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The 3DS dlplay title has two dlplay modes: 3DS and DS. DS dlplay is just regular dsmode dlplay, same interface and protocol as before. Like DS gamecards, holding down start+select while starting the dsmode dlplay client will disable stretching the screens.

== Download Play protocol ==

The Download Play protocol for 3DS is completely different from the DS Wireless Multiboot (WMB) protocol. While the DS WMB protocol used to send program code in plaintext over wireless, the Download Play protocol is now using WPA2 encryption with 128-bit AES CTR to broadcast the application.

"Cleartext" beacons have static encrypted Nintendo tag data, broadcasted at a rate of 0.102400/s. WPA2 data frames are broadcasted as well, the size of these varies.
After a client authenticates to the host, the host sends an association response, with a random ASCII hex SSID, like: "EB6FAB77". After that the systems communicate and transfer the binary with WPA2 encrypted data frames.

This is a dump of the Nintendo tag of the "cleartext" beacon from Monkey ball 3D, with vendor 001f32. The data contained in this vendor tag is encrypted:
 000: 18 05 9f ae 17 c8 a5 1d 0b 81 28 be 74 0f d4 af
 010: 97 30 04 60 fd 2d f3 d9 8d bc 22 80 51 60 3c 75
 020: d9 89 6d 16 c4 f3 aa 89 26 d4 14 25 67 75 8e 4b
 030: 3c 97 85 c9 83 15 d4 96 06 b1 29 b6 f5 51 57 71 
 040: cc b6 1f 4a c8 bd 4f c0 57 43 cb ab fa 37 74 b0
 050: 64 6b 87 69 a1 de a4 05 7c 7c 49 5d f5 21 25 83
 060: 4c f2 d0 70 38 14 7b 0f f4 97 f7 ff f3 ff 36 cd
 070: c2 e2 c0 78 98 d1 d5 4d 3d d4 9b 57 84 6c e2 4f
 080: 25 f2 56 c4 19 88 64 13 78 68 e2

== WPA2 Passphrase ==
The Download Play protocol and all local-WLAN communications have the WPA2 passphrase generated the same way. The input data used with [[Process_Services|EncryptDecryptAes]] with [[PSPXI:EncryptDecryptAes|keytype1]] is the first 16-bytes of a SHA1 hash over an input passphrase. This input passphrase is fixed for Download Play, it's unique per local-WLAN protocol. The CTR is the first 16-bytes of a SHA1 hash over a 16-byte structure which among other data includes the host MAC address, and an ID which is normally from the application's uniqueID in the titleID.(The uniqueID used for Download Play is fixed however) The hex output from crypting that data is the final WPA2 passphrase.

The WPA2 passphrase used for communications with the booted Download Play executable is a separate passphrase, generated using the above method where the input passphrase is a random hex string.

== Broadcasted application data ==
The Download Play protocol broadcasts 3DS application data in the [[CIA]] format, which contains a certificate chain, a ticket, a TMD, and the actual application itself, in [[CXI|CXI format]]. The broadcasted archive data is temporarily stored as a file on the internal NAND Flash storage, and is kept there until new archive data from a different game is received through the Download Play protocol. 

The CXI application content is again encrypted, this time using 128-bit AES CBC. The encryption uses the decrypted titlekey of the ticket, and the titleid padded with zeros as the IV. To get the decrypted titlekey, the titlekey stored in the ticket must be decrypted using 128-bit AES-CBC with the 3DS common key, and the same IV as mentioned previously.

So in actuality, the 3DS application code, as it is being transmitted wirelessly has been encrypted 3 times:
* The first time is using 128-bit AES CTR encryption for the ExeFS of the CXI format,
* the second time is using 128-bit AES CBC encryption in the archive data,
* and the third time is using 128-bit AES CTR for the WPA2 encryption.

== Remote Distribution of System-Updates ==

As part of the child distribution process, a 3DS acting as the server in a local Download Play session, can send firmware updates to another 3DS unit acting as the client, through first sending the system update package then instructing the client to install reboot and reinstantiate a connection (which it caches information about temporarily) remotely, if it finds system updates are necessary before distributing the child-application. ( eg. multiplayer game or a demo. ) Like "update" partitions on CTR Cards, this is not an "automatic feature" and not implemented for all Download Play titles.