Is there any solid basis for this, because I haven’t found anything conclusive. Generally speaking the CMOS battery/real-time clock is only there to save the time while the system doesn’t have power. Once booted the time can be set as normal.
There’s talk about this issue going back to 2010 and the conclusion back then seemed to be that the worst case is it requires replacing the battery. If PS3 uses one of the established, public NTP servers then that might not even be necessary if the system is connected to the network.
There’s potentially a lot of ways around this, but I’d like to know the specifics on what does/doesn’t work. Back in 2010 a lot of people seemed to be able to play their games after removing the battery completely. I’m not quite sure what is going on here.
i was hoping to get more info too honestly. i cant find anything really, but my memories of having to reset a clock every time i turn a console on, which leads me to believe this could be real, but i probably wont actually know until people’s ps3 clock batteries start dying
Saw it mentioned that the apparent reason that you would be unable to boot games on PS4 (have not read any mention yet of this being the case on any of the other consoles) when the internal clock battery dies and the console can no longer time sync to a server is to make sure you don’t destroy the sanctity of the Game Trophies. Just imagine if you could play your game offline and set the internal clock to 7 days prior, suddenly when you bring it online again and your trophy data syncs you might have cheated your friends into thinking you had “earned” that Trophy a whole week before you actually did! Complete anarchy.
So I found this google drive document explaining the issue, which has been dubbed CBOMB. It appears that the PS3 and 4 require the time to be set via the network if the internal clock is reset due to a dead battery, etc. Until the time has been set by whatever this trusted source is, DRM prevents access to digital games and supposedly even game discs on PS4.
However, the good news is that syncing the time doesn’t require signing in to PSN, just network access. This makes me wonder if it is just an NTP(network time protocol) server somewhere. If so, I think this could be easily spoofed in the worst case.
Someone needs to do a network capture to see what is happening here. For all we know it may not even be a Sony server that is providing the time.
At this point I’m not overly concerned, but if you are really paranoid you may want to replace your CMOS battery now.
Reminds me that I want to get a Super Slim and create a new PSN account and play Elemental Monster Online Card Game again, if it’s still available, because that would be gone forever and I don’t know if piracy can bring it back.
I really wanna try network capturing to see what would be needed to make the single player campaign work offline, I enjoyed that so god damn much. Not that I have any idea how to do that.
If you buy a PCEngine or PS1 game you are a fool but especially a PCEngine game though I see Lords and Gates of Thunder and Devil’s Crush.
Japanese PS2
(Kaze Ame Raiku) 1 and 2 seem chill need to investigate unsure the reading
KoF Maximum Impact Max/2/Regulation A
Demento
Ka 2 (Mr Mosquito)
Gradius V
Romancing SaGa
Zettai Zetsumei Toshi 1 and 2
Twinkle Star Sprites 3D
KoF 94 Rebout
Armodyne (hi tim)
KoF XI
Ape Escape 3
Wild Arms Vth Vanguard (hi tim)
I don’t believe either of those tim games are good
Sonic Heroes
Phantasy Star Generations 1 and 2
Fantasy Zone Complete Collection
Sengoku Basara 2
Galaxy Force 2
Shadow The Hedgehog
Psyvariar Complete
Capcom Fighting Jam
Phantasy Star Complete
Katamari Damacy
Space Harrier Complete
Gunstar Heroes Collection
Neo Contra
Castlevania LoI
Dynamite Deka
Shin Contra
Siren
Dragonforce
I’m trying to think of PS3 titles that are already somewhat expensive or may go up in the future. Splatterhouse comes to mind. I’ve been looking for the HK version of Toro Let’s Party that’s in English and it seems to be rare but also has no demand.
Afrika is expensive too. Best of Playstation Network Vol 1 which has Tokyo Jungle and Fat Princess is over $100, although that could be going down in price now that the store isn’t closing for at least a while.
Yesterday we sold our xbox one and today we bought a ps3. I logged in to my psn account and downloaded gradius 5, daytona, noby noby boy, demons souls and stuntman ignition (??)
Also managed to buy castle shikigami 2.
Gonna play ffxiii original true version, ridge racer 7, nier, also this copy of Afrika i have lying here i guess
I’ve been thinking about the battle music in XIII a lot because I’ve been playing X for the first time and damn is Blinded by Light so much better fight music.
Bumping my own thread so I can copy and paste this information I will not use later about how to activate your PSPlus games on a hacked PS3 something I would never do:
From what I’ve read you’ll need the associated license (RAP) file activated using ReActPSN. Download: reActPSN v3.20+.rar (Mirror - Mirror #2 - inside is a reActPSN V3.20+ Quick Start Guide to read) / PS3T481 From Jamesst20 to quote: How do I activate a PSN package with a RAP file? Activating a package using a rap file requires few steps. It can be done with ReActPSN or PSNPatch (psnpatch 2017.02B.zip). However, I will only describe how to do it with ReActPSN. 1. Format a USB key in FAT32. 2. Create the folder ‘exdata’ at the root of the USB key. 3. Move the corresponding RAP file for the games you want to activate in the exdata folder. Warning: Do not rename rap files ! You need to leave their original ugly name. 4. Connect the USB key in the right USB port of the PS3 (the closest to the bluray drive). 5. Delete the ReActPSN user on your PS3 if it exists. 6. Create the account ‘aa’ (without quotes) and open the account. 7. Run ReActPSN and the screen should go black, then you should hear beeps and then the PS3 should reboot. 8. The user ‘aa’ should be gone now and the account ‘ReActPSN’ automatically created. 9. You’re done ! Here is another version of the above ReActPSN RAP file guide from ICECOLDKILLAH that may be easier to follow, to quote: 1. get the rap file, i dont know where you have downloaded the game itself, if you cant find it, try the tool psn stuff (now known as psndl) 2. get a usb flash drive and create a folder called “exdata” (without the quotes), put the rap file in there 3. insert the usb flash drive in the port that is the far rightest (the closest to the bluray drive) 4. download reactpsn, install it on ur ps3 and then run it 5. done oh yeah and after you ran reactpsn ur ps3 will restart and will be showing an error message, just ignore it and press the circle button sry i forgot to mention that you have to create new user on ur ps3 called “aa”, dont login with it, just create it, after reactpsn sucessfully activated some files it will change the name of this to something like reactpsn + the number of installed rap files, but yeah it cant install anything if there arent any files.