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I am a big fan of Joust and Paperboy and found out there were Xbox Live Arcade versions of these games.
However, I found out that the games have been delisted from the Xbox Marketplace. I was wondering if there was a way to play/purchase delisted Xbox Live Arcade games if they haven't been bought yet so a player can still get achievements.
You can create your X-Box account for any country, however you can only change countries once every 12 months. This can be done via the X-Box live website. You have to however copy all your downloaded content to a backup USB since you can't re-download these. Also the country on your Live account and the X-Box account must match, otherwise it will create some havoc. To access the change your region options on X-Box live look for the following on your account:
Unfortunately I am getting the following screen since I recently did this, however you will get the option to choose a country:
Gamercards can only redeemed for the country they are bought for, as they are linked to the Live store for each country.
The only reason I can imagine your games won't work bought in India, is if they are not PAL/NTSC compatible depending on what you use. South Africans for a long time bought Australian and UK X-Boxes and bought games locally and they worked fine.
When you purchase a game from XBLA, that game is licensed in 2 ways:
Seeing as you purchased those games on another machine, that's why it is requiring you to be online to verify those games are licensed to your account.
What you need to do is transfer content licenses to your console. It is a multi-step process, and you need to be with your new machine as you might need the Console ID, but it's fairly painless and quick. The full instructions and some videos for the license transfer are found at www.xbox.com/drm.
Best Answer
Delisted Xbox Live Arcade games can only be accessed if they've already been purchased under your account. In that case, they can be re-downloaded by going back through your Purchase History.
Outside of that, if you haven't purchased a game yet and it's been delisted, there's no way to get it.