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CMeyer930 · Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 9:08 pm Post subject:

Does anyone know what the best adapter to use for a Red Octane Metal Pad, that is possibly in the US (I'm cheap

, i dont want to pay for it to be shipped from asia)? Oh and I already know about the one they sell, but its out off stock, i'm impatient(2 good qualities, I'm a treasure)
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trainwrecka · Trick Member Joined: 23 Dec 2004 Location: texas

Ok I just purcahsed DDR for the PC and also dl'd Stepmania. The pad I got was from Fry's in a yellow box that says Dance Pad for PS2 for 30 bux.

I just cannot seem to get it to work right.

The USB adapter I am using is a KiKY x.series also purchased at Fry's. It has a picture on the back of the adapter hooked up with a konami pad.

so i'm pretty sure its good to go.

http://www.soyogroup.com/products/proddesc.php?id=193

anyway it seems as if the timing is off.

can someone just shoot me 2 links. One for the best adapter and 1 for the best pad for PC dancin'

i'm not trying to go broke so i don't need a metal pad just one the works like the arcade.

RevenG-D · Trick Member Joined: 07 Nov 2004

Hi i have a Tigergame xbox to usb adapter but i have a problem... the pad works great but it doesnt register left and right jump steps nor up and down jump steps. I have tryed the trick where you press up and the start button but it doesnt seem to be working. Maybe im just doing it wrong.. can someone please help me?
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Mark of the DMast · Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 8:57 pm Post subject: Re: Help

RevenG-D · Trick Member Joined: 07 Nov 2004

do your press them all at the same time and then press another button? or is it a button sequence

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CMeyer930 · Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 10:11 am Post subject:

Forget what i said earlier, I bought a Metal Pad Control Box 4 PC and it wont work

Its supposed to be for a PC right? well I hooked My ROctane Metal Pad to it and none of the buttons are mapped, I tried the Start+select and up but nothing happened what do I do?
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CMeyer930 · Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 12:27 pm Post subject:

Forget what I said again. I got it to work now but it seems kind of laggy an doesn't recognize up+down and left+right. It won't work on one of their own pads, which is kind of disturbing. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance!
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Mark of the DMast · Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 10:29 pm Post subject:

CMeyer930 · Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2004 7:09 pm Post subject:

I got it. I was remapping before i tried it and then i wasn't holding it down long enough. Thanks for helping!
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dionysus · Basic Member Joined: 21 Oct 2004

Ignore this post, I found out that it was the pad that wasn't working (causing the random button presses) not the adapter... I plugged in a wireless dance pad into the same adapter with my first pad on player 1 and both worked fine... so I'm returning the new one I just got and hopefully getting a working replacement.

--original message follows (even though it's not really appropriate anymore)

Appologies if this question has been asked and answered before.. I tried to go through all 18 pages of posts... but only really skimmed most of the posts.

Anyways, my question is... Using the "Super Dual Box" two-PS2 to USB adapter for PC... is there a workaround of some kind which fixes the bug experienced by connecting a second dance mat to the adapter?

First mat works fine, however the second mat has random button activation constantly, making it impossible to use. Plugging in a normal PS2 dual-shock controler (like the one that comes with a PS2) still works fine in the windows game controler configuration screen. It's only when there are 2 dance pads connected that the problem occurs.

I'd really love to get a second pad up and running so we could have competitions here, however if one pad doesn't want to work, that kinda kills the whole effect now doesn't it? Especially if it's random button presses and you can't control what it's going to do....

Mind you, those random button presses would probably make it a LOT easier to finish tunes like Legend of Max *chuckles*

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StompToYoBeat · Trick Member Joined: 07 Jan 2003 Location: Cumberland, VA

Is this the infamous Boom Joy adapter that is so highly praised for its compatability? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=5151191277&ssPageName=STRK:MEWN:IT

I ask because I have been wondering which adapter to get for my CF which will be arriving shortly. I all ready bought the above adapter, so if it is incompatible i guess I can report that, but hopefully it will work

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tist006 · Trick Member Joined: 25 Aug 2004

hi i just bought a super dual box and am having problems in stepmania.. for some reason when i have the left arrow pressed down, the right arrow will not respond.. although if i have the right down, the left arrow responds.. also the down arrow arrow doenst work if the up arrow is pressed down.. all other combinations of arrows do work though.. also i opened it up on control panel and the same thign happens

StompToYoBeat · Trick Member Joined: 07 Jan 2003 Location: Cumberland, VA

Im not SURE of the appropriate fix for that problem, but enough people have had similar problems on the CF forums that I can point you in the right direction. If you are using a modern operating system, try using DurectPad Pro, PSX Pad, NT Pad, etc. They are located at http://www.aldostools.com/dpad.html

The problem sounds like maybe you need to disable/enable the axis if you cannot press 2 buttons simultaniously?? Hope that helps.
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AA on Captain Jack
AA on Candy Unlimited
AA on So Deep
AA on Sakura
A on MAX 300 (320 combo)

tist006 · Trick Member Joined: 25 Aug 2004

i just need to be able to press the opossites together, i cannot do dou bles and such

cnid · Basic Member Joined: 28 Dec 2004

OK, I have this really weird problem.

I have an EMS USB2. It works perfectly fine with my BNS metal pad, with no lag whatsoever or anything. However, I can't seem to get it to work with my Dual Shock (the original gray Playstation one). The buttons and controls all register fine, but for some reason every three to five seconds it stops registering and thinks the analog sticks are both down-right. Basically, this makes it almost impossible to play any real game. The pad works fine with my Radio Shack adapter, but I want to have vibration.

Any ideas?

CMeyer930 · Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2005 9:20 pm Post subject:

Red Octane hates me. My adapter worked fine, but now it is unmapping in the middle of a song , I can't finish a song anymore its so bad. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance!
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Crimson_Blade · Basic Member Joined: 10 Nov 2004

my computer is recognizing the arrows as analog joystick durection as opposed to being button presses. I think this causes the pad to not rcognize opposing arrow presses. How do i get it to recognive them as button presses?

thekirai21 · Basic Member Joined: 06 Jul 2004

Okay, well, I have a parallel port... controller thing that I got with the BNS Xtreme crap yada yada. I also have Windows XP.

I downloaded and Installed Stepmania,

Downloaded and installed a song,

Downloaded and installed NTpad,

Went to game controllers,

everything was fine,

I went to Config and checked the thing with the (blah blah games like Dance Dance Revolution),

I went to button mapping, tested my pad, it didn't work.

I read the thing I was working with, and it said that I needed to go to Config and make sure that the Controller type was PSX Left analog, but that wasn't there. I was like, fine, maybe the thing is just messed up. So I went into Stepmania, and tried to configurate the controller. I wasn't exactly sure what to do, but I pressed the button for left but it didn't do anything.

Now, fix my problem and let me play Stepmania with my pad.
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