Getting Past the $3000 Limit with Jurisdiction Settings
I wanted to get past the $3000.00 limit on my Bally GameMaker. I figured out how to do it. It took a lot of testing, but I finally figured it out. It involves the Jurisdiction setting. I tried several, but finally found that the #8 setting (designed for Puerto Rico) works perfectly, without any limits. Thought I'd post my finding here in case anyone else was interested.
If you want to do it, simply do a RAM SET Clear and then change the jurisdiction to #8. Then set up the other settings as usual. Here's a list of my settings in case you're interested.
RAM Image Checksum Correct
EEPROM Chip Correct
Current Jurisdiction: 8
Primary Host: None
Secondary Host: None
SAS Version: None
Chassis Type: Upright
Coin Acceptor: Coin Acceptor & COD Board
Bill Acceptor: JCM WBA
Printer Type: None
Hopper Type: Coin
Door Type: Pulsed Optic
Double Down: On
Tournament: Off
EFT: Disabled
Residual Credit Mode:
Gamble or Atten. Pay
Win
Evaluation Performance: Legacy
Cabinet Configuration: Video
I have 2 different boards:
Board 1 Mains: 21.04.24
Board 2 Mains: 72.04.24
I also set mine to a "tokenized" game (set at $1000). Mine's a quarter machine, so it thinks a quarter is $1000. I also set it to the following multi-denominations (but this would need to vary based on the games you might have installed): $10, $20, $25, $50, and $100.
If you do this, you will likely need to adjust your hopper limits as well. Here's what I have set:
Win Lockup: $10,000,000.00
Coin Hopper Lockup: $40,000.00*
Credit Meter High: $20,000,000.00
*$40,000.00 would yield 40 "tokens" (quarters).
And finally, I changed the Bill Validator Channel Setting to 5 (to increase what it thinks each bill is -- it thinks a $100 bill is $100,000!). Life is good. I'll post a separate
document explaining the Bill Validator settings that I played with.
And just to have it in one place, here's what I read are the descriptions for the Jurisdiction settings:
Locked VLC
1 International 60 Hz
2 (Locked) New Jersey
3 (Locked) GLI
4 International 50 Hz
5 Default
6 Uruguay
7 South Africa
8 Puerto Rico
9 Delaware
10 New Mexico
11 OLGC
12 Swiss B No Bet Limit
13 Swiss A Bet Limit
14 USAF 2000 Win Limit
15 USAF No Win Limit
I tested them all. Some had some really weird results. For example, 7 (South Africa) solved the $3000 limit, but everything played very SLOWLY. 8 (Puerto Rico) was the only one that worked perfectly and also eliminated the $3000 limit.
Hope you find this helpful and enjoy!!!