Sony appears to have fixed a PS4 issue relating to the console’s internal clock battery.The issue was first discovered in April this year, where it was reported that the console’s CMOS battery would render physical and digital PS4 games unplayable if it was either removed or drained over time, which became dubbed the ‘CBOMB’.
The same issue also appears to affect the PS5’s CMOS battery after a “volunteer-based preservation team” Does It Play? performed a test on their PS5.However, a new 9.0.0 firmware update for the console appears to have fixed the issue, according to YouTuber Destruction Games (thanks, VGC).“Tested it on my PS4 with a dead battery and games are no longer crashing on startup and I can even earn trophies,” they claimed,.
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