PS Vita: Where is the “Cobra Black Fin”?
The “Cobra Black fin” P2P sharing dongle for the PS Vita was announced more than 3 months ago, with a release initially expected for End of December 2015.
Cobra Black Fin – is the project dead?
Since that announce was made however, the official site has seen no update except for a tiny fix on the content of the website itself.
We did find some Cobra black fin potential pricing information for the device after a reseller leaked it on a Chinese retail website. It’s been unconfirmed though if that reseller was legit or not. When I did contact the Cobra team about that price back in January, they told me:
Happy New Year! We have been busy over the holidays improving the Black Fin software. Release is a little delayed, but we should start shipping later this month. Further technical information and a few new pics will be released over the next few days on the Cobra Black Fin website. The wholesale and retail price will be set next week, so we’d appreciate if you could clarify your previous post on Wololo stating the retail price, as this will not be announced until next week.
That email was more than 2 months ago. The retail price has yet to be announced, and since that last communication, the Cobra team have been radio silent despite me emailing them several times since then. Their website hasn’t been updated either.
Does it mean the whole thing was a hoax? Trusted sources tell me the Cobra Black Fin is a real thing (and somehow I’m inclined to believe it, as I think nobody would make up such a convoluted piracy system just for the sake of it), but an update is clearly overdue.
First
Wow, does everyone remember back in 2012 when commenting “first” was actually funny for one of two times?
ur just jealous 😛
yeah, you’re just jealous, Vitagenic… Who wouldn’t want to be a no-life loser nobody who lacks female companionship and a social life; with no grades, no friends, no job, no life, except refreshing a page every 2 seconds in order to get first place on a console hacking website.. you see, Italo is a very important person. He’s widely respected and has contributed so much useful information to the hacking scene, so he deserves the praise. Deal with it.
I’ve never understood why it is “funny”…
It’s Wololo tradition to comment First.
That still doesn’t make it funny
I remember this *** from like 2001 and it was never funny man
On the same site that is the WiiKeÜ
I agree I nearly forgot about the entire thing it’s been so long
I think Cobra gets way ahead of themselves pretty often. The Wii U device they announced just a day after WiiU Key was announced was the worst disappointment. The freaking website is still up http://cobra-ude.com/ This is when I lost all faith in the team. There was nothing to back engineer or copy so there was nothing to release. The Black Fin? I honestly forgot about it as soon as I heard the announcement. I’m not sure what their issue(s) are but until it’s produced and reviewed here or another credible site I’m not even considering the team viable. “Hoax” is a nice way of putting it. That term never really came to mind when I think about Cobra.
damn straight
Pretty much the same as stealing sky tv with this system. Good job!
Just waiting for them to finally come out with a Card System like Sky3DS or Gateway for the Vita.
It doesn’t make sense to put out a thing like this only for it to be a hoax and to not put a pre-orders option out. Maybe the one overseeing this is just unmotivated to take their job seriously?
Or maybe they ran into some kind of unforeseen difficulty as it is always with such devices.
I keenly remember the cobra ode for ps3. It took eternity for it to arrive but when it came it did nothing short for us with unhackable slims and superslims.
I probably should make it clear that when I said “It doesn’t make sense to put out a thing like this only for it to be a hoax and to not put a pre-orders option out.” I meant, put pre orders out in order to get people to pay for something that doesn’t exist an run with the money. Not that I’m saying that’s what I think they did, but if this were a scam, isn’t that what they would do or done already?
I have to agree with wololo, Its not like it was the celeco chameleon, they took no orders, so there was no financial gain, if anything there is probably legal issues, hardware issues, or they are having problems producing it.
i really wish that they can make it and produce it , i really want to buy one as soon as it arrives in iran , and there is somelittle dark part of me 😀 that wish that one day PS4 will get completetly hacked and in that way they can do something to improve the vita or gain more previlage on the system. keeping my finger crossed for the cobra team , i sincersly thanks them from here for all theyve done so far for all hacking scene. nobody asked them to this stuff , and now they are giving their all to improve this kinda system and hacks and brings us more joyment from our device.
Good jub!!Hacker,please continue!
JUBJUB. LOL.
It’s crock of *** from the looks of it anyway. The Vita is practically dead with the current support it has and you might as well buy the games.
I think it may more have to do with the software itself than the hardware. If, based on what is cited, that you’re able to share cartiage over the net, via wifi and that you’re only able to play the said game ONLY if that person has the said game plug in, that would require a decent wifi connection and probably limit your travel time.
Not only that, but they’re probably encountering the issues regarding the security protection on the cartiage itself, as someone, i forgot who, managed to dump the game itself, but wasn’t able to crack the security protection on it.
maybe they got raided like hykem
jk.
jokes aside, i was kinda sceptical from the beginnig, but if they were to lie, why make it so “advanced”. to make it sound real? nah, i don’t think so
Man wololo you’re falling behind, where’s the article about the PS1 bubbles?
Sorry about that, I was abroad for 2 weeks with lots on my plate, did not have time to look into the scene. Get in touch with me if you’re interested to become a guest blogger 🙂
Unlike most people here I actually meant this as a joke but because I was so tired when I wrote it I came across as a complete ***. My apologies, I had assumed it was something like that (I do remember you saying this site is a hobbly of yours). I wish I could write well enough to be considered as a blogger, if that changes I’ll get back in touch with you.
I just want to talk about the Vita.. Vita is not hacked yet and thats mean it’s not dead!.. While 3DS is hacked. It means people buy 3DS but don’t buy games. So Developer should release thier games to the PS Vita.. Nobody play crack game on vita..
now it has been come out ,and you can find the cobra black fin from :
http://www.game4deal.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=117&products_id=573
With only $96.9/pcs
But I don’t need a PO of 5 Unites. I only need One!
Hi Wololo,
today I got the Black Fin sponsored from Team Cobra. I don’t know if you already had the possibility to check it out, but it would be a honor for me to send it to you. Maybe you (or other Wololo members) can get deeper thru the vita system with the black fin.
Let me know if you’re interested.