QUOTE(VoiceOfReason @ Apr 3 2006, 12:59 AM)
Got wonderful news for you, sport! There's no need to back up your Arcade games, because the Xbox Live account that purchased the games can always redownload them. So if your hard drive crashes or you lose your MU, there's no need to worry... you can just log into Live and get your Arcade games back.
That's great, isn't it? I bet you're very relieved that you don't need to bother making backups of your games.
Unless, of course, by "back up" you meant "steal." But that couldn't be the case, could it?
i don't mean to be harsh, but did you listen to what I said? here's a repeat of my test.
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i had the same thought, and here's what i found out... it's linked to the actual system. here's how i found this out.
1st test. the system knows what gamers tags were on the system... my mom has a silver account, so i recovered her account on my 360 and d/l a game under my gamerstag.... i was able to play the game on my xbox under my name or her's. i then moved my tag, her's, and the game to a mem card, took it to her house, and only my tag was able to play it, but i had to be signed into xbox to play it.
2nd test. this is when i got my 360. i have two gamer tags on my xbox, mine and my fiencee's. on my original 360, both of us can play any games (games that were bought under my profile and under her's). during some testing, i took the original HDD and put it on my new HDD. on the new 360 i could only play the games that i bought on my name only when i was signed into live. I could not play the ganmes she bought, and she couldn't play the ones i bought. one more thing, I formatted the HDD of the new 360, and it asks for the serial number of the xbox. so aparently when you format the drive, it links it to the 360 it's hooked to.
conclusion: arcade games are both linked to the serial number of the 360 that originally d/l it, AND it's linked to the gamer's tag. on my new 360, i can play the games she bought, but i have to sign in BOTH of our profiles for me to play the full games she's bought and so forth
myself personally, I don't want to "STEAL" the live games. if this is hacked so you can get on the web and download it so I don't have to pay, I will pass. so let me spell this out... i have two 360's with two different gamerstags. one is mine, and one is my fiencee's. I have all the games that i have bought on both boxes. under my gamer's tag, i have downloaded geo wars, feeding frenzy, and joust. under her name she has bankshot billiards 2, marble blast ultra, and mutant store reloaded. on my second xbox (the one that the games were not originally downloaded to) i can
ONLY play the games that
I downloaded under my name... if i try to play bankshot billiards, it gives me the TRIAL. now, on my original xbox (the one that the games were originally downloaded to) I can play all the games that are on there
WITHOUT the trial game message. Now, on to
WHY I want to crack this... there are sometimes that I want to play a game in the bedroom, but some of the games I can't. I really don't want to buy the games twice. I am a firm believer in if a game is worth playing, it's worth buying. It's like the DVD FW hack, I am interested in it for one reason and one reason only..... so that my girl and I can both play the same game without having to spend over $100 so we can both play it.
If this security is hacked with the arcade games, what people do with the knowledge is their own business. My self personall, if I see a copy of Zuma (which I don't have) on the web that is the full game, I WON'T d/l it and STEAL it. I will buy it. This is my version of FAIR USE.
I didn't mean to flame, or be rude if I have been, but I can't stand it when people don't read the posts and automatically assume that I am wanting to steal games. so, if you are still thinking I am STEALING games, you can go take your frame of mind and place it else where except to berate me. okay pumpkin?
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