Thread: Contacting Cobra Dongle?

This will seem like an odd suggestion, but it might work (who knows, in this situtation we are desperate). As you all know sony removed backwards compatibility a long time ago, to sell hd remakes and psn releases. We hated sony for doing this (along with the many other stuff they did). Sony is probably not going to give us compatiblity back, since they can milk from it. And we don't have much devs working on the scene, except the Duplex and Exetrimall, and they're already working hard.

As much as you do I hate the dongle stuff, but this seems like a nice opportunity. Cobra Dongle allows users to play ps1/psp games on your ps3, and it allows you to play ps2 games on backward-compatible consoles. The thing is, people only buy it for the ps2 stuff (since we can play ps1 games with multiman). They've managed to make ps2emu (which was already in the slim ps3) work, but it provides poor quality, like many other ps2 emulators there are many graphical issues and slowdowns which doesn't allow you to play. But if someone would work on it, it wouldn't take too long to make it perfect.

So, none of the devs will not spend any time on the ps2 emulator, but cobra-devs make money from this and doing this will maybe increase their profits %300-400 (considering most of the jailbroken ps3's are slim). They already have a forum they use to take requests, and we have many members, we could request, at least make them consider this idea. They can't be worse than sony, even sony has a blog to take user advices, and they have achieved over 80 of users requests.

This was just a suggestion, as you know I do not have any connection with any of the dongles, I don't even own one. But right now, this seems the only solution for our problem. I just want to know what you people think about this.

Eh Sorry, but what is this big request? That they open up the dongle so all can program for it? Not likely, once the code is out it will go the same way as PSJailbreak. Dongle only exists as a DRM exercise, something tangible, to maximize profits.

The request is making "cobra-devs" do it for us. Probably they are the only ones who would work on it, they can do it, the people who would want to buy the dongle would buy it, who doesn't want to won't buy it. Their devs will improve it, I'm not talking about opening it up.

What your asking for is an improvement in the way the Dongle works?

Personally, Don't want to buy one. feels like a retrograde step using dongles. Looks like there's a few people looking into this dongle right now. Hope the code gets cracked/emulated soon, then we can start seeing real improvements and other programmers getting involved because its more open. Look how basic game managers developed when other programmers got involved.

The aim should be to use the pooled knowledge of the scene to make progress for all. Say No to secrets, No to making a quick buck before the rest of the scene can catch up, No to not sharing information while putting it out there like some scene legend.

I will not support Cobra/True Blue They hurt the scene.

Originally Posted by saros32

This will seem like an odd suggestion, but it might work (who knows, in this situtation we are desperate). As you all know sony removed backwards compatibility a long time ago, to sell hd remakes and psn releases. We hated sony for doing this (along with the many other stuff they did). Sony is probably not going to give us compatiblity back, since they can milk from it. And we don't have much devs working on the scene, except the Duplex and Exetrimall, and they're already working hard.

As much as you do I hate the dongle stuff, but this seems like a nice opportunity. Cobra Dongle allows users to play ps1/psp games on your ps3, and it allows you to play ps2 games on backward-compatible consoles. The thing is, people only buy it for the ps2 stuff (since we can play ps1 games with multiman). They've managed to make ps2emu (which was already in the slim ps3) work, but it provides poor quality, like many other ps2 emulators there are many graphical issues and slowdowns which doesn't allow you to play. But if someone would work on it, it wouldn't take too long to make it perfect.

So, none of the devs will not spend any time on the ps2 emulator, but cobra-devs make money from this and doing this will maybe increase their profits %300-400 (considering most of the jailbroken ps3's are slim). They already have a forum they use to take requests, and we have many members, we could request, at least make them consider this idea. They can't be worse than sony, even sony has a blog to take user advices, and they have achieved over 80 of users requests.

This was just a suggestion, as you know I do not have any connection with any of the dongles, I don't even own one. But right now, this seems the only solution for our problem. I just want to know what you people think about this.

Not sure what exactly you mean by Cobra allows users to play PSX/PS1 games on the PS3, but I can play USA/NTSC discs on my PS3 with no problem, then use multiMAN to play JAP/NTSC. Guessing you're meaning it by iso from the HDD?

yeah he means from hdd, i have a cobra and what the op is suggesting has been dun.. on their forms many ppl has suggested this man, and yeah i guess they seem more into psp development then ps2.. there is a few games that work alright, they have a list a compatibility list on their forms stating which ps2 games work and which dun

Why not improve it already? Like I said it could increase their sales, and we could get that bc we always wanted, people who wants to buy the dongle could buy it, who doesn't could wait until it get's cracked. If they can "improve" psp emulation why wouldn't they work on ps2 games as well? We all know emulation can be improved. Because we won't be getting a ps2 emulator by a another non-dongle dev, so this is our only chance.
There are hundreds of members in our forum, I've checked their forum and it was not much crowded, we could get their attention.

i agree with this up to a point. while i think its great what they have done with ps2/psp emu, it is still a drm dongle. i am still against drm of all kinds....however, saros is right. if you want something done and no one is listening, speak louder!!!

you want change??? start a petition, and post a link on their site after it has several hundred signatutes. advertise the petition on all the ps3 sies you can. if you want change, become an advocate!! yell you idea from the rooftops and make people listen. start a petition at change.org and i will sign