Last night a number of PlayStation 3 owners were hit with PSN error 8001050F. Sony has determined that the problem only hits users of older PS3 models and that users with the newer “slim” hardware appear to be unaffected. Luckily, I spent most of Sunday on my Xbox 360 playing Vandal Hearts: Flames of Judgement. In the middle of my session I received this message from a developer friend:
Don’t turn your PS3 on — like at all. Seems to be a leap-year firmware bug that corrupts your profile and stops you from using PSN or any PSN purchases. Many offline games won’t start either and it may be wiping Trophies.
Last time I checked, 2010 wasn’t a leap year, so I’m not sure what he meant by that. Then again, he’s way more technical than I am so it might be code speak. What I do know is that several users have reported that their PS3 consoles have — for some unknown reason — reset the date to 12/31/99, which appears to be wreaking havoc with other data.
Scanning my Facebook and Twitter friends, it appears that a lot of my buddies were hit by 8001050F. As of this writing, the support thread on Sony’s forums is 38 pages long. As much as I want to get more Heavy Rain trophies, I’m not even going to look at my PS3 until Sony issues an “all clear” statement.
Any of you get hit by this (seemingly) nasty bug?
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@Nightshade
Indeed, but if I'm not mistaken…anabolic steroids were first put in to humans and used widely in Russia. Just pointing out that they were the root of the issue.
Personally I don't see steroids as a bad thing. I'd never use them. I'm not that in love with myself and I like to keep certain parts working. However for those that do want to use them, I don't care. Some will say that it gives an unfair advantage…but what about the unfair advantage of genetics?
I know why they are prohibited…someone somewhere has to make money off of the testing.
From everything that SONY is saying right now, it seems like they think that if they can't get it fixed, it should self correct when the clock strikes midnight tonight. Hopefully that's the case.
Sony is now telling everyone to stay off of PSN.
http://www.vg247.com/2010/03/01/sony-details-fat-…
@nightshade
I read that too but i don't think it would. If the calendar is messed up and is reading today's date a 2/29/10 instead of 3/1/2010 wouldn't it read tomorrow as 3/1/2010 instead of 3/2/10? Here i thought Lost was a head scratcher.
APOCALYPS3
haha@rrod
Chin up Sony. Here's a little inspiration for you in your tie of need.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsmybQKpmTw
The only thing I played yesterday was Bad Company, and when I tried checking my Trophies while I was playing, that’s when I noticed that- A. Bad Company didn’t show up at all on my trophy list, and B. the date/time was screwed up. Also, has anyone else been having a LOT of PSN connection problems in the last few days? Starting a week ago, my PS3 seemed to be signing out of PSN a lot more than usual.
@nightshade
I don't remember that goofy dog being in Animal House? Was that in the special edition?
@ps3 topic.
If this whole thing is about that clock that issue should be resolved by 6p CST. I was playing my playstation after the hockey game for a bout a 30 mins before i called it quits around 6. The first posts about this issue range around 6pm CST, *crosses fingers* let's hope i'm right about this.
@tokz: nah it was some random moron's version of it. But it was the only the only one I could find in less than 3 minutes of searching that started where I wanted it to.
@tokz: Hockey used to be my #3 behind Football and baseball. I grew up in Connecticut and used to go to Whaler games all the time. It’s kinda slipped to #4 for me behind soccer when my team was moved to Carolina. And now, living in the desert, it’s just hard to get into hockey when it’s 75 degrees and sunny outside in March….especially if you can’t find a game on TV and you don’t really care about the local team. These Olympics have actually really recharged my love for the sport.
@smartguy
yeah i kind of figured it wouldn’t affect games. I think people need to stop overreacting. If your game needs an update of course you’re not going to be able to play a game. People tried tricking the calendar too. Thank you for logging on and seeing if it works. Sorry to see that you’re affected now too.
@shockwave
lol, that’s a good vid. Some people have said resetting the battery on the PS3 solves the issue. My first thought was, there’s a battery in the PS3?
@nighshade
that’s true but i’m always thinking of what can go wrong. I think it’s just embedded on me as a Cubs fan.
Well if everybody’s PS3′s brink right before God of War III comes out and everybody’s gotta go out and buy new ones….that’s a sure fire way to boost console sales for the PS3! Way to go Sony! 1st place here we come! Eat that M$!!
That was for you, RRoD.
@N8R: And that was a Red Wing (Rafalski) who let him walk in front of the net all alone by completely missing him on the boards and then being late to chase. Huge mistake at that point in the game, and no matter how great Ryan Miller had played up to that point, being left 1 on 1 in the slot with the best player in hockey is almost a no win situation for the goaltender.
Was reading an article on ESPN.com about how the Russian President is calling for the people in charge of their Olympic team to resign over how badly they did in the medal count this year in Vancouver, especially with the next winter games in Russia. Here’s the link:
http://sports.espn.go.com/olympics/winter/2010/news/story?id=4955805
What I found particularly funny about this article was this line at the end by the author:
“Doping bans also had deprived Russia of several leading medal contenders, he said.”
Yep, that’s the second to last sentence of a 14 paragraph article. Doping bans are apparently nothing more than a throw away line, and not symptomatic of the larger problem with Russian sports? Really?!?
@smartguy
Well if that’s the reason then i would just boycott them until everyone can use HGH or any other PED’s. Which would never happen because of all the side effects they have. good luck with that Russia.
@smartguy
the Sochi (sp?) 2014 games isn’t that far away. Russia will see a boost but i wouldn’t see them being the overall leaders.
@nightshade
I agree. I know everyone uses some type of PED’s and you know as you get closer to the games that testing will be more frequent, why not lay off of them?