Golden Tee 2015

Jtoney

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I'm probably going down a rabbit hole. I've done a little research and I want to build a 2015 cabinet with everything I need in it. I have located a motherboard that looks like it will work I just need to know the logistics of actually doing something like this.

I asked him where before but it was for a different cabinet so now I'm going to completely start with something else. I don't need it to be modern I don't need it to be current I just need the game.

So what other components will I need just for the game to run such as security chips, video cards, and so on? I can buy the motherboard and I can put Ram in there but I understand there's some other things that I need to do as well. Please educate me on this I would like to learn and know more. The worst thing you can do is tell me to give up and go buy it already done from someone else.
 
I provided a rough list of what would be needed in your last Golden Tee post here: https://forums.arcade-museum.com/threads/what-to-do-with-golden-tee-fore-2005.546702/#post-4933975

If you want to build a 2015 Golden Tee Live and have the ability to play offline/online, you'll need the following:
- Nighthawk computer
- I/O Board (Dedicated or Jamma)
- CID (Cabinet ID) board for Golden Tee Live that is valid (Home (HE) or Commercial to convert to home, that is not banned
- Matching Hard drive and security chip for the version you want (2015 based on your request.)
- Wiring Harness (Dedicated or Jamma, matching the I/O board)
- Trackball and Buttons
- Control Panel
- Monitor
- Speakers

These are the minimum items you would need to put it in your own cabinet.

If you want to get yourself to a basically working game, check out this ebay listing (item # 187072328573) which is $1500 + shipping, and should get you playing on a test bench setup by adding a monitor.

Hope that helps. In the future it helps if you provide what research you've done and where you are stuck. The worst thing you can do is come onto the forum and say "I've done little to no research on this subject, but please tell me everything I need to know to do this.", which is how many will read your original post. There is a lot of information available on this site if you use the search, read old posts, and take notes.
 
See this is where I'm going to start getting frustrated. It seems like from the very first post that I made on here people have been agitated with me just being in this forum. I get the same reaction every time I ask for help anywhere. No I'm not saying that I don't research my topic or I haven't looked up information.

Whenever I search for a topic I usually only find a couple of posts and then it's the same information over and over again. Looking through the same bits of information and not being able to ask questions about that becomes a real frustration.

I guess I should just give up like others have told me to do in this Hobby and other hobbies in which I try to partake in. I thought this site was about asking questions and learning but telling people to go look through history find things on there and then hope that you can come up with your own conclusion really isn't helping. I'm coming here to learn about products learn why things do what they do. Learn why and how to six different connectors or test voltages and Signal paths and whatnot. If you're telling me to go look at an old post and I can't find something then it's not that I haven't done due diligence it's not finding what I need.

When people come to me aggressive like they do then I go combative and then at some point it becomes an argument and then at some point I just say the hell with it.
 
The going back to what I asked for, the CID chip. I don't know what that exactly looks like or what version I need or anything like that. I guess you wanted me to go look through every single post from the last 15 years and see if I could find that. If I can't locate it in a search engine then what else am I supposed to do in this regard? I can go get an IO board monitor all that other stuff but the internal base components like a motherboard Ram video card etc those are the things that are complicated
 
I think you need to consider changing your mindset when coming here and consider the people who are here, volunteering their time to help you. People here are willing to help, if you are willing to listen and willing to show that you are doing your own research. In your first post you said you did " a little research", but you don't detail out what you have learned so far, aside from you "located a motherboard that looks like it will work." However you don't state which motherboard it is, or ask for someone to verify it will work. The rest of your first post reads (when paraphrased) as "Ok, I found a random motherboard that should work, tell me everything else I need to make this work?" Can you see how this can be off putting to someone who has spent the time to do their own research on the subject, and spent the hours reading forum posts, searching google, reading the IT Games manuals, and learning the terminology for the parts and how they work together? Additionally, your last sentence, "The worst thing you can do is tell me to give up and go buy it already done from someone else." already is coming across as negative/combative. (Spoiler alert: It can be cheaper/easier just to buy one done. This complete unit is the same $1500 as the parts above )

Some suggestions for how to show the research you have done would be if your first post read something like this:

I am looking to build a Golden Tee 2015 from scratch, and would like to gather the components before building/purchasing a cabinet. I was originally going to start with a Golden Tee 2005 machine, but have since decided to start from scratch.

I have located a motherboard I think will work. It is an Intel DG31PR with an E8200 CPU and no Ram. I can get and install ram on the board. Will this board work with Golden tee 2015, or can someone point me to a list of the supported motherboards?

In addition to the motherboard, I know I will need a security chip and a video card. Is there a list of video cards that will work for these? I am also unsure how the Security chip works in these. Is it specific to the version?
I know I am probably missing a bunch of necessary parts, but this is what I have learned so far.

I am new to this and trying to learn. If someone can point me to the manuals for these, or good post topic to start reading, I would appreciate the help.
This retains the same information and shows that you have done some research. It asked some specific questions, and requests guidance to resources. Like you also, I wanted to build one from parts and was able to source them for under what the kit and unit I linked above cost, but it took me 2.5 years to do.

For your second post, this is not helpful for those of us volunteering our time to help. Nowhere in your first post do you mention having issues finding information, nor do you provide what you've searched for, what post topics you have found, and what details you have found. Just from your previous post that I linked above should have provided you with some of the additional items that you needed, but that were not mentioned here at all.

For your last post, if you don't know what something is, just ask for clarification. Don't complain that someone asked you to do some research like you have in the remainder of that post. Just to make sure I wasn't stating misinformation, I typed "Golden Tee CID" into google and the first batch of results had 5 from this site, 3 were for sale threads, and 2 had pictures of the CID and the I/O Board, along with some other pertinent details that could be added to your knowledge base for this project.

Lastly, the I/O board, CID and Nighthawn computer case and Interface board are custom IT Games parts and not always easy to find. The Motherboard, CPU, Ram, and Video Cards are all Off-the-shelf components (motherboards may have a IT Games Biod image for factory systems, but the motherboard is otherwise a factory one.

I wish you the best of luck on this project, and am willing to help if you have a change in how you converse with me here. I started from the same spot 10 years ago and had to do the same research with fewer resources that are available today.
 
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