Author Topic: How do they do it.Golden tee and Silver strike? (Read 13546 times)

fairway2000 · « **on:** December 13, 2005, 06:16:58 pm »

I saw a Golden tee with GT complet and silver strike in it.How do they do it?
Has any one seen this?Any instructions?I have seen the jamma one but not this.

Thanks

mccoy178 · « **Reply #1 on:** December 14, 2005, 01:40:49 am »

I am interested in knowing this as well.

ArcaMan · « **Reply #2 on:** December 14, 2005, 12:02:59 pm »

They both use the same trackballs in the same place, so my guess is that there is a switch somewhere that just switches between the two kits. The inside of a GT and a SS cab are mostly open space, so there is plenty of room to mount two motherboards (both are PC-based, running Linux), the motherboards may be the same as well - I know that GT and Buck Hunter share the same boards - just update the software. - if that's the case then maybe someone has hacked it and made a loader to select which drive image?

I would lean more towards two kits in the same cabinet though with a manual switch.

That would be a blast to have in my gameroom though

fairway2000 · « **Reply #3 on:** December 14, 2005, 03:58:02 pm »

Sounds good.But.I think if you tried doing a hard drive switch the board would
not see the security key.I'm just thinking.There is some kind off security key I think.But not sure.

mccoy178 · « **Reply #4 on:** December 14, 2005, 05:28:37 pm »

I am confident that they have two boards. I know the chips are interchangeable, but I believe you would have to have two boards to make them work.

ArcaMan · « **Reply #5 on:** December 14, 2005, 08:03:55 pm »

I am pretty sure they use HASP hardware keys (I know Live! uses them). If so, you could proably just put two of them in different USB ports.

Most likely though, it is two different boards. The kits aren't that expensive. Complete is just a software upgrade for around $500 and you can get the red boards on ebay for 200-600$ depending which year (the software upgrade works on all Fore platform boards), Silver Strike kits are about $1900 I think as well. (Pardon if my numbers are a bit off, but I am pretty sure those are ball park)

A kit ready GT cabinet from TLC (factory that makes the coin-op version) should only run you about $1200-$1400 for a 27" but you could probably make your own for less.

Those of you who haven't played Strike, it is a hell of a game. I would love to have one in my game room.

Cheers,

Arcaman

fairway2000 · « **Reply #6 on:** December 14, 2005, 09:52:58 pm »

Thanks.But still no way to switch between the games.I found this
http://www.multigame.com/jamma.html

Might help?

markrvp · « **Reply #7 on:** December 14, 2005, 11:03:48 pm »

Call Incredible Technologies Technical Support at 1-847-870-7027 x121.

fairway2000 · « **Reply #8 on:** December 15, 2005, 07:38:14 am »

What does the usb ports do?

ArcaMan · « **Reply #9 on:** December 15, 2005, 09:13:22 am »

oh, my bad on the HASP key part, I haven't looked at a GT kit in a long time, just Live. Thanks for clarifying that

fairway2000 · « **Reply #10 on:** December 15, 2005, 09:16:56 am »

Called them and the kit is not made by IT.Back to square one

RayB · « **Reply #11 on:** December 15, 2005, 09:52:42 am »

If they are both PC based, could it be possible to add a switch on the hard drive power lines, so that on boot up only one drive is powered (therefore becoming 'C:')

Though my question here really which Fairway was vague on: Were the two games SELECTABLE from a menu on the screen? I think that makes all the difference in figuring out what was done here.

fairway2000 · « **Reply #12 on:** December 15, 2005, 10:04:53 am »

Never saw one.Just saw it listed on EBay.Not sure how they did it.The only thing
about switching hard drives is that the board has security and only could run one hard drive.I am pretty sure you need 2 boards and hard drives.

markrvp · « **Reply #13 on:** December 15, 2005, 10:38:35 am »

I would tend to agree.

fairway2000 · « **Reply #14 on:** December 15, 2005, 03:08:15 pm »

It has nothing to do with doing it he said.But you gave me good idea.
With the jamma switch (http://www.multigame.com/jamma.html).
You have like 17 extra wires on the jamma plug.What if you took the trackball
plug and pluged it into the jamma switch board using the extra connections?That would switch the trackball.With the printer switch wouldn't you be getting sound from both boards at the same time?Or would that be part of the switch?

markrvp · « **Reply #15 on:** December 15, 2005, 03:54:39 pm »

Quote from: fairway2000 on December 15, 2005, 03:08:15 pm

It has nothing to do with doing it he said.But you gave me good idea.
With the jamma switch (http://www.multigame.com/jamma.html).
You have like 17 extra wires on the jamma plug.What if you took the trackball
plug and pluged it into the jamma switch board using the extra connections?That would switch the trackball.With the printer switch wouldn't you be getting sound from both boards at the same time?Or would that be part of the switch?

Yes you are right - there is a speaker + and - from the jamma connector.

I looked at the Multi-Jamma website.

fairway2000 · « **Reply #16 on:** December 15, 2005, 06:55:40 pm »

Now all we need is to get a person with lots of money to try it.Just in case it is a $2300.00 fuse.LOL

z28dan · « **Reply #17 on:** February 05, 2010, 07:39:33 pm »

Gatorcade sells the switcher, it runs about $400
You still need to have 2 boards and 2 hard drives.

http://www.gatorcade.com/dualgamessbgt.html

Hoopz · « **Reply #18 on:** February 05, 2010, 08:28:08 pm »

Quote from: z28dan on February 05, 2010, 07:39:33 pm

Gatorcade sells the switcher, it runs about $400
You still need to have 2 boards and 2 hard drives.

http://www.gatorcade.com/dualgamessbgt.html

Good to know. I'm sure the OP has been fretting about this for the last 4+ years.

GMZombie · « **Reply #19 on:** February 05, 2010, 10:08:45 pm »

yea they use a system from happ mostly called the perfect solution. look up on happs website. it will do any resolution u need but there is a catch. it dosent pass through power, so if you wanted to do this you would need to hack a jamma harness to put power on that board...for example im setting up a world class bowling/golden tee 2005 w extra courses game. ive been told though that the resolution change on the system from silver strike and golden tee 2005 is bad on the monitor cause it just uses a push button to change games...both powered up in cab with seperate power supplioes and hard drives and boards.

Brutal E · « **Reply #20 on:** February 08, 2010, 06:30:23 pm »

Here is my plan. I have my Silver Strike and Golden Tee 2005. I figure wire up both boards to the same buttons and trackballs. Wire them up to the same speakers. Silver Strike does VGA no problem for Golden Tee 2005 I am using a converter to get VGA. Both VGA outputs into a vga switcher. Put two external switches for the power supplies with some kind of sliding cover so when you turn one on the cover is covering the other switch to keep you from accidentally turning it on. I am trouble shooting my 2005 board right now, my Silver Strike kit is ready to go, and I have a Golden Tee Complete board I am sending into repairs.

This is my goal to have both games in the same cabinet. I am going to buy a new cabinet from Arcade Shops. They are close enough I can drive to pick it up and that saves like 500 dollars in shipping.


Main	Restorations	Software	Audio/Jukebox/MP3	Everything Else	Buy/Sell/Trade
Project Announcements	Monitor/Video	GroovyMAME	Merit/JVL Touchscreen	Meet Up	Retail Vendors
Driving & Racing	Woodworking	Software Support Forums	Consoles	Project Arcade	Reviews
Automated Projects	Artwork	Frontend Support Forums	Pinball	Forum Discussion	Old Boards
Raspberry Pi & Dev Board	controls.dat	Linux	Miscellaneous Arcade	Wiki Discussion	Old Archives
Lightguns	Arcade1Up	Try the site in https mode		Site News


Unread posts \| New Replies \| Recent posts \| Rules \| Chatroom \| Wiki \| File Repository \| RSS \| Submit news