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Cobra ODE User Manual v2.0
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Using Cobra ODE Browser
An alternative to the COBRA Manager Homebrew application is to use the COBRA
ODE Browser which does not require the use of homebrew and may appear more stealth to
the PS3.
The Cobra ODE Browser can only be used from MCU firmware version 1.5 and up.
Starting from Cobra ODE 2.0 update, the Cobra Browser can be enabled by adding the
manager.type=browser
option to the cobra.cfg configuration file and adding the
browser.iso file to the COBRA directory of the HDD. Prior to the Cobra ODE 2.0 update,
the Cobra Browser requires the use of the genps3extra PC application which needed to be
run every time the list of ISO files changed on the HDD. Refer to
Section 0
for instruction
on how to use genps3extra if you did not update to Cobra ODE 2.0
There will be two menus for the Cobra ODE Browser, the first one in the Game category
of the XMB, it will show the game icon and title:
Figure 3.4: Cobra ODE Browser in the “Game category” of the XMB.
You will notice that the auto-generated
Game category
browser will open a bit slower that
the browser in previous versions. That is because the browser is built on the fly and
effectively eliminates the need for the genps3extra program since ISOs are scanned every
time the HDD is connected to Cobra ODE. Also from update 2.0 onwards you will notice a