PSN Apocalypse 2010: December 1999 Lock up Issue [Resolved by Sony]

Earlier today, around 9PM ET PSN went down to all PS3 FAT users. Wide-spread errors of the '8001050F' error went global. Some speculate this is happening due to a clock malfunction.


Sony Update 1: SONY IS NARROWING DOWN ERRORS AND CONTINUING TO WORK THROUGH THE NIGHT

Sony Update 2: SONY CONFIRMS SLIMS ARE WORKING NORMALLY (PSP's too)

*Sony updated their website over this weekend, so something may be related to that, however, offline consoles are effected as well....so......*


Here is a detailed list of events occurring:

- PSN Down, not responding, cannot connect.
- Trophy information...vanishing and corrupting
- PS3 Themes - corrupting and vanishing
- PS3 Date / Time stuck at 12/31/1999
(This may be caused by an internal clock failure, details below)
- Games unplayable / kicking you to XMB
- Heavy Rain launch-failure
- MW2 trophies vanishing from profile
- Trophies disappearing
- PS3's semi-bricked (cannot play, internet down)

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Sony is pretty much keeping in the dark us gamers / PS3 users at the time being. They said they are 'looking into things' at around 9:20pm ET...still nothing else has been announced.

When I called them, they said it was due to maintenance. However, their Twitter and posts online say they are experiencing and looking into users errors on PSN.

This is interesting because maintenance cannot effect you until you are online, however, My PS3 and several others report being offline when problems occurred. This is a key point, this would not be caused my server fixes.

*Onto the clock information. A theory arose on the PSN forums on us.playstation.com this evening. Apparently the clocks are reverting to 12/31/1999 because the clocks are auto-syncing to a time and day that do not exist (2/29/10) and the clock rolls over to each month in a certain way that I cannot explain. But, people say that because 2007 and 2009 were odd years, and 2008 was a leap-year, while 2010 is even and NOT a leap, this is causing the software to fail, hard.*

Others are saying the systems were cracked / the network has been hacked. A post appeared on the PS boards about a hack in the system about 10 minutes after this all happened, and it was replied to about 40 times before Sony deleted it. It was odd, they didn't just delete it. It appeared to be locked, then it was readable for about 2 minutes, then deleted, but when you hit 'back' you could read it for 5 seconds then you got 'permission denied'. Hmmmm.

I will update this ASAP when more information arrives. Also! DO NOT INSERT / TRY TO PLAY DISK BASED - OR TROPHY SUPPORTED GAMES, THEY WILL BE REMOVED FROM YOUR HDD!

All saved data on the servers is subject to damage, so back up what you can in case!


* Another thing: ALL SLIM USERS CAN CONNECT FINE AND CONTINUE ON WITH PSN, ONLY FATS ARE SCREWED UP****

- Timestamp: 11:40pm ET

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[bbrandon56]

u got bannned!!!!!!

[xDuseldorf1103]

@bbrandon56 No not at all. This video was outlying the PS3ocolypse that occurred a while ago - a little over a year ago. The internal clock on the PS3 was stuck on December of 1999, thinking that the month of Feb. 2010 was a leap year when it was not, so the hardware locked itself. The clock tried to roll over onto 2/29 (Not a real date). Do some research and you can get the full reasoning behind it - since it took place over a year ago I vaguely remember it all. Sony took 2 days to fix it too

[TheGhomie]

y did u put the stupid song i cant hear what you sayin

[jason24568]

PS3 fat now turns into a PS1!!!

[JavieG89]

turn off that gay ass fucken music no one can hear what your saying

[SITDOWNBOI]

Xbox is gay

[MikeMetsFan97]

the same time this thing happened my old PS3 Fat i got since PS3 Came out got YELLOW LIGHT OF DEATH! right before it too no joke now i got PS3 Slim Replacement since now this year same time NO PSN is down wow

[jolowiTV]

did you guys know that XBOX crashed for 22 days years ago? Put Ps3 community didn't make a big deal out of it.. So why does XBOX ppl make a big deal out of PSN crashing for 15 days..??

[denishoolie]

@TheRealMrMelbourne ohhhhhhh haaaaaaaaa im a dope

[TheRealMrMelbourne]

@denishoolie haa look at the upload date, this was when the clock glitch prevented fat ps3's 4m signing in

[luigibros196]

febuary 29 is when the psn server is down i loged on my ps3 which is a slim and it says psn is undergoing matnience its been down for 3 days it culd be tht someone hacked the server i mean there been lots of people hacking not just in like call of duty i mea in lots of other games so there probably trying to stop the hack in games i think tht was one of the problem,s but im not realy shure all i know is tht psn is down for all ps3

[denishoolie]

slims are NOT working

[AsusDurable]

The registration servers are overloaded because of a conversion is started the server! And that may take some months Jezter!!

[boxchamp123]

whats with the stupid music i couldnt hear u