Ben initially created this program many years ago for Links 2003. I've used GSVT throughout this time. The program has allowed my continued enjoyment of golf sims in areas which otherwise would not have been as much fun any longer.
I recently contacted Ben to simply say thanks, having no idea after all this time if the email would even get through to him. Not only did he reply, but after a little discussion, he immediately began work on the program again to improve GSVT. He's been brilliant and prompt throughout this process making GSVT a fantastic program that is now even better than it's earlier version.
What is GSVT?
GSVT allows you to play 4 round virtual tournaments against AI scoring.
As the program is external to a golf game, it means it can be used with any golf game on the market. For golf games that have no season or tournament modes, you can now use GSVT and play tournaments using these games. GSVT can of course be used with golf games that already have tournament modes if you don't like the game's built-in tournament mode.
The way GSVT works, you enter your score at the end of every round and GSVT then calculates your position against the AI field. GSVT is incredibly versatile for setting the AI scoring/degree of competition. You can customize GSVT so regardless of how easy or tough a course, how easy or tough the course conditions, the AI scores will always provide you great competition. You can customise the AI to make the AI scores highly competitive or alternatively, easy to win. The level of competition and challenge is totally up to you.
GSVT Features:
- GSVT uses a 128 player field. One human player and 127 AI players.
The AI names can be renamed to whatever names you wish to use.
- You can set the individual AI player probability of how well they will score. This means you can make it more likely the better players will perform consistently well and the lesser players will not perform well.
- Scoring Difficulty can be set on a round by round basis. This feature gives you overall control of the AI scores. You can make the AI scores lower for easier courses/course conditions where you may typically shoot low scores or you can make the AI scores higher for harder courses/course conditions where you may typically shoot high scores.
Regardless if you have situations where you may typically shoot over the course par or situations where you may shoot 10 or greater under par, you can set GSVT to give you intense AI competition in either situation.
- Tournaments can be saved after each round.
- End of tournament results can be saved to a text file.
Here is an example of how I found GSVT very useful with a game that already has a tournament mode, Links LS 2000.
For myself, I love Links LS 2000 and it's my fav golf game. I use a combination of the in-game tournament mode and GSVT for LS 2000.
A couple of the LS 2000 courses are an easy tournament win for me even if the in-game tournament AI are set to the highest difficulty. For these courses, I use GSVT over the in-game tournament mode. Using GSVT, there is no such thing as an easy win on these courses. There is no lack of interest or loss of fun playing these particular courses because they are easy wins in LS 2000 using the in-game AI. With GSVT, I can create very tough AI competition on these courses making the courses as enjoyable as all the other courses in my season.
GSVT will be packaged with every golf game uploaded to this site.
I would like to thank Ben for the awesome work he has done and for allowing the program to be shared. Ben has created an incredible little program for the golf sim community.
Download:
Golf Sim Virtual Tournament (GSVT)
