PS Vita: Cobra Blackfin piracy dongle resurfaces (pictures)
The saga continues! The team behind the Cobra Blackfin PS Vita P2P Piracy dongle haven’t shown any sign of life for months, and the project is believed to be dead. However, new pictures of the device, and a price, have surface recently on popular Chinese retail website Taobao.
The price on the retailer’s page indicates the device would cost between $115 and $135 (between 750 and 869 Chinese RMB). That’s a huge difference from the last time the device was mentioned on taobao, where it was listed for approximately $77.
The listing shows additional pictures of the device and its box, as a way for the seller to confirm they have the device in stock. Nothing groundbreakingly new appears on the pictures, except for the fact that it definitely looks like the device is real.
Nevertheless, the official Cobra blackfin site hasn’t been updated in almost half a year, and its team has been radio silent for pretty much the same amount of time.
What is the Cobra blackfin?
The cobra blackfin is a p2p game sharing device for the PS Vita. It was announced by team Cobra in 2015, promising a novel way of pirating games. Instead of breaking the PS Vita’s DRMs in any way, the device would connect to a p2p network, finding a gamer with the actual game cartridge to handle the game authentication steps, before running a backup of the game locally on the priate’s side. After its initial announcement though, the team stopped updating their official website and it is not confirmed if the device works or is even real.
I kinda hope this is real just so we get some certainty after all.
I can not buy such expensive item because I do buy games in official way
Looks like drama on your side.))
Interesting, I am waiting for this device, willing to put 100$ into it, time will show if its worth.
i think it makes the device able to swim with that sweet fin!
i really need to know , is this device real or fake
The only reason I hope this is real is for hackers. Maybe this is help something bigger and cheaper.
lol.. now you are writing about pictures and no confirmation if the device is even real or fake that’s just lame.
Its better than anything you are able to do. Go on prove me wrong, write an amazing article for this site then.
ok, let’s see you dig up new information on this device. Why don’t you enlighten us the truth with facts on if the device is real or fake?
too late and nothing will come out of this
So there have to be a lot of people using this device to make it work. And that wont work at the vita, additional the price kills the concept
i work at a video game store and we got an offer from a supplyer to buy one of these. unfortunatly we dont need it because they stoped releasing games for PSVITA
This is going to do more harm than good due to how little games the vita gets, if anything it’s going to kill support altogether we won’t even get indie games anymore.
I think its fake , or for some reason does not work any more , and that is why htey dont release it . If its real (its possible …) I dont think that I will buy it , its too expensice , for that amount of money you will be able to buy quait a lot of games tha you could play ON THE GO , and not in your house depending on your internet conection .
Thinking about it, this seems like a better device for accessing all your games without switching cards then piracy. Honestly It’d be pretty cool to use it like that, to switch your own physical games without the hassle of switching game cards. I’d consider getting it for that it if it was cheaper.
Too expensive, even Gateway and Sky3ds which do a much better job at being normal flashcarts aren’t this expensive.
For this kind of money you can simply just buy any game you really want for the Vita on PSN when sales arise…
Need video authentication reliability and how it works
Well i think it needs more info , i will buy it no matter what if it comes to iran , but we have to know more detail than only knowing it that it only enable iso loading of the games , like it will enable ure device to play MKV format or it will enable it to have more spaces via Micro SD or any other ability that it gaves us.
if possible plz wololo test it and post the result.
salar can you please give me a skype id or email address for contacting i’m iranian /.
frostvi3n@gmail.com , contact me via this
Because thats all it does, it will not give you features theconsole doesn’t have, this isn’t a hack, this isn’t homebrew, this is literally a piracy dongle, this will not do anything other than that
Nah bro thats not right. You could theoretically play homebrews like the Cobra ODE do.
But in my opinion this device cost more than any games i woud buy for the Vita.
But who knows what it can do? Maybe it needs kernel access to work like the 3ds card…
srsly ? so any news about PS 4 Dongle ?
yes its out i was just contacted by one of my chinese suppliers he is selling it for 96usd .
Bottom right hand corner is a picture/shape of an amiiqo? ***
Most of the actual cart games for Vita are stupidly cheap now due to lack of interest anyway. If the Fin would allow putting all your own carts in and just opening ports on the router so all the games can be stored on the (now hideously expensive as compared to microSD) Vita memory card and you can pull the auth from your home computer, it might be worth it for hobbyists. Personally it’s use as a way to finally sideload Vita ISOs/ROMs whatever on the memory cards themselves if someone can figure it out is the most important asset.
I still doubt it’s real. But I don’t doubt that Sony will pat themselves on the back for the fact that they would consider the Vita not fully hacked. And that, Sony, is because it didn’t shift enough units and never quite had a killer app…
Yesss!!!Please continue!
I assume the usb card reader will be able to dump the games too, because we need to place them on the micro sd.
so, dumping games will be cool.
in the future, if the vita is ever hacked more, we could use this without having to rely on the real cart authentication 🙂 although at that point we could just have the games as digital installs instead of spoofing a cart.
Lmao Dongles… I learned my lesson about using dongles back when ps3 had Trueblue overpriced for their own good. And now look what happened, we took the CFW out of it and made it 100% software. The good news about this isn’t the dongle… its the possibility that the Vita will get its own CFW if it lands into our dev team hands.
Well thats our real problem , not many devs are interested into psvita any more
Wololo, I just spoke to the seller of the item a few minutes ago.
To reassure everyone, this product is REAL. The seller (who is not the official seller from the company, just a reseller) – said they have them in stock to buy now.
BUT there is no software, the software side of the product is not finished yet, I asked them when it is due and they also don’t know, no update on the official website.
So yes, the product is real (strange how people can think a joke/prank would go this far) – but until the software is finished there is no useable product. I wonder how long it will take for the software to be finished.
But if you really want you can buy the hardware and look it! 🙂
To the people who talk about dongles and the negativity, remember, the way this works is that it NEEDS to be this way, there is no vita hack good enough so all we can rely on is ‘tricking’ the physical side, similar to ODEs, some flashcarts etc.
The difference with trueblue and gateway and why some people people don’t like them is that they themselves need hacks to run, and so they could have been developed without hardware, but weren’t, so that the companies could make some money.
But stuff like DS flashcard, it needs to be physical, the DS has no sd card, has nothing really, you need a card to have the games on, tough luck.
Not everything can be downloaded and free.
Some of you seem to be forgetting not everything is possible in software!
Until the vita is ever blown open or hacked more, we will have to rely on tricks like ode stuff.
wow oh , i think it is true for the price on the official instead of taobao … i am seeing a wholesale reseller even it is wholesale order ,need $96.5 usd one pcs .
you can check there http://www.game4deal.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=117&products_id=573
Almost 80 dollars? In my country the used games are on 10 o 15 dollars, it’s more cheap than this :/