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If it is cheap foam, and you have an "ignition" style pad (zipper with foam insert), you can buy authentic Red Octane Foam from their website for a very reasonable $10.00 per pad plus shipping.

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Plywood, is essentially thin sheets of wood that are glued or bonded together into a thicker sheet.

Particle Board is essentially sawdust that is bonded together into a sheet with a very strong e ...

That is true. The Rychan Mod does substitute the foam with plywood, so no need to purchase red octane foam.

I think the Rychan Mod does call out for particle board, as regular plywood can splinter ...

From the description it says that it has a 6 ply foam pad, which usually means the cheapy foam. The single ply RO hard foam being sold at the RO website is much better.

While this pad is probably ...

Most likely the foam insert is utter garbage. Do yourself a favor and when you order those, also order actual red octane foam from the RO website. The foam is only $10.00 a pad, plus $4.50 shipping. ...

"If you are going to spend 30$ on a soft pad why the hell would buy a third party one?"

First of all konami pads are extremely hard to find, so gamestop pads, mad catz and even official "red octane ...

First, fold it up as little as you can get away with. The less folds, the better. If you must fold, make sure the folds correspond with the gaps between the sensors. This means folding it in "third ...

If your dad won't spend 50 bucks for a new pad, then how is he gonna spend 40 bucks for the mods. I was able to buy ignition knock offs on Ebay and real red octane foam for only $77 dollars for two p ...

Yes, innex and voltz both sell ps2 style pads. Innex being the e-bay store and voltz at www.voltz.com.

Of course the red octane foam is available directly from RO
http://www.redoctane.com/ignitio ...

Foam:

Pros: Light weight, easier to store, softer on your feet, quieter to use, Less expensive per pad. Many have raised arrows to be able to "feel" where the arrows are without looking down.
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I would never buy the "thin" soft pads from e-bay. Gamestop has some decent soft pads for $20.00 each, so if you just HAVE to have some paper thin soft pads, go to a store and pick em up.

However, ...

I recently purchased some third party ignitions for the x-box from ebay (the store is innex) and overall I am pretty impressed. (especially for the price of $12.99 a piece plus shipping and handling ( ...

Sensitivity could cause a problem so you could use a real thin neoprene layer on top. I don't know the thicknesses it comes it, but the cost is probably prohibitive

It seems the biggest issue with soft pads is internal bunching and slipping on the floor. I was wonder, how hard would it be to create a pad using two large pieces of "wet suit" material, like on mos ...

Yes a raised center with a border would work, and that looks to be the design used in the first photo. To minimize the chance of injury though, you would have to bevel the boarder and the center pret ...

I recently purchased some third party ignitions for the x-box from ebay (the store is innex) and overall I am pretty impressed. (especially for the price of $12.99 a piece plus shipping and handling ( ...

Instead of e-bay, why not just go to www.vortz.com. That way you should be sure to get a vortz pad.

I would like to thank everyone who responded to my inquiry with their thoughtful and informative posts.

And I do see the logic in many of the arguements presented here. But one of my main "issues" ...

Didn't we have this thread 37893423942 times? There's a feature on forums called Search. It'd be very helpful for you to use it, so that people don't have to answer it another 34729472349 times.

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While I love DDR and have gotten a lot of help from this board, I feel that the topics in many forums are way too broad to be helpful.

For example, in the controllers forum, ALL topics related to a ...