Your first pad...

Snouman · Trick Member Joined: 17 Nov 2005

Most people start with a soft pad. The normal rutine goes like this
1. People hear about DDR
2. People want to try and by a cheapest soft pad
3. The soft pad brakes.. people buy a ignition
4. The ignition pad brakes.. people buy a cheapest metal pad
5. The metal pad brakes... people buy CF
6. They get bored

I was introduced to the DDR world by my friend. It didn't take long when DDR pad became "must have".
I wen't to local electronic shop and bought second hand logic3 soft pad (the pad wasn't soft at all).

Time passed by and my pad started to tear apart after half year of use. Half year is pretty much for second hand soft pad and I have nothing to complain about. Anyway I needed to get another pad. I almolst bought TX1000, but after reading all the negative comments I decided to avoid it. Instead I bought TX4000 and it has worked well so far (5 months of moderate use).

So what's your story. What pads did you have and how did they last?
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cornchipz · Trick Member Joined: 22 Apr 2006 Location: Stanwood, IA

Lets see, I started playing DDR last January really. That's when I got my first game. So, I bought DDR ultramix, and a mad catz dance mat for xbox. I still have that mat today. It still works, but now I want something a bit more perminant. I haven't decided what I'm buying next. I'm thinking about a CF, but they don't have xbox or USB on the control box currently.

*Sigh*

Jaufwa · Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 7:51 am Post subject:

Oh thats real simple:

1. Finally got a car (yay!!) no more walking or cycling!
2. Few months later, realised that I was on the royal road to weight-gain.
3. From ebay, acquired Dancing Stage Max and Logic Softpad. (I am a Brit)
4. Softpad broke. From ebay bought Dance:UK hard plastic pad. (This is a very poor pad be glad you guys can't buy them)
5. Broke in the first week.

6. Finally, made a DDRHomepad
7. Lived happily ever after.

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phonyreal · Trick Member Joined: 17 Mar 2005

1. BNS ignitions, which kept breaking, but the customer service was nice to us
2. CF
3. Lived happily ever after. The End.
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Razor LOL · Trick Member Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Location: Clarksville, MD

1)Konami Official Pad (came with Extreme US), loved it until it broke.
2)Mad Catz flat mat, hated it till it broke, then I was happy.
3)ITG Official flat mat, still have it, don't use it because of #4
4)RO Ignition 3.0, I love it and I've had no problems with it at all

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5)CF- which I plan to buy this summer w/ the arcade mod.
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justoneuncle · Trick Member Joined: 27 Aug 2002 Location: Syracuse, NY

DJ å¤§éª · Trick Member Joined: 25 Sep 2005

My progress is

1. A Naki soft pad
2. Later I modded it with wood underneath
3. It became too loud, so I bought another pad
4. Which was a Red Octane Ignition, but it was horrible so I returned it
5. Searched for metal dance pads
6. Found TX-1000, bought it
7. Works like a dream

Happy End
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slvrshdw · Trick Member Joined: 05 Jan 2005

well, mines easy...

1) soft pad (mad katz xbox)
2) tried modding it with the wood mod, was okay, but i wanted somethign better
3) homebuilt riptide style
happy so far

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cornchipz · Trick Member Joined: 22 Apr 2006 Location: Stanwood, IA

I think the next place I'm going is TX-4000 from Ebay, sheet metal modded, with bars.

Jupichan · Trick Member Joined: 05 Apr 2005

1. Konami Extreme US bundle pad
2. Mad Cats soft pad (Purchased at the same time as the Konami)
3. Ignition from Ebay (My brother paid $11 for it. Got what he paid for. Died in three days.)
4. Cobalt Flux.

Anguirel · Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 7:28 am Post subject:

1-6 (or so)) Went through several soft pads.
7) Modded a soft pad with puzzle piece foam and hardwood floor runner plastic, that lasted about 8 months.
8) Home built pad that lasted for a while till I shattered out a lucite panel on LoM.
9) CF, and yet again happily every after.
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DARREN HAYEZ · Trick Member Joined: 13 Apr 2006 Location: Michigan

1. Played DDR at a friend's house and fell in love
2. Got DDRMAX2/Konami softpad bundle
3. Friend gives me a MadCatz softpad and now I have two
4. Down arrow on Konami pad breaks
5. Many month break from DDR
6. Konami spftpad replaced by GameStop softpad
7. Down arrow on GameStop pad breaks
8. Forced to use MadCatz and nearly kills self
9. Buys Red Octane Ignition 3.0
10. Lives happily ever after...until today. Foam riser under right arrow sensor slips out into middle section a considerable ammount...what do I do?

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Marq(uistadorous) · Trick Member Joined: 03 Aug 2005 Location: Arvada, CO

I started with a mad catz soft pad taped to my basement floor, then I got a crappy tx1000, which I had been using for like 3/4 a year, and now i've got my precious homemade metal one

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Zeldy2 · Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 3:15 pm Post subject:

hmmm let's see

1- Madcatz Flat pad ( that was nice to start, but i hated it when i got to heavy steps

still works, but it's kind of, broke eh he ^^)
2- Intec Dance Pad ( THE worst IMO! It slides more than my madcatz pad... )
3- RO Flat pad With ITG (Love it! ^^)
4- Planning to build my own metal pad ^^
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Love is orange (heavy) : AA

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mikieson · Trick Member Joined: 14 Nov 2003

I started on my homebuilt pad. Never played on anything but that. I have played at the arcade about 3 times. Im a little old to be playing it around all the little kids...haha...Plus I school them and they run home crying!!!....Im 34!!!!!!!!

ItsDrew · Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 4:13 am Post subject:

My Mats

1. Topway soft pad i bought used from a pawn shop for 10$ lasted me just under a year..
2. My 2x TX-1501 pads are still shipping

videoCWK! · Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 12:40 pm Post subject:

1. Matcatz Supercrapshit pad

2-5. Other crap soft pads that I killed off

6. I buy an Ignition 3.0. Its broken out of the box, I come here, and find out how common that is.

7. This is when I stop playing at home completley. I don't have a metal pad, and thats the only type I can do good on. I'd save for one, but I have an unhealthy obsession with DDR and...can't.

8. I only play at the bowling ally, and I can only go sometimes. I do play at school on their crap pad sometimes, but that pad is crap and I suck on it. So I don't live happily ever after. I'm very sad

I can't play any of my home games. It sucks, I need a CF so bad.

M0dz0r Rhye · Trick Member Joined: 07 Sep 2005 Location: Blacksburg, VA

1) Naki Softpad (fails after a few months)
2) Naki Softpad + Madcatz pad
3) Wood mod on both pads (Madcatz pad: down arrow fails; Naki: give to someone else so they can start playing)
4) Generic Metal pad (played til after arrows cracked)
5) CF (after about a year got bored of it and sold it)
6) Went to college and played the hell out of the machine there (skill skyrockets)
7) Tunes up Generic Metal pad and replaces arrows with polycarbon over winter break (pad works awesome now)
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Lord GS-41 · Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 9:33 pm Post subject:

1) Started with a RedOctane soft mat. Gave it up after a year (Two of the lights were out, it was tearing in a few spots, it was crinkled, and as with most soft mats, it wasn't as responsive as I would've liked) for a...
2) RedOctane Ignition 2.0.

Good so far...

P.S. Does anyone know if the 3.0 is the exact same size as the 2.0?

SnookayDcc · Trick Member Joined: 23 May 2006

i was going to buy the ignition then red a post about konamis pad being good. so i just bought the box set for my xbox. ddr 1 instead of ddr3. I bought that last week, my 1st pad. The game is fun so i plan on doing one of these homegrown upgrades.