Has anyone tried a Blue Shark?

letshavetea · Post by **letshavetea** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 8:27 am

I've been looking into new pads and... I must admit the blue shark has caught my eye. I've been looking for a good DDR pad for a while now, and this one seems like a winner... does anyone have any experience with one of these, or know anything good/bad about them?

BigBadOrc · Post by **BigBadOrc** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 11:29 am

hit the search button and type blueshark

you should have a party once u get one

Amp Divorax · Post by **Amp Divorax** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 2:42 pm

The only two things that you need to worry about with a Blueshark is that you get one that ships working cause the support team for the company sucks and that the bar is not all that strong.

Aside from those two it's just like the arcade.

danc1005 · Post by **danc1005** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 4:45 pm

Amp Divorax wrote:support team sucks
the bar is not all that strong.

Pun intended?

letshavetea · Post by **letshavetea** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 5:03 pm

BigBadOrc wrote:you should have a party once u get one

Haha I was kinda sorta plannin on it.... want to drive to Florida?

I'm planning on just setting up a permanent DDR "station" in my house so that I don't have the excuse of "well I don't want to hook it up" crap... plus with a 85 lb pad I don't really think I'll be moving it much. I bought another Xbox today (Not 360) to use with this pad. (I got the Xbox for $15...)

Now that Stepmania 4 is on Xbox and it runs great... I'm set. Only problem is the lack of space on the hard drive... I'll only be able to have like 6.8 GB of stepmania

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Which reminds me... does anyone know of a good PS2 -> xbox adapter?

chocobojoe · Post by **chocobojoe** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 5:39 pm

whereabouts in Florida do you live, by the way?

letshavetea · Post by **letshavetea** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 7:21 pm

Winter Park (basically Orlando)

It's kinda funny really. There's an arcade 3 miles away from my apartment... but.. I haven't gone. I went to the arcade in Daytona Beach... but.. that was because it looked epic.

all the local arcades have bad ratings on DDR Freak so... it makes me rather hesitant... plus that arcade that's close "Rocky's Replay" allows smoking... and... ehh not what I want with my didder

chocobojoe · Post by **chocobojoe** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 9:07 pm

oh, I was wondering cause I'm gonna be in Florida over spring break (like, next week) but i'm gonna be down around boynton beach. maybe if you want to drive down you could meet up with my friend and I for some bemani action, but it's about 2-2 1/2 hours from you

LikeableRodent · Post by **LikeableRodent** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 11:23 pm

Once you get a Blue Shark it's awesome and is easily the best home pad I've used.

The bad part, and this the dealbreaker and why I can't recommend it, is that the reliability sucks. Horribly. Our (Purdue's DDR club) pad died within a few weeks if I remember correctly. The company's support was practically nonexistent.

It's really too bad, because in the odd event that it works properly it's really quite a damn good pad.

letshavetea · Post by **letshavetea** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 11:39 pm

I have friday-monday (inclusive) off every week right now haha. If you could hook a brother up with a place to stay overnight I'd definitely head over there for sure.

When are you gunna be down here?

chocobojoe · Post by **chocobojoe** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 12:04 am

Not quite sure yet but I know it will be early to midweek when I arrive.

letshavetea · Post by **letshavetea** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 1:10 am

I'm sure you've heard of the group Improv Everywhere....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwMj3PJDxuo

We're doing a freeze in Orlando on the 14th. Somewhere in the window of 11-1

Location still isn't set.. but... yea if you're available... and have a way out here... haha

Anyhow... BLUESHARK....

Overall... worth the $400?

BigBadOrc · Post by **BigBadOrc** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 9:22 am

I plan on getting a blueshark eventually. Just need a first floor apartment first

I've actually been to orlando and ITG'd there.. at a huge laser tag facility.. i think the building looked like it was sinking into the ground (intentionally) or something and was right next to mini golf.

6.8 GB is way more than you'd need on stepmania.. cuz loading many songs = eats ram like crazy = stepmania goes slow T.T

interesting that stepmania 4 runs on xbox 360 though.. i will have to try that. is it pretty easy to setup?

WhiteDragon · Post by **WhiteDragon** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 2:28 pm

BigBadOrc wrote:interesting that stepmania 4 runs on xbox 360 though.. i will have to try that. is it pretty easy to setup?

I do believe he said it's on an Xbox, not an Xbox360.

letshavetea · Post by **letshavetea** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 5:50 pm

letshavetea wrote:I bought another Xbox today (Not 360) to use with this pad. (I got the Xbox for $15...)

tehe If you don't have an xbox... I recommend grabbing one for either the emulators, Stepmania, or Xbox Media Center (lets you stream media from your PC to your Xbox) I bought this one for only $15... my buddy picked up two the other day... $13 and $20 for em... he threw a post on our school's forum asking if anyone was willing to part with theirs for cheap....

Yea, it's on the original Xbox which only has 64 MB RAM

I've tested Stepmania 4 on an xbox with only about 1 GB of songs and it ran perfectly if I run it off the HDD... if I run it off a disk then the RAM issue comes to play and the game sucks hardcore.

I'm gunna go test it with the HDD packed full...