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):
The first picture shows the control panel over and trackball assembly. If you read my post from Wednesday, you’ll recall that I mentioned it had a few scratches on the underside. You can see them clearly in this picture near the “C” directional arrow. I intend on painting the base black which should make those scratches less noticeable. The plywood that the parts are sitting on will eventually be cut into a base to screw the control panel overlay on.
Above the control panel overlay, from left to right, is an “official” Happs trackball sticker, the trackball spacer, the trackball to PCB wiring adapter and the trackball itself. Note that the trackball to PCB adapter was not included with the trackball and had to be ordered seperately. I don’t think that I will need to use the trackball spacer but it was included with the trackball.
The second picture shows the good stuff. The Golden Tee 2002 board is shown in the bottom of the picture. On the top, from left to right, is the jamma wiring harness, a 200 watt computer power supply and the Golden Tee 2002 hard drive. The power supply is just a spare power supply I had around from an old computer. I attached the brackets to the sides of the power supply to help anchor it in cabinet. There’s another bracket on the opposite side, not visible in the picture. The hard drive gets attached to the PCB with the ribbon cable. Power is applied to the hard drive from the power supply. Power also gets applied to the PCB from the power supply via the two molex connectors you see next to the ribbon cable.
Not pictured above is the trackball mounting plate and various bolts, screws, connectors, etc. needed for the project. If you look at the second picture you can see about half of the mounting plate on the right side. Most of the connectors will be shown as I chronicle the assembly of the cabinet. The biggest challenge for me will be the wiring as this will be the first cabinet I’ve wired from scratch. Hopefully, with an extended weekend, I’ll be able to strip the old All American Football parts out of the cabinet and get a pretty good start on the wiring. Stay tuned!
Hi Jeff, quick question for you. I just picked up a Golden Tee 2k. It seems to work fine but a couple questions. It only has 3 courses and the monitor is a bit distorted. On the board there are 8 open slots. What are those for? Can i buy chips to put in there to add more courses? I see ‘jamma’ boards on ebay for this game and in looking at the pictures, they have have only 4 open slots. Is there a better video chip to make the monitor more clear? I love this game but i know i will get bored with just the 3 courses. Thanks Jeff.
Shoot, went to turn in on today and now i am getting a small reddish line through the middle of the screen. Not sure what is going on. Is the monitor toast? Thanks
Kevin
Kevin,
I don’t have my 2K board hooked up right now, but if memory serves me correctly, three courses is all it contains. I’ll try to hook it up tonight and double check.
Do you know what brand and model monitor the machine has? It sounds like the monitor has collapsed vertically. There can be a number of causes for this…bad caps, cold solder joints, bad deflection transistors, etc. Is the game playing blind?