Dedicated Cabinet Arrows

yagsimit69 · Trick Member Joined: 05 Jan 2004 Location: rochester

Ok well as most of you know ddr arrows break often during play. Has anybody broken the arrows on the itg2 dedicated cabinets?. im wondering because our arcades gonna get one soon and i want to know if they'll need spair arrows or how durable these ones are.

JasonTheGreater · Trick Member Joined: 27 Aug 2005

I've never seen a dedicated cabinet's arrows break...then again...I've never seen DDR arrows break either, and this is coming from some kid that would make trips to the arcade nearly every day to play DDR back before ITG.
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Houou Don't You Want Me · Trick Member Joined: 18 Dec 2004

Just so you know you can buy replacement switches for DDR cabinets from Roxorgames.com for a (I think) decent price.

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yagsimit69 · Trick Member Joined: 05 Jan 2004 Location: rochester

well our arcade has alot of stompers. we've had ddr for about 2 years and have gone through atleast 8-10 arrows, most during tourny's

XenomorphHunter · Basic Member Joined: 09 May 2004

I've had an arcade that for the longest time had replaced the bottom right arrow with a plastic board. I guess someone broke it in. It may seem hard to bust through a thick piece of acrylic with your foot, but it does happen.

Geostigma · Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 7:29 pm Post subject:

yea, at GW over the summer, i remember walking in, playing a round, then playin Cartoon heroes and noticing that my foot was going thru the arrow...oops... tho im pretty sure it was broken before i got there.

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FujiFlame · Trick Member Joined: 15 Sep 2004 Location: Orlando, FL

some people realllllly don't know how to respect DDR pads

Dyme · Trick Member Joined: 04 Sep 2005 Location: Valparaiso, IN

its sad....
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howardleung · Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 7:11 pm Post subject:

you guys think your arcades bad? the on down here at where i live, the retarded store dude replace the broken ddr arrow with a PIU arrow that is the most retarded thing ever...

on another note, The Orbit in Pacific Mall in Toronto, has there first player down pad arrow put oppositly, so instead of pointing downward, it is pointing upward..

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yagsimit69 · Trick Member Joined: 05 Jan 2004 Location: rochester

the center arrow from pui will fit but the corner arrows wouldnt unless u jammed them in or cut them

Regulator10886 · Trick Member Joined: 14 Nov 2004

heh interesting

lolinternet · Trick Member Joined: 11 Jul 2005 Location: Woodhaven, MI

The hard stompers will stop stomping once they realize how sensitive a dedicted cabinet's pads are. You don't have to worry about them breaking since nobody will stomp

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Jadiinnnnn · Trick Member Joined: 09 Jul 2003

Yeah, stomping used to help me not rush the beat whenever I played DDR, regardless of how sensitive the pad was. In our area we've broken about 6-8 arrows on 2 different machines, but never due to stomping. I broke a right arrow with my left foot on exotic ethnic (which is way too fast for me to stomp through) and every time Chris breaks an arrow you don't hear a stomp but you hear a loud crack =D
It's pretty funny.
But I've never broken an arrow by stomping too hard. When stomping, you usually place your whole foot on the arrow anyway, which reduces the pressure psi or whatever physics you wanna use. If you play on the ball of your feet (like Chris, who's broken the most arrows here and is a light stepper) then you'll be more likely to break an arrow.
I think.