Circumvent The Xbox Live Demo Download Region Lockout!

skel28 · 6th January 2006

from this site
hxxp://www.gamersreports.com/article/19/
Fight Night Round 3 hit the marketplace today for demo download, but alas, it seems the French have not been included for some reason. Now, this may seem unfair, but we have a nice little workaround for you, or for anyone who wants to download a foreign demo. Let's jump right in, it is simple as pie.
First off you should go to the passport site : hxxp://www.passport.com/. Make sure you are not logged in, and click on the "create hotmail account" link. Now, here is the important part, the site will ask you where you are from, select either Japan, the US, or Europe. Remember, this is the country where the demo is available, not where you really live! You will require some information regarding those countries so Microsoft will allow you ro register the e-mail address.
Here is the info we used:
United States
Postal Code: 10012
State: New York, City New York City
Phone Number: 1-866-530-1234
Japan
Postal Code: 150-2345
Province: Tokyo-to
Phone Number: 3201-3331
Germany
Postal Code: 54292
City: Trier
Phone Number: 065112345
You can use any valid address and phone number from the country where the demo is available.
Once you have filled out the info and applied for the Hotmail account, activate it and turn on your Xbox360. Press the guide button and choose "switch profile" (X Button). Now create a new profile, and a new Xbox Live Account, make it a Silver account instead of a Gold (so you dont have to pay). Next you will require the phone number mentioned above to use your passport. You could theoretically take care of all the passport stuff on the Xbox, but it will go much faster on PC with a keyboard.
Well, that is about it folks! Pretty sweet huh? The cool thing is that you can disable (they actually are disabled from the start if you have already a gold membership installed on your box) the auto sign for the foreign accounts, hence leaving your primary "Real" account hassle-free. Ejoy the demos!

**kez m** · 6th January 2006

good info m8

**raelmadrid** · 6th January 2006

just setup an american hotmail account and a new profile and live account. theres no new game demos but theres trailers for:

mission impossible 3 (720p) - it was worth doing it just for this

X3 Announcement Teaser Trailer (720p)
Glory Road (720p)
Pulse (720p)

Gonna setup a jap one and see what I can get with that. Cheers for the heads up skel28.