My home built metal DDR pad (Part IV)

[Mukan]

[deadsunrise]

Yes, you can use an Xbox pad.

You don't need an Xbox-USB adapter as the Xbox pad connector is in fact a usb with a different housing. Look for tutorials at xbox-scene.com, its VERY easy.


You can also play stepmania on the Xbox if you have it modded. I'm not taking about StepmaniaX I'm talking about the real thing. To play the latest stepmania alpha you only have to grab the sources from the stepmania CVS and compile it. I'm not sure if the actual revision will compile but the ones from one month ago work fine.

[deadsunrise]

[somnambulist]

Hey, I found this link. Looks like it could help somebody in some way.

If they read japanese.

http://www.iceblue.cn/sbgz.htm

[Happyfeet]

[Mukan]

[Happyfeet]

[neueziel]

Thats Chinese! But I'll attempt to read it..

[Mukan]

I saw a Beatpad Pro at my BestBuy, and another at my Fry's Electronics. You might want to check those stores.

Also: I meant saving each layer as a gif, and then mix/match them in a different program.

Edit: It's a lot easier to find when you search for Bead Pad as two seperate words. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22beat+pad+pro%22

[moonmen0]

do you have any idea where i can get photoshop, i used to have it on my computer, but my house burnt down where allt he software was, + i reloaded the computer.

Thanks
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[Mukan]

You'd have to purchase it, actually, from http://www.adobe.com.

[tolookah]

As much as im sure we don't condone piracy here, you could run into bestbuy, grab it and run ^^

or... buy it from any other people who sell it.
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Aim: Tolookah
MSN: Tolookah
XBox: Tolookah
DDRPad Soldering and electrical Help: http://www.tolookah.net/DDR/ As hooded_paladin put it: "Currently, help for Beatpad Pro, official Sony Playstation Controller and ANY controller unless you are extremely stupid or lazy."

[Ulala321]

Okay, as I'm learning more and more about my pad and how it's going to work, I'm learning more and more that I'm thinking I want a control box for it (probably the ter ter box), but I have a couple dumb questions. First, can the box be created to support ps2 and x-box? If so, can someone briefly explain it to me? Second, will I be able to plug both of my home made pads into the one box? Thanks for the info!

[Mukan]

With the MadCatz Beat Pad Pro's control board you can plug into both XBox and PS2. There is info about that here at Tolookah's website.
So, yes, you can plug one box into both consoles.

As for both being plugged into the control box, I don't think that's possible unless you put 2 control boards into the box, which again, I don't think would work unless you had a clever way to keep them seperated so they didn't touch and short out or something.

[Happyfeet]

Big duh to myself for not thinking of using the words beat pad separately. Thanks for pointing that out.

Okay, now that I've seen this thing and it's just like the Beat Pad I have for XBox only you can use it with both consoles (again, another duh to myself), I have a question. I've read past posts and there seems to be a consensus that using soft pad wires is bad. Why is it recommended to use the Beat Pad Pro control box despite that it's a soft pad? Is the wiring better?

Once I get all these pesky questions out of the way, I can start building! Thanks for the help!

P.S. on the Photoshop arrow thing....you could always put together every possible configuration of colors, etc. and save those individually as gifs. Then instead of one template to download, people can select the arrow style and just download what they'd like. That sounds like a huge pain, but a solution! As far as buying Photoshop, if anyone is a student, they offer an educational discount.

[Mukan]

[tolookah]

using the inside of the softpad == bad
Using the circuitboard of the softpad == good

the flimsy filmy material inside the pad isn't salvageable for use in a hardpad

(hope that clears things up)
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Aim: Tolookah
MSN: Tolookah
XBox: Tolookah
DDRPad Soldering and electrical Help: http://www.tolookah.net/DDR/ As hooded_paladin put it: "Currently, help for Beatpad Pro, official Sony Playstation Controller and ANY controller unless you are extremely stupid or lazy."

[DiddyWolf]

Has anyone built a multi system (PC, PS, and xbox) metal ddr pad? I've been thinking about how it could be done properly. Would need a controler for all 3 systems, but how to connect the one set of arrows to all three controlers with out conflict is the question. I'm just curious to see if it's been done, else maybe i'll be the first.

--DiddyWolf

[MikeMacD]

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Okay, I'm having a lot of trouble getting the pad to work from soldering.

In this picture, I:

1. Tried the middle circle to solder the one ground wire to. It resulted in the left one working, and the others to not work.

2. I tried soldering the ground the ground wire to the right one, it let the right one work, so I thought "Hey, why don't I just solder one ground wire to each one, since the right one works with a ground wire to it."

3. I then soldered a ground wire to the left one as you can see, and it cancelled out the right one working, and made the left one work.

I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO! PLEASE HELP!

(I'm using ddrhompead's design.)

Thanks,

Mike

[tolookah]

Ground is ground is ground... did the pad work before you soldered?
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Aim: Tolookah
MSN: Tolookah
XBox: Tolookah
DDRPad Soldering and electrical Help: http://www.tolookah.net/DDR/ As hooded_paladin put it: "Currently, help for Beatpad Pro, official Sony Playstation Controller and ANY controller unless you are extremely stupid or lazy."