Cobra USB 3.55 - Firmware Patched with Kmeaw Features

[Spazkid]

What?

I already said, the AVERAGE NOOB can't do a hardware mod. They will BRICK their PS3.

Which is why I said it was bad advice.

[lololala]

should i buy or not???

[Zakra]

should i buy or not???

In my opinion, if you like any of the exclusive features that Cobra USB has and you want to support their future development then yes. If you want to play backups and homebrew without the other features, then no. I personally bought mine so that I can finally play PS1 ISOS without an emulator that must first be configured. The Playstation's 3 native support was a must buy for me.

[Shinintendo]

I hope someone would take out the ps1 emulation from it and implant it into kmew 3.55 soon.

[Zakra]

I hope someone would take out the ps1 emulation from it and implant it into kmew 3.55 soon.

Trying to refrain from sounding biased, since I now own a Cobra USB, but this is how I see it.

The more money (support) these Cobra USB guys get, the more exclusive features they can whip out. Right now PS1 emulation is their highlight which is increasing their revenue to fund future products, and once their new bigger and better thing comes out, the PS1 & PS2 emulation won't mean as much and that would be then where I wouldn't mind as much if the public gets a dab at the code.

I see that we have now two strong communities that could co-exist and only one of them makes money, however the one that doesn't make money also has a team of the entire world (or could have) helping them develop their code. If done right, we as the users that benefit, could have a faster flow of new features that would only be hindered if only one of these communities were to have existed.

I believe that if the open community gets the code now, it would stop a great source for new features and in turn slow our growth (or ability to hack the crap out of).

Many open source companies get there ideas from companies that make money. Whether it be Open Office taking from Microsoft Office, or Linux taking from Windows.

Whether people like to believe it or not, if it weren't for the ones that make money, the other open communities would be alot slower at giving us free and useful features.

[NuclearAqua]

could have a faster flow of new features that would only be hindered if only one of these communities were to have existed.

I believe that if the open community gets the code now, it would stop a great source for new features and in turn slow our growth (or ability to hack the crap out of).

You contradict yourself in these 2 sentences. If we are dependant on a small number of people to develop (at a cost) chances are that the progress will be much slower than if the information is available for all to use for free.

Many open source companies get there ideas from companies that make money. Whether it be Open Office taking from Microsoft Office

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or Linux taking from Windows.

On the contrary, the flow of new ideas and concepts is much faster in Linux than it is in Windows.

Whether people like to believe it or not, if it weren't for the ones that make money, the other open communities would be alot slower at giving us free and useful features.

I lol'd.

You ever looked at the PSP scene? What about the Xbox 360 scene? Notice how fast they evolve? Name me a single hacker/developer on these scenes that chooses to release stuff at a cost when they could do it for free.

[Zakra]

You contradict yourself in these 2 sentences. If we are dependant on a small number of people to develop (at a cost) chances are that the progress will be much slower than if the information is available for all to use for free.


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On the contrary, the flow of new ideas and concepts is much faster in Linux than it is in Windows.



I lol'd.

You ever looked at the PSP scene? What about the Xbox 360 scene? Notice how fast they evolve? Name me a single hacker/developer on these scenes that chooses to release stuff at a cost when they could do it for free.

Points taken. However, if you can put my rambling aside, I think I have a point too. If we take away their growth, we are then left with one community. It was the JB Team that originally gave us the ability to exploit the PS3 in the first place and if we take our time with stripping features we can still give them some room to invent more features that we can learn from in the end. I just think it's one more source that could still exist if done right. But you could also be right.

I honestly haven't exploited an Xbox 360 or a PSP, so those scenes are unknown to me. I went straight from XBOX to PS3 when it comes to modding. Anyways, thanks for your input and I hope your right.

[comman]

So where I can buy one?

[Zakra]

So where I can buy one?

If you go to the main site, click on the "Buy" button. There you will find a resellers list. I personally bought mine from Colourful Zone, but it took like 5 weeks, so I would buy it from one of the other ones.

[tthousand]

So where I can buy one?

Cobra USB - Ultimate PS3 USB solution! - Buy

I ordered mine from ModChipsDirect, and it arrived within the next couple of days.

[Pereb27]

Hmm... I'm waiting for my Cobra dongle to arrive so I can't test much right now, but I ran some tests on PS3MFW with the Cobra CFW. It accepted all the regular patches (LV2 kernel, package installer, application launcher and XMB game category) which means those weren't patched in the first place.
However, a few people on this thread mentioned that this kmeaw + cobra firmware doesn't work. And kmeaw has the patches mentioned above + memory mapping patch on LV1.
Now here's the interesting thing : when I tried to patch LV1 I got an error at memory mapping patch, meaning it was already patched.
So here's my theory : at boot time, Cobra CFW checks for dongle, and if it finds it, it will get the payload stored inside it and patch LV2, XMB and package installer on the RAM. This is why patching those would make the firmware not function properly with the dongle inserted. The firmware would try to patch but it will not find the piece of code that needs to be patched, simply because it was patched already, resulting in failed boot.
However, it seems that Cobra CFW already has memory mapping patched and does not load a LV1 patch out of the dongle, meaning we can safely add LV1 patches to their CFW.
In short : we can add Linux support to Cobra CFW.
What do you guys think? I will be doing some testing when I get mine but it might take a while.