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[Smacktalks]

I've had my old style PS3 online most of today playing Heavy Rain without problems, but a lot of my mates have been hit by the bug and can no longer access the PSN or play games.

Apparently if you try to play a game on an affected PS3 it'll also whipe your save games and trophies.

[Strum la Frantique]

I had to buy a PS3 slim when my brother moved out, so it doesn't effect me. From what I've read though, saved data should be fine, it's just the trophies that get corrupted. Still Sony can't catch a break, just when they position themselves with affordable hardware and a great line up of software (Heavy Rain, Final Fantasy XIII and God of War 3 all just this month), they go and have a console killing bug on their old consoles. It doesn't effect all of them, but it certainly looks like a majority. Idiots.

[salizzle]

Nearly every fat PS3 was effected, for the whole of today.

Works fine now though.

[Strum la Frantique]

People are bitching about lost trophies, and that Sony should restore them. What a bunch of losers, you could whipe all my PS3 trophies and 360 achievements, I wouldn't lose any sleep.

[Smacktalks]

Should be fine now, they said it was down to the internal clock thinking 2010 was a leap year and setting the date to 29th Feb. I wonder if they actually fixed it, or if they just let it get to the 1st March and then had it correct itself from the internet time.

[Strum la Frantique]

Hence why they said "leave your PS3 turned off for 24 hours", allowing the non-existant date of 29th Feb 2010 to pass. I find it funny that I've read "it'll just happen again next year if they don't fix it" all over the internet; is this really how dumb most gamers that use the internet are? It's not 2010 every fucking year is it. It's like if the Y2K bug hit every year. Which hey now that I've mentioned that, this whole "APOCALYPS3" (who comes up with this shit?) probably had more of a devastating, world wide effect then that ever did.

There was a calendar bug, someone somewhere along the line fucked up. If you had an old PS3, you had a 24 hour period where it was a very expensive and heavy black brick, and may have lost some trophies (only the ones that weren't synched with PSN). Crisis diverted.

[Smacktalks]

I was suprised my old one was working yesterday, had the day off work to play Heavy Rain, would've been gutted if I couldn't have played it.

[Aero]

i'm still not able to get on PSN... is my xbox fucked?

[Smacktalks]

I think so

[Strum la Frantique]

Do you have the RF lead running from your console into the aerial port on the TV? Have you tuned the channel to the correct RF frequency?

[Aero]

i sure have. i've also tried running an "unexpected reboot"

[Strum la Frantique]

Must be the wheel alignment then.