The Old Sony Megathread

[Herr Matzat]

Oh shit. I´ed complain the fuck out of myself to sony (write a letter, written letters always gain more free stuff in return).

Note to self, start takeing backups on my external HD every now and than.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

I like the idea of a letter. Especially as I spent 16 months championing the PS3 while I was working at Gamestation. Screw it, let's see if I can get any freebies for the annoyance.

[Clawson]

I had to pay $210 to fix my PS3 problems. My harddrive fucked up once before too and luckily I was able to get all the stuff of it beforehand.

[Clawson]

Oh man...it is soooo good to have the PS3 back and to have a new Uncharted to play through. I'm on Chapter 6 and loving it to death.

[Stormshadow]

Finished the story on normal and absolutely loved it managed 40 of the treasures on one play though including the the extra secret one or whatever they call it. Gonna go through the chapters i need treasures in within the next week or so perhaps.

Had a quick deathmatch never did end up getting the beta so my first taste of multiplayer and loved that too despite getting my ass handed too me.

I'm already excited for a second play through but will have to take it slower as my dad was round earlier and saw part of it and said i absolutely have to play through again just so he can watch the whole thing he wouldn't play it himself so can only play when he is available to come watch.

[Clawson]

Stupid thing got the YLOD of 4 days after I got it back. This pains me.

[Benji]

Is anyone on EWB smoke_and_grill?

[Kaney]

Or, for that matter, DannyBoySE16?

[Captain Kirk]

What I've never understood is people who add you on PSN with no intention of ever asking you for a game online, what's the point?

Only people I have from EWB is from the UFC and FIFA leagues.

[Benji]

I intend to play a lot of people, but the PSN's lag sucks so hard it might as well be [insert member]'s mom.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Yellow light = screwed :/

[Liam]

What is the yellow light thing? Plus, what model of PS3 do you have, Hammy?

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

60gig.

Earlier today I was playing a game when the green power light flashed yellow then red and it turned off.

WHen I tried to restart the green light would come on briefly as it powered up, then flashed yellow then went red again.

I CAN get 60gigs here AND they're reasonably cheap but they're all preowned by Japanese which may screw me a little although language is easily changeable.

The main question is, can I reuse my username on a new console? Are my 50 Singstar songs I downloaded lost? If I can reuse my username I can download them again for free I think.

[Liam]

If you've downloaded them out of the PS3 store, you should be able to get them back, and there shouldn't be any problem signing in on a different PS3 with your old username.

[Captain Kirk]

You get 5 downloads from your username.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Nice. Losing the console sucks big time but at least with a Japanese PS3 I won't need the big power change unit I'm having to use. I already lost all my saved games last week so that's not a problem so it's just the stuff I've spent money on - Singstar and Rock Band. If that's not a problem then it's no big loss I guess. £150 gets me a new 120gig or a slim and I can afford that.

[Benji]

Yeah, don't worry about the username, J signed onto his account on my PS3 just fine

[Clawson]

Welcome to the party Hammy. If you can find a shop, it's actually a fixable problem. It might just take a couple of times for it to work correctly, so make sure you get a warranty on those repairs.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Boo! You've given me hope now which means I'm gonna have to hunt down an electrical repairs shop (in Japanese of course) that properly repairs PS3s.....

I was just gonna have a go at taking it apart myself and poking around until it worked again...Much like I did with my PS2 (gave it an extra 4 years of life!) though I'm guessing the PS3 is more complicated!

[Clawson]

Some glue in your motherboard has melted causing a circuit to fuck up. It needs to be glued back together which means that it's very hard to tell what needs to be done. There are videos on Youtube describing how to do it though.