Dragon's Lair Fans - Arcade Lifestyle
General Chat => Arcade Lifestyle => Topic started by: Wurstkopp on January 27, 2014, 03:40:10 PM
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Hi,
just wanted to share the restauration progress of my Space Encounters Cabaret. Not much progress right now, speleo is currently working on the pcb + psu. Don't know if the monitor needs love too, will investigate further when I got the pcb back. :)
Main goal is to "just" bring it back to life as the overall condition is pretty much how I like my machines. :)
Arrival:
(http://picload.org/image/lrorppp/untitled.jpg)
(http://picload.org/image/lrorpwd/2.jpg)
(http://picload.org/image/lrorpwl/3.jpg)
(http://picload.org/image/lrorpwi/4.jpg)
Cleaned:
(http://picload.org/image/lrorwgg/5.jpg)
(http://picload.org/image/lrorwgr/6.jpg)
Monitor:
(http://picload.org/image/lrorwga/7.jpg)
PSU + Soundboard:
(http://picload.org/image/lrorwgi/8.jpg)
L-shape-pcb:
(http://picload.org/image/lrorwgp/9.jpg)
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nice looking cab you have there, i really like space encounters. i have the upright cab in my collection, in fact i had two of them at one point, but the cabinet was beyond repair, so i trashed it and salvaged the parts. does the cabaret version also have those insane strobo effects that the upright has ? makes it totally unique imho. in case you have no idea what i'm talking about, check out this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B08Jb9-J7Ls)!!!
here's a picture of my game right before i picked it up. got it for cheap - 50 euros :) as you can see, the game is in great condition!
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7324/12173078853_3cc7ed28c0_b.jpg)
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Jesus, that's awesome!! Never saw one in real life, though I know about the impressive strobo effects (I read in case of a failure it can be fixed with a poloroid camera :D). People are saying it's so bright it could damage the eyes permanently. Which of course makes it only more awesome. ;D
The cabaret version does not have the porno light feature, but I think a softcore version is located in the joystick. I'm planning to tweak it a little if it's not bright enough... ;D
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That sideart is awesome!!! Black and yellow, soo simple!!! Wow
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Update! ;D
Cleaning the overlay:
(http://picload.org/image/lopridc/cimg6844.jpg)
The repaired pcbs from Speleo arrived!
(http://picload.org/image/lopriaa/cimg6846.jpg)
Building them back together:
(http://picload.org/image/loprial/cimg6848.jpg)
;D
(http://picload.org/image/lopriai/cimg6850.jpg)
Unfortunately the happyness didn't last for long, after some minutes the screen began to fuck up and then the game was stuck in reset mode. I hope it's nothing too serious. :)
(http://picload.org/image/lopriap/cimg6851.jpg)
Nonetheless the game is really awesome and Speleo did a great job so far - thank you, dude! :) :) :)
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Don't really have the time + space working on this anymore, so I decided to let it go.
If anyone's interested please drop me a line. Price is 350 Euros. :)
Location is near Bremen. I transported it with a really small VW Polo, it should fit in any car in the universe. ;D