How many Pads have you 'worn out?'

G-type

I was just wondering, because I wore out my second today. My first was the one that just about everyone has (I forget the name of it, but the pakaging has a butterfly girl on it). The second one was a Mad Catz Beatpad. It was fine the first 4 weeks, but then I finnaly find something to keep it from moving on my carpet, and all of the sudden It is worn out. Now I can't play, and it sucks alot.
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Same · Trick Member Joined: 19 Mar 2002 Location: Lucas, Ohio

15 pads. Yes, 15.

I finally got smart so now I'm working on a set of metal pads.
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diabloslayer469 · Trick Member Joined: 15 Feb 2003 Location: Neo-Geo Land

1. Intec dance pad (cheap $20 one)
2. RO 3rd Party Metal Pad (Those one's you see all over eBay)
3. (Kind of) BNS DX-Xtreme (It's gone through some rough times. I had to open the control box thing and mess around with some things in there. But my brother played on the pad a few days ago and it worked great!)
4. CF (Just the CBOX got messed up...5 days after my warranty expired!)

Slowpoke · Trick Member Joined: 28 Oct 2003

I go through about one a month

GR · Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2004 11:52 am Post subject:

2 $5 soft pads.

Now, my metal pad pwns j00 all.
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Shen · Trick Member Joined: 04 May 2002 Location: TN

2 soft pad
2 eBay ignition pads

G-type · Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 10:49 am Post subject:

I guess it just comes with the life eh?
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vsamaco · Trick Member Joined: 08 Mar 2004

Soft pads in general don't last long if you play alot and/or difficult songs. This problem can be addressed by modding it, like the plywood mod which greatly increases its durability and life. Ignition pads do pretty well w/o any mods but can breakdown if not made correctly. I say soft pads and Ignition pads will last up to 6 months.

Metal pads will prob go for atleast 6 months if maintained correctly. The main worry about the metal pads are the arrows but those can be replaced. Unlike soft pads, you can most likely fix the problem.

While Cobalt flux supposely last forever...

For the record:
1 inactive soft pad (impossible to play heavy songs)
1 dead and lacks a control box BNS NX pad (spare parts are good

). I think this pad started dieing after 3 months and finally died 1 month after that.

My BNS DX Ignition pad is still kicking for 6+ months, after it had a sugerical procedure to replace its control box was done.

DDR_Bass · Basic Member Joined: 28 Feb 2004 Location: Thunder Bay, ON

2 Madcatz pads (1 modded, 1 unmodded), a modded Konami soft pad, 1 BNS Ignition pad

Verified · Trick Member Joined: 01 Jun 2004 Location: Behind You!

2 dance performance dance pads
1 madcatz beatpad pro
1 RO Ignition Pad
i helped kill an official Konami pad as well.
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Xtremecat82 · Trick Member Joined: 12 Jun 2003 Location: ky

WEll I have only broken one.

I am glad about that. I didnt have my second one for like 6 months though. But know it is a bns dx extreme.

raven_tker · Trick Member Joined: 02 Jan 2004 Location: STREET VORTEX

2 and a half.
2 crappy soft ones and i can feel the lag starting to develop in my ignition.
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.fill · Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2004 3:06 pm Post subject:

Worn out one crappy soft pad. Two of my three ignition (1x Red Octane, 2x BNS) are being worn out on certain arrows.
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Promit · Trick Member Joined: 09 May 2004

I haven't worn out any. To be fair, I switched from my Mad Catz Beat Pad to ignitions before it really had a chance to get worn. I imagine it wouldn't survive the daily play of 9 footers that I now put my ignitions through.

uouuÉ · Trick Member Joined: 10 Jun 2004

only 2, both beatpads, both got the right arrow broken
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DDR Fr33styler · Trick Member Joined: 27 Nov 2003

broken 2, sent one back and got my money back

, i am working on my xbox soft pad right now lol
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michelb · Trick Member Joined: 06 Oct 2003

I'm going through my 3rd and 4th pad right now (still useable but probably going to replace in a month/two)

I've only used 'ignition-style' softpads and seem to get about 6 months out of them (after 3 months they start giving occasional sticky/ghost step - after 6 months too many sticky/ghost steps to use so I change them).

I've been using '3.0 / hard-dense foam' pads for about 6 months and they are actually holding up very well but I'm starting to crack the arrows (down and left arrow are actually split open (currently taped up with duct tape but that's annoying since the tape keeps peeling and sticks to my socks) and right arrow is starting to show visible cracks (although not actually split open yet). (I find it ironic that the arrows still work fine but the cover is dying (kind of like going through the soles of shoes before the rest of the shoe is showing any major wear)

I play 4-5 times a week doing at high intensity (mostly 7-8 footers although I will also play 9-10s (just not usually pass them)) and I play on hardwood which I think is much harder on the pads than playing on carpet.

Mike

musicman88 · Basic Member Joined: 13 Jul 2002

1-2 months for the crappy 3rd party pad you can see everywhere that I have is about average.

da_poofacekilla · Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2004 12:26 pm Post subject:

im on my 4th pad
my 1st came with MAX2 (U.S.)
& my others have been those madcatz "beat pad pro" pads
good thing those got a warrenty

Jamestown · Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2004 1:18 pm Post subject:

I have bought two soft pads in my life. One 3rd party soft pad, and a red octane ignition 2.0=best soft pad on the market. Buy one. They don't die. Anyway, my first soft pad ticked me off so bad, i took it to a friend's house to play DDR and the down arrow kept skrewin' up. So's we take it to the garage. To fix it of course

omg. I hated that thing. We grabbed knives, saws, torches, and like, shovel-things and beat the living shiz out of it. We taped it together in a giant ball and brought it to school the next day. We called it the dance master 300 x.2 linux version. or something like that. We did wrestling moves on it until the bell rang. Then I threw it in the trash so the whole school could see. Man, i want a metal pad. Sheesh. That was a great way to get my revenge on that geyat-dang pad.
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