A couple weeks ago I got the yellow death and I don't mean macaroni and cheese. My PS3 refused to start up, exhibiting the dreaded green/yellow/red flashing dance of the dead light sequence. This sucks because my Turbografx-16 is old enough to buy beer and it still works.
There's a new photo set at FlickrMacrocrania called "R.i.P. PS3" with pictures of me trying not to cry as I pack up my Playstation and send it away to get fixed.
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dude the turbographxs barely turened 20 this year. If is drinking beer it's underage.
Ah, when good consoles go bad. My PS3 died, my Turbografx has a drinking problem, my Super Nintendo is turning dirty yellow and my Saturn is illegally modded. I should have known when they hit the teenage years they'd turn into a bunch of no good delinquents. Except the PS3 was barely two years old so he's learning to slack early. I should never have put him next to Gamecube-that's where he's learning all this.
I always thought it was the 360s that loved to die early. At least, that was what I heard.
You know, my 'Cube never slacked. Ever. I could play Pokemon XD for hours at a time and never had a hiccup. Prime would try and play his PS2 and the damn thing would freeze up if you looked at it wrong. Weird.
Yeah, this is one thing I hate about the current "age of gaming" Consoles keep dying off.
Also there's the whole "downloadable pay to play" model that keeps popping up.
Meanwhile, if I want to play Super Mario Brothers 2, I can pull out my NES and stick in the cartridge and go FOREVER!
Hell if my NES dies it's even reasonably easy to fix, unlike today's "mostly a computer" consoles.
In the old days, if my game console died I could fix it with a soldering iron or by replacing a diode. Even the red ring on the 360 can be repaired by cracking the unit open but I have no idea how to approach a dead PS3.
Fail.
Ah yes, the days of DIY repair. What the hell happened to them?!
I need to quit reading stuff like this; it's too depressing.
What happened to DIY? There's no money in repairable merchandise!
Most people probably don't even realize they can send these consoles in so they just buy a new one.
I've been doing some research on all this and it turns out Sony solders their chips to their boards with a combination of ice cream and butter so whenever a PS3 turns on its insides melt like a grilled cheese sandwich. Fortunately I just found a concise and helpful 42 step guide on how to fix it myself. Unfortunately I found said guide a week after I paid Sony $150 to fix it.
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