the Getting Started Page https://rawgit.com/emsec/ChameleonMini/master/Doc/Doxygen/html/_page__getting_started.html or the Wiki tab above. (by emsec)

Source Code

Suggest alternative

Edit details

l2auth

Lineage 2 C4 server written in C as a learning exercise (by Ruk33)

lineage lineage2 Emulator

Source Code

Suggest alternative

Edit details

Our great sponsors

InfluxDB - Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale

WorkOS - The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS

SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews

Our great sponsors

ChameleonMini		l2auth
	Project
3	Mentions	1
1,679	Stars	69
0.9%	Growth	-
5.0	Activity	8.4
8 months ago	Latest Commit	3 months ago
C	Language	C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

ChameleonMini

Posts with mentions or reviews of ChameleonMini. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-15.

What NFC module is out there that can emulate all NFC technologies? (NTAG series, MIFAREs, etc)
2 projects | /r/NFC | 15 Oct 2022

Another alternative is to use something like Chameleon. They use an Atmel (general purpose microcontroller) instead of a specialized chip. However, that chip is currently out-of-stock, and the Chameleon is currently out-of-stock (or extremely expensive).
How do I build my own NFC emulator?
1 project | /r/NFC | 9 Oct 2022

Also have a look here: https://github.com/emsec/ChameleonMini
Chameleon Tiny Pro - Firmware comparison
4 projects | /r/RFID | 30 May 2022

l2auth

Posts with mentions or reviews of l2auth. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

Server emulator in C from scratch for an old game (Lineage 2 Chronicle 4)
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Nov 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ChameleonMini and l2auth you can also consider the following projects:

flipperzero-firmware - Flipper Zero firmware source code

desmume - DeSmuME is a Nintendo DS emulator [Moved to: https://github.com/TASEmulators/desmume]

proxmark3 - Iceman Fork - Proxmark3

xemu - Original Xbox Emulator for Windows, macOS, and Linux (Active Development)

ChameleonMini-rebootedGUI - Windows based GUI for Chameleon Mini, the contactless smartcard emulator (NFC/RFID)

box64 - Box64 - Linux Userspace x86_64 Emulator with a twist, targeted at ARM64 Linux devices

ChameleonMini - The ChameleonMini is a versatile contactless smartcard emulator compliant to NFC. The ChameleonMini was first developed by KAOS. This is NOT the official repo for KAOS's ChameleonMini. For further information see the Getting Started Page

Unicorn Engine - Unicorn CPU emulator framework (ARM, AArch64, M68K, Mips, Sparc, PowerPC, RiscV, S390x, TriCore, X86)

ChameleonMini-rebooted - Chameleon Mini revE rebooted - Iceman Fork, the ChameleonMini is a versatile contactless smartcard emulator (NFC/RFID)

ish - Linux shell for iOS

odiin - Attempts at nRF52840 ISO 14443-A magic!

Provenance - iOS & tvOS multi-emulator frontend, supporting various Atari, Bandai, NEC, Nintendo, Sega, SNK and Sony console systems… Get Started: https://wiki.provenance-emu.com |