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FINNALLY it is here! hehe alright ive been playing with it for a while and ive noticed that it is EXTEMELY QUIET for a metal pad... im impressed with how it is setup... like the looks of it and such...
one thing that dissapointed me was that when i pulled the converter box out of the container the cords were hanging out of it... (like the thin cords you normally arent saposed to see) but i just pushed the thing back in and its all good now... but that was just like "whoa... thats odd" when i saw that...
and ive been playin with it for the past 2 hours... and already there are stress points in the buttons... is that normal or is that a sign of the pad calling me fat?.. (i weigh 180 lbs)
one thing that dissapointed me was that when i pulled the converter box out of the container the cords were hanging out of it... (like the thin cords you normally arent saposed to see) but i just pushed the thing back in and its all good now... but that was just like "whoa... thats odd" when i saw that...
and ive been playin with it for the past 2 hours... and already there are stress points in the buttons... is that normal or is that a sign of the pad calling me fat?.. (i weigh 180 lbs)
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umm does this happen often? where the pads start getting stress points RIGHT AWAY?... i was wondering becasue the pad is still under warrenteeletshavetea wrote:and ive been playin with it for the past 2 hours... and already there are stress points in the buttons... is that normal or is that a sign of the pad calling me fat?.. (i weigh 180 lbs)
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Yea the pad is great, it is a HUGE change from a $15 soft pad in more than one way.
With a soft pad you have the main square that noobs don't dare to step off of with both feet (it says "Stay Cool" on it) and the sensors in a soft pad tend to crawl into that square... like you barely have to move your feet to hit the sensor. With the RedOctane pad you have to hit the center of the button for it to always regester. So that is an odd change for me.
I love the soft foamy stuff on the bottom so that if you want to move it around you can just drag it and you dont have to lift it up. Im comparing this to my old MyMyBox pads I have (currently unoperative) where it had many small feet on the bottom of the pad that if i tried to drag the pad across my floor the feet would stick to the ground and it wouldn't move easily. The pad doesn't slide much though on carpet, I haven't tried it on tile or hardwood floors yet though.
The pad itself if constructed very sturdy, all except for that 1" edge at the foot of the pad (near the down arrow). That little area has a frame around it and it seems like it just has a piece of metal set inside that frame, it doesnt have any supports to it in the middle of the pad so that if you step on that part wrong it will bend inward (i pushed on it alittle and it started to bend in and it didnt come back out all the way)
If you wish to play Solo mode (6 pannels) the corner buttons are a little harder to hit than the normal pannels. So you have to keep that in mind when you play. I don't stomp on my buttons at all and I try to barely push them at all when I play but I guess I didn't push the "B" and "A" buttons hard enough . But you have to understand, I BARELY push the buttons. The "B" and "A" buttons aren't hard to push for any normal player.
I love the little red splitter box that allows you to play on Xbox or PS2 because I play DDR on both consoles and so that box helped a lot with this
Overall I'd give the pad 9.5/10 because of how responsive the buttons are, how it doesn't slide, and the duel box thing.
The .5 is missing because of the 2 1/2 months it took to get to me. It took that long because they lost my order and we had to re-order it.
With a soft pad you have the main square that noobs don't dare to step off of with both feet (it says "Stay Cool" on it) and the sensors in a soft pad tend to crawl into that square... like you barely have to move your feet to hit the sensor. With the RedOctane pad you have to hit the center of the button for it to always regester. So that is an odd change for me.
I love the soft foamy stuff on the bottom so that if you want to move it around you can just drag it and you dont have to lift it up. Im comparing this to my old MyMyBox pads I have (currently unoperative) where it had many small feet on the bottom of the pad that if i tried to drag the pad across my floor the feet would stick to the ground and it wouldn't move easily. The pad doesn't slide much though on carpet, I haven't tried it on tile or hardwood floors yet though.
The pad itself if constructed very sturdy, all except for that 1" edge at the foot of the pad (near the down arrow). That little area has a frame around it and it seems like it just has a piece of metal set inside that frame, it doesnt have any supports to it in the middle of the pad so that if you step on that part wrong it will bend inward (i pushed on it alittle and it started to bend in and it didnt come back out all the way)
If you wish to play Solo mode (6 pannels) the corner buttons are a little harder to hit than the normal pannels. So you have to keep that in mind when you play. I don't stomp on my buttons at all and I try to barely push them at all when I play but I guess I didn't push the "B" and "A" buttons hard enough . But you have to understand, I BARELY push the buttons. The "B" and "A" buttons aren't hard to push for any normal player.
I love the little red splitter box that allows you to play on Xbox or PS2 because I play DDR on both consoles and so that box helped a lot with this
Overall I'd give the pad 9.5/10 because of how responsive the buttons are, how it doesn't slide, and the duel box thing.
The .5 is missing because of the 2 1/2 months it took to get to me. It took that long because they lost my order and we had to re-order it.
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Didn't you say it already started to show wear on the arrows? Do you know if there is anything you can do to make it more sensitive? ie: Make it to where you don't have to step in the middle of the arrow every time?
I weigh somewhere around 170 or so, I think..its been a while since I checked..I also tend to play hard, not really stomp but I play a bit harder than normal. I dunno what I'm going to go with.
I weigh somewhere around 170 or so, I think..its been a while since I checked..I also tend to play hard, not really stomp but I play a bit harder than normal. I dunno what I'm going to go with.
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I dont know but if the panels end up getting worse you could try to go and buy some lexan like they use for CF pads and cut it to fit. That might not work but it could be worth a try. I dont know how much lexan costs so that may not be a good idea after all.
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ddr uhh i dunno is my step brother... and he just likes to troll the forums trying to piss me off... when both my pads broke.. he was the one playing on them at the time....PrototypePacifist wrote:Do you even know what you're talking about?DDR uhh idunno wrote:so u ordered another one don't break this one like u broke ur other 2 then tried to "fix" them
hascoolnickname--Is Lexan the same thing as Lucite? I can get that at Lowe's down the road for (not very, but somewhat) cheap.