Anyone with a fat PS3 beware

[Steve Evil]

You might not be able to play anything today:

http://www.mcvuk.com/news/37764/PS3-tech-woes-esca...

Sony better sort this out quickly as it appears that any recent game simply won't load.

[Nat_H]

Yep, mine won't work online or offline....!

[S3_Graham]

oh balls.... typical. just as i start to use it... Oh well.. back to the 360

[XMG5]

I booted up my PS3 last night to play MAG online and it had "forgotten" my login password (even though it had remembered it before). I inputted the password and it logged on okay.

I was still crap at MAG though.

Edited by XMG5 on Monday 1st March 12:56

[thainy77]

I saw this on the Sony forums, quie a funny title.

With Link now!

http://www.facebook.com/?sk=2361831622#!/group.php...

Edited by thainy77 on Monday 1st March 13:09

[Daston]

link dosnt work for me.

Was playing MAG fine yesterday though after it took an age to download the 40mb patch

[RemaL]

S3_Graham said:

oh balls.... typical. just as i start to use it... Oh well.. back to the 360

^^^^ Ditto

[Steve Evil]

Daston said:

link dosnt work for me.

Was playing MAG fine yesterday though after it took an age to download the 40mb patch

Problem will come today, theory is that the firmware in the older model (non-slim) PS3s will think that it's February the 29th today and won't authenticate correctly with the servers.

[Tycho]

Steve Evil said:

Daston said:

link dosnt work for me.

Was playing MAG fine yesterday though after it took an age to download the 40mb patch

Problem will come today, theory is that the firmware in the older model (non-slim) PS3s will think that it's February the 29th today and won't authenticate correctly with the servers.

Mine doesn't even work with the date set manually...

Bloody pain in the arse that even with the internet connection disabled you can't play any games that have trophies even offline. Major design fault IMO. Can't play MW2, Assassins Creed 2 or Fifa 10.

[Steve Evil]

All I want to do is play Heavy Rain, but they're conspiring against me, first my blu-ray laser kicks the bucket, now even when I've fixed that I'll have to wait for them to iron out this bug. I don't know how they're going to fix the problem for those people that can't even connect to the network or for those whose PS3s are set into a reboot cycle.

[4hero]

Nervous about switching mine on tonight

Got the xbox 360 on standby incase all goes to pot.

[Polarbert]

Couldn't you alter the system time? Temporary fix I know but it may work.

Or will the system simply not load up?

[Nat_H]

Changing the time or disabling internet connections made no difference to mind.

Has the millennium bug finally got here?

[Jasandjules]

Mine was ok online this am.

[Chris_OCR]

Mine worked OK at about 12.30am this morning however I am not holding much hope for when I get home unfortunately,

So annoying, I have been looking forward to moving things forward with Heavy Rain as all day.

[Tycho]

Polarbert said:

Couldn't you alter the system time? Temporary fix I know but it may work.

Or will the system simply not load up?

Won't work even manually setting the time.

Offline games won't work if they have trophies which is a fundamental flaw IMO as sometimes the internet is down and you still want to play.

[bigjimmy]

So is it best to keep it switched off until the fix is in place (if there is one)?

[Frederick]

It'll probably clear itself up tomorrow as the internal clock flicks from 29/2/2010 to 1/3/2010. Yes it will be a day behind, but it will be a valid date correctable in software, it should also allow a firmware update to be pushed out by SCE to fix the prob once and for all.

What I guess is happening is that the hardware real-time clock is passing a date to the hypervisor, which is converting it into GMT. There may be a bug in this conversion code. This is then sending it to the operating system clock, which knows fine well that the 29/2/2010 is an invalid date, so it panics and resets itself to 31/12/1999. This date is what is being sent to the PSN leading to an authentication failure (the dates don't tally) and quite possibly what some games are using for trophy info (ie if you've unlocked trophies on 28/2/2010 but the game starts up on 31/12/1999, something is wrong somewhere and it might think it's trying to be hacked, so gives the authentication error that people are seeing).

Of course, this could be wildly wide of the mark, it could be down to those Otters!!

[4hero]

^ That's funny, that's exactly what I was thinking!

[funkyrobot]

Sorry if this is a silly question, but is this only affecting the older PS3's and not the newer slim ones?

Thanks.