PS3 Leap Year Bug

Posted by Grabeorama on 3 Mar 2010

AS I'm sure all you PS3 owners out there already know, on March 1st 2010, the "fat" Playstation 3 was hit by a bug which messed up the sync between the console and PSN. The problem caused loss of data, and loss of trophies. Users also could not log-in to PSN.

The bug was caused by a malfunction in the internal clock of the PS3. For some reason it programmed 2010 to be a leap year. Due to the fact that 2010 was not a leap year, the PS3's date didn't match PSN date and caused all kinds of malfunctions.

The bug only affected "fat" Playstations so the slim owners were left un-touched. Thankfully the bug was resolved by Sony within 24 hours but many people still lost many hard earned trophies as well as game data. My friend, who hadn't synced in about a month lost about 70% trophy completion for a game he had almost platinumed.

Hopefully the error won't happen again, let us know if you were affected by the bug.

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Robert Moore says:
Ah yes the error! I haven't actually been on my ps3 since It happened so I dont know if I lost any trophies or data but I probably didnt. My friend on the other hand lost all his cod5 trophies and all his themes got corrupt. I should be going on my ps3 because I just got a ps3 card planing to but mgs dlc for lbp. How about you Grabe did it affect you? guess not if you dont have online.

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Grabeorama says:
I have got online now, but thankfully had too much homework that day to use it! I've checked my stuff and nothing appears to have been deleted/corrupted. I was especially worried about the Resi5 DLC that I downloaded about a day before!

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Robert Moore says:
Yeah I downloaded the mgs pack for LBP the day it happened :/ works fine though. btw whats your psn name thing

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Grabeorama says:
I'm gonna download another Resi 5 DLC hopefully today or tomorrow so let's hope all bugs are fixed! My PSN is AIDS777 it's in my signature on the forum.

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Robert Moore says:
Sweet Ill be sure to add it. How often do you go on?

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Grabeorama says:
Every second day or so, but I don't play online that often as we have limited broadband. The limit is large but still I try not to get too close!

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Robert Moore says:
I dont really go online much anyways. Mainly on the weekends. Ill add you the next time I go online. AIDS :p

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