Team Cobra working on a PS4 Dongle? Nope, according to people close to the team
A rumor has started to spread on some PS4 scene sites that Team Cobra, the team of hackers behind the popular Cobra ODE for PS3, are working on a PS4 dongle. From what we can tell this information is fake and based on former rumors spread by fake twitter accounts a few weeks ago.
According to the rumor, Team Cobra is working on a dongle that would allow PS4 users to run homebrews and “non-copyrighted downloaded games” (That part does not make sense to me. I interpret that as “the possibility to run unsigned content”, or in other words a way for the console to run PS4 games that have been stripped of their technical protections). Quoting the original rumor:
So according to the Cobra Team they are planning to announce and release the COBRA USB PS4 game emulator which will make PS4 users be able to enable homebrew applications and may allow play non-copyrighted downloaded games on their PS4 system!
This is not the first rumor about a dongle incoming for the PS4. These rumors are fueled by a mix of real and fake news on the current state of PS4 Jailbreak. Recently, Team Rebug (of PS3 fame) announced they would start working on the PS4 as well, and although that announce is true, there is no evidence that team rebug is any further than what has been publicly disclosed by people such as CTurt.
Fake Twitter account h3ck34 have been pretending they would release a usb dongle for the PS4 soon. We have debunked that here. But since account h3ck34 pretended they were affiliated to Cobra, it is possible the rumor is evolving into “Cobra team is working on a PS4 dongle”.
So is this a mutating rumor here? The author of the originating “news” does not point to any source for his information, and has been a member of the forum where the rumor was initially posted, for less than 2 month. I contacted people close to the Cobra team who have told me Team Cobra is not currently working on the PS4. The only ongoing known project of Team Cobra is the Cobra Blackfin for PS Vita, which has been significantly delayed for unknown reasons (we’re following up on that). In other words, this new rumor is most likely the h3ck34 fake mutating into something slightly different.
The “Cobra PS4 Dongle” rumor has been relayed on several scene sites, some of which are taking the information at face value without even mentioning it is a rumor. As always be careful about what you read on PS4 scene sites (this is true for what we post here at wololo.net, I’m not pretending we’re perfect and we’ve relayed rumors by mistake in the past).
i hope they realize blackfin is plain stupid, we need real hack (kernel) and homebrew.
Damn I’m tired, reading this as PS4 dong
Huh and what can u say about official cobra site? There is a link which name was cobra usb4. And now it changed to cobra usb. But this link is redirecting you to the page which is not exist. Sooooo… They are working on smth and I am sure they are going to announce it soon. And what could it be? Don’t think it’s new device for ps3. It’s stupid to run new jailbreak-device for pastgen consoles. What do u think about it?
Could be something as simple as a typo on the site which has since been corrected.
Cobra-Team already announced (perhaps accidentally) their PS4 USB dongle on their website. The page is down now for reason(s) unknow.
Here’s what I predict is going to happen:
1. cobra-usb.com will reappear again after they’ve rethunk their marketing strategy so it’ll appear something bit more humble, submissive an not so expensive.
2. This time the retailers have to agree a special clause that the word “dongle” shall not be used. Everything will also look much more homebrew oriented and the feature list won’t say anything about backups or even games in general.
3. Though to keep the customers happy Louarn will use his scene connection and spread some game dumps tagged with “PS4.COBRA-USB.iNTERNAL-PARADOX”.
4. Apparently the rips released by WaYsTeD won’t play out of the box.
5. People will *** a lot but at end of the day Louarn and the engineer Bowser will walk away with enough greenback to buy a Lamborghini.
Think it was true they wouldnt be dismissing it. They would be bragging about it. Dont care too much about it. Just waiting for CFW1.76. Bring it on Rebug
i wonder what motivates people behind the account h3ck34 to keep on twitting those false things though, clearly the recent rumor connected to them as well. what’s next, if no one bothers taking them seriously.
it was clear that it is only a fake.
Im wishing that something ( anything ) for ps vita come soon….
I think they Vita’s only chance at CFW is for the PS4 to get CFW first. Maybe once the PS4 is defeated they can experiment, find more vulnerabilities and attempt porting them to the Vita. Probably wishful thinking since they’re both very different architectures but it could be possible. The 1.76 was originally found for the Vita before being ported to the PS4, but that’s an exception…
*1.76 webkit exploit was what I meant to write…
Check their offical website they cleary have that as logo along with the other devices they have
Ok there seems to be a site that has the answers to down grade your 3DS from 10.4 or 10.5 back down to 9.2 hard mod!!! but the site is in Spanish thankfully google will translate
I need to know if it’s real. It’s got a YouTube video that explain how to do it. And pictures on every system motherboard of o3DS to n3DS. http://www.yakaracolombia.com/2016/01/downgrade-104-y-105-nintendo-3ds-old.html?m=1
Can someone verify and it it’s true let smealum or wololo attention to this!!!! No joke seems authentic I think our Spanish brotherans have contributed to good news
I think it is. Native spanish speaker here.
Please no
let’s keep original for PS4
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In my opinion, if you want to release a dongle+cfw, now it’s the time.
You need games to sell/boost sales of a console.
Same for a dongle.
Many high-profile titles are going to be released in march/april.
That is the time to release something that can enable piracy.
For the price of one game and a half (I guess), you’ll have lots of new AAA games +
all what has been released until now. Probably all these new AAAs will require
the 3.15 firmware. It’s now or never, if you want to monetize a ton.
I’ll believe it when I see it / pics or it didn’t happen /
😀
Cobra-Team already announced (perhaps accidentally) their PS4 USB dongle on their website. The page is down now for reason(s) unknown.
Here’s what I predict is going to happen:
1. cobra-usb.com will reappear again after they’ve rethunk their marketing strategy so it’ll appear something bit more humble, submissive an not so expensive.
2. This time the retailers have to agree a special clause that the word “dongle” shall not be used. Everything will also look much more homebrew oriented and the feature list won’t say anything about backups or even games in general.
3. Though to keep the customers happy Louarn will use his scene connection and spread some game dumps tagged with “PS4.COBRA-USB.iNTERNAL-PARADOX”.
4. Apparently the rips released by WaYsTeD an others won’t play out of the box.
5. People will *** a lot but as usual; Louarn and the engineer Bowser will end their day with enough greenback to buy a Lamborghini.