Golden Tee Complete - Changing location

Kevin13

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Hello,

I bought a Golden Tee Complete red board and harddrive from a fellow KLOVer and everything works perfectly...no complaints with functionality at all. However, the board is registered and contains all the location data (Wisconsin) from when it was in operation at a bar (all data is showing in the ITNET menu and won't change because it can't connect to the server). I know the ITNET servers are long gone and there's no way to dial in to change the location or unregister the game. I don't care what the LED signage says as it's folded over but I have a pet peeve about the location showing up on the Leaderboard scores.

I called IT and they told me that the location data is stored in the harddrive and replacing the drive would clear out the location so that it says, "This Location" instead of an actual location...I'm ok with this as that's how my 2003 unregistered board set behaved. I bought a replacement drive from a reputable source, installed, and fired it up. Now it says Indiana. This leads me to believe the data is stored on the harddrive and while the location data is blank in the ITNET menu, somewhere Indiana is stored on the drive. I called the vendor, he talked to IT and I'd have to send it in to be unregistered so that I can have the generic location message. I called IT and they said they can't unregister it because the servers are long gone and I should try replacing the NVRAM, using the one from my unregistered 2003 board, as he thinks that's where it might be stored. If that doesn't work, call them back. Given that the location changed when I swapped the drives, I don't see this changing when I swap the NVRAM, but I'm willing to give it a try and will do so tonight.

Does anyone have any insight to this? I don't care if the board is registered or unregistered, don't care what the LED sign says, I just want the location to be the generic "This Location" verbiage. Any info. is appreciated.

Thanks.
 
I think it may be in the NVRAM. The reason for this, is my GT2004 always said Indiana as the location. One day I turned the machine on and the location was reset to "this location" and the time had reverted back to quite a few years earlier.

Nothing changed with the hard drive, so I'm assuming the battery in the NVRAM died.

I would swap it and see what happens.
 
Hatrick...I would of thought the same thing, but the location changed with the harddrive...HD1 is Wisconsin, HD2 is Indiana. I swapped with the NVRAM from my unregistered 2003 board and it made no difference. I would assume if the location info is stored somewhere other than the HD, then the battery in NVRAM would be keeping it current. If the battery dies, than I would expect the location to get wiped out. However, if also stored on the HD, then it wouldn't explain why yours reverted back to This Location.

Anyways, I called IT and spoke to yet another guy in tech support. He feels that the location is stored in the harddrive and the only way to fix is to reimage the harddrive, he also said he confirmed it with one of the developers. He was more than accommodating in both his time and offer, so I'm sending in my harrdrive for reimaging and hope that fixes the problem. I'll update this thread as soon as I know just in case anyone else is having the same issues.
 
Update: Received my imaged HD back from IT. Hooked it up and allowed it to display the various courses during attract mode and all hints of the location seem to be gone. It now displays "This Location" which is what I really wanted. Didn't play any courses yet, but I would imagine nothing would change by simple game play. All seems to be well and I'm pleased.

I'm in the process of backing up the image in case I have a harddrive failure as I don't want to go through this again. Let me know if you have any questions.
 
I just wanted to bring up this old thread since I have been working with a lot of GT Fore boards lately.

Has anyone looked on the PCB for the LED sign to see if there are any eproms that can be dumped?

Im also interested in finding where on the harddrive the location information is stored. Anyone have a registered harddrive with a location stored in it that could dump the drive?
 
I have a GT2005 with a specific bar that shows on the LED sign. I am not sure how to tell if it is registered or not. What am I looking for?
 
I have a GT2005 with a specific bar that shows on the LED sign. I am not sure how to tell if it is registered or not. What am I looking for?

If you go into the ITNET test menu and check registration status it will show you if it is or not. It will also let you change the location information but I'm not sure if it will keep it since it won't be able to call itnet.
 
I never have the signs hooked up, but you can unregister the boards without calling IT. You just can't register them. Where it says "Status - Registered" you click that, then a big IT.net screen comes up like it's going to call in, and asks you if you're sure you want to unregister it, click yes, and it goes back and now says in the menu in red "Status-Unregistered". So it just dumps the registered status... not sure though, if that takes the location out of the LED sign.
 
well I bought one of these LED signs, I just pulled the flash ram off the PCB and dumped it.
All in Big Endian so ech byte is swapped which is annoying to read through but All I was able too see was an area that mentioned
No Local Leaders
No National Leaders
No Regional Leaders
then another section had 10 names on it number 1- 10

Also seen the text Hello World

Im going to add my name to the list of 10 people and see if it shows up
I just need to get the power schematics for the sign before I connect it
 
well I bought one of these LED signs, I just pulled the flash ram off the PCB and dumped it.
All in Big Endian so ech byte is swapped which is annoying to read through but All I was able too see was an area that mentioned

Not sure what reader you're using, but the GQ-4X software has a built in function to swap even & odd bytes to fix that issue (see attached)
 

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well I bought one of these LED signs, I just pulled the flash ram off the PCB and dumped it.
All in Big Endian so ech byte is swapped which is annoying to read through but All I was able too see was an area that mentioned
No Local Leaders
No National Leaders
No Regional Leaders
then another section had 10 names on it number 1- 10

Also seen the text Hello World

Im going to add my name to the list of 10 people and see if it shows up
I just need to get the power schematics for the sign before I connect it


Did you ever get the power schematics for this and figure out if you were able to change anything on the sign?

Plus did anyone unregister their machine and see if it take the bar location away from the sign? If you unregister does it take anything else away from the game?
 
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