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Cheap Xbox Games on Demand - E.g. L.A Noire 600MSP/Dead Rising 2 600MSP/Dark Souls 920MSP via Hungarian XBL Marketplace
£3.25Xbox.com Store Deals
It takes a little work but you can get some great bargains, took me about 10 minutes to do. I've written out a quick simple guide on how to do it below. Look in the description on the Marketplace for 'Angol' to confirm that the title has English support.
I downloaded and have played Dark Souls for 920 Points using a 2100 MSP card I bought in game so can confirm it works!
Bargains:
26/3 titles:
LA Noire is 600MSP
Spiderman: Shattered Dimensions is 600MSP
Hitman Absolution is 880MSP
Spider-Man 3 is 600MSP (not tested)
Dead Rising 2 is 600MSP (not tested)
LOTR: War In The North is 920MSP (not tested)
Ace Combat: Assault Horizon is 920MSP (not tested)
OIder titles (Pricing may have gone up)
Far Cry Instincts Predator - 600 MSP
Child of Eden - 600MSP
Burnout Revenge - 960MSP
Dead Rising 2 Off the Record - 960 MSP
Sleeping Dogs - 400MSP
Tomb Raider Anniversary -400MSP
Fallout 3 - 640MSP
Bulletstorm - 960MSP
Deus Ex: Human Revolution - 960MSP
Dark Souls - 920MSP
Crysis - 960 MSP
Crysis 2 - 960 MSP
The Orange Box - 960MSP
Shadow of the Damned - 960MSP
Driver San Francisco - 960MSP
Dead Rising 2 Off the Record - 960MSP
Mass Effect - 960 MSP
Binary Domain - 960MSP
Assassin's Creed 2 - 960MSP
Certain titles may be region/IP locked but it will simply not let you purchase it if this is the case so no points will be wasted.
Step 1: Create a Hungarian Microsoft account
Sign up for a Hungarian Hotmail account (@hotmail.hu) via: signup.live.com/sig…c=1
Be sure to select location as Hungary
If you do this in Chrome you can automatically translate the page into English
Step 2:
Create a Hungarian Xbox Live account via live.xbox.com/hu-HU
using your Hungarian hotmail account. Again be sure to select location as Hungary.
Step 3: Using a Debit card to purchase games will not work so you need to buy some Microsoft Points, MINIMUM 800 points card from online retailer or instore.
You can get some cheap points here:
hotukdeals.com/dea…627
Step 4: Download your new account to your Xbox via your Hotmail.hu login details and add the MS Points, it will ask for more details for your billing address, you can simply put whatever you want e.g "Name" "Street" "City" "12345" and "01999 999999" as it does not verify them.
Step 5: Search for/locate games that are on offer via the dashboard (or the Xbox Live Web marketplace if you prefer) while logged in as your Hungarian account and opt to pay via Microsoft points by pressing X on the purchase screen.
Step 6: Download and Enjoy
16/3 -Note: 400 MS point codes will not work for some reason. 800 or more is required.
I downloaded and have played Dark Souls for 920 Points using a 2100 MSP card I bought in game so can confirm it works!
Bargains:
26/3 titles:
LA Noire is 600MSP
Spiderman: Shattered Dimensions is 600MSP
Hitman Absolution is 880MSP
Spider-Man 3 is 600MSP (not tested)
Dead Rising 2 is 600MSP (not tested)
LOTR: War In The North is 920MSP (not tested)
Ace Combat: Assault Horizon is 920MSP (not tested)
OIder titles (Pricing may have gone up)
Far Cry Instincts Predator - 600 MSP
Child of Eden - 600MSP
Burnout Revenge - 960MSP
Dead Rising 2 Off the Record - 960 MSP
Sleeping Dogs - 400MSP
Tomb Raider Anniversary -400MSP
Fallout 3 - 640MSP
Bulletstorm - 960MSP
Deus Ex: Human Revolution - 960MSP
Dark Souls - 920MSP
Crysis - 960 MSP
Crysis 2 - 960 MSP
The Orange Box - 960MSP
Shadow of the Damned - 960MSP
Driver San Francisco - 960MSP
Dead Rising 2 Off the Record - 960MSP
Mass Effect - 960 MSP
Binary Domain - 960MSP
Assassin's Creed 2 - 960MSP
Certain titles may be region/IP locked but it will simply not let you purchase it if this is the case so no points will be wasted.
Step 1: Create a Hungarian Microsoft account
Sign up for a Hungarian Hotmail account (@hotmail.hu) via: signup.live.com/sig…c=1
Be sure to select location as Hungary
If you do this in Chrome you can automatically translate the page into English
Step 2:
Create a Hungarian Xbox Live account via live.xbox.com/hu-HU
using your Hungarian hotmail account. Again be sure to select location as Hungary.
Step 3: Using a Debit card to purchase games will not work so you need to buy some Microsoft Points, MINIMUM 800 points card from online retailer or instore.
You can get some cheap points here:
hotukdeals.com/dea…627
Step 4: Download your new account to your Xbox via your Hotmail.hu login details and add the MS Points, it will ask for more details for your billing address, you can simply put whatever you want e.g "Name" "Street" "City" "12345" and "01999 999999" as it does not verify them.
Step 5: Search for/locate games that are on offer via the dashboard (or the Xbox Live Web marketplace if you prefer) while logged in as your Hungarian account and opt to pay via Microsoft points by pressing X on the purchase screen.
Step 6: Download and Enjoy
16/3 -Note: 400 MS point codes will not work for some reason. 800 or more is required.
that's pretty cool if so.
I'm playing Dark Souls in English on my Xbox where everything is in English on my normal Xbox profile.
All emails received from MS will be in Hungarian, the live website will be Hungarian for that account etc.
In the unlikely event you need an e-mail from Microsoft (password recovery maybe) browsers will easily and automatically (at least with Chrome) translate for you. Same goes for the Xbox live Website. The Xbox marketplace on the console itself is mostly in English the only Hungarian seems to be in games descriptions themselves.
The idea here is to make the Hungarian account, buy the cheap games then play them on your normal profile...
What I downloaded was region locked anyway, and I carried on using that account for everything. -_-
The game link Your text here
You think wrong, I've been playing through Dark Souls with my normal gamertag even while disconnected from Live.
You must have missed this part in Step 3 in the original post:
'minimum 800 points card from online retailer or instore.' For some reason only 800 or more works.
You could just use the 400 on your normal gamertag in the mean time.
One for the console the item is bought on.
One for the gamertag that bought it.
So once you buy it. You can play it as anyone/any gamertag on the console it was bought on.
It can also be played on any other console but only using the gamertag that bought it and only whilst connected to the web.
I used to do this with a Japanese tag.
Just download what you want and enjoy it on one console.
tomb raider anniversary is showing as £995 - am i doing something wrong? oO
does this have many benefits you'd care to share?
It's just a weird translation glitch I think as these prices are meant to be in Forints.
3,510.45 = £10
I think you will find that you are wrong and I am right ;-) - see post 19.
There are 2 licenses - it will play fine on the console its first downloaded to for all gamertags but if your console fails (a not uncommon problem with Xboxes) then moving your game to a new console will mean that you have to use the original hungarian gamertag
makes things a little cheaper, but keeps everything in English, same multiplayer servers and my Sky app still works
saved 200pts per purchase in the sale, not much but adds up
worth noting - if your console fails or you move to another console, all you need to do is sign into to your alt. tags (Hungarian, American, Japanese ect) and redownload your games, then select "Licence Transfer" in the xbox settings menu, this will transfer the Console licence to your new console, meaning your back to being able to play all games on any tag. you can licence transfer every 3 months.
ok. i found the link that selects microsoft points. google isn't translating the pop-up window where you need to select "Microsoft-pontok hasznalata" - it then shows 400msp now just waiting for my 800msp email i'm deffo getting sleeping dogs. toying with tomb raider anniversary. never played any lara croft games, cos they always looked a bit meh back in day. might be a bit better now tho... any suggestions for the other 400msp?
does anyone know how to perform a search for the reduced games on the hungarian marketplace easily? cos it seems a bit of a chore at the mo...
Tomb Raider Underworld - 400msp
Kane & Lynch 2 400msp
Mini Ninjas - 400msp
along with DLC for most of the games - check the xbox dashboard for all the details
Make sure you make your purchases through the dashboard on the xbox and not at the site to avoid buying a game that is incompatible.
I've had it a few times where you buy it online, download to console at at 99% it verifies and fails
Apologies I didn't see the 'change your Xbox' bit, but that said you can actually transfer all of your licenses to another console anyway so it's still a moot point, even worst case scenario you can plug a second controller in signed in as the Hungarian account and use your normal gamertag on player 1.
Sly. They were wrong though.....
Absolute bargain for a downloadable version of the game.
Maybe people don't trust/understand the process? Will probably use this for future DOTW's
I paid £7.99 for 800msp, got myself a copy of sleeping dogs, and tomb raider anniversary - well chuffed. i'll be keeping an eye on the future DOTWs too
5% off code if you like them on Facebook, too.
Brings the 800 points to £5.69