Cobalt Flux Dance Platform

mthegreatone · Trick Member Joined: 25 Sep 2005

i just don't understand it though. how can a CF be a worthy purchase when there will come a time when you need to fix it like you would any other metal pad?

do CF's need maintenance less frequently or something?

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otakullama · Trick Member Joined: 05 Aug 2004

I've seen a TX's panels completely break in half just from consistent 1-7 foot play. My CF however has taken many severe beatings and all I do is clean it out every now and then and it works just as great as the day I got it. I can tell you that whatever CFs and the TXs are made out of doesn't even feel the same.
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MadFlava · Trick Member Joined: 21 Feb 2006

For those of you wanting to abandon the CF's control box, Ive managed to make a couple of other control boxes that work great and don't break the bank.

I made a couple of RO "control boxes" using a PSOne controller and a Red Octane universal adapter.. works great in Windows XP and on the Xbox.

I also bought a couple of TX4000 control boxes from Lik Sang and wired them over to work on the CF. They are the best solution Ive found. They show up in Windows as a dance pad and require NO driver. I'm 99% sure they show up on Xbox Live as a dance pad as well.

I posted some instructions along with parts, etc over on the Cobalt Flux forum. I was going to do a really detailed "How To" on the PSOne hack but the TX4000 boxes are better IMO.

I did 2 TX4000 boxes complete for under $50.00. The PSOne hack probably cost a bit less.. maybe $40.00 or so for the pair. Either way, my CF control boxes (All 6 of them, LOL) are sitting in a drawer now.

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Shaggy7728 · Trick Member Joined: 28 Aug 2005 Location: Nashville, TN

happihairy · Basic Member Joined: 03 Mar 2006

I'm having considerable trouble getting Stepmania to work with my Cobalt Flux. At first I had tried using a Super Dual Box as an adapter, but unfortunately I had this problem where whenever I held down an arrow, Stepmania would register the arrow as being pressed repeatedly very rapidly, making navigating menus and playing songs much more frustrating to do.

So I came to this topic and asked for what adapter might be better suited for the CF, and someone had recommended the EMS Dual Shooter, so I ordered that and waited for it to come in. Now it's finally arrived, and after installing the software, I can't get it to register any button presses at all. This is really frustrating, as I've now had my CF for weeks and haven't been able to use it. Must I purchase a third adapter and wait another week? Any help?

Fano@Mountasia · Trick Member Joined: 17 Jan 2006

Try fiddling around with the controller options in the control panel before you buy another adapter.

if nothing works, go for the trio linker plus, it's worked for me since last christmas, no problems as of yet.

Shaggy7728 · Trick Member Joined: 28 Aug 2005 Location: Nashville, TN

i would just go to stepmania's website and look up the usable adapters there. the super joy tends to work but be careful, only one of them out of alot of them is the one your looking for.
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MadFlava · Trick Member Joined: 21 Feb 2006

Thats not gonna work and let me tell you why.

Cobalt Flux has about a zillion firmware revisions out for these control boxes. Some work with this adapter, some work with this other adapter and some work with no adapters.

Thats what led me to where Im at now. I have had 8 different CF control boxes in my hands at different times and tested them with various adapters and I can say with 99.9% cerrtainty that there is no adapter that works 100% of the time. For example, out of 8 CF boxes, 2 worked with the Red Octane adapters. The others showed no button activation, like someone mentioned above.

The Innex controller for the Xbox worked on 6 of the 8 CF boxes. I have some other Xbox adapters that didnt work at all.

Point is, it's a gamble to see if any of them are going to work. That's why I decided to just remove the CF control box right out of the equation and do something universal to replace it once and for all. Here's a link to the thread on the CF forum. It's mainly a lot of rambling on my part but you should be able to decipher enough of it to build either setup that I did.

http://www.cobaltflux.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6061

Shaggy, yes, that is the control box Im refering to. It's a 9 pin design tho so you need to just wire up a 15 pin cable or connector to the appropriate colors. There is more than enough info in that thread above to get you going, including a source and pin out for a 15 pin SVGA cable.

mfillescasabc · Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 3:31 pm Post subject:

Has Cobalt Flux, the company, endorsed any PC/XBox adapters?

MadFlava · Trick Member Joined: 21 Feb 2006

mfillescasabc · Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 6:22 am Post subject: Cost of Commerial Cobalt Fluxes

Does anybody know how much each commercial cobalt flux goes for?

In case you don't know what I'm talking about:

http://www.cobaltflux.com/commercial/