A long time ago, I bought a few games from Xbox Live Arcade (Toy Soldiers and Greed Corporation). We haven't set up our internet connection yet since we moved, but I can still play them unlocked.
The youngest also enjoys these games so we decided to get them on his Xbox. We went to a friends place, used the friend's Xbox which was connected to the internet and bought the games on our silver account.
As long as the youngest's Xbox is connected to the internet, the games are full games and unlocked, but once I take it back home and set it up off the internet, the games revert back to trial games.
Is there anyway to unlock these games on his Xbox like they are on my Xbox?
I heard it might be related to the fact that originally, the silver account was on a memory card, but i transfered it to the hard drive a few months ago.
Best Answer
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.