Sony has fixed the problem of the PS4 CMOS battery, a bug known as CBOMB that prevented the preservation of the video game by rendering the console totally unusable when this battery was depleted.
It seems that Sony has listened to the community and one of the most important problems that it has had to face in recent months, and that would make a lot of noise in the future, is the PS4 CMOS battery problem.
A few months ago, a group of users discovered and demonstrated that PS4 was completely useless when its CMOS battery ran out, a button cell that practically all systems arrive and that is responsible for keeping certain system processes ‘alive’.
When this battery runs out, the console is unable to read both physical and digital games, so it looks like a nice paperweight, ending all hopes of the ‘retro’ game 15 or 20 years from now.
Why? It seems that the PS4 CMOS stack is responsible for communicating the board with the servers and, having no response from PSN, the board says that it does not work and it will not read any type of game. And this was dubbed the PS4 CBOMB.
However, as we say, Sony seems to have taken notice and with firmware update 9.0 (which, on the other hand, is giving some problems) users have reported that they can play physical and digital titles with this battery completely depleted.
Looks like the CBOMB issue might have finally been fixed (For physical PS4 games at least)! We will be testing this further but this looks like great news https://t.co/scHesG5YTh
– Does it play? (@ DoesItPlay1) September 21, 2021
Trophies can also be won, but the console date is 1969, so these trophies are obviously not registered in the online profile, but at least it seems that this problem has been solved, which would have serious consequences for the preservation of the video game.
Microsoft also has policies similar to those of Sony and the ‘Does it’ play? ‘ That uncovered the whole PS4 battery problem is also trying to get the online control policies relaxed.
Of course, at least Xbox seems to have a more open policy on backward compatibility in its systems, but it is still something that can annoy users a lot in not so many years.