Space Encounters Cabaret-Restauration

[Wurstkopp]

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:






Cleaned:



Monitor:


PSU + Soundboard:


L-shape-pcb:

[Superully]

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!!!

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!

[Wurstkopp]

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 ). People are saying it's so bright it could damage the eyes permanently. Which of course makes it only more awesome.

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...

[Muerto]

That sideart is awesome!!! Black and yellow, soo simple!!! Wow

[Wurstkopp]

Update!

Cleaning the overlay:


The repaired pcbs from Speleo arrived!


Building them back together:


 


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.


Nonetheless the game is really awesome and Speleo did a great job so far - thank you, dude!

[Wurstkopp]

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.