Well my PS3 lasted 9 years, RIP.

>dear diary

>>378232262
*beep beep beep

>>378232262
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50Qri-971so

>>378232262

My fat PS3 is still working

Doubt I'll ever play ps2 or 1 games on it ever again though. Everything's getting remastered anyway

Open it up and clean the fan. Don't do anything else. That should give you enough time for it to function to backup your save data.

If it's backwards compatible with PS2 discs, yeah, RIP that was the good model.

>tfw I bought a ridiculously cheap PS3 off ebay shortly after its launch
>fired it up
>YLOD
>call Sony hotline
>Explain the situation
>They asked me to send the PS3 in
>Did so
>Received a brand new PS3 a week later, controller and so on included

>>378234167
similar this happened to me with my PS2.
sony customer service is great.
They repair or replace anything within a week

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>>378233319
TRIGGERED

Sorry my man. My Spiderman 3 PS3 is my favorite console of all time. It can do anything

>>378235820
That's the 40GB one, isn't it? The Bluray lens is special on that one, be very careful, it has the highest disc failure rate since Sony cheaped out on the lens.

>tfw you found one in the dumpster still working(+ controller + power & hdmi cord)
>they forgot they left their HBO & Netflix open
>you use it just for that even tho games like Red Dead Redemption is on it and still working
Yeah RIP my man.

>>378235917

Yeah, she's still alive and kicking. Pushing 11 years old :)

>It's been over 30 years since the NES was released and some of them are only starting to fail now
>PS3 and Xbox 360 can take less than a year to fail
What happened? Even my Wii failed after a few years

my 60 gb ps3 lasted a year

>>378236556

complexity and planned obsolescence

Not OP.

Can i just take the HDD from my old PS3 40GB and put it into the super slim version?

Will it recognize it as PS3 HDD or will it force me to format it?

>>378232262
F

>>378232262
I'm so afraid to even touch mine anymore. It's still going strong, but every time I turn it on, I think to myself that this will be the day that it YLOD's

I don't want to have to get a super-slim and I don't want to go to gamestop and get a used slim which I know is the last decent model type.

>>378236556
the nes is basically a single pcb with chips that don't get hot enough to need a heatsink, there are many more points of failure in modern consoles

>>378233930
There's no way there are still PS3 models with PS2 compatibility still functioning right now.

My PS3 fat died like 3 years ago, my Slim is still working though
Interestingly though my two Dualshock 3 are almost dead but my very first Sixaxis is still working fine

>>378235820
I love my 80 GB one, motherfucker can play PS1,PS2 and PS3 games and also has emulators for NES, SNES and gameboy too.

Also playing MGO2 is the shit

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>>378237475
i have a 30GB model that i mostly only ever used as a bluray player

>>378232262
F

My second gen fat is still chugging along, but I know it won't be much longer

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I found a BC launch PS3 (premium) in the trash at work. One of the other floors must've only used it as a blu ray player, since the drive was shot but it booted just fine.

Paid $25 for a blu-ray drive on ebay and it works great.

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>Let my dad use PS3 slim from 2009 since I don't play it much these days and he just likes to casually play GTA games
>Always leaves the game running
I wonder how much longer she has to live

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>all xbox consoles will die one day
>without emulator all the games that came with them will do as well

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why haven't you hacked your ps3 yet /v/?

>>378232262
I have the ps3 with no ps 2 emulation.

>>378238361
there was never a 30gb model...

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>>378232262
>left my fat ps3 turned on all day with mk9 on it because i wanted to earn the "24hs using a character" trophy

>30hs on later

>came back home and found out my ps3 got YLODed

>mfw

>>378239350
YLOD

>>378232262
Damn man i'm sorry for you, i don't know what i would do if my PS3 suddenly died like that.

>>378239491
20GB, my bad.
was thinking the originals were 30 and 60 for some reason

>>378232262
9 YEARS OF NO GAMES
HAHAHAHHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>378232262
And yet my 25 year old NES still works

G..guys, my ps2 died today. 13 years of memories...

>>378240074
How?

>>378239536
sounds about right. the fat model ran so goddamn hot it probably melted

>>378236556
packing millions of transistors into a smaller and smaller chip increases heat massively, and each time you use the system the components are going through a massive heat cycle from room temp up to 100+ degrees and then back again. It's an enormous strain and it causes the solder joints to fail. The vast majority of failed units came from a failure of the interface between the chip and the motherboard, not the chip itself.
Not to mention moving parts (i.e. disk drives) inevitably wear down, even if they were made from titanium.

>>378234167

It was probably so cheap because of the YLOD.

>>378237108
it will recognise it but also force you to format it.
Once a HDD has been used by a PS3 it's tied to that PS3. You can browse it's files on a pc but when a PS3 gets a new HDD it won't use it until it's formatted.

for some reasons sometimes my PS3 makes a strange sound like something hard snapping

>>378240449
probably just the heat making the plastic case expand.
Same reason a car engine clicks while it's cooling down

>>378238361
>shatter
good taste

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This one still works for me. But the super slim is even better.

Anyway sony always had early faulty products, making you buy it again to pad total units sold.

>>378240296

Damn, anon. That's some advanced braining you got going on there.

>>378240147
I tried jamming my dick in the dvd tray once too many

>>378237475
I rarely use my PS3 these days, but it's a 60GB fat and it still works.

The disc ejection system is almost broken though. Only pushes the disc out about 1 centimeter, have to grab and pull it the rest of the way.

>>378240654
>sony always had early faulty products
say that IRL to my trinitron CRT

memes aside, if they had spent the time actually needed to finish the ps3 then we'd still be waiting for it now, it was definitely rushed out. At least it didn't suffer as badly as microsoft's early 360s

>>378240184
all because of that shitty "trophy" fucking hell every time i remember i want to kill myself

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>>378237475
Haha faggot mine works, just put in a new HDD. Clean your shit.


I suggest anyone with a old ps3 to replace the HDD, those things are slow.

My fat is still going, but I had to replace the blu-ray laser twice and the harddrive crashed once as well. I haven't had any issues with my slim so far.

>>378237475
Playing Genji right now on my PS3 my dude

Man, wouldn't it be nice if ps3 games keep being playable somehow after all those ps3s died?

If only there was a way.

>>378241356
Backwards compatible mostly over heats system and jacks up price.

Topic is about the rushed fat ps3. Which overheats and dies.

Later models of ps3 works fine.

>>378240654
Sony was actually the company that changed consumer's perceptions of japanese products, before then they were considered to be shit on the same level as the chinese. Most of their stuff is pretty good.

>>378238345
Isn't the PS2 emu on the 80gb software based? I heard those look like shit compared to the 60gb ones

>>378241698
It is so that guys is inferior.

>>378240916
I guess, but their business practises reminds me of the yazuka.

"Sell something faulty then sell something better later"

"Pad units sold"

>>378239350
way past 3.55 firm :/

All the PS1 games can fit in a 16GB device.

>>378241626
Yet outside of their gaming divison, they been in the red for years.


They're expected to sell off their non gaming divisions.

>>378233393
*repeat once a week*
there's no permanent fix

>>378238957
Probably works even better if you got a faster BD-ROM than what they shipped with, right?

>>378241698
bit of a misconception about the 80gb ps3's software emulation...

The original fat 60GB ps3's had the full PS2 hardware inside, CPU and GPU. The 80gb model didn't have the PS2 CPU and it was emulated in software on the cell, but it still had the full PS2 GPU hardware, exact same as the 60gb unit.

>>378242090
15.6 cm.

>>378241552
I think he was talking about emulation.

>>378240654
>But the super slim is even better.
based on what?

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>>378239350
>bought over 100 PS3 games in the last 5 years
>hacking is now availiable for any firmware

WHY ARE YOU NOT THROWING A FIT?

>>378242223
Have you seem the Metallica & Lady Gaga - Moth Into Flame presentation?

Took apart my 60gb ps3 back in 09 cause of YLOD. Put new thermal paste on and used a heat gun and after that its been running good to this day. I also replaced the fan with a bigger on as well as added a potentiometer to control the fan speed

My Xbox 360 Arcade version is somehow still hanging in there after 9 years

>>378242314
fits are heavy

my ps3 YLOD once. I used the hair dryer trick to get it running again and sold it off for a couple hundred dollars. I was mostly done with it by that point anyways.

>>378237475
My launch model still works, but I baby that thing.

>>378242364
Nobody asked.

>>378242341
no i do not recognize that it even exists metallica is nothing but traitors going on stage with a cunt that doesnt write her own music is inexcusable

I'm surprised they never made a super-super-slim model without an optical drive, with just a big hdd and internet connection for downloaded games only.

>>378241983
whether or not the company is profitable doesn't necessarily reflect on the quality of their products.
Besides that, most sony divisions are profitable again now. They also do a lot of non-consumer business. For example look at the camera on your phone. There's a good chance sony manufactured that sensor.

>>378242445
and you wonder why /v/ constantly shits on Sonyggroes

kys

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>>378240296
>It was probably so cheap because of the YLOD.

>>378242223
>>hacking is now availiable for any firmware
How? I wanted to buy one off my friend since he doesn't play it anymore.

>>378242390
you are supposed to be upset by the death of your only form of entertainment

get mad already fag

>>378242475
>selling a physical emulator

Ps3 was a fucking microwave ready to fry itself every summer, broke three of them that way, that's when i switched to PC, no regrets, fuck sony.

All of this an my yellow aged smelly ps1 is still working.

>>378242341
how is that relevant to my post?

>>378232262
I need to get my ps3 Fat reballed, its so much better than the slim i have since the fat has backwards compatibility for ps1 and ps2

>>378242618
what does it emulate? its own games?

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>>378242546
>post entirely offtopic post
>WHY DON'T YOU PAY ME ATTENTION SONYGERSSS REEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Removing backwards compatibility was a mistake.
If I could go out and buy a PS4 and have it run all my Playstation games I would have bought one ages ago.

There's only a couple of PS3 games i really care about, and they're basically all available for the PC now.
So emulation + native ports and my PS3 will hopefully get retired soon.

>>378242223
>bought over 100 PS3 games
JUST

>>378242618
>physical emulator

if you knew anything about computers you would know why what you just said is retarded

>>378232262
>want to mod my fat PS3 to play all the 7th gen exclusives I missed out on without spending a lot of money
>it's the same age as yours and sounds like a jet engine when playing certain levels in Demon's Souls
I know the second I buy all the shit to downgrade the firmware it'll die so maybe buying a slim that's already set for CFW would be best.

my slim works perfectly, hopefully it keeps going for a while yet. i'll buy a super slim if it dies. they're about $100 and they'll probably be down to $50 when this thing kicks it.

time to switch to the emulator.

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>>378243010
Strip off the plastic case, fit one of these bad boys and a couple of 140mm fans and never worry about your ps3 getting too hot again

>>378243105
but the emulator is a joke. hoping they make it playable one day though, so I don't have to use the PS3 to play Yakuza and such.

>>378242223
Source?

Unless the keys got redumped somehow, there's no way to do it without hardmodding the console and downgrading.

>>378243434
thats exactly how it is still, that anon is just talking out of his ass.

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>got a cfw ps3 back in 2011
>downloaded every possible western game possible
>nothing left to play
>start downloading random weeb and ching chong games i don't understand just because i can.

Why the fuck don't sony, or any console manufacturer for that matter, just make it super easy to hack their console?
They could put all the DRM they like on the games but then just make it so we can install unauthorised apps or have an other OS option again, so we could have emulators.

Imagine a console with sort of 'unofficial' emulator support like that. It would be a fucking huge selling point, even if piracy of the system's native games was impossible

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>>378241769
>>378241698
80GB is hybrid. Has the PS2's CPU and the PS3 emulates the PS2's GPU. That gives it B+ rating with PS2 backwards compatibility. Digital PS2 Classics work on every PS3 console because Sony altered the software emulator to do both the PS2's CPU and GPU.

It went from PS3 having hardware emulation of the PS2 to having hybrid emulation to having pure software emulation, but that pure software only is available if you buy digital PS2 games. The PS1 emulator has always been software emulated on the PS3 and the PS3's Bluray was never fucked around like the PS4 so every PS3 console can play PS1 discs without a single issue. For the curious, Sony removed the wavelength on the PS4's Bluray lens to make it cheaper to produce, making it fully incompatible with CD-Roms. That is why your PS4 cannot play music discs and it thinks PS1 discs are alien software.

>tfw still have TWO working ps2 bought in 2001/2003 still work like new

Stay mad

>>378243812
>Stay mad

why would I be mad about a piece of hardware working for a long time? that's a good thing ya retard.

I also have a PS2 from around that time that still works perfectly btw. My PS3 slim is still working, but I barely use it anymore so the only thing that could fuck up is the HDD really.

>>378239350
Updated to try remote play, didn't end up working at all.

I bought an used slim. It works fine except for a really noisy disc drive. The constant clicking sound drives me insane. Is there any way to fix this?

>>378236556
>nes only starting to fail now
>some of them
Yeah maybe like 5 that have never been used. My NES was acting up way back in 96

>>378239350
>still using multiman
webman's where it's at bro, you can play off a network drive, no need to move files to external hdd anymore.

>>378244163
> Is there any way to fix this?
play psn versions of the games.

>>378239350
I have an unhackable model

>>378232262
F

>>378242507
The flim devision is in the red. The stores are gone.

New report saying making a profit yet still losing and in debt.

>>378244690
retail stores are not large profit drivers, and they're not gone, I know that for a fact. There's one I pass on the way to work.
Yeah sony pictures is doing pretty bad right now, but pretty much everything else is going well. Despite huge restructuring costs they still turned a large profit.

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>tfw my Fat is now 10yo, and still works

>>378232262
It is possible to ACTUALLY fix OG PS3s now. Listen to the latest Gaming History X, they talked about it.

>>378247370
Its just waiting to die eventually.

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>>378232262
My ps1 and 2 still works.

>>378237475
I have one and I literally never clean it. How badly do you have to treat your shit to have it break so quickly?

>>378247771
Don't we all?

>>378232262
F

I haven't used my fat BC much... I hope its still okay I still plan to run a bunch of ps2 games natively

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>>378234167
I did this years ago with my PS3 and the same shit happen and I live in a shitty country called Chile

Meanwhile Nintendo told to fuck off when I told them someone robbed my 3DS and wanted to recover my account

>>378243808
>Has the PS2's CPU and the PS3 emulates the PS2's GPU.
The other way around you dweeb. RSX just can't emulate GS properly without help and that's why they had to either keep it inside or ditch the BC. Cell doesn't have any issue emulating EE+IOP. The PSN titles are patched in order to work properly.

>>378239269

At least sites like the iso zone already hate the games saved. Now we have to wait for that emulator.

Does the hair dryer trick actually work? At least to get a game out or transfer saves?

Is there any way to make PS1/PS2 games look nice on an lcd? They somehow manage to look worse than 8/16-bit consoles.

>>378251440
yeah, it can work just to get saves

sticking the board in the oven or using a high powered heat gun directly on the cpu/gpu is a slightly more permanent solution but that will only buy months

>>378251757
Emulate. Alternatively, at least for PS2 you can get component cables and force 480p output instead of 480i with GSM. It doesn't work well with a lot of games as they mostly used half pixel offset trick, therefore forcing it to output 480p will actually result in a halved resolution but it's worth giving a shot.

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>fat 40gig from 2008 originally hacked at 3.55 with 500 gig hdd full of pirated games
>starts to get really loud and hot
>worried as fuck because I still have a shitton of ps3 library in my backlog
>open it up and change the thermal paste
>runs cooler and quieter

>>378242223
>>378243434
>>378243487
To be honest, I still don't see why there has yet to be a CFW installer for any firmware version; they know how to create keys, so there should be no issues creating a signed firmware installer that simply installs a hacked firmware out the box. Probably one of those autistic muh sekretklub things holding back the most basic of installers.

>>378251440
just check cl for anyone locally that reballs 360s, most do ps3 too

>>378252790
Why don't you write it then?
Maybe you could commission someone to do it.

>>378252790
geohotz got bent over and split open by sony for hacking the ps3 and releasing keys so nobody else wishes to experience the same thing, and with it being the cracker community they only feel validated if they get the kudos for cracking something, so they'll never release it anonymously

>>378249671
oh man, a colleague imported a wii u recently, only to have it die, nintendo said to go fuck himself

>>378237475
My fat still works but when I turn it on it sounds like a jet engine even after cleaning the insides

>>378253079
>and with it being the cracker community they only feel validated if they get the kudos for cracking something, so they'll never release it anonymously

lots of truth there, the sad little bastards

>>378252790
Trust me, it's not as easy as you try to make it sound.

>>378251871
My PS3 has about 80 gb of saves, about how long would it take to transfer to my slim? Would it last long enough?

>>378253440
I seem to recall a few years back that someone created a signed homebrew app for psp, but it never got any real exposure and was little more than a proof of concept. so while i'm sure there is more to it than simply creating a compiler that matches up all of the checksums to the new signed key, i have little doubt that it is doable. and in the end, i'd have to lean toward muh sekretklub and muh brawginrites than the difficulty of creating an authenticator.

>>378253958
if you do it all in one go, probably.
Try to prioritise the most important saves first.
Don't bother using the data transfer feature, on older ps3s the file system is so fucked up the data transfer almost always fails. Installs in the "game data" section are fine to let go, you can just install the game again on the new system. The actual saves are in the "save data" folder and shouldn't be more than a few hundred megabytes total.

>>378232262

Damn. I don't know any people irl that still have functioning fat PS3s. My friend's 60gb finally bit it last year.

>>378234167
>bought legit MGS4 PS3 combo on release
>the backwards compatible PS3
>YLOD
>call sony
>they want me to pay $200 for them to fix it
>fuck sony

>>378254457
mine spends most of the year collecting dust, probably the only reason it still works

>>378254457
How reliable are the slims?

>>378254320
How do you transfer just the saves?

>>378255029
Send it to a USB. If you're retrieving the saves on a different PS3, as long as the PSN account is the same, they'll keep unlocking trophies.

Dying PS3 or You Sold a PS3 but backed up saves to a USB
On your new PS3 log into your PSN account, put the USB and retrieve your save data
Trophies work, everything keeps working
Backing up PS1 and PS2 saves isn't a big deal and is self explanatory

The only time to panic is if the save data is copyright protected. Then you have to do a full system backup which takes forever or pay Sony jewgold for Playstation Plus to send the save data to the cloud and then retrieve it.

>>378254928
most reliable model by far. Of the slims I've heard the CECH-25xxA model line is the best but I don't know why. the slim is basically a more efficient version of the fat, the super slim is where they really tried to save money and compromised on quality.

>>378255029
put in a memory stick, go to save data folder, press triangle, copy to USB, select all

Fucking Sony. The fat with PS2 hardware would have been an incredible machine if it lasted.

>>378254928
Very reliable.

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>>378233319

>>378241993
it also eventually warps it so that it's permanently fucked.

>>378255268
Super Slim isn't horrible quality, hardware on the inside is cleanest motherboard. It's just noisy as sin if the Bluray drive is used a lot. I would recommend a Super Slim over a Slim just to have the peace of mind that it's the most compact and shrunk electronic components (CPU/GPU/Fan) and is going to be reliable in the long run.

Not that I'm shitting on the Slim, it's just you'll be buying second hand. Getting a Slim brand new these days would be stellar.

>>378254621
check cl for someone locally, that'll reflow it. if the cpu/gpu does not have to be reballed, you can probably get it dome for as little as 30bux. tho if you have it reflowed, you can do away with that nasty rohs solder.

>>378254928

Right after my fat 60gb died I bought a slim. It still works years later with no issues. It hasn't been babied at all and still gets thrown into a bag, lugged around for fight nights etc.

Can't say anything about the super slim though. It felt cheap when I tried one.

Can you hack a super slim model?

I just use my normal slim with a case fan mod so I dont YLOD my shit up

>not having modded ps2 to play ps2 games off hard drive
>not having modded ps3 to play ps3 games off hard drive
>not having modded vita
>not having modded 3ds
>not having modded dreamcast

>>378254259
We had signed PSP homebrew since the very early days, but I think I know what are you talking about. Can't find the details right now, but I'm fairly confident that deriving a key from a signed title like he did (if that's what he did) isn't as simple when it comes to PS3.

So what's going to happen to all my digital PS3 games when there are no more working PS3's?

>>378256032
Buy backups then. 3.55 systems sell for like $150 now

>>378255870

Most DCs pretty much read burned games, right? Are you talking about SD card mod?

>>378256178
SD card or IDE drives with g1 ata or dreamshell

But yeah most dreamcasts play regular burned cd-r's but not all

You can tell by the sticker under the console.