Nintendo Space Firebird to Space Demon Table Project

I had a few pics saved of this cabinet as well. 🕹️ Apparently an orange and a mustard yellow one. Can't recall exactly what the Japanese collector said, but remember that he was very excited as the serial tag proved Nintendo made a dedicated Dagashiya (candy shop) cabinet for the Japanese market.
 

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I can't quite make out the serial tag, but there's also the chance that the guts from a cocktail were switched over? Including the tag? Super duper obscure corner of Nintendo-dom though so we're unlikely to ever fully know. 🤷 If I remember correctly the DK cabarets were TKG3-SUP so the UP or SUP on the tag suggests it did not come from a cocktail.
 
And mentioned on previous page so including these control panel pics I saved from an auction a while back. 🕹️
 

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Ah! Found pics of a converted cabaret I picked up years ago. SUP serial number and of interest is that the U.S. market cabarets have the same shape speaker cut-out as the Japanese Dagashiya cabinet.
 

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I had a few pics saved of this cabinet as well. 🕹️ Apparently an orange and a mustard yellow one. Can't recall exactly what the Japanese collector said, but remember that he was very excited as the serial tag proved Nintendo made a dedicated Dagashiya (candy shop) cabinet for the Japanese market.
I've never seen that tag before. Looks like it is UP-TDL-1367. That is REALLY interesting because that implies Space Launcher, which had it's own upright (that upright is rarer than hen's teeth). I'm fairly certain those were generic converta-cabs. Lots of companies were making those back then. @Dillweed can probably ID them. I would guess that the guts were transferred over to it.

Regarding these machines. I didn't make any progress tonite. I have a goal for the weekend to try to get all the parts I need ready for sendcutsend so that I can move forward.
 
I had a few pics saved of this cabinet as well. 🕹️ Apparently an orange and a mustard yellow one. Can't recall exactly what the Japanese collector said, but remember that he was very excited as the serial tag proved Nintendo made a dedicated Dagashiya (candy shop) cabinet for the Japanese market.

The cabarets belong to Tadashi Hijiya, founder of the All-Japan Cocktail owners fan club. He picked up the deeper orange colored cabinet much later and doesn't seem to know what was in there before it was converted. The control panel has been replaced and contains a generic black and white CPO that's on there is one of the most common and generic CPOs you can get for Japanese cocktails. Actually the white on that CPO is just exposed aluminum.

but there's also the chance that the guts from a cocktail were switched over? Including the tag? Super duper obscure corner of Nintendo-dom though so we're unlikely to ever fully know.

I strongly doubt it. I've done quite a bit of research on the japanese dagashiya/woody cabs and that design is pretty unique to Nintendo. There was a dedicated japanese Rally-X cabaret that looked similar to that yellow cabinet in the picture you posted. I consider my research into these cabinets to mostly be a failure. The best i could do is scour some of the Japanese trade magazines for pictures. Getting reliable information from those magazines requires an understanding of the Japanese language that i simply do not have.
 
For reference, this is the Space Demon Cabaret that SRW sold years ago


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Wow!!! 😯💡
Great find @DonPanetta !!! 🙌
Thanks so much for the clarity on these!
I went down that rabbit hole a while back and ended up even more confused than where I started. 😅 So awesome to have period documentation of them!!!

Gah this really deserves its own thread!
Sorry we derailed the restoration but it's good stuff to come out.

@SNESNESCUBE64 Very interesting about Space Launcher! There's a chance that tag is mixed up with something in my saved photos, so I'm not 100% sure it came from the Dagashiya cabinet now that I think about it. It looks like it in the photo, but it's been a while and now I'm second-guessing myself. I should have better documented my research trying to piece things together.

Does Space Launcher use a similar board architecture to anything? Space Fever-based maybe?

Dang this is great stuff! 👏
 
And just popping a translated version of the flyer into the mix. Interesting to see the models available! Assuming Cutie Q is a bad translation. 🤷

Edit- Apparently Cutie Q was a 1979 Namco game. Perhaps it was a deal similar to those odd licensed Nintendo Galaxian cocktails. 🤔
 

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And as mentioned above, one of the apparently licensed Nintendo Galaxian cocktails just in case it helps with Nintendo research.
 

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Does Space Launcher use a similar board architecture to anything? Space Fever-based maybe?
Same boardset as Space Fever. My color space fever has it on the Ninty8080 multi kit. It's my favorite game on the hardware.

I'd love to source one of those Nintendo Galaxian. They were doing all sorts of "licensing" back in the day. For example, Head On N was just a licensed Head On fron Gremlin.
 
Ah! I bookmarked the link for that Dagashiya cabinet ! I'm guessing this is Tadashi Hijiya's website then? (Edit- good call @SNESNESCUBE64 ! It was a Space Launcher.)

I *think* I saved a link somewhere for a bunch of scanned back issues of those magazines a Japanese group put online but can't find it at the moment. 🤦

Y'all may have already seen these, but here is a great link about the history of Nintendo displays at the Amusement Machine Show in Tokyo.

Nintendo's unreleased Space-X was shown at one of them! This really deserves a separate topic!

Lots of great flyer scans in there as well!
 
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Me too! Fascinating that Nintendo was experimenting with 3D rendering and demonstrating it to the public. Challenges the narrative that they were just cloning games back then. They were innovating too.
 
Good news on the space demon front. I now have sound working! There were two problems:
- I was missing all sound: pushing on the volume pot made it crackle. Someone replaced it in the past, so I was suspect of the work. After replacing it, I got all of my analog sound and the doorbell music back.
- No digital sounds: pushing on the sockets sometimes made the speakers go apeshit. Pushing down on the rom socket also made the "growl" sound happen occasionally. Replacing the sockets got me back my digital sounds.

I want to do a progress video on this. Stay tuned.
 
I didn't make much progress today. I did however just about finish the replacement neck protector for the monitor in this machine. Unfortunately the one in the machine is missing, so I will have to have it made.
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