[Supported CFW]

• REBUG 4.84.1 CEX LITE (LITE)
• REBUG 4.84.1 DECR LITE (DEH)
• REBUG 4.84.1 REX/D-REX (REX)
• PASTA 4.84 V2 (DEX)

COBRA 8.1 Source

[ Joonie's Changes ]

• Firmware spoofing is disabled due to the changes of PSN Auth since 4.60
• PLS3 patches are removed from modulespatch.c since this is one of those pre-applied patches on 4.xx CFW
• unknown E3 patches are removed to fix an issue with XMB, [Originally found by rancid-0, from his PS3ITA 4.50 COBRA]
• Dual VSH supported for REBUG REX / D-REX CFW, with the proper hash check code was developed by habib and Nzv recently.
• NPDRM Fself fix is no longer used due to improved fself patches hard coded within the firmware modules on REX/D-REX

[ Habib's changes ]

• Stage0 and stage0 base are merged, (Optimization on stage0 and stage1)

• Syscall 11 is added to support full lv1 peek.

• Syscall 15 is added to allow execution of any lv2 internal function.

• Allow Syscall 11 to gain full access to syscall 6/7/9/10 to prevent modification from homebrews like multiMAN.

• PS2 Launcher is no longer needed due to new codes in storage_ext, now COBRA can behave the same way that VSH does to apply configuration of DS3 controllers.

• PS2 Launcher can still be used, which allows PS2ISO with netemu on backward compatible consoles.

• PS2 Netemu toggle is added for Backward compatible consoles, it is very useful for those units with broken EE/GS chips as well.

• PS2 Netemu can now use decrypted CONFIG, place the game config file in the same game path for ex) dev_hdd0/PS2ISO/GOW.ISO dev_hdd0/PS2ISO/GOW.ISO.CONFIG

• HASH calculation algorithm is changed, now it uses static hashes, so the hashes will not be changed unless modules have major changes.

• Stealth extension support to disable Syscall 15

• Allows temporary LV1 peek from syscall 8 when "disabling COBRA" is not used

• Run payload with Kernel privileges - Added option to run payload with kernel privileges like ps vita skprx. this is a big thing! one can make hooks, printf to socat, do whatever they feel like they need to do. at the current time only one payload is supported at a time. in the future i might increase this

• Boot times speed improved - as there is no stage1.

• PS2 bc and semi bc consoles wont load iso when cobra disabled - disable cobra using opcode)

• Added support for dynamic memory payloads, 5 of them can be started from "/dev_hdd0/boot_plugins_kernel.txt"

• Toolchain updated to support dynamic address loading.

• For applications, you can also mount em, and unmount em separately

• Stage0 now supports kernel & vsh plugins without Stage2 Cobra mode

  • dev_hdd0/boot_plugins_kernel.txt* required for kernel plugin
  • dev_hdd0/boot_plugins.txt* required for VSH boot plugin

  non-Cobra mode

  • dev_hdd0/boot_plugins_kernel_nocobra(_dex).txt* required for kernel plugin
  • dev_hdd0/boot_plugins_nocobra(_dex).txt* required for VSH boot plugin

• loadoptical flag will be created to ensure optical ps2 media would be played on bc/semi-bc models at all times

Please review this post for further detail via http://www.psx-place.com/threads/update-4-84-1-starbuged-cfw-includes-new-cobra-8-00-payload-by-habib.22810/

[ KW's changes ]

• webMAN integration on boot. Also disables external webMAN plugin located in dev_hdd0 (Disabled for REBUG 4.82.1 LITE)
• PSN Patch stealth mode, it remove custom syscall from the ps3
• Homebrew blocker added, when Syscalls are disabled by plugins or homebrews, it will prevent homebrews from being launched, and it will return as 80010006 on XMB.

[ Dean's changes ]

• Improved map_path, to fix the issue with games like Shadow of Mordor
• Permission protection is disabled to increase game compatiblity and full DEX support.[no more issue with Target Manager or CCAPI]
• 80010017 / 8001002B Error fix is added since 4.60, this was developed to prevent issues with games when game disc is inserted in BD Drive.
• LIC.DAT check is patched to fix the issue with launching homebrew since 4.60
• Full burned optical media support for PS3 Games. (CD-R, DVD-R SL/DL, BD-R SL/DL, BD-RE)

[ Nzv's changes]

• PS3MAPI 1.2.2 support, it is similar feature comparing to CCAPI, but open sourced project and also can unload vsh plugins , attatch process on all type of EBOOT. One of those great debugging features.
• Partial disable syscall8 and unhooks all cobra hooks (Part of PS3MAPI)
• Block update from disc

[ Aldo's changes ]

• Improved PSX media type support, now it supports following disc types
• 2048 // 2352 // 2336 // 2448 *
• Improved Video mode patch with proper region detection Original COBRA payload was relying on ps1emu's detection method, now COBRA has extra pre-processing that can detect region properly and force apply correct refresh rate depending on the game's region. (Improved PS3MAPI functions)
• Added PEEK/POKE (LV1/LV2) as PS3MAPI opcodes (syscall8)
• Added option to block access and request access to syscall8 using a key (also as PS3MAPI opcodes)
• Added temporary disablement of Cobra syscall8 to allow dumpers peek 0x1000 to 0x9800
• BASIC_PLUGIN hash is commented.
• 80010006 Error fix when trying to install a game update with syscall disabled. Fix & Research @Joonie @Alexander @Aldo

[ Alexander's changes ]

• Fixed data corruption if you uninstall game/game update/homebrew with syscall disabled

[ Haxxxen's changes ]

• Extra patch for PSP SAVE DATA is disabled by default to improve compatibility, however can be toggled by CROSS+R1 when launching PSP launcher.

[Evilnat's changes]

• Updated KW's code to search webMAN in flash and load it firstly if it's found in /dev_hdd0, will search in the following paths:
  • /dev_flash/vsh/module/webftp_server.sprx
  • /dev_flash/ps3ita/webftp_server.sprx
  • /dev_flash/webman/webftp_server.sprx
  • /dev_flash/dragon/web.sprx