Here are the steps on how to get the Hard Mode included DLC for Blue Dragon now instead of waiting for it to be released in the US Marketplace. I don’t think this is illegal… at least I hope not. It’s not like you’re stealing content that’s not already free to begin with.

1. You’ll need an email address OTHER than the one you have currently used for any other XBOX Live account. If you need a new email address, just go sign up for a new one at gmail or hotmail. If you choose the hotmail one, make sure you set your home country as Hong Kong SAR (I used Gmail…so I didn’t have to worry about this…)

2. Jump onto your XBOX360. Sign out of your current profile if it auto-signs in.

3. Create a new gamer profile.

4. Use the email you created / set-aside for this in step 1 for this profile.

5. For all the address and phone information, just put in whatever you want…just fill in something. Again, make sure you choose Hong Kong SAR when prompted for the country. I believe it will ask if you already have a Microsoft Live ID created for this email… you’ll say no and to have it create a new one for it. No biggy. Choose a free silver account etc…

6. After the account is created (NOTE, if you still have free XBOX Live Gold trial accounts available on your console, this WILL use up one of those…there’s no way around it. Sorry.), sign in on that account and proceed to the marketplace for downloadable content for Blue Dragon. Its one of two free items and the other is the demo so it should be easy to spot.

7. Download and enable. Start Blue Dragon (still on your Hong Kong profile) and it will auto apply the DLC at that point.

8. Now you can press the XBOX button and sign out of your Hong Kong profile and log in with your main US (or other nation) profile that you usually use and the DLC will also enable for that profile. Have fun starting a new game on Hard or New Game+. Note, these are only for new games…you can’t switch an already in progress Normal game to Hard.

9. You never have to do the above steps again… from then on out, you can simply log into your normal main profile from boot-up and the DLC will be autoloaded. I don’t know if you can delete your Hong Kong profile or not at this point… I haven’t bothered.

Enjoy! It is well worth it for the challenge.