Friday, September 12, 2014

Deactivate my PS3? Since when is that a thing?

Well, I learned something new today.

I'm on my 4th PS3 now.   I started out with a backward compatible 80GB deals waaaay back when.   But right when The Force Unleashed II came out, my system died.   So, I packaged it up, sent it to Sony and swapped it for a PS3 Slim.    I had that for several more years until it started to show it's age and was making alot of noise:


Since I had swapped the 120GB HDD awhile ago for a 1TB drive, I really didn't need anything fancy, so I decided to sell this one and then replace with a PS3 Super Slim 12GB version that Wal-Mart was unloading for $150.   So I did, but then I ended up with with this (you can fast forward to the 1:10 min mark to hear it really kick in, and excuse my mess, I was pulling cords and moving stuff around to see if there was some other issue)


So I ended swapping this one out as well and now I have a good PS3.   So last night I attempted to download some games that are tied to my account but unfortunately, PSN only lets you authorize two PS3s to run your digital content, I was unable to do so.   The nice message lets me know that it's easy to resolve, I simply need to deauthorize my old PS3s.  Easy right? 

Not so much.   The only way to deauthorize yourself is to do it from the actual PS3 itself, but I couldn't do that since I didn't have the PS3 anymore.

As it turns out, it wasn't too hard to resolve.  15 min on chat with PlayStation support and I was back in business.   My downloads work now and my new PS3 so super quiet.

Back to more Assassin's Creed...

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

This Month in Collecting: Last 3 months edition...

Crap, I've been a slacker so it's time to get updated.    I kept thinking that I've not picked up much over the last little bit, and perhaps relative to previous years that is correct, but still over the last 3 months, I did pick up a decent amount so I'll get this all updated.  I'm listing everything in the order in which it was purchased.

As always, click the pics for larger images.

New Super Mario Bros. Wii
I've been needing to get a copy of this for a long time.   I kept thinking that I'd eventually pick it up and then I noticed that Nintendo had started releasing the game without the red case and the collector in me freaked out.   Had to find a complete copy, with the red case and in good condition.   And here it is: