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.
There were two boxes on my porch when I arrived home from work yesterday. The first box contained a 3″ Happ Controls trackball assembly (white trackball), a trackball to PCB harness, a trackball mounting plate and a set of trackball mounting bolts. Unfortunately, it was also supposed to contain my jamma harness but it was nowhere to be found in the box. After quick e-mail exchange with the retailer, the error was acknowledged and the harness should arrive Thursday or Friday of this week.
The second box contained a genuine Golden Tee control panel overlay like the one pictured below:
The panel I received is in much better shape than the one pictured. It only has a couple of scratches on the underside near the trackball. If I take my time and prepare the base properly, they shouldn’t be very noticeable. The one problem with this control panel is the size. It’s much larger than the All American Football control panel so I’m either going to have to modify the cabinet or the control panel itself to get a good fit. I’m leaning toward modifying the cabinet but still haven’t made a firm decision.
Once everything arrives for this project, I’ll take pictures of all of the components which my help those unfamiliar with some of the terms. As usual all of the progress on this project will be detailed here. I’m setting up a new category, Golden Tee conversion so I won’t have to continue posting these under the All American Football category.
Finally, as of this morning, I am the proud owner of a Donkey Kong Jr. boardset. For those unfamiliar, a Donkey Kong Jr. board can be played in a Donkey Kong cabinet, it’s just a matter of swapping out the boards. The biggest challenge is coming up with a method that will allow me to easily swap between the two games. Yes, I’m familiar with the double Donkey Kong board, but it’s got some quirks with the sounds that I’m not too fond of.
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