Japanese Eternal Sonata demo works in U.S.
by Richard Mitchell 
on May 14th 2007 10:30AM
Find yourself hankering for a whimsical, musical adventure? If so, we hope you didn't delete all those
incredibly legitimate foreign Xbox Live accounts from your beloved 360. You see, a
demo for
Trusty Bell (
Eternal Sonata in the States) has landed on the Japanese Marketplace. Now, considering Microsoft's recent
crackdown (no, not
that Crackdown) on foreign content downloading, this shouldn't really be big news. That's all well and good, but it turns out that the demo works just fine on U.S. consoles. Even better, it features full English dialogue and menus.
Why does it work? Why isn't it blocked by Microsoft's newfangled security measures? Our guess is that the security measures are mostly a one-way affair. In other words, they are for keeping U.S. content
in, and not for keeping non-U.S. content
out. Whatever the reason is, we suggest all of our RPG-starved readers get to downloading.
Any luck downloading this for our European friends?
[Via
Joystiq]
