Thousand bucks, how to make it disappear.

Funkslap

Alright, my college (UMBC) has finally passed for the DDR Club. Now, since we're a new club, they only gave us a thousand bucks. Now, what would you gus recommend doing with it? We had an idea of constructing our own arcade machine, just use the metal pad threads to get instructions, build a cabinet, and then put a computer into it with TV out that runs Stepmania. But, that might not work out too well. What do you people recommend?
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Jace · Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2003 4:33 pm Post subject:

wow a thousand? very nice.

My suggestion is, yes, build your own metal pads. Since you have 1000 to burn, I suggest gathering some construction savvy people and building the best possible and the highest quality using the best materials. Get a decent TV not too big but not too small. The TV size doesn't matter as long as you can read the arrows... what matters is... SOUND SYSTEM! Big speakers, big bass! put these next to the TV on top of a cabinet. Have the computer and wires go inside the cabinet to make it look clean. Have some hi powered fans pointed towards the players, and maybe a fridge with gatorades and waters. Then you'd be set!

Boy, I sure wish I had $1k to spend!

kch · Trick Member Joined: 21 Jul 2002 Location: houston/austin

get a JPS2, 2 IIDX ASC's, and 6th style.

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Hawkeye · Trick Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002 Location: California

I suggest you set up a DDR tournament. Or make a fund-raiser to make more money enough for you guys to go to Japan and see the birth place of DDR (Komani, if people don't know

).

But think outside the box

. Just buying DDR merchandise won't allow the club to flourish. It'll just bring more DDR freeloaders

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BTTB · Trick Member Joined: 10 Dec 2002 Location: Deep in you.

Get more money from donations
and then get a jps2 and cobalts and extreme and LIEK EVERYTHING!!!!!1one.
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TheKnightOfNee · Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2003 5:42 pm Post subject:

Fund raiser, ahoy!

Spider-X · Trick Member Joined: 28 Jul 2003 Location: Houston Texas

make a paypal account and i'll donate. if i knew how.
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Re-Venge08 · Basic Member Joined: 07 Dec 2003

http://www.cobaltflux.com/ best pads, period

Prismatus · Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2003 7:02 pm Post subject:

Fundraise like your life depended on it.

Get a machine, and get permission to put it in a room somewhere. (Preferrably, the arcade.)

Make membership cards, and have a set of keys for the game room attendant, and the president.

Make it so anyone not a member plays 50 cents for three songs, any unpaying members play for 25 cents a song, and paying members play for free...

Wait, this is getting too complicated... nvm, go with everyone else's ideas. Too much of a chance that people could steal money from the machine, and you couldn't exactly do much about a mix of non-members and paying members playing at the same time.

Wait, another idea. See if you can petition for your arcade to bring in an extreme machine. That normally works (Worked for VT, and I didn't even have to petition, I just asked for one to go in there, and poof.) (I'm not at VT, by the way.). See if you can work out a deal with the arcade, where every other Tuesday night, only members can play on the machine, and it's set to Free Play or something.

I dunno, I haven't started my club yet, and they wouldn't even give us money if they did. (At least not the first year.) Do whatever the majority says.

djsodu372ajai · Trick Member Joined: 16 Aug 2003

Exsqueeze me? Baking Soda? 1000 bucks?

I suggest you get Fluxes, a Japanese PS2 and DDR EXTREME (Japanese).

marxxunlimited · Trick Member Joined: 23 Oct 2003

you could always give me the money
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DJ Sakura Evolution · Trick Member Joined: 12 Aug 2003 Location: Riverside, CA

Save up and have your club do the same getting a DDR machine.

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yyr · Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2003 9:45 am Post subject:

Forget Stepmania.

You have a thousand dollars. That is enough to easily get a JPS2, MAX, MAX2, Extreme and Party Collection, and still have enough money left over for a Cobalt Flux pad. Fundraise a bit and you have money for the doubles kit. Now THAT is a setup any DDR club would want.

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Funkslap · Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2003 12:35 pm Post subject:

We would love to have an actual game machine in the club, and we can actually just ask for more money (another five hundred bucks) and then there are enough people that LOVE DDR up here that we could get a fundraiser going and that would bring in a ton of cash.
We're trying to get an actual game machine so that way we could use the money the machines make and put it to the club, then we could go to Japan and see the birth place of DDR. Maybe even special shoes. Cause hey, everyone likes shoes. Cheese too.

haunted_i · Trick Member Joined: 11 Sep 2003 Location: Turn around

Instead of an expensive-or-tiny TV, get a new projector. It'll be easier to move the whole thing (you know you'll have to), and it can be scaled to an easily readable size.
Other than that, I really don't have much of an opinion here, just that the very idea of a DDR club (other than this board) puts a special feeling in the cochles of our hearts.

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n2oxide · Trick Member Joined: 15 Oct 2003 Location: Vancouver, B.C.

projector, at least a stereo sound system, jps2, max2 or extreme, and a pair of fluxes or 4 ignition 2.0's with the cover, so more than 2 ppl can play i guess.

the projector is gonna cost over $1000, btw, unless it's really cheap.
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MikeOMG! · Trick Member Joined: 04 Dec 2003 Location: St. John's, NL

I agree with your idea, dont go wasting money for a home made system when you can save up to buy a real machine, that will eventually make its money back... It may take a bit longer, but its better than home made and it will get you your money back as well.

Re-Venge08 · Basic Member Joined: 07 Dec 2003

heres the cheapest way to start one:
1. Get 2 fluxes
2. Get a coupla ps2 to USB controller converters
3. Hook em up & play stepmania

also charge 50 cents for 3 songs, or you can do a "Phone Card" idea (ex. get 20 songs for 5-10 bux, or whatever you want), or you can do both

Prismatus · Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2003 7:40 pm Post subject: