RedOctane Metal Pad Review

~Yukishiro-San~ · Basic Member Joined: 04 Oct 2003

I ordered my RO a while ago and it comes Wednesday. At first I was excited what with all the Good reviews but now everyone says it Sucks because of the Contact System. I'm annoyed but can someone direct me to a Contact System Replacement Guide for Foil to Sheet metal. Like the one I heard about for the BNS Metal Pads.

Wow, on a side-note Extreme rocks!
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Mikeweiser · Trick Member Joined: 15 Feb 2003 Location: Saginaw, MI

Your best bet would be just to use it, and keep using it, until the day it dies. No reason to fix something that isn't broken, and you could risk breaking it yourself trying to do something that isn't really needed at this point.

diabloslayer469 · Trick Member Joined: 15 Feb 2003 Location: Neo-Geo Land

Or you could get a refund from RO and buy a CF

cristian989 · Trick Member Joined: 11 Dec 2002 Location: Amherst, MA

SwiftDancer · Trick Member Joined: 22 Mar 2002

This is what i wrote to Red Octane
Dear Red Octane,
As a DDR player, I want to not only be able to play DDR at the arcade, but also in my home. I want to buy a metal pad, because I do not have the time to make one. I am sure you are aware of a company called Cobalt Flux which sells metal pads for $300.00. I do not like the look of their pad, or the fact that is flat. The look of your pad is better, and as I hear it has more of a Arcade feel to it. Now I do not know if you realize this, but people avoid buying your pads because of the contact system(foil). I am one of the people that avoids buying it(and I am not alone on this, a lot of people say the same thing). If you upgraded your contact system to something like Sheet Metal I guarantee that SEVERAL and yes I do mean several more people will buy your pad. In your About Us page it says Our customers and the services we offer have grown considerably since we started, but we continue to maintain the highest commitment to customer satisfaction, unbeatable service, and unmatched value. If this is true, please take this into consideration the company will not regret it.

diabloslayer469 · Trick Member Joined: 15 Feb 2003 Location: Neo-Geo Land

Great! We need more people to do this!

Bahamut727 · Trick Member Joined: 05 Jan 2003 Location: CA

EDIT:

Sorry, double post

EDIT2: And I edited the wrong one...
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Bahamut727 · Trick Member Joined: 05 Jan 2003 Location: CA

Sohcahtoa · Trick Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002 Location: Portland, OR

A few days ago, I sent an e-mail to them that read:

Katism18 · Basic Member Joined: 12 Feb 2002 Location: jax beach, fl

I ordered a pad this past Thursday and should have it by this thursday. I'm hoping they started this last week. I'm probably going to wind up buying another pad tomorrow to complement this one. It would suck if one was foil and one was sheet metal. I will post pictures when I get the pad on Thursday if it is not foil.

NYDance · Trick Member Joined: 14 Oct 2003

Well, its a start

My CF is supposed to get in here in 2 weeks, but I live in Canada so it has to go through customs, which might make it tops 3 weeks.

But when I get it, ill be sure to post a review, and good pics of it, unless there already is a review on it around here.

Gruffian · Trick Member Joined: 23 Jan 2003

As soon as confirmation can be made of the switch to metal contacts I will be ordering

Frinky · Trick Member Joined: 12 Mar 2003

Same here

BTW, here's the e-mail I sent them:

Frinky · Trick Member Joined: 12 Mar 2003

Same here

BTW, here's the e-mail I sent them:

ChaoTiC-oNe · Trick Member Joined: 11 Oct 2003 Location: Long Island

i have a quick question... everyone says that the cobalt flux pad is not like the arcade pad. can anyone tell me exactly how different? like do the arrows go down a little bit like in the arcade, and do they light up? because im debating like many others weather to buy cf or ro.
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diabloslayer469 · Trick Member Joined: 15 Feb 2003 Location: Neo-Geo Land

The CF is flat, unlike the arcade, and it doesn't have lights. There is no commercial dance pad that has light like the arcade! The others, including the RO, just have 3 small LEDS on the very sides of the arrows. Nowhere near like the arcade. Get the CF.

Even though RO says that they now are using a "thin metal" I still think they should use sheet metal. That thin metal is probably crappy as hell. We need somebody to test out the new version of the pad. Hey Katism18, how good are you at DDR? Because we need somebody that is good so we can know how the "thin metal" does during a vigorious workout.

Hey NYDANCE, I would really like to read the review and see the pics when you get your CF!

ChaoTiC-oNe · Trick Member Joined: 11 Oct 2003 Location: Long Island

when you said falt, do you mean flat?
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diabloslayer469 · Trick Member Joined: 15 Feb 2003 Location: Neo-Geo Land

Gruffian · Trick Member Joined: 23 Jan 2003

thin metal IS sheet metal

NYDance · Trick Member Joined: 14 Oct 2003