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**Video Poker, Keno, Slots, 21** Gaming machines => BALLY Game Maker => Topic started by: Badbaud on February 09, 2018, 03:44:27 PM

Title: Why jurisdiction?
Post by: Badbaud on February 09, 2018, 03:44:27 PM

Why is the jurisdiction setting so important?
This board had a jurisdiction of 1 but after a clear due to a game chip change the EEPROM was locked at 8
The mains in this board were unique and allowed for a clear while maintaining the EEPROM settings.
I tried different mains and was allowed to do all setup procedures except jurisdiction.
I have a debug chip, is that my next step or does the jurisdiction really matter?
This is all being done on my Game Maker tester, will the jurisdiction matter in the game when the board is returned to the customer?
Nickle game, coin mech only, JCM DBV 200, mechanical door, upright cabinet.

Title: Re: Why jurisdiction?
Post by: shortrackskater on July 09, 2018, 03:48:00 PM

 :bump_2:

Title: Re: Why jurisdiction?
Post by: shortrackskater on April 07, 2019, 03:24:21 PM

Alan was this solved and what was the solution?? There's anther subject started on the same thing.

Title: Re: Why jurisdiction?
Post by: Badbaud on April 07, 2019, 03:37:29 PM

I put in a fresh EEPROM and cleared again.
For some reason the jurisdiction was locked in the old EEPROM and would not clear.
I would assume to blame it on some mains software that allowed for one time jurisdiction setting.
I changed the mains to my test mains that always allowed for jurisdiction change and was able to do the change but the original EEPROM was still stuck with the original jurisdiction.
Must be some special byte set in the EEPROM to lock it that does not get erased so it is stuck in there.
Solution, put in a fresh EEPROM that has not been locked or erase the EEPROM completely with a stand alone EEPROM programmer then use it.

Title: Re: Why jurisdiction?
Post by: shortrackskater on April 07, 2019, 03:40:40 PM

Was that the 96C56 EEPROM in socket U3?

Title: Re: Why jurisdiction?
Post by: Badbaud on April 07, 2019, 07:52:07 PM

The only 8 pin in  a socket, ya.

Title: Re: Why jurisdiction?
Post by: shortrackskater on April 13, 2019, 03:44:50 PM

Was that one of the problems with Robert from Pahrump's Game Maker?

Title: Re: Why jurisdiction?
Post by: Badbaud on April 13, 2019, 06:32:16 PM

No, his board was in setup mode when I plugged it in and the first setting I did was set jurisdiction to one.
I think his key switch was defective, gave him another one, but he said his worked when he got back home and set up some options.
Tapping DEAL to select jurisdiction then not being able to lock it in with the key switch points to a bad key switch.
Maybe a not working all of the time key switch?

I did another clear with DSW1 6,7, and 8 on after replacing 2 defective game chips and again all setup options worked fine.

Title: Re: Why jurisdiction?
Post by: shortrackskater on April 14, 2019, 08:42:09 AM

That makes a lot more sense now!
Thank you.