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“Fixed” PS3 Bug Sheds Light On Problem

Mar 02
Posted by Ian Hamilton in PS3, Video Games

Well, I guess it really was the leap year bug – I turned my PS3 on half an hour ago, only to be told it was March 1, 2010… confirmation, if you needed it, that this whole charade was down to the console taking March 1, 2010 (in reality) as February 29, 2010.

Still, the wrong date thing is nothing a quick visit to the settings menu can’t fix, but I’ll be wondering if Sony’ll be able to avoid a repeat in 2014 without having to have everyone buy new machines.

Anyway, no damage has been done to my PS3. If only I’d managed to grab the right episode of Kitchen Nightmares – instead of an unaired repeat from season 2 that’s somehow managed to sneak into the lineup as a “new” episode!

Coming soon… random iPhone app reviews, sports talk (are Sunderland doomed?), something from the past, and perhaps some random game reviews…

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PS3 clock bug fixed

Mar 02
Posted by Ian Hamilton in PS3, Video Games

So the PS3 bug has apparently fixed itself – according to Joystiq (http://tinyurl.com/yl5tqnk)… I’ve not turned mine on since February, but all of the signs appear to be good.

Still, it’s sad that a £300 (at launch date) piece of equipment can be felled by something as simple as the concept of a leap year!

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PS3 staying off for now!

Mar 01
Posted by Ian Hamilton in PS3, Video Games

Well, I was planning to turn on my PS3 tonight, if at least to take a screenshot of what I would expect to be a screwed up console. That ain’t happening folks, especially not after Sony’s latest update, in which they effectively tell people with the old-style PS3 not to turn it on!

We hope to resolve this problem within the next 24 hours. In the meantime, if you have a model other than the new slim PS3, we advise that you do not use your PS3 system, as doing so may result in errors in some functionality, such as recording obtained trophies, and not being able to restore certain data.

It all but looks like the bug is being caused by the PS3 thinking that today is February 29, 2010 in some weird manifestation of what people call the Y2K+10 bug. Ah well, guess I’ll be watching my media through my PC for once tonight!

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Sony Glitch Locks Out Old PS3s?

Mar 01
Posted by Ian Hamilton in PS3, Video Games

According to a story on TheRegister – http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2010/03/01/chubby_ps3_psn_lockout/ – and just about everywhere else, as February turned to March, old-style PS3s were locked out of Sony’s PlayStation Network.

Horror stories so far include being unable to play games and even data loss, but weirdly people with the new “slim” PS3s are mainly unaffected.

As someone with an old PS3 and a custom installed hard drive, I’m kinda hoping that mine isn’t affected, and that I’ll not be going home to nothing more than a BluRay player tonight!

More to follow…

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