Golden Tee 2005 What can I do with it?

[montehoskey]

I am new to this who game ownership.  I was given a Golden Tee Fore 2005 in working condition.  I was wondering is there anything I can do with it to make it more? Don't want to sound like I don't appreciate having just the game but I have played the few courses a lot.  Can you add courses or do software upgrades on it?  Can you add a joy-stick to the game deck and then run other game software on it?

Again I am new to this. Thanks in advance for your help.

[ed12]

with the board u have >green<
u will need to do alot of software rework...
to make into a mame?
u are best off,using a normal putter..same monitor,ps,etc
and then u do what ever
u see the its-gamming board's have roller ball inputs and ginu >gerneral inteface user inputs< they were turned off at the x-link chip..it is called :hard-coded:,
now mame has a boat load of golf and such..going for it
i would put my $$$ into that...

ed

[nipsmg]

I am new to this who game ownership.  I was given a Golden Tee Fore 2005 in working condition.  I was wondering is there anything I can do with it to make it more? Don't want to sound like I don't appreciate having just the game but I have played the few courses a lot.  Can you add courses or do software upgrades on it?  Can you add a joy-stick to the game deck and then run other game software on it?

Again I am new to this. Thanks in advance for your help.

I *believe* (someone correct me if I'm wrong here) that the board itself needs to be upgraded with some kind of security chip or something to run Golden Tee Complete (which has all of the courses).   
I'd recommend selling the board / hard drive on Ebay and using that money to put towards a golden tee complete boardset (something like this):

http://www.ebay.com/bhp/golden-tee-complete


It's definitely possible to add some joysticks and run MAME out of it as well.  I'm doing that with my cabinet:



It's definitely one of my favorite cabinets.  And I envy you if you have a cab with a good working monitor. 

[nipsmg]

Also, In this post there's a guy who claims he can upgrade any Golden Tee Fore! board to Golden Tee Complete for $150 sent back to you.  I can tell you I got the Eagle 2.09 BOOT rom from him, so he's not completely full of BS.:

http://forums.arcade-museum.com/archive/index.php/t-63015.html

That's probably the best you can do, but getting a Golden Tee Complete for $150 total is a pretty amazing deal, I'd spend it if you have it.

[ed12]

the conv from 05 to complete is 3 chip's and a copy of the complete s/w for the harddrive,egal209 is a unv bootrom loader chip so u can use any harddrive u want.,at 1 time its-gaming had hardcoded specific harddrive sizes into the boot rom most if not all dealers told them to go pound salt and fix it.hence egal 209
but if can burn eproms i gave a @ here a copy of it and he posted the .rar for it and u ppl,now then your cost's come's down to u53 secirty chip and u93  8 pin pic chip
+ a good copy of goldentee complete,u53 is nla from its-gamming so again u will
need to get a copy..starburst sells them up here in canada
u93 is a tad dif,but i may have the dump in hex format,again if u can program
if that guy is willing to do it for 150.00 and u get a copy of the s/w for futher use
that not to bad of a deal.as i charge about that just to fix the dang game

ed

[montehoskey]

Sorry for being absent for so long.  I appreciate the responses.  I am actually looking to make the cabinet into a mame.  Was looking at getting the x-arcade gaming controller that has two control sticks and a track ball.  This comes with Maximus arcade.  I was wondering if i placed this and a regular pc board in the cabinet but I don't think the monitor is compatible with a standard pc.

http://shop.xgaming.com/collections/arcade-joysticks/products/x-arcade-tankstick-trackball-usb-included