PS2/PC Dance Pad Adapter

[WillTalbot]

Dudes n' dudets i need ur help!!! I bought arcade metal dance pad from ddrgame.com but since they were like out of stock of it, they gave me the more expensive champion metal pad for like the same price $$$ pwn4g3!!! Anywayz, I like have played all of the American Console Versions of DDR for the ps2 including supernova max1,2 and extreme 1,2 etc. and i'm like fricking bored of them now cause there liek to easy. I have ITG for ps2 also and its just kinda boring after a while. So the thing is I NEED to get an adapter or a control box or whatever ... something that can attach my ps2 oriented dance pad to like a USB port or something in my PC. Now see the thing is here ... I've seen 100000000x of them and i don't know which is the best + most of them cost alot of $$$!!!! like 20$. Does anyone know where to get a ps2/PC adapter thingy majig for like around 10$?

[orb]

if you don't mind using a PSX-> LPT adapter (parallel port, where printers that don't use USB plug in), then you might want to look into the BuyNShop LPT adapter here: http://www.buynshop.com/productinfo/45/VG-PS-PS2PC4/

To configure the pad you'll want to use Psxpad; the pad isn't USB so it won't be able to be used initially. If you have Windows XP this should be fine. and probably for 2000 also but I haven't tried it so I can't tell you personally if it's any good. to configure the pad you'll want to use the information on this thread: http://www.stepmania.com/boards/viewtopic.php?p=864#864 (the second post in the thread should help ya)

good luck =)