Everything that I've seen (including posts here and on Shawn Hargreaves' blog) and experienced points out that you can ONLY use SamplerState.AddressU = TextureAddressMode.Wrap when using SpriteSortMode.Immediate. My game uses XNA to sort everything, so we're not using Immediate, and tiling it manually mostly works, but since these ...

On a related note, can anybody confirm that the submission to DBP is allowed NOT to have a trial mode?