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[DemonicSouls]

I haven't done much research on this and I haven't read anything but is there and adapter that will hook from my metal pad to my computer? I looked in Wal*Mart the other day but they didn't have them. Are there such things as that? >.> I dun' know but I would -love- to have one. If you know anything please help?
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[peepsluvr]

I haven't tried this, and don't even have a metal pad, but I would think you could attach the metal pad to a control box then the control box to a usb adapter. You might get lag though, I really don't know.

[Pikachelsea]

The first page of this thread is worth at least skimming before asking a basic question about adapters...

You didn't say what kind of pad you have, but I know that the EMS USB2 works with the metal Cobalt Flux pads (and pretty much every other PSX pad out there). The global gap has to be adjusted in DWI to make up for the slight lag, but it works. I don't know if all pads with control boxes have lag, though.
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[DemonicSouls]

Thank you, I will look for those and yes, I didn't have time to look through the other threads.. I was in a hurry and I've been extremly busy the past week or so. Thanks again.
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[boss matsumoto]

Will this thing work with a cobalt flux? Sorry if this has been asked before, I'm lazy, etc.
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[claw]

My buddy has that, and another buddy brought over a CF but it wouldn't work, though the softmats did. Wouldn't recommend that adaptor, unless there is something that we were doing wrong.
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[Pikachelsea]

Frankly, I'm a little tired of people saying they didn't bother to look for existing help on their subject matter because "they were lazy", "they were too tired" or "they didn't have time". First of all, it's not our fault you're lazy. Lazy people don't deserve help anyway. And this is supposed to be a valid reason? Search engines exist for people like you, so you don't have to manually search through every thread yourself, yet you still claim you're just too lazy to use them? How lazy do you really have to be? Secondly, I don't care if you're tired. Look around when you're not tired, then. Thirdly, you say you don't have time, yet obviously you have enough time to go and clutter up message boards by asking questions that have been asked 10,000 times before. This behavior is not appreciated or excusable. Do you mean to tell me that all 24 hours of your day were taken up by other things and you couldn't take five minutes out of your life to search for the answer, instead of demanding that everyone else give up their time to help you when you could just as easily help yourself?

Stickies, FAQs, and readmes exist for a reason. READ THEM, and if your question somehow still hasn't been answered (very doubtful), maybe then you'll have an excuse to continue posting about it.
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[Jedo]

Does anyone know is the RO adapter will work with 2 RO ignition pads and mac OSX?
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[grew7]

I am using a "Super Dual Box" from BNS.
I am using this pad: http://www.buynshop.com/productinfo/44/VG-DDR-ULTDX/
I am using StepMania 3.9.

When I try to use my pad, the LED lights that come on when I'm pressing buttons, come on when I'm not. When I'm playing StepMania nothing happens. But when I use the pad to change the control options, things do happen. Sometimes it works fine, but mostly it just acts as if I'm hitting on of the arrows over and over again. I am not sure if it's my pad, or my adaptor, but the 30-day defect warranty for my pad runs out in a few days.

I was able to get it to work correctly once, and I had a lot of fun. But halfway through the song it started screwing up again. Hitting arrows over and over when I wasn't using them. What do I do?

[claw]

I've noticed that alot of people here order from lik-sang, and I was wondering, if you choose global priority shipping, how long does it take to come to you, and what is your location.

I'm in Canada and this is the 8th day since it shipped, and I want it to come badddddd.
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[Jedo]

okay, new question. What adapter will work with a cobalt flux?
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[Rockstar]

Now that is the million-dollar question. Apparently, your best bet is ps2-to-parallel converters instead of USB adapters for Cobalt Flux pads.

However, several people have reported getting things working properly with super dual boxes or other usb adapters, while others have reported experimenting problems with them. I guess it also depends on how the rest of your machine is set-up......
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[Jedo]

Yay!! The redoctane usb adapter works with cobalt flux/
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[Lexsip ~Q!~]

Hey. I didn't read through the whole thread, seeing as it's 23 pages, so apologies if my problem has already been mentioned. I got up to about page three and decided to just post.

I have those "crappy pads" you get off Ebay- they're metal and have a bar and are ALL over Ebay if you're looking for pads. I also have two different kinds- I have the generic kind that most people get- the one with the LED lights- and another one which most people don't get, I believe- it doesn't have LED lights and has uncolored X and O buttons, as in they're grey. If you want a picture, IM me or PM me.

My problem is this. I'm using the super joy dual box- the right one. SM recignizes it with my pads, all is good, except ONE thing.

It lags.

Now, I know it's not my computer, because I tested it out on my friends laptop, and neither programs lag on either of our computers, it's just that it doesn't recignize everything at the right time, which incredibly frustrating. Any advice for this?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=21185&item=8175058310&rd=1 there's a link to the kind of pad I have.

Thanks.

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I just read the last few posts. I hook my pads up to the control box, then the control box to the PS2-USB. I'm assuming it's the fact that it has to go through so many things is why it's lagging. Is there a way I could hook the pads up without using the control box? Thanks again.

[claw]

woohoo i just got my super dual box and it works like a charm, off to play
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[ThemsAllTook]

I bought the Super Dual box a while back, and I've been successfully using it with StepMania and a soft pad for a while now. I've held off posting here about it because I had a Cobalt Flux pad on its way to me, and I wanted to see how that worked first, since I'd heard of people having problems with them.

The pad arrived today (woohoo! ). I played with it for a bit on my PS2 to make sure it was at least working normally. So, I go to plug it into my Super Dual box and try out StepMania with it. Works like a charm. No delay or any other problems.

So, then I decided to try playing Pump It Up with it. I unscrewed the middle pad and removed the piece of wood, as per their instructions, put it all back together, and tried it. This didn't work so well... The UpLeft, UpRight, and DownLeft arrows worked OK, but DownRight seemed to toggle on and off rapidly while I was holding it, and Center didn't work consistently at all. Sometimes it would respond, sometimes it wouldn't. So, no luck with Pump It Up, but DDR works perfectly with it.

Has anyone gotten a Cobalt Flux to work with Pump It Up in StepMania? If so, what adaptor did you use?

[Nib]

Okay.. My Cobalt Flux and My Super Dual Box from Lik-sang both arrived today. (What luck .
After unpacking and admiring the pad, I hooked it up to my PS2 and played DDRMAX2USA with no problems at all; the pad worked like a charm.
I unpacked my Super Dual Box and hooked it up with a PS2 controller to my P3 with WinXP-Pro and it worked amazingly. I played Znes-Cybernator. I loved it. Then I tested my Naki Dance Pad that was in the dust for about a year, surprisingly the pad worked flawlessly in Stepmania (I'm using 3.92rc2a or whatever). Finally, I hooked up my new Cobalt Flux to it, and nothing happened at all, it didn't even register. I went and disabled the force feedback, installed the drivers did whatever I could think of and I couldn't get the Cobalt Flux to work for some reason. Everything else worked fine. It was like the Super Dual box didn't even recognize the flux. It was like a dead connection. I thought I damaged the Control Box while bringing it downstairs because I dropped it on tile, but when I brought it back upstairs afterword and hooked it back up to my PS2 it worked perfectly again... :S I'm very confused about this, I spent hours trying figure something out... I can't think of anything else, lol....

Any suggestions?

[Pantera]

[drsnooker]

I'm gonna be posting this message on a couple of threads so you might recognize this from some other place. But it's finally a solution, not another problem.
A friend of mine just introduced me to DDR, since I have a computer, I figured I'd be a soft pad of ebay and start practising. It came with a USB adapter, and I got stepmania. Long story short, I couldn't do the combo up+down and left+right. Since I sucked, at first I thought it was me. Then I went to control panel-> game controlers and selected my hardware and hit properties. I could see it register left or right pad but if I stood on the left pad, tapping the right pad did nothing. The same with standing on the back pad, and the front didn't respond.
I search the allmighty internet, and find a lot of people with the same problems. The usb adapter was the super dual joy whatever, the one that had to be reprogrammed to change to dance pad mode by sitting on select start and up all at the same time for three seconds. Everywhere it reads that that should fix my combo moves. Nothing works, and since I know a bit of electronics I decide to just cut the wires and switch the left pad with the bottom left and the bottom pad with the bottom right, since nobody oughta be doing those combinations. So I flip over my soft pad and unscrew the electronics cover and then I see it.
There are two more buttons! I had always assummed that the up-right was my start and my up-left was select. WRONG!
There are actually two small buttons above the up-right pad and up-left pad, above the words "select" and "start", I put my knees on those tap the up pad with my finger, et viola! All my problems fixed.

So for all you other people with not being able to do combo moves or wondering when or how to press the select+start+up at the same time. It works at any time, you only need to do it for a fraction of a second but you HAVE TO hit the "real" select and start button, not the up-left and up-right pad!

Afterwards you'll need to re configure your keys in stepmania but that should be a breeze.

Hope that solves most of your problems.

P.S. you might want to include this in your FAQ that it's not the up-right and up-left pad, but the small pad above the words "select" and "start"