A month later and I've finally gotten around to reformatting my HD and everything. The problem with DOA5 remains. I still am unable to play the game. It still gives me nonsense about my family settings.

There's a set of instructions here that also include backing up content first. Again, the sort of thing that ideally would have been done before handing off the system to you, or before you started using it due to how content is handled on newer consoles. Same as if he was giving you his old iPad o...

Wait... Am I able to merge all gaming data from my local Greg account into a new XBL account? How do I do a factory reset? I do not know what the previous owner of this Xbox had done to it. All I have found doing a search for anyone else in my situation was this: m I haven't even touched Xbox Market...

Well, today I contacted MS Xbox support and the rep was of no help. She had me even create a brand new account, made sure the date of birth was entered properly, and I then downloaded that new account to my Xbox. It still gives me the same error message about family settings. http://stevethefish.net...

What I'd wonder about is if your coworker had parental settings in place on the console, given that the ability to create Xbox Live accounts (or connect to Live) are things you can limit. Might try signing out of the Live account you made and see if that lets your local account play it then. In the...

Help Request! A former coworker gave me a 360 a couple of years ago along with several games. I never hooked it up to the internet, but just created my own local user profile named "Greg" and I've been using that this whole time. Eventually I learned how to remove his account from the 360....

Thanks for the help, guys. I removed the battery and used the spray a few times in the slot. My daughter is the one who uses the DS the most, but she says she's only encountered a boot problem maybe once since I cleaned it all out. I will clean it again when it happens again.

I'll have to figure out what electrical contact cleaner is called here in Japan. 接点復活剤（せってんふっかつざい） I found it! I went to K's Denki and at first the clerks there were telling me that they didn't have such a thing, so I asked them to show me where the screen cleaner stuff is. Lo and behold, there it ...

Thank you for the information! I'll have to figure out what electrical contact cleaner is called here in Japan. I doubt even the local electronics stores even have it, since they just focus on selling products but not supplementary stuff. I haven't been on this forum for a very long time, but I figu...

I've been doing this for years. It used to be only a few select games, but now my DS requires me to blow into the cartridge slot frequently. Sometimes in mid-game the contact with the cartridge will be lost. Is there any way to fix this? I tried swabbing the contacts with alcohol. I'm not sure what ...