PS Vita hack: Cobra Black Fin dongle, the future of piracy on the Vita, or just an elaborate hoax?
We mentioned the upcoming release of the Cobra Black Fin, a dongle that, the marketing material claims, will allow users to play PS Vita roms freely, provided they have access to an internet connection.
You can see the details on our announcement here.
People have started to double guess the announcement though. The device might not even be real, and this could very well be an elaborate hoax, according to some.
Cobra Black Fin: the email glitch
Several bloggers over at hackinformer say they have tried to contact the blackfin admins with no luck so far. There’s a weird glitch on the blackfin website: although their email reads “sales
@frwololo pic.twitter.com/n4j1Pl0YWH
— darkamon (@roccocannale) December 7, 2015
I have myself emailed the owners at sales
Cobra black Fin: who owns the website?
Diving into the owners of the site, a company named “PT Grupo Payment SA”, we find relations between the Cobra black-fin site, and team-cobra-ode.com (the official Cobra ODE site advertised on dongle reseller sites such as maxconsole.com). The same “company” owns these two sites and other less “high profile” sites.
It’s tough to make a call on this one, but it seems that the same people behind the Cobra ODE are indeed behind this product. Based on website ownership alone, I’m edging on the side of “this is true” rather than a hoax.
Cobra Black Fin: Product Video & Description
Last but not least, the video they published, as well as the pictures of the product and detailed explanations of the process, look like they’re going through a lot of pain if this was merely a hoax.
I usually chase the money. That website has no ads, no survey. There’s no financial reason for this to be an elaborate hoax, an I’d say they’re building up attention until the actual release of the product in December.
Whichever way it is, we’ll know soon enough, with their release date stated to be end of December. But so far, based on what we know, I’m inclined to say this product is very real.
Does look interesting. Intrigued more on how this works as it seems to plug into to top port o.O unless it plugs straight into the memstick port and wraps around (though this could block the back panel)
The theory behind it is plausible, but what I cant get my head around is how they will trick the Vita into accepting normal uSD cards. As far as I know, no one has succeeded decrypting the memory card yet..? Yes I know we can ‘dump’ the contents on the card, but simply copying that to a normal uSD and hook it up to the Vita would only result in the Vita laughing its *** off at your stupidity, lol…
Anyway, Im more interested in the uSD solution than the actual piracy-part of it. *** those damn proprietary cards >:(
meh, Im an idiot, you can remove my first reply. I should try reading with both eyes once in a while.
I hope this is just human error and they just forgot to set something up/made a mistake setting something up. This thing needs to be real.
Piracy sucks and all, but not like the Vita was doing all that well anywho.
Mimimimimi
idk, You should ask TMZ…
how much dose it cast
where we can buy one of those machin
its look real to me
Very interesting!! I don’t know how these dongles normally work, but would this mean they (the makers) have effectively hacked the PS Vita? Does this require the use of Rejuvenate? Could this thing be used to get into the vita a little deeper?
It’s really nice that you tested the mail yourself after the hackinformer news. As you stated ,the Black Fin seems really accurate and logic and therefore now I believe it is a real device. So now…when it is the real Cobra Team , that’s worked on the ODE , you can guess that the release date will rather be December 2016 😛 The ODE was released much later than they said , but well , it was perfectly working and saved many PS3s from non-usage.
Do i need an internet connection constantly or just for once to make a connection?
And can we disconnect the fin from laptop after verification?
must be connected to the net?, not good for me..ill let it pass and wait for this site developers software hacks
but well, if maybe, it can also act like an adapter that can make the vita use some much more cheaper sd cards for storing games and also the piracy of vita games it originally offers, then who wouldnt want that s***, really..
Its legit. If its advertised on Maxconsoles (they host the “official” Cobra ODD forums, among other “official” forums) and GaryOPA says its legit, then you can believe it is. If anyone is in contact with the Cobra crew, its him
Buy Wololo and test it out lol
So after all this time, the great Playstation Vita finally break to piracy ? For real ?
When this works with the newest Firmware (multiplayer/trophys), im buying it. *** Rejuvenate bullcrap.
Fake as the vita tv mod
im guessing ur probably just *** and sold your vita….haha sounds like it
Well, I’m not a expert then i will make my question based on my idiotic sense of logic. If they can take a part of autentication and send it under p2p why this information cant be stored to use without p2p or if need to be transmited why not under a android phone or pc?
This elephant will need to stay attached to vita while play?
If it’s real then i might buy one, depends on the price and how good this p2p network will be.
Good very very Good!!I ochen ochen waiting for this release Huck!
lol. You might want to reread the article, if you can. XD
Either way not for me tied down with a portable system
I say hoax and even if not not worth it to many problems
Possible trace
Possible hack of OS
Possible brick
Possible Sony taking all accounts ban
Possible not to play what you want
Possible hack of vita for ID
Possible to stop dev the few that is left to leave the Vita
Possible to cost a lot
The list go’s on ect.
I want this to be real, hope the price wont be to expensive, and I hope also after authentication we can use the vita Offline and the game just work without the need of internet,
For me it works like the following :
they have take the method of mr Gas
http://wololo.net/2015/08/10/vita-cartridge-dump-boot-vita-memory-card-mr-gas/
Now, with this method you must put an original cartridge to use your dump on ms.
They problably found a way to simulate the insertion of a real cartdrige, but the cartrige is over the net , miles away….
Does it have a vibrator feature?
not happy about the piracy part of vita games except when its emulation or homebrew
in any case if your willing to pirate stuff you should be willing to lose trophy support and an online experience
each one external memory first must be format in fat32. For long the memory duration
Hey Wololo , um did u got the device that u said u will get it till end of this month ?
the cobra device for vita
Nope, they haven’t sent it to me yet
Its already end of december ,i guess no Xmas gift for vita users yet. 🙁
any way , merry chirstmass to all 😀
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Have you got the black fin now??
Nope, still haven’t received it