Golden Tee plus Mame

[caykroyd]

Is it possible to run mame in a Golden tee cabinet?  I'm buying a golden Tee Complete cab, and want to put my mame computer in it?  What is necessary to be able to switch between them?

[miles2912]

Golden tee cabs are some of the best to mame.  They generally take a 27" monitor (wells-betson) standard and have nice large CP areas to work with.  The hard part is usually finding one at a reasonable price.  I looked for a while and the cheapest I could find one for was 500.

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[caykroyd]

Well, I want to mame it, but also keep the Golden Tee functionality.  I think I will build a separate control panel that is swappable.

This way I have an original Golden tee and with a swap of a control panel and somehow switch to computer for mame, I will be able to play other games.

Is this possible?  Maybe just switch the monitor input to the computer's video card?

[miles2912]

Possible?  Yes.  One BIG HUGE Pain in the --I'm attempting to get by the auto-censor and should be beaten after I re-read the rules--?  Yes.  Honestly it is more trouble than it is worth.   Swapping out the CP's will get old quick.  You would have to design a quick disconnect for the existing game both for the CP to circuit board and then for the monitor.  Now you have to figue out how to re-connect the monitor to a PC for MAME.. Not sure how the monitor is hooked up?

Mame a has a few versions of golden tee.  I might just run it off mame and sell the rest out to fund the conversion.  Unless the cab is a newer version of golden tee (expensive cab here - sell it and Build your own ).  Lots of variables here.  Do you like Golden Tee?  How is it all hooked up inside?  Cab in good shape?  How bad do you want a mame cab - or do you like playing 3000+ games? 

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[caykroyd]

I'm not sure the condition or guts of the cab.  I am gonna look at it after the holidays.  I'm not opposed to making quick disconnects. 

I wonder if Golden Tee would restatr each time I disconnect.  That would be a problem.  If I can just do disconnects and both MAME computer and GoldenTee stay in current state, it would work.

The Golden Tee in MAme is too old.  I want the newer one, but also want MAME.  I may be too lazy to build a cab.  So this is an alternative if it is feasible.

I guess once I look at the guts of the cab, I'll know a little more, but sounds like its possible.

[SirPeale]

Golden Tee Complete...wow.  Good earner since it has all the courses.

[caykroyd]

I see there is a jamma switcher available at happs for a golden tee and silver strike bowling.

I wonder if I can use this and switch between golden tee and mame computer instead of silver strike.  Any thoughts?

[markrvp]

Golden Tee cabs use EGA monitors (medium res).  You'll have to somehow make your PC output an EGA signal.  Then, you'll have to manually force all your games to use EGA resolution.

If it were me, I would keep the Golden TEE intact and do something else for MAME.

[caykroyd]

The monitor that comes with the machine is a digital monitor and has a VGA port on it for a computer.  Wouldn't that work?  it's a wells gardner monitor.  Not sure which model though.

[Drews Arcade]

Most golden tee fores have a wells d9200 in them, it can operate in cga,ega and vga. So it should work out for mame. I am also going to try to talk you out of maming it, I think your golden tee would look best by a seperate mame cab. But thats up to you of course. With that set up your golden tee will all the fore courses, then you could play the mame golden tee with all the 3d courses.

[caykroyd]

I am also going to try to talk you out of maming it, .....

I will not alter the playability of Golden Tee.  I'm hoping to use a jamma switcher and have a push button to switch between golden tee and mame computer.  I think I may even build a separate control panel so I don't alter the Golden Tee cab at all.  It will take a lot of experimenting I'm sure, but I definitely won't alter the Golden Tee.

As far as having two cabs.....maybe you can convince my wife, but I sure as hell can't.


The d9200 should be good to go with an arcadevga video card, right?  I would just have to figure out how to mux between golden tee board and arcadevga output.

[Mctittles]

http://www.mameblog.com/2006/02/mamed_millipede_project_index.html
The link above is a mame control panel that someone made without altering the original arcade.  I'm not sure if this is completely relevant to what you are doing, because I don't think he has it set-up to switch back to the original on a button, but might be worth looking into.

[Drews Arcade]

LOL, I get you. Sounds like a neat project. I think you are planing to use dedicated controls for each Mame and golden tee and not sharing these controls? So the only thing you need to do is to have a switch to toggle inputs to the monitor? I know they make such a thing for computer monitors, maybe you could get that to work for you some how.

The only problem I can see is that the d9200 has a different video connector moved for changing from VGA to cga/ega. This is not the video input from the game board, but the connector from the small video/sync interface bd to the large deflection board. Since you don't want to run GT at low res, and switching from ega to VGA you move connectors. I would say to run Mame in ega, the same res as golden tee. Arcade VGA v.2 says it can run in ega. Look here in the FAQ:

http://www.ultimarc.com/avgafaq.html

These are just thoughts of mine, hopfully someone else will read this and see if I am on the right track. I have both golden tee complete and a Mame among others, but I have no wife yet