How much would you pay for an IDENTICAL arcade pad?

roothorick · Trick Member Joined: 24 Jun 2003

Beat Gear is a company that failed horribly at providing an arcade-authentic platform. The company claims that 100 were produced, but if I remember right only three can be confirmed to have actually shipped. They certainly didn't have any problems with design, though. Two of the three confirmed shipments were to this one guy that did a full review of them, and he was pleased. I forget who it was

Smash_Brother · Trick Member Joined: 15 Jul 2003

Hmm, then that guy on DDRManiax would be the SECOND guy to promise only 100 pads. What's the deal with that...?

I'm going to personally test the ever-loving crap out of the first one we produce (it's no secret that I want one of these for myself

). If I can find nothing wrong with it, I'm going to take it to the local geek shop and have OTHER people test the crap out of it. I don't think I can locate a 300 lb. person like so many of the ads use as their "base" weight, but I'll gladly shoot a video of 5 people stomping the bejeezus out of one pad when the time comes.

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freakstyler · Trick Member Joined: 19 Jul 2003 Location: new jersey

if it is possible...make one pad around 100$ because if you dropin 900$ on two pads..i would just get up the extra 500$ and buy my own ddr us mix macihne which is like 1400$.
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Tomo-kun AKA s1 · Trick Member Joined: 18 Aug 2002 Location: In a ditch

actually 5 where shipped, the rest are in creats somewhere in florida. www.stepmania.com, somewhere around there there is ar review of the single and solo pad, he is missing trickbars

EDIT: mind you the person on ddrmaniax is some very spoiled 16 year old who suposedly owns companys. i seriously doubt any of that, dose anyone know if we are in our free week of flaming at ddrmaniax? or did i miss that?
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Smash_Brother · Trick Member Joined: 15 Jul 2003

Where have you seen machines for $1,400?

One of the reasons I'm trying to do this is because I couldn't find a double pad for purchase. Even if I had done so, I'd wager that it would be more than I'd be willing to pay.

EDIT: Yeah, I should probably mention that I'm a 22 year old who runs a family computer company which has been around since 1985. I started doing tech calls for Mac desktops when I was 12 years old and have been working here ever since. My father knows a Russian with a factory in Taiwan which needs business which is why we fancy this can be made real.

Check out our website here: Starship Corp. Website. Right now we sell Cisco and other networking hardware, host websites on our T1 line, sell Altigen phone systems, and, as you can tell, pursue any venture which looks like it could yield a profitable business. We used to host game servers for Counter-Strike and other games, but people stealing bandwidth from their companies killed that industry.

My friends and I (who also work here) have been designing DDR pads for over a year, thinking and rethinking the designs which have been used in the past. If we can pull off our design, it will be completely unique, utilizing a sensor system which is vastly different yet equally effective.

I'm once again getting ahead of myself here, but I just wanted to explain who I am and where I'm coming from.

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Tomo-kun AKA s1 · Trick Member Joined: 18 Aug 2002 Location: In a ditch

ive seen first mix machines cheaper, but one thing i noticed, is that 4th mix plus costs more then ddrmax2, kinda weird
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Smash_Brother · Trick Member Joined: 15 Jul 2003

4th mixes are probably harder to find, since they certainly aren't being made anymore and could only be found in Japan except in the case of import.

Did you see a DOUBLE pad for cheaper than $1,400? I still think $1,400 is too much, but it would at least make me consider it.

-SB
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ollec2004 · Trick Member Joined: 31 Jul 2002

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bb · Trick Member Joined: 27 Jul 2003

how much weight can it hold ?

Smash_Brother · Trick Member Joined: 15 Jul 2003

Smash_Brother · Trick Member Joined: 15 Jul 2003

Double post...

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bb · Trick Member Joined: 27 Jul 2003

DUUUUUUd! if and when the pad comes out i'm definitly buying a double setup! i will pay $650 for a double

when i get the dough

bb · Trick Member Joined: 27 Jul 2003

i also would like mine with trickbars

UnK · Trick Member Joined: 16 Mar 2003

umm someone in Japan i know has already made the exact replicas and he has AAAed lots of songs using that pad. He is going to Auctoin them off on ebay soon so lets see how much they go for.

Smash_Brother · Trick Member Joined: 15 Jul 2003

bb · Trick Member Joined: 27 Jul 2003

how soon is he going to auction them on ebay?

UnK · Trick Member Joined: 16 Mar 2003

well he lives in Japan right now but he is American and he is in the USA right now. When he gets back he will auction them off.

http://boards.ign.com/message.asp?topic=41408372&start=41507274

thats the thread he posted them in.

Tepp the Smiling Idiot :D · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2003 9:25 am Post subject:

Well, if this pad is as good as it sounds, I'd probably be willing to pay $200-300 for singles, and $400-500 for doubles. I would pay more, but most pads are expensive as it is, and a lot of people don't exactly have the money to pay for the really flashy ones (e.g. CobaltFlux).

What I'm mainly concerned about is that if it is made and sold for use, how much would the shipping costs be? I can afford most pads easily, until it gets to the shipping cost (I live in N. Ireland, UK and it's NOT fun to be told it's $300 for SHIPPING as well as another $300 odd for the actual pad from CobaltFlux).

Smash_Brother · Trick Member Joined: 15 Jul 2003

I can't determine shipping yet as I don't know how much it will weigh. I will say that, given the concept for its design, it should weigh significantly less than an actual arcade pad.

We do international shipping, no problem. I've heard DHL is the best for international, but I'm not sure about how well they handle freight.

-SB
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