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Different home Dance Revolution mats for PS

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Sensor

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I was wondering if anyone has any experience with the soft DDR pads, the "Ignition" DDR pads, and the hard pads. Also the dreamcast pad. My girlfriend, who is an avid avoider of video games in general, suddenly got the DDR bug with some game inthe arcade called "Techno Motion".

Thanks for advice,
--Ed
 
most soft pads suck.
The hard pads from Topyway suck extra hard donkey schlong.
For soft pads, the Red Octane non-slip pads are good (have non-slip coating plus extra sensors)
For hard pads, forget about playing at home -- stick with the arcade -- unless you want to spend $500+ on steel platforms 😉
 
ed! don't put anymore quarters into the arcade machines at the busch student center!!! 😛 i have ddr for dreamcast, and i also got the soft pads. they are not terribly bad. when i play, i just tape the pad to the floor, and it holds up very nicely. sure beats paying near $100 for one hard pad. btw, i got 2 soft pads from ebay for $30 shipped 🙂
 
I hear that the $300 dollar metal pads, have the look and feel of the real thing. It may require a bit of regular tuneups (wire checking, bolt tightening) from time to time but you gotta expect that kinda of stuff
 
The soft pads aren't too bad.....most of my friends just went out and bought some plywood and nailed/stapled the pads onto the boards so that they wouldn't move, and such. One of them even went so far as to drill holes on the two adjacent edges, so that you can put zip ties (or string) through, so that the pads don't move when you try double. 🙂

I want to get DDR stuff too, but I don't even have a PS to begin with.......oh well.
 
As is, I'm really looking into those metal pads for ~$150 each. You can search eB@y for "dance revolution metal" and find alot of them. $300 for two, after shipping, typically. But is it worth it?

Best I can figure, it's about $1 per 4 songs, so like $5 per hr. $10 per hr for two people. So $300 is 30 hours of dancing for two people; it also translates into 1200 songs. That's not exactly pansy, if you know what I mean. One arcade I know of only costs $.50/game, so that makes $300 = 2400 son. S***, have I even listened to that many songs in my life? How many DDR songs are there, and could I stand to listen to each of them 50-100 times before my legs are too feeble to support my own weight?

Of course, truth be told, I normally wouldn't even consider such an investment. $300 -- plus the games, the system (who owns a Playstation? Ed doesn't.) -- that's a GF4! Two and a half GF4's even! But... people as suave and well versed in the English language as myself... we have girlfriends. And girlfriends make us waste money on terrible things, so I conclude that I'm being unfair comparing "DDR pads" to "GF4". In fact, I should compare such a purchase, which will undoubtedly become an object residing in my girlfriend's living room (or closet), to things a girlfriend would want me to purchase.

Two metal pads and a PSOne = A tuxedo rental, a dozen-or-so roses, and a limo ride.

Considering the above, spending any amount of money is a great investment. After all, roses die, limos and tuxedos are returned, but making a purchase means it can be kept until it's smashed to bits by a pair of boots on a 300-lbs dancing animal (I'm not 300-lbs) (No, my girlfriend is not 300 lbs).

Soft pads are scary. Whenever I think "soft pad", I think "Nintendo Track & Field". The plastic ones are a nice-between, but it looks like a big chunk of black ugly. 😛 All in all, unless someone thinks it's a bad idea, I may invest in metal pads. It's too bad I can't seem to find any reviews about the things, but I'll be sure to mention how great they are in this thread. In fact, after sinking $300 into them, I'll probably come back and tell you how great they are even if they're cracked in four places and wind up giving me tetanus and lock-jaw.

--Ed

P.S. I don't goto "The Cove" in Busch Campus Center. Too many people point and laugh. 😛
 
Originally posted by: Sensor
I don't goto "The Cove" in Busch Campus Center. Too many people point and laugh. 😛
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thats more motivation to get ur freak on & not bust ur @ss 😉

 
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