Luckily computers have gotten pretty good, and good hardware has gotten cheaper. Golden Tee Fore! represents one of the more hardware-intensive games that folks have tried to emulate. Nonetheless: the takeaway is the more demanding the game, the better hardware you need on the other end to run it. I think the sweetspot for emulators rests in the PS2/ Dreamcast era, but I digress. Modern, functional emulators for consoles like the PS3/ Xbox/ GameCube are partial at best. This gets tricky with more modern hardware. For old games like a Gameboy game, almost any modern device including your smartphone can emulate the game almost perfectly - there's chipset you're trying to emulate isn't as complex as modern games, and your modern hardware dwarfs the computational abilities. If you've ever played a Gameboy emulator or anything else that emulates an old game console you're vaguely familiar with the concept: original game hardware can be emulated at the expense of hardware limitations. I'll talk more about this shortly, but at the time, the game was probably one of the most computational expense games to emulate requiring premium hardware.Įmulation with MAME My desktop emulated GTFORE06 at ~200% - this could work! Nonetheless, somewhere around 2017, Golden Tee Fore! Complete was successfully dumped and playable in MAME. I'm not sure how this would work if you were "pirating" the game, but had original hardware that you had procured all over the internet. Not to mention these online versions required you to "phone home", utilize a subscription, and pretty much indefinitely have an internet connection. It also introduced more complicated hardware making it difficult to piece apart and reassemble. In 2005, Golden Tee LIVE came out which materially solidified the online nature of the game. My goal with the project was to be able to play the newest version I could, though the modern games made this materially more tricky. Golden Tee Gold, Golden Tee 2K, Golden Tee Fore!, Golden Tee LIVE, etc.
If you check the history of the game, you'll see more a bunch of different versions throughout the years. I relegated myself to emulating the game. I'm sure there's a ton of JAMMA harnesses and related guides, but this wouldn't be cheap.
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On top of all of this, you'd still need to figure out how to connect the game to the control board you built/ bought separately. I'm skipping the specifics, but the above alone is already ~$560 for used hardware. I admittedly didn't do much digging if you could procure this yourself, but it seemed like someone had found a niche selling these afternoon for almost $200 a pop, so it seemed like this probably was something not easily reproducible.
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Basically the way I understand it is if you want to upgrade any Golden Tee Fore! to the "complete" version, which gives you ~30 courses from the whole Fore! series, you need a version of that "complete" game on a new hard drive (or one of these mini extension drives), plus some compatible security chip.
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It's also unclear to me if you'll need additional adapters. If you go this route, you'll have to match the power supply to the board (red or green). a few random arcade parts shops seem to carry old power supplies here. Given how niche the game is now, this isn't likely the case of some bar owner piecing out their own arcade it's likely more a reflection of an experienced arcade technician trying to recoup costs on a broken board hoping that someone will buy it thinking they can fix it. All the listings I found said "not working", and they were still selling for a few hundred dollars. I couldn't even find a working version of the board online. In this case, I was poking around for the Golden Tee Fore! hardware, more on that shortly. The version I had as a kid had perpetual issues with "low voltage" amongst other oddities that likely reflected more than a decade of wear and tear at a local bar. While my preference would always be to get original hardware, I was mostly concerned being able to get a playable version of all of the courses as well as having a sound bit of hardware. eBay is littered with original hardware from some of the older Golden Tee games, but I also knew the game could be emulated via MAME. It adds a bit of context to this project and gives a rather detailed review of how I was able to assemble a Golden Tee Showpiece cabinet.īuild or Buy? Good luck getting working original hardware!Īt the time when I had made the decision to build a Golden Tee cabinet, I still wasn't convinced on how I actually intended to play to game. If you haven't already started with Part 1, I'd encourage you to check it out first.
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