Posts by Arthur Daley

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WHAT no RoboCop

You wanna play all these games again? Fire up M.A.M.E and go rom hunting.

ahh the old 2p trick lol im bloody surprised you knew this ;)

Old PS3s locked out of PlayStation Network

Fixed at 0:00 GMT+0

strange (NOT) that it works now 24 hours to the second later.

dont even try and take credit for this sony..

i want a free game from psn to make me 'feel' better

3rd time lucky

sorry to post 3 in a row..

Fix 1: as above, remove/replace RTC battery = CONFIRMED WORKING

Fix 2: sit tite, at 12am gmt this could very well correct itself = sony will take credit lol

The going theory is

The going theory is that the PS3 is storing some form of date in GMT, then modifying that to get whatever you see in the on-screen clock. That modification process seems to be fine; the system can take 2/28/2010, 9PM GMT, add four hours, and get 3/1/2010, 1AM random time zone.

What’s apparently wrong, as speculation goes, is when the internal GMT-tracking rolls over to 3/1. It’s either not rolling, or rolling to 2/29, at which point a system tries to add/subtract from 2/29, which it can’t do because the front-end calendar doesn’t have a 2/29/2010. Everything started to collapse around 4PM PDT, which I think is 12AM GMT.

And the PS3 launched in 2006; it’s hit four 2/28s so far. 2007 and 2009 were odd-numbered years; 2008 was an even, and a leap year. 2010 is the first even non-leap-year the system’s been around for. If some sort of base-level math is choking on itself, it may have ruled out the odd 2007 and 2009 successfully, but is convinced the even 2010 is a leap year (this part I’m less sure of, but is why leap year could theoretically come into play at some point).

Read more: http://www.ps3news.com/forums/ps3-online-news/psn-crashed-8001050f-hardware-failure-ps3-consoles-110004-8.html#ixzz0gwTtlc0v

some news

just heard from a ps3 dev pal of mine and apparently this effected even the ps3 test units (phat)

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he removed the RTC battery for about 10 minutes as I suggested earlier, stuck it back in and he is now back up and running, on PSN and everything!

So, if you guys want to give it a try and your box has been opened / out of warranty - it should work!

I'd just, for now, set it to today / tomorrow's (3/1/2010) date, to be safe!

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