DDR Pads

Treeloot

My sister got a DDR game with pad for Christmas, and the pad broke in 5 hours. We took it back to the store and got a refund. What are some decent Dance Dance Revolution soft pads that won't break the bank?

Nibble

For which console?

Treeloot

Playstation 2.

cj iwakura

Find a Red Octane Ignition, should be around $50 or so. It's a 'soft' pad with a foam insert. It's not 'arcade perfect', per se, but 10s and 11s can be played on it, which is good enough for me.

Anything less than that is just going to be more worthless junk like what Konami uses with their bundles.

ViolentChemistry

cj iwakura wrote: »

Find a Red Octane Ignition, should be around $50 or so. It's a 'soft' pad with a foam insert. It's not 'arcade perfect', per se, but 10s and 11s can be played on it, which is good enough for me.

Anything less than that is just going to be more worthless junk like what Konami uses with their bundles.

I don't play DDR but I'm good at figuring out how to break things and of all the DDR pads I've seen in normal stores that's the one that would be most difficult.

DeathPrawn

The Ignitions are a quality choice, but I actually prefer buying a cheapo pad like the one you broke and duct taping it to a big 'ol piece of wood.

ViolentChemistry

DeathPrawn wrote: »

The Ignitions are a quality choice, but I actually prefer buying a cheapo pad like the one you broke and duct taping it to a big 'ol piece of wood.

Or duct-tape the Ignition to a big piece of wood.

cj iwakura

For all the time and effort that takes(especially in actually getting a right sized piece of wood, which I considered once), you'd be better off just getting a metal one.

And even duct taped, Konami pads are still crap. There's no substance; it's like running on a two inch piece of plastic.

Infidel

There was a returned metal pad at the store locally once, was like half the original price and was really tempting. No shipping to worry about, and I could see for myself exactly the condition.

Too bad I was broke.

Ignition pads are good stuff. Anyone have recommendations for metal pads? The ones we ordered for a LAN years back were meh, I don't remember what brand they were either.

ViolentChemistry

Are they larger than 4' x 4'?

cj iwakura

The Cobalt Flux is probably the metal pad, but that's getting into three digit pricing, so that's out of my league.



They're beautiful, but I don't think it's worth the extra cash. I can usually do just about as good score-wise on a Fusion(not that it really matters to me anyway).

VThornheart

cj iwakura wrote: »

The Cobalt Flux is probably the metal pad, but that's getting into three digit pricing, so that's out of my league.



They're beautiful, but I don't think it's worth the extra cash. I can usually do just about as good score-wise on a Fusion(not that it really matters to me anyway).

If it helps, my friends cut apart one of the cheap ones that comes in a bundle, and used its wiring and contact pads to create a hard pad for probably ~20 bucks (the cost of putting together a wood and metal base, and cutting some plexiglass for the panels). Unfortunately, you have to be at least modestly skilled in carpentry and routing wires properly in order to be able to do this. But if you are, you'll save potentially hundreds of dollars off of those mass distribution metal pads.