RedOctane Ignition v2.0 / BNS DX Ignition

[Thomas Hobbes]

That's the pad that's coming with In The Groove. It's ITG themed.
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[cranium]

[Party Boy Japan]

Looks like after frick 2 WEEKS OF USE this pad is already starting to give out, here come the frick random goods on seven footers, frick worthless peice of 100 dollar garbage poopy buttocks frick. After a frustrating B score on A heavy i threw the frick pad on the floor and punched the living frick out of it then i grabbed the cord and smacked it on across my wall, breaking the xbox peice off. frick PEICE OF GARBAGE poopy, DONT frick BUY THIS RED OCTANE CAN frick SUCK MY PENIS THEN VOMIT AND EAT THAT TOO.

[djfmf]

i've had mine since december and it still works like a dream. a month ago i bought a cobalt flux and now i alternate between the two. no problems with shadow stepping on the Ignition pad, one weird problem is playing love love sugar on DDR Extreme(JAP PS2) on light mode. i can't AA or AAA it because the Up/Left combo arrow somewhere in the song doesn't register and it's an automatic miss, it doesn't happen on the Heavy Version though . has anyone else noticed cracks in their arrows? i love the texture of the pad but these cracks are starting to scare me. the manufacturing of these pads are very poor though, ripped material on the inside of the pad... the pads work well but the quality deteriorates pretty fast. i'm a pretty big buy btw.

[Dracheschreck]

Been looking for a new pad since my crappy 10euro ones got ruined , oh well they were fine for starting

I want to buy a nice softpad ala ignition, just without the expensive price tag that ignition means.
I didnt get to identify this dance mat in the dance mat list, can any of you guys identify it?

This is it:
" Deluxe Ignition Dance Mat "
http://www.lik-sang.com/info.php?products_id=2171

My idea is to do the "Rychan" mod as soon as i get them, to preserve them as well as possible.



Edit: They also sell an Xbox Version:
http://www.lik-sang.com/info.php?products_id=4841

Maybe it helps you identify the brand.

[wathomas777]

Most likely the foam insert is utter garbage. Do yourself a favor and when you order those, also order actual red octane foam from the RO website. The foam is only $10.00 a pad, plus $4.50 shipping. Big improvement for little investment.

[Dracheschreck]

Do i need the foam to do the rychan mod ? :/

I will check to buy the foam then, after i get it and i check how hard it is!
Thanks for the help (hope they send to spain cheap:P)

[Thomas Hobbes]

If I recall correctly, the RyChan mod is just replacing the foam with plywood. I'm sure there's more to it, but that's just the basics of it.

I believe RyChan still has it in her signature too, so run a search for her username.
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[wathomas777]

That is true. The Rychan Mod does substitute the foam with plywood, so no need to purchase red octane foam.

I think the Rychan Mod does call out for particle board, as regular plywood can splinter and possibly rip the internals of the pad. The Rychan Mod also requires you to be handy with a saw.

[Dracheschreck]

Can you explain better what is particle board? (Not native english :/ )
We will get the board from a wood cutting person he will cut them nicely with a big saw

[wathomas777]

Plywood, is essentially thin sheets of wood that are glued or bonded together into a thicker sheet.

Particle Board is essentially sawdust that is bonded together into a sheet with a very strong epoxy.

If you look at most of the cheap "build it yourself" furniture around, you will notice that it is particle board that is covered with a "vaneer" to make it "look" like real wood.

Particle board, in this mod is preferred as it does not "splinter" because it is essential sawdust. Plywood, being made of actual sheets of wood as a tendancy to splinter, and those splinters could cut and damage your pad.

The Rychan mod basically turns a soft pad into a psuedo hard pad.

I earlier mentioned buying red octane foam. I prefer that method to the Rychan mod because the red octane foam is very dense and is easier on the feet and is precut. However the red octane foam will still eventially wear out and lose some of it's resistance forcing you to replace it every so often. The particle board should last quite a while longer, and being heavier than red octane foam will help prevent slippage better than the Red octane foam.

The details of the Rychan mod can be found here:

http://www.ddrfreak.com/library/contributor-article.php?postID=7836373

Hope this helps.

[Rychan]

[Dracheschreck]

Thanks all ! you're all very nice

I understand what you meant with particle board, we call it "conglomerado" in spain

I find redoctane a ripoff, how can a piece of foam cost 10$ its mad!

Another detail: Any idea on inch-> Cm measures?
I searched a bit and it says that 3/4 of an inch is 1,9 cm, which seems a bit slim to me, but maybe its the correct transform!

Thanks again

[Agent J]

[paintballer05]

my pad is broke the back button pretty much does work....and sometime when i push it the up and left arrows get pushed too is there anything to do to fix it???
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[cranium]

I just had my 4th Ignition version 2 pad fail.

This one was a replacement from RedOctane and I plugged it in this morning to find it had the EXACT SAME PROBLEM OUT OF THE BOX AS THE ONE I SENT BACK TO THEM! The down arrow doesn't work when a left or right arrow is being pressed at the same time.

According to a RedOctane Rep I spoke to, this is an Xbox specific manufacturing flaw that they are aware of but haven't fixed and still continue to sell to customers. RedOctane changed factories that manufacture these for them last year which introduced the issues.

This is soo frustrating to deal with.

My personal advice is DON'T BUY AN IGNITION PAD FOR USE WITH A XBOX.

Out of the 5 pads I've had, the only pad that still works is ironically the first pad I bought.
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[Dracheschreck]

This thing you say happened to me too, with 4 crappy flat softpads, but in my computer, after heavy use (one of them still works)

Its strange, i opened one of them and the right and left zones of the contact sheets inside the pads were blurry (they have printed circuits), those circuits were like moved, from friction, but they did work if you pressed them without pressing down.

Straaange <-- Im buying a couple of ignition "deluxe" clones, will do rychan mod and see how they work!

[peepsluvr]

I got my ignition 2.0 for christmas and it still works great (just has some rips when you unzip it, i used duct tape to tape it up). When I opened the box, I noticed an extra wire. It kinda looks like a headphone kind of wire. Since then, I still don't know what it is. I was wondering if anyone knew what it is for?

[Agent J]

[Thomas Hobbes]

Yeah, it's flawless on the Ps2. I think that you should try and pick up the 3.0 version. It's probably better.
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