Mike Jones, on 10 Aug 2017 - 10:16 PM, said:
The conversion process is pretty easy in fact I'm hoping that most of it can be automated. When doing tests and updating older courses, the lighting has changed so textures need to be recoloured and if you want to use 3d grass on your meshes (who wouldn't!) you have to assign one of the turf effects grass objects to the relevant layer in the layer's library. That's about it.
This is great news. My main concern in my initial post was recovering the current user designed courses. My other concern, which I trust the developers are handling is the missing components, i.e. career mode and stats primarily. I, and I believe many here, have absolutely no problem paying for a new game. (Of course, I need to update to Windows 10 first. Ya, I know is was a DS for missing the freebie. )