Upgrading Golden Tee Fore Games

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I'm totally blanking on this, and I searched and couldn't find it either... I know you need more than just a new HD to upgrade a Golden Tee Fore from game to game. Is it a hard drive and the Boot rom and thats it?
 
Oh yeah, its coming back to me. A PIC chip and something tied to a serial number on the board. I'm back to finding an HD/image of 2004 Extra!
 
You personaly cant upgrade a Gt Fore from Year to newer Year, you can upgrade to the "Extra" version with just a harddrive change.
 
I may be wrong, and Topless works with a lot of security chips so he may know, but that's not entirely accurate.

As I understand it, the only way to get the extra two courses is if your 2004 or 2005 was upgraded back in the day with them. not all of them were.

There are two versions of the hard drive, one has the extra two courses, one doesn't. If you plug the 7 course version (which is what everybody copies) into a board that wasn't upgraded to Extra, you'll only get the 5 courses. If your board was upgraded, it'll let you play the 7 courses.

The history of the updates were 2004 came out, then 6 months later 'extra' came out, which was 200 bucks and added two courses to a machine. My boss bought it for almost all the machines, so most of them got it. Then the 2005 update came out. It kept the extra two courses if you had them installed on your 2004 board, but if you didn't, it just added 5 new courses. I'm not sure if you could still get the extra setup for a 2005 board if it hadn't been updated after 2004. It did something to the board, though, that let it play the extra courses.... just like when you updated the yearly stuff. So if you didn't do that back in the day the hard drive swap won't unlock them.
 
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I may be wrong, and Topless works with a lot of security chips so he may know, but that's not entirely accurate.

As I understand it, the only way to get the extra two courses is if your 2004 or 2005 was upgraded back in the day with them. not all of them were.

There are two versions of the hard drive, one has the extra two courses, one doesn't. If you plug the 7 course version (which is what everybody copies) into a board that wasn't upgraded to Extra, you'll only get the 5 courses. If your board was upgraded, it'll let you play the 7 courses.

This is my experience as well. I had an Extra hard drive for 2005 and did not get the 2 additional courses since my board was never officially upgraded.
 
Let my explain my situation, and I will see what you guys say.

I have a Golden Tee Fore! 2004 Extra. My hard drive crapped out on me and I hadn't gotten the chance to create a CHD of it yet. I am now trying to get it revived. I could get a HD off eBay for 2004, and it would work? It just may or may not have the 2 extra courses, depending on where they got their image from?
 
Yes, just buy a 2004 hard drive. The guys on ebay always send the extra version... because it works in either game (2004, or 2004 extra). ArcadeServices1 is the best guy to get it from.
 
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