so my roommate really loves zuma. Shes a girl, and it is a popcap game. It is only natural. My problem is this, she made an xbox gamercard for herself. Silver member because she isn't playing anything online. And she has to sign in as me to play zuma. She can't play it herself. When she tries to, it'll say something like 'play trial game' even though i downloaded the full game with my gamercard. It is in the harddrive.
only- the strange thing is, she actually COULD play it as herself before. My only explanation is maybe she could before the update to the new dashboard? Or maybe before i sent the xbox in for repairs?
I'm not trying to cheat xbox out of xbla games or whatever. I get that if you open it up piracy would explode. I just want to be able to play the game i bought any way i want to on my own console. Any help or ideas?
sharing xbla arcade games on one console
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Re: sharing xbla arcade games on one console
Your XBLA downloads get associated with the console they are actually downloaded on. If your playing on a new or refurb 360 with a different serial, all XBLA games will be available as trials only unless signed into Live. Even then, the games can't be shared with other gamer tags on the same system.
You can fix this though be re-associating all your content with your new 360...
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/support/syste ... migration/
I had to do this with almost 20 XBLA games myself. I didn't have an internet connection at home at the time, and all my stuff was coming up as "trials" when I got my refurb back.
Anyway, this should fix the problem your having.
You can fix this though be re-associating all your content with your new 360...
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/support/syste ... migration/
I had to do this with almost 20 XBLA games myself. I didn't have an internet connection at home at the time, and all my stuff was coming up as "trials" when I got my refurb back.
Anyway, this should fix the problem your having.
Re: sharing xbla arcade games on one console
thanks flak! What a pain!Flak Beard wrote:Your XBLA downloads get associated with the console they are actually downloaded on. If your playing on a new or refurb 360 with a different serial, all XBLA games will be available as trials only unless signed into Live. Even then, the games can't be shared with other gamer tags on the same system.
You can fix this though be re-associating all your content with your new 360...
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/support/syste ... migration/
I had to do this with almost 20 XBLA games myself. I didn't have an internet connection at home at the time, and all my stuff was coming up as "trials" when I got my refurb back.
Anyway, this should fix the problem your having.