It lasted this long?? Some are easy-ish fixes but likely not worth it if you can stomach a slim

RIP, it lasted a lot longer than it should have

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I lost my BC PS3 to the YLOD a year or two ago. I got another one off of eBay though.

YLOD can mean that the cpu has come off of the mobo. This is fixable but you'll want an experienced solderer.

It depends if it's not the gpu... there is that bad heating problem as well.
So many weird custom fixes for that dang yellow light though.

My friend has a working ps3, and I told them about how they need to keep it cool and away from carpet and all that. Hope it survives

I tried it with my friend, didn't work tho.

PS5*

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PS4 has just been dropped from the upcoming releases. The series X is a poor man’s PC, the PS5 is the best console, but it falls short of a true gaming rig.

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The power isn’t the point. Also it’s 2 teraflops, it doesn’t really matter. The PS5 just has way better games.

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Why do you focus on the teraflop count so much?

It’s a console, it’s not a pc. A pc with better specs is objectively better than one with worse specs, but they can both play the same games and do the same things. PS5 exclusives are incredible games, god of war, uncharted, ghost of tushima, the last of us, and I can go on for much longer. All of those games are inaccessible on Xbox. The PS5 is a better console if you buy your games directly and don’t use game pass.

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In response to your comment about power. There’s no point in arguing with someone who has their mind set. Try a PlayStation, you’ll prefer it.

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Any ps3/4/5 emulators out there? there are switch emulators I think. Might be one for the ps5 or series x (maybe not the series x)

There’s PS3 emulators that work most of the time and there’s some unstable PS4 emulators but they need a bit of work from the user. RPCS3 comes to mind for PS3 emulation but I can’t remember the PS4 emulators that actually work. Beware there are some fakes though, one claims to be affiliated with RPCS3 but it’s a fake, doesn’t work, and is probably bundled with malware.

I have a Mac, so maybe I shouldn't risk it. I tried jailbreaking my ps3, and that didn't even work.

Jail breaking your PS3 is far riskier. You need to solder a mod chip onto the board for that to work. Also a mac is nowhere near powerful enough to run ps3, even ps2 emulation. It’ll have no chance running ps4 emulation. This is because the computer has to decode and encode the game’s instructions so it understands what it is being given and what it has to output. Put simply, the mac is pretending to be a ps4, something that has a very different architecture.

I have a gamecube emulator running perfectly fine on my m1. You sure about the ps2 not running? Gamecube was the most powerful console around 2002 or whenever

My friend has a ps3 too, and here's his problem: when he boots up a webpage like ps3xploit or even things like Facebook or reddit on his browser, it has the 80710a06 error (page can't be displayed). Any fixes for that? He claims to have tried everything. It may just be that nowadays that people use https over http, as people have browsers on their phones rather than needing a ps3 to surf the web.