Restoring the classics…
Golden Tee Conversion
Conversion of my All American Football to a Golden Tee 2002.
Vertically Challenged
Sep 16th
This biggest challenge in the conversion of the All American Football to Golden Tee has been the monitor orientation. All American Football made use of a vertically mounted monitor while Golden Tee requires a horizontally mounted monitor. My initial thought was to simply rotate the entire monitor, including the frame, in the cabinet to achieve a horizontal orientation. Unfortunately, this didn’t work out so well as the metal frame stuck out the back of the cabinet. On to plan 2, which is going to be difficult to explain. More >
Golden Tee: Progress So Far
Sep 12th
Unfortunately, I don’t have any pictures for today’s post, but I’ll provide a brief update on the status of the All American Football to Golden Tee conversion. I’ve created a “mock” control panel to test the fit on the cabinet and have temporarily wired the trackball and buttons to the jamma harness. While the control panel fits on the cabinet, it’s going to need some modifications to look good. I’ve verified that the trackball and all of the buttons are working. I’ve wired the coin inputs up and have verified that both are working.
The game now passes the initialization screen (thanks to a new hard drive) and works great. I still need to wire up the speakers, the service switch and find a way to mount the monitor horizontally in the cabinet. I had a plan for the monitor and started working on it last night. About 10 minutes in, I realized that may plan was not going to work. Back to the drawing board. That will be my main task for this weekend. Stay tuned.
Golden Tee: Wiring Started
Sep 2nd
I had a chance over the long weekend to get a bit of work done on the Golden Tee conversion. Unfortunately, not as much work as I would have preferred due to some family commitments. Regardless, I’m happy with the progress I made although I did have a few stumbling blocks along the way. I’ll be the first to admit that the wiring has been a bit of a pain. The wires are all color coded and tracing blue wires, green wires, red wires, yellow wires and orange wires is not easy for someone who is color blind. More >
Golden Tee: The Parts
Aug 29th
All of the parts for my Golden Tee conversion, or at least all of the parts I could think of, have finally arrived. As promised a few days ago, here are a few photographs to help you visualize what’s involved (click on the pictures for a larger view): More >
It’s Been A Good Week
Aug 27th
The parts necessary to convert my All American Football cabinet into a Golden Tee are slowly beginning to show up on my doorstep. Last Thursday I received my Golden Tee 2002 board set, along with the hard drive and necessary cabling. Over the weekend I located an old 200 watt computer power supply in the basement that will be used to power the hard drive and provide additional power to the PCB. I added some mounts to it so it will be easier to attach to the cabinet. More >
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