Golden Tee Complete Hack

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Okay, so we have all been wondering if there is a "kit" or hack to turn a GT Fore boardset into GT Complete (2006). There is the Captain Pinball guy who is doing this for 275.00. So since I had a cheap GT boardset and I didnt want to pay 450 for a complete boardset so I sent it to Greg (aka Captain Pinball). I made sure to mark the whole board up and label and photo the boardset before sending it. Well it came back with two chips replaced and the harddrive reimaged. The two chips are the boot rom (masked eprom) and the so called security chip. Both chips had factory IT labels on them, which tells me that Captain Pinball hasnt hacked the boardset, but he has real IT upgrade kits. sooooooooo

Here is my plan, I am going to attempt to crack the atmel security chip and see if I can find the board serial number inside the code and change it to work on another board. If that works then hopefully I can make upgrade kits.

If anyone else has had any luck with this please let me know.
 
Well not much progress, I managed to crack the security chip and make a working copy. This does me no good though. The boards themselves have a hardware version or bios that has to be upgraded to version 6. Cracking the harware chip seems very difficult. I got a CD that is used to upgrade to complete but it has to call IT before it will begin the upgrade. I'm wondering if there is a way to mod the CDs update.bin file to skip the phone call and the upgrade. I'm guessing IT wasn't worried about someone doing this since they have the security chip also so even if someone upgraded there board and harddrive it wouldn't run without the gtcomplete security chip(which I can make). Sooo if you or anyone else would like to try to mod the CD files to make the disc do the upgrade I'll hook you up with the security chip.
 
so I've been thinking about this and I've tried to open up the bin in IDA pro and it dosent help much. was there any setup program on that security chip. I'm trying to understand how the system rus the update.bin as there is no exe or anything like that. maybe that is what is on that xilinx chip?

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to point out i have a local arcade company that says for 399.99 they will upgrade my current boardset which is 2005 extra to complete and when questioned about it said he has a source. so there has to be a way to do this.

also: which xilinx chip are you talking about the big one or the little one?
 
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to point out i have a local arcade company that says for 399.99 they will upgrade my current boardset which is 2005 extra to complete and when questioned about it said he has a source. so there has to be a way to do this.

The guy who did mine (and others here) charges $250...
 
I'd be willing to help crack the system if someone can get me up to speed with the current status.
 
well someone could figure out how to open up the .big files on the cd first...they are like zips..but i havent found a program that would open them yet..tried all the big file openers. really need a program that would id what format it really is.
 
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