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Posts tagged Golden Tee Conversion
A New Addition, A Project Revisited
Feb 20th
Regular readers of this blog will recall a project I started several months ago. Being unhappy with the gameplay of Leland’s All American Football, I decided to strip the cabinet and convert it to a Golden Tee machine. I had the opportunity a few weeks ago to pick up another cabinet which have altered my plans, probably for the better. More >
Golden Tee: Control Panel Progess
Sep 26th
I’ve made a great deal of progress on the Golden Tee control panel. I had a spare piece of 3/4″ plywood that appeared to be about the right size for fashioning a control panel base. I took the control panel overlay that I purchased, placed it on top of the plywood and traced the outside edges, button holes and trackball opening. I cut the straight areas of the control panel base with a circular saw and the rounded corners with a jig saw. The button holes were cut with a 1 1/8″ hole saw. Plywood was not necessarily my material of choice but it was available and saved me a trip to the home improvement store. More >
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 >
