DDR for the 360

Dread Pirate Arbuthnot

I used to play DDR a lot, like nigh constantly, and it was an amazing workout. I'd really like to get back to playing it. I have a 360. The catch is, I see a lot of DDR games with 'current songs' on the playlist. I do not want to Dance to Hot in Herre or that stupid heaven song.

Are there any 360 games with a DDR sound track that has something like the arcade? Songs like Witch Doctor, Waka Laka, A, and so on and so forth?

Also, without buying a metal pad, how do I stop the dance mat from slipping while I play?

Ganluan

Regarding the pad - I've heard Red Octane ones are much better about not slipping around, as they're thicker than the "stock" pads. Are you playing on a hard floor or carpet?

Dread Pirate Arbuthnot

Ganluan wrote: »

Regarding the pad - I've heard Red Octane ones are much better about not slipping around, as they're thicker than the "stock" pads. Are you playing on a hard floor or carpet?

This would be on a hard wood floor, but I also have a little rug I can throw down if that's easier.

I'm probably going to be using the out-of-the-box mat while I save up for a metal pad. I won't be able to get one for a couple of months.

Richard M. Nixon

IKEA has some non-slip carpet underlay things which would probably work pretty well. DDRU is not horrible in terms of songs but I never played it in the arcade so I can't really comment too much.

Ganluan

Dread Pirate Arbuthnot wrote: »

Ganluan wrote: »

Regarding the pad - I've heard Red Octane ones are much better about not slipping around, as they're thicker than the "stock" pads. Are you playing on a hard floor or carpet?

This would be on a hard wood floor, but I also have a little rug I can throw down if that's easier.

I'm probably going to be using the out-of-the-box mat while I save up for a metal pad. I won't be able to get one for a couple of months.

Something we used to do was throw down some heavy tape on the edges of the pad - it did a pretty good job. This was on tile though... you don't want to screw up the finish if you're on a hardwood floor or something :P

The problem I always encountered when looking at a metal pad was "where the hell do I put it when I'm not using it?"

proXimity

I know a lot of people with the thin soft mats will actually staple them to a piece of plywood to give them that more solid feel.

Snackbar

Basically, anything you can do to reduce the amount of slippage on the top and bottom of the pad is going to be beneficial. This is referring to slippage between your foot and the top of the pad, the inside of the pad and the internals (read: button contacts), and the bottom of the pad and floor.

One of the biggest problems with soft pads is that when you start getting better at the game, you have to step faster and, generally as a result, harder. This stretches the top part of the mat around and will break off the contacts to the buttons. It kills your arrows, yo.

If you can staple the pad to a sheet of wood or something similar, then cover the whole assembly in some kind of thick-ish plastic, it should make the pad fairly sturdy. Also, there is that plastic sheeting they will put under office chairs in carpeted rooms. You can throw some of that on the bottom of the pad to prevent slipping on carpet. If you're on hardwood/linoleum/tile, then you may need to look into some type of rubber feet for the pad.

The board will make it feel more solid, the additional plastic layer on top will prevent the mat from being stretched by more experienced stepping, and the pads/cleat-plastic will prevent the pad from sliding on the floor.

PS: You may want to actually just put thicker plastic layers on the pad itself, then staple the pad+extra plastic to a board. I can't really remember how we used to do it. You should be able to figure something out, though.

DeathPrawn

In my experience, the best cheapest way to do it is to buy a cheap-o plastic pad and tape it to a large piece of plywood. Some other plastic covering on top is optional, as is some sort of no-skid surface on the bottom of the wood.

If you're looking to make a serious investment, building a metal pad will cost you significantly less than an equivalent commercial metal pad (~$150 instead of ~$300 for a Cobalt Flux). It's very straight-forward, even if you have no previous metal-working or soldering experience, and there are tons of detailed plans on the web. I'm the kind of guy who can't even draw a straight line, let alone cut a straight line in plastic, and mine turned out great.

Dread Pirate Arbuthnot

Ok, after a little googling, this really jogged my memory.



I'm pretty sure that's the DDR game I used to play.

Was there any straight playlist rips onto a console version?

Bartholamue

The Japanese version of Extreme was the closest you got with 118 songs. It is arguably the best version to come out on home consoles (It has every boss song, every Paranoia mix circa 2003, and every Trip Machine circa 2003).

The Universe series is a new collaboration from Konami Hawaii, and it has a lot of new stuff not found in any Arcade version. Sure, there's a fair bit of licenses, but it steers away from the later PS2 versions in which they play the 70 song a version game (more than half of which is licences). If you want the arcade songs, buy the Japanese versions.

I actually like the Universe games a lot, but they are plagued with frame rate issues when you have movies on. To the player who doesn't play it that often, it's really not a big deal, and it won't have an effect on play, but I just wanted to point that out.

Madpanda

I think the answer is, for xbox/xbox360 you are out of luck. As mentioned all the arcade ports were on the PS2. You can try checking out ddrfreak.com they might have a better idea of what you can do for the xbox 360.

After some digging around the closest you might be able to get is an oXbox with -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_Dance_Revolution_Ultramix

This is not on the backwards compat list.