EXCLUSIVE: Announcing the Cobra ODE

[GaryOPA]

Team Cobra is entering the PS3 Optical Drive Emulator market

We got exclusive tip from developers behind Cobra that they will be producing a ODE for Sony Playstation 3 consoles

We all heard of the upcoming '3k3y' device, but now the market for installing an ODE in the PS3 scene world is heating up as the world's famous Team Cobra behind the Cobra-USB dongle is now going to be producing an Cobra-ODE for playing all your backup PS3 Blu-Ray Game Disc Images directly from any HDD without the need to have your PS3 console on 'custom firmware', which they claim will be 'most advanced PS3 Optical Drive Emulator' ever.

No more infomation is available at the moment, except what is on their official websites, but stay tuned as we bring you more exclusive news!

OFFICIAL SITE #1: http://www.cobra-ode.com/
OFFICIAL SITE #2: http://www.cobra-team.com/

[the-green]

Awesome, thanks Gary, just hope they are planing or working to make it compatible with 3K PS3, it will be amazing !!

[BNDVS]

did not report whether they are going to release a new firmware for their dongle Cobra USB? Or I can cancel the pre-order their dongle? (I'm talking about this news which was published earlier: http://www.ps3crunch.net/forum/threa...-4-3x-incoming)

[bearmon2010]

Thanks for the news.

[GaryOPA]

To the three people and dozens more that will reply causing a 'flame war'.

Answer me this, how can HARDWARE be free?

An ODE is not a DRM dongle it is interface between the ps3 and blu-ray drive, making the PS3 think it is talking to the actual blu-ray drive, not HDD, allowing you to use ORIGINAL FIRMWARE.

Even if the 'scene' released the info for FREE on how to do this, like the Glitch'ing on the X360, you would still have to build a PCBoard, buy the parts and solder it together, and flash an asic with the code, it might be little cheaper but still would cost money.

There is already CFW for FREE, this device is just another option for those wishing to play backups using OFW.

No one is forcing you to read this topic or buy this hardware.

Again it is not dongle. -- As for updating the firmware for cobra-usb dongle, i heard it was in the works, not sure if any update, i will ask.

[dangwoot]

gary's right with a hardware solution we got em by the balls .... they can't really do anything but implement more checks and levels of security between the bdd and the system itself,

put it this way... now you won't have to shit your pants every time you get kicked off psn for using CFW!

[Binho]

will be compatible with OFW above 3.70 ... and there'll buy for sure ... great news! very good site you guys!! congratulations!

[the-green]

I didn't say anthing against Cobra !!! it's one of the best hack teams in the ps3 scene !!

[gDrive]

I didn't say anthing against Cobra !!! it's one of the best hack teams in the ps3 scene !!

Must be a misunderstanding - I know you said positive stuff about the announcement.

[djluiluv]

hopefully this will be better than having to resort to a hardware flasher finally...