Golden Tee Fore 2005 adding additional courses

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Is it possible to add courses to a GT Fore 2005? The machine I'm looking at has only the 7 courses it comes with. If possible how difficult is it to do and what approximate cost should I expect to get the parts? What about an upgrade to GT Fore Complete?

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Enjoy what you have, do the upgrade in a few years and it will be a hell of a lot cheaper.
 
im still waiting for it to come out on mame. blah its only been 6 years and boards are still 400 dollars. i want one but not at that price.
 
You may be waiting a while. Doesn't the newer Golden Tee stuff run on PC hardware or something close (I seem to remember the Fore boot sequence looking just like a PC)? You would need a hell of a lot of x86 hardware to emulate recent x86 hardware.

im still waiting for it to come out on mame. blah its only been 6 years and boards are still 400 dollars. i want one but not at that price.
 
All of the Jamma games that use their own Video card are really hard for Mame to emulate. From what I've heard even stuff from the 90's like Gauntlet Legends and Blitz is almost impossible to run at the right speed on Mame.
 
You may be waiting a while. Doesn't the newer Golden Tee stuff run on PC hardware or something close (I seem to remember the Fore boot sequence looking just like a PC)? You would need a hell of a lot of x86 hardware to emulate recent x86 hardware.

Fore wasn't cp based, that wasn't until Live! That it became pc (nighthawk system). Though the PC based games on MAME shouldn't be as hard as you think. You don't emulate x86 on top of x86, you virtualize it and only emulate the required pieces such as a specific video card. Far easier to run the x86 stuff compared to late model ARM based games.


All of the Jamma games that use their own Video card are really hard for Mame to emulate. From what I've heard even stuff from the 90's like Gauntlet Legends and Blitz is almost impossible to run at the right speed on Mame.

This is accurate, you basically have to build a $2000 computer to run these games a t full speed, though 64 bit has helped out a lot.
 
yea from what i have read they already have the chips decapped and whatnot and we obiously have the chd read for it whenever. but yea its the live version that is a computer. the fore series still uses a big jamma board. course you never ask for games as thats a big time no no over there. but i can wish.
 
You might have better luck selling the entire 2005 game cabinet and all and finding a 2006 cabinet as it had all of the fore couses. I want to say the 2006 doesn't go for much more.
 
Thanks for the help and the interesting mame side discussion. I think I will look for a Fore complete since that's what I really want anyway.
 
Isn't he just taking about the 4 additional courses from live! ? If so wouldn't that just be a hard drive update or swap?
 
You can add additional courses to 2005. It's called EXTRA! I had that on my 2005 before I upgraded to Complete. However, I think the security key on the PCB or whatever it is has to have the EXTRA courses unlocked. You just can't add a hard drive. So, yeah, unless you can find a way to unlock the extra 2005 courses you'll need to upgrade to Complete which gives you 29 courses. It does rock!
 
You can't add extra courses to a 2005 if they haven't already been added on there, and he already said he has 7 courses, which means he already has the 2005 Extra board set.
 
Isn't he just taking about the 4 additional courses from live! ? If so wouldn't that just be a hard drive update or swap?

No, the Live! series is completely different and runs off of a computer. If you mean the courses you could play online on the Fore! series, they're all on the complete pcb.
 
IF it has 7 courses, it is already the XTRA. Regular 05 only had 5 courses.

Unfortunately nobody has cracked the gamecode yet as to make a bootleg upgrade kit.

There are NOS conversion kits out there.. but the problem is that it requires you to phone up to it via the phone line, but it does not support the complete anymore, so, even with an original kit its no god unless you can figure out how to fake that phone call.

IIn reality you would need to figure out what board is in there(green or red) and get the corresponding complete board and drive. It makes a difference because the red board uses an atx type supply and 30 some pin power connector, the green uses a regular type supply and gets power through the jamma edge connector.

Theres a couple sellers on ebay and last time i shopped it was around the $350 range for the cheapest.
 
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