Got my first two dedicated machines today

[cyapps]

I do have a couple old games in the basement but these are the first two I purchased. I have been wanting a Golden Tee for a little while even though I only played it once. It is a Golden Tee 2005 Extra. Plus he left the bill acceptor in even though he was going to remove it so that is a fun little toy to have. The bowling game is a World Class Bowling Deluxe (he put the Silver Strike Marquee in there because the other was severely cracked) and installed a new Happ trackball. I wanted the bowling so my nieces and nephews could play as well as it brings back memories from when I played it as a teen with the family.

I want to image the Golden Tee hard drive just in case and just wanted to make sure that all I needed to do was connect it to my pc as a slave drive or just hook it up with my ide to usb cable and do a bit for bit copy onto an image?

P.S. Sorry about that robot in the second picture giving you the stink eye, it is a recycled robot project I "helped" my nephew with.

[TOK]

People that don't usually like arcade games will love the Golden Tee. I have the regular 2005 Fore!, and its the game that people who are intimidated by machines will walk up to. World Class Bowling is the game my kid always wants to play. Good choices. 

Would you mind doing a follow up when you get your answer to the drive copy? I have a backup drive that I bought for mine, but never tested it. I wouldn't mind having a copy of my specific drive.

[syph007]

I've never done it, but i 'think' you would use chdman to image and/or restore harddrives.   Ex: http://www.revisionx.com/kiproject/chdman.html

[cyapps]

I've never done it, but i 'think' you would use chdman to image and/or restore harddrives.   Ex: http://www.revisionx.com/kiproject/chdman.html

Looking into it now, thanks!

People that don't usually like arcade games will love the Golden Tee. I have the regular 2005 Fore!, and its the game that people who are intimidated by machines will walk up to. World Class Bowling is the game my kid always wants to play. Good choices.  

Exactly why these were my first two purchases (I enjoy them to of course).

Would you mind doing a follow up when you get your answer to the drive copy? I have a backup drive that I bought for mine, but never tested it. I wouldn't mind having a copy of my specific drive.

As soon as I give it a try I will follow up, the problem is I wouldn't know if the the restore side of things works unless I erase my game drive and restore the image to it. I think I may get a ide to cf adapter and just remove the original drive for safe keeping and use just use a compact flash card. This has the added benefit of removing a bit of noise and maybe a bit more reliable.

[Sledgehammer]

I have used a program called Copy Commander many times to copy a hard drive for either backup or to upgrade my C drive size. It works outside of windows (meaning you set bios to boot from the CDROM) and does a 100% copy of your hard drive.

You would just need to connect the golden tee drive to your PC and then connect a new drive as well. Run the program and have it dupe the Golden Tee drive over to the new drive and you would be all set.

I got Copy Commander from eBay for 20 bucks or I'm sure if you're web savvy you could find a torrent of it pretty easily.

Jason

[syph007]

Ah I found the pdf where I originally found the chdman mentioned.  Its in the Aaron Giles doc about things you didn't know MAME could do.

http://mamedev.org/misc/cax2009.pdf

page 11.

[Ummon]

Have you found you hit your hand on the bezel of the silver strike when 'casting' the ball?

[cyapps]

Have you found you hit your hand on the bezel of the silver strike when 'casting' the ball?

Yes, I knew the minute I looked at it that it wasn't a real good cab for bowling and I/others have hit their hand a few times (mostly the first time they try it) but for the most part it seems to be okay. I don't really go to wild with this bowling game as I have found that overwhelming speed doesn't necessarily mean a better pickup. For the time being I am just going to leave it in this cabinet but I think as soon as I find a gutted "high speed" trackball friendly cab I may just put it in there and turn this into my mame cab.

btw: This is a World Class Bowling Deluxe and not a Silver Strike, the guy I got it from decided to use that marquee instead of leaving the severely cracked original marquee in it.

[Ummon]

Oh, right. Yeah, this weekend I was at a pool hall playing Golden Tee 2007 and.....I think a very recent Silverstrike Bowling...something like that....and in both cases, I found that - sorta like with movements with the Wii - short, precise movements were much more effective.

[cyapps]

I saw my brother-in-law using his thumbs to putt on the Golden Tee and I tried that on the bowling and well... I got the second highest score on my cabinet 250+. I played that way for a while and my thumbs didn't get cramped or anything, so that is an option (my dad tried it this way too and also got his highest score yet).

As for the hard drive copy, I went ahead and took the Golden Tee hard drive out and connected it to my pc via my ide to usb and then used chdman to create a copy (3.4GB from a 5GB drive). Now I just need to get a hold of a compact flash to ide adapter and a 8 gig compact flash card. I won't be getting to this for a little while as I don't have any extra cash at the moment.

Is there a way to mount a chd file as a drive or convert it to a mountable image?

[DillonFoulds]

http://cgi.ebay.com/2%84Compact-Flash-CF-to-IDE-Adapter-40-Pin-Male-Card_W0QQitemZ260365672040QQcmdZViewItem?rvr_id=&itemid=260365672040

Cheapo CF-IDE Adaptors on ebay. A friend of mine picked this up for a htpc he was building. No complaints there.

[cyapps]

http://cgi.ebay.com/2%84Compact-Flash-CF-to-IDE-Adapter-40-Pin-Male-Card_W0QQitemZ260365672040QQcmdZViewItem?rvr_id=&itemid=260365672040

Cheapo CF-IDE Adaptors on ebay. A friend of mine picked this up for a htpc he was building. No complaints there.

I was thinking about getting the cheap one from monoprice here for $3.84 each, but that depends on if I am still ordering some other things from them or not. Thanks for the cheap alternative!

I usually just order my computer stuff from newegg but I haven't ordered a compact flash card in a while so I was also wondering if anyone had any suggestions on which compact flash cards would be a good drive for a hard drive replacement in a arcade cabinet (I will most likely need a 8 gig for Golden Tee).