Post by: StigmataDiaboli on September 10, 2006, 04:33:00 PM
Post by: tonloc79 on September 11, 2006, 02:31:00 PM
Thats what i found but not very helpful. Never got into the dancing games but hopefully the link can answer your question. Dance on brother!
Post by: twistedsymphony on September 12, 2006, 06:29:00 AM
Lots of people grow attached to the pads they use and prefer to just use an adapter when they change consoles... I almost guarantee that most PS2 to PC and PS2 to Xbox adapter sales are for people who want to convert their dance pads.
Particularly if you bought a nice $400 metal pad, you wont want to buy another one just because MS wants their $7 of accessory licensing.
While it's great that DDRU will come with a pad. Any serious player wont want anything to do with the crappy soft pad it most likely comes with.
Post by: Reaper527 on September 12, 2006, 09:30:00 AM
QUOTE(twistedsymphony @ Sep 12 2006, 08:36 AM) 
Lots of people grow attached to the pads they use and prefer to just use an adapter when they change consoles... I almost guarantee that most PS2 to PC and PS2 to Xbox adapter sales are for people who want to convert their dance pads.
i have personally noticed a bit of delay on the input when using the ps2 to xbox adapters. but still, i agree that they should loosen up their restrictions as i doubt there will be a licensed pad that doesn't suck. i wouldn't be surprised if the only pad available was the soft pad it comes with that will probably break within a week
on a sidenote... wireless ddr pads! that would be amazing
Post by: StigmataDiaboli on September 12, 2006, 07:03:00 PM
Post by: tonloc79 on September 12, 2006, 07:19:00 PM
QUOTE(StigmataDiaboli @ Sep 13 2006, 02:10 AM)
I was actually rather satisfied with my softpad that came bundled with my DDR for PS2. I also consider myself a serious player (can do 90% of the songs on Heavy.) As far as quality goes, i've found with softpads, just don't fold them. Always just store them flat and they work for a long time. I really hope the pad that comes with the 360 version is wireless and functions well though. And thanks for the help tonloc, never thought to search EB.
No problem, i use them for all my dates. They are usualy spot on. Just remember that the date they show is a ship date. We can get our hands on the games the next day.
Post by: twistedsymphony on September 13, 2006, 08:04:00 AM
The arcade is the best because you can use rubber shoes for good grip and stability, the buttons have awesome feedback with the pressure sensors they use, obviously no problems with bunching up or sliding and the buttons are recessed so you know where you are on the pad without looking.
Back in the DC days I ductaped 2 pads side by side to a giant piece of plywood and it was pretty damn good. I recently bought a set of "thick" pads for my Xbox and they're probably the best pads you can get get at a reasonable price.
They're like the thin pads but they have a few mm thick piece of plastic under each one of the buttons and they zip open so you can insert a 1" thick piece of foam, they also include little felt/rubber feet that grip to the floor or carpet and keep it from sliding about. I don't have nearly any of t he problems I did with the thin pads, I can tell where my feet are it sometimes moves slightly but not nearly enough to bother me, it never bunches up and I don't have to worry about the plastic sticking to my feet.
The arcade is better by a long shot but the $35 shipped I paid for these two pads was money well spent, especially considering you'd probably get and experience only slightly better with an expensive metal pad... and still not as good as the arcade.
The problem is... I wont be able to use these pads on the Xbox 360, and there's a really good possibility there wont ever be similar ones made for the 360.
It might prompt me to make my own arcade replica pads. I'd considered on many occasions to ask my former boss (who owns the arcade I used to work at) to let me take apart a real DDR machine one night and create completely schematics for the real pads so I could reverse engineer them. The real pressure sensors can be purchased for about $80 per pad, you can buy the real acrylic buttons too, the frame is wood, with a metal surrounding (which you could make with a sheet metal bender), and you would probably want to steal the electronics out of a consumer grade pad (so it registers on the console as a pad rather then a controller)... I think you could build an exact replica for about $300
Post by: paranoia4422 on September 14, 2006, 02:37:00 PM
I never ever ever ever ever had another problem with the mat slipping, infact I probably did this because a bunch of people at DDRamerica(? I dunno) had done it