Arcade games & replacement 360

[Lord Sam]

For anyone who has gotten a replacement Xbox 360 (which is just about everyone by now), you may have noticed that with your old hard drive and new console you cannot play your arcade games offline or with a second profile. Frustrating? Yes, Fixable? Yes. Easy? Yes.

All you need to do is sign in with the profile that originally bought the arcade title, go to the Xbox Live blade (far left), go down to "account management", and then down to "download history". This has a record of everything you've downloaded from that profile. Find the arcade titles and click "download again".

Done deal.

This also works for downloaded game content (like Oblivion stuff). This was on this week's podcast from Major Nelson.

[Desi Cuse]

Nice find Sam! Was this an update or did they forget to tell us?

[N0W IM N0THING]

Sweet deal!! I have many arcade games that suffer from this, hopefuly no longer though!

[lovekeiiy]

I didn't realize you would have to redownlaod the arcade games and content. Kind of sucks. I know when you buy them, they're yours forever, as a matter of speaking. I've gone to friends' houses, and download the GRAW content I had under my profile on their machine, otherwise it wouldn't be accessable. I just assumed it went by the HDD info, not the 360 console.

On a side note, if you installed the HD DVD drive and get a new console, as long as you use the same HDD, you don't need to reinstall the drive.

[Crippler]

They must have just implemented this. Because I have re-downloaded a number of arcade titles previously thinking that it would work. Nope. Anyway, this is GREAT news and a long time coming. Way to straighten your DRM out MS.

[Peench]

Yep - this is a new feature and I think there is another aspect of it that they haven't announced yet.

Bot - you have to redownload it to get it to sync up with your system and resolve the "different console - same ID" problem so that the arcade games can be played even when not connected to Live.

[lovekeiiy]

I wasn't questioning Geoff so much. The GRAW incident was about two months ago. Doesn't mean M$ didn't change things since that time. I have all the free full versions of arcade games that have been offered. But I hardly play them. So this thread is a nice so I know in the future; assuming I remember.

[Crippler]

I just remembered that I traded in the craptastic refurb. So this doesn't work for me. They really need to allow you to transfer licenses to a new console too with a call to service or a license transfer option in the dash. This DRM shit is BS> My wife has totally stopped playing arcade games since my first 360 went on me. She doesn't want to deal with having to sit there and sign my account in every time she wants to play a quick game of Ms Pac Man.

[Lord Geoff]

Heh, Bot called Sam Geoff. Also, I believe that this has been around for a bit, but the trick is to re-download the item from your download history page. He specifically said that this ties the license to the new system, so this should work for you, Cripp.

[Crippler]

Originally Posted by Lord Geoff

Heh, Bot called Sam Geoff. Also, I believe that this has been around for a bit, but the trick is to re-download the item from your download history page. He specifically said that this ties the license to the new system, so this should work for you, Cripp.

Nah, I tried it last night. I couldn't play anything without being logged into my account.

[Lord Geoff]

Weird

[lovekeiiy]

It's not the first time I've used the wrong name between Sam and Geoff.

[Lord Sam]

Pft, Heck I sometimes call Geoff "Sam". And I am Sam!