Converting Microsoft 1999 crs. courses to crx.?

[calvinb1117]

Hey guys I just got back into the golf game after about a 12 yr layoff. I have a gateway pc with vista. I bought a stash of stuff off ebay from someone selling all they had. It included 2003, LS 1998, LS 1999, LS classic, LS 2000, Links 5 courses library Vol. 1 thru 4, and course disks for phoenix, valderrama, and congressional. I have everything up and running with all the courses. my question is I already had Microsoft 1999 and love those 7 courses there. But I do not know how to convert them from crs. to crx. Thanks

[Redskin]

Welcome back to Links --
This link might be what you need to convert those old courses to use with Links2003.
Jim

http://www.linkscountryclub.com/links-course-converter

[calvinb1117]

I have that converter, it only works if it already is a crx. file.

[BruceWallace]

I have that converter, it only works if it already is a crx. file.

You might have to load Links 2000 to convert them. I can't remember, though.

[AlanBernardo]

These courses released with MS Golf 1999, I do not believe I've ever seen them anywhere else, in any other version beyond the 1999 one.

This-- if it is true, which I believe it is-- would mean that the courses cannot be converted. If they were able to be converted, you would have seen them in later versions of Links and even in Links 2003.

I know for a fact that a course needs to be in crx form in order for it to be converted to crz. You cannot jump from crs to crz using the converter. The only way to maybe go from crs to crx is to try using Links 99, but I don't think that will work, simply because I don't believe I've seen these MS Golf 1999 courses anywhere (though I'm not positive that I haven't seen them). And anyhow, if courses are converted once, I do not believe they can be converted again upwards.

Also, whether you have administrative privileges has nothing to do with all this, just in case someone offers that up as a solution.


Alan

[calvinb1117]

I think you are correct. I 've done a ton of reading up on everything the last 2 weeks and can't find these 7 courses included in anything. I guess the bright spot is that I have all but 3 of the courses that came out. Thanks for the help.

[gibby]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/263048

Lists all of MS courses

[Mississippi]

Bruce gave you the info you are looking for, the older courses were crh, and need to be converted to crs before converting to crz. Links 2000 disk has the crh to crs converter.

[AlanBernardo]

Bruce gave you the info you are looking for, the older courses were crh, and need to be converted to crs before converting to crz. Links 2000 disk has the crh to crs converter.

First, I do not believe you can convert courses more than once. Once you convert to crs, you're done. And there is no convertor that goes from crh to crz.

Second, and in support of the first, you don't see any of the courses released for MS Golf 1999 anywhere, which only means these courses have never been converted and cannot be used in successive Links' games.

Take a look at the list of courses on MS 1999. Some of these include Bay Harbor, Eagle Heights, Memorial in Harbor Springs, and the Medalist. I have never seen these courses anywhere (unless maybe someone using APCD created them from scratch).

These courses from MS 1999 just aren't available for play in Links 2003 and cannot be converted. And if you look at the master course list from the link above, you'll see no mention of Microsoft Golf 1999. Links LS 1999 edition is not the same game as Microsoft Golf 1999.


Alan

[Mississippi]

First, I do not believe you can convert courses more than once. Once you convert to crs, you're done. And there is no convertor that goes from crh to crz.

Second, and in support of the first, you don't see any of the courses released for MS Golf 1999 anywhere, which only means these courses have never been converted and cannot be used in successive Links' games.

Take a look at the list of courses on MS 1999. Some of these include Bay Harbor, Eagle Heights, Memorial in Harbor Springs, and the Medalist. I have never seen these courses anywhere (unless maybe someone using APCD created them from scratch).

These courses from MS 1999 just aren't available for play in Links 2003 and cannot be converted. And if you look at the master course list from the link above, you'll see no mention of Microsoft Golf 1999. Links LS 1999 edition is not the same game as Microsoft Golf 1999.


Alan

Alan you are both right and wrong, my apologies for not reading the OP's post close enough. You are correct that MS 1999 courses can't be converted because it is a different golf game than the LS series. LS series courses can be converted more than once and the older crh ones must be converted twice to use in links 2k3. The following link shows how to convert the oldest LS386 courses to use with links 2k3

http://linkscorner.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2804

[BruceWallace]

Alan is definitely right about there being an Access Software LS 99 and a Microsoft Golf 99, which are 2 different games. He is also right saying that the Microsoft Golf 99 courses cannot be converted for play in any version of Links.

I misread the OPs first post, which stated that he had some MS courses that he wanted converted to Links.

The earlier course versions, from the Access software, do have to be converted twice to get them to work with Links 2001 and Links 2003 as Mississippi stated.