Duke 3D Xbox Live Arcade

[Terak]

Hey guys.

I'm having trouble getting the Duke3D on Xbox Live arcade, it tells me its not available in my region.

How would I go about getting this? Would I have to create an American account and buy it from that?

[Dohc-WP]

nope it wont work ! xbl has alot of holes e.g when duke 3d came out on live i was able to download it but my friend who has the exact same type of live account was not. sometimes things that are not downloadable become downloadable and vice verse ! just 1 of strange features of xbox live

[Terak]

Ah man that sucks hairy gorilla balls.

Yeah dude is going for 400ms points... and i still wanna get doom 1 on there as well...

[SephirothDVR]

Its the same problem as with all rated 18 DLC. eg. Gears map packs. You will need to connect to a VPN and then start your download. The reason is because those games are banned from Germany and Australia and a few other countries, so Live checks your IP to make sure you don't download the DLC to a banned country and because LIVE is not supported here it will tell you that is is not available in your region.

[Azimuth]

nope it wont work ! xbl has alot of holes e.g when duke 3d came out on live i was able to download it but my friend who has the exact same type of live account was not. sometimes things that are not downloadable become downloadable and vice verse ! just 1 of strange features of xbox live

It's not really that. As SephirothDVR already pointed out, certain content - basically, anything banned somewhere else - is IP region-blocked, restricting downloads to only those countries that officially have LIVE support and allow the content. However, most region-blocked content is usually available everywhere for the first day or so of release, for some reason.

Also, it's possible to get around using VPNs.

[Terak]

Thanks Azi.

So would anyone know how i could acquire such content/games?
How do i go about using the VPN's?