Region locking questions on XBL

[endimion]

Lusche said:

endimion said:

 

so if yu wnat to buy from japanese store you need t have an japanese XBL account with a console IP located in japan....

I have a jp account and bought some games from it.

dling to the ntsc-j console and starting the game no problems.

dling it to the pal console no problem. starting it not so ... wrong region :(

 

edit:

misunderstood you ... you have an us xbox, obviously games from the us store works for you
he has a jp xbox, games from the jp store works for him, but pretty sure games from the us store wont work for him like games from the jp store wont work for you.
even if you have a jp account and dl it via vpn the games wont start because of the region lock the jp games have.

so even with a US XBL acct on a a jp console if he is in the US (or fake being in it) it won't work because of video format ??? that was the only thing I wasn't sure of....

liek I said he can try that easily with a free silver account and buy a really cheap game to see if it works....