Hard Plastic Pad

Cutriss · Staff Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002

Hard Plastic Pad: Product Link N/A
MSRP: N/A (~$50 on eBay)

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This is a 3rd party pad sold on eBay and other small Internet shops. No manufacturer is listed, so I'm taking the specs/details from one of the random sellers on eBay:

This is a Hard Arcade Style Pad made from hard plastic and it lights up when the arrows are stepped on. It weighs about 20 pounds and is 1.25" thick. This is a heavy duty pad designed for extreme play and will give you years of pleasure!

Latest 2004 full 6 button special design for PS2 and PS1 Version 5.0 - Beware of other sellers 4 button pads, when newer dance games come out your will be sorry if you don't have all 6 buttons like this top quality pad supports.

The new PlayStation DDR Deluxe V 5.0 Hard Arcade dance pad combines the best features of hard pads and soft pads to take your DDR experience to the next level. Arcade sized circuitry and technology for arcade level scores.

Noise reduction mod lets you hear the songs while you dance away. You'll hear nothing but the sound of DDR music and your busy feet. Our noise reduction mod will let you hear the music loud and clear without blasting your TV volume past 10.

Hard Plastic Dance Dance Revolution dance pads are, especially, made for dancing interaction with all Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) games.

Fully compatible with the Dance Dance Revolution Konamix, Bust a Move 2 & Britney's Dance Beat.

Tighter buttons lead to faster reaction and better scores. Your feet will feel the buttons react faster after our mod. Much better than any other 3rd party plastic hard pad you've ever tried. Why settle for a standard hard pad. Go a step further with the modded BNS USA hard pad. Your ears will hear the improvement. Your feet will feel the improvement. No other 3rd party hard pad experience comes even close.

The new pad is rock solid, it will eliminate stress from your feet and let you play Konami DDR (Dance Dance Revolution 1 and 2) in comfort for hours at a time.
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Thomas Hobbes · Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 5:25 pm Post subject:

This pad looks very poorly made and looks like it's just hard, but will break easily if you play a lot of Heavy songs on the thing.
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mtwieg · Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 7:07 pm Post subject:

the arrows are round...that alone makes it worthless.

Lobster Jesus · Trick Member Joined: 17 Jun 2004 Location: No thanks

Wtf? Is it just me or does that pad look like styrofoam?
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Mr. A · Trick Member Joined: 20 Oct 2003 Location: INTERNET

Huh, looks like absolute crap. Someone ought to try and aquire one just to see how bad it is.

boss matsumoto · Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 2:02 pm Post subject:

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Re: voulenteers to buy the pad

I'll givya tree fiddy for it...

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Trifthen · Trick Member Joined: 19 Nov 2003 Location: Chicago, IL

I've seen these at a couple anime conventions. Here's what I noticed:

They are loud. Those arn't just round depressions, they make "clacking" noises like huge buttons.

They break easily. Unlike metal or ignition style pads that can take some weight for various reasons, this plastic has very low durability and cracks were all over the ones at the convention.

They're pretty bad, though.
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Quad · Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 4:36 pm Post subject:

Dancing Dan · Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 5:30 pm Post subject:

thats a piece of garbage right there. Who in their right mind would buy that? Ive seen many sales on ebay with those pads. ANd many complained about them lol.
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Domo Deluxe · Trick Member Joined: 19 Dec 2004 Location: Louisville, KY

50 Bux!?!?

Ill make a pad better than that and sell it for 60... far enough..
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Lawrence · Trick Member Joined: 18 Dec 2004

i saw that at the shop today.. it looked so budgo
the plastic looked like something from a power ranger toy, step on it and it'd probably snap

Agent J · Trick Member Joined: 29 Feb 2004 Location: Dimension X

Wow, they still sell these junky all-plastic pads? I saw a review of these a couple years ago when they first came out that pretty much tore them apart. Apparently they've fixed none of the problems they have as people are mentioning all the same flaws I remember from before. I think they cost about twice as much back then, too. o_O

boss matsumoto · Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 12:46 pm Post subject:

does anyone have any idea who manufactures this con job?
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Coolkid27 · Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 8:56 am Post subject:

i actually owned 2 of these pads and i learned how to play heavy on them. they come very responsive and quiet, but after play the foam cushions underneath each button get worn and then things get noisy. they slid around on carpet easily and doing doubles was fun until you try to get to the next pad and it's not there, it's across the room. ahah.

After a year or so they both broke and it wasnt worth trying to fix em.

they were fun for awhile, but metal pads are the way to go.

Mad Mage · Basic Member Joined: 11 Apr 2005 Location: Olympia, WA

This was my first pad. I wanted to get something better than a thin plastic pad but not as expensive as a metal pad since I wasn't sure how "into" the game I'd get.

You can easily beat heavy songs on this, but getting lots of perfects is another story. You have to train yourself for the slight delay in respnce.

Naturally I would NEVER recomend this pad to anyone. But it isn't as bad as some people say and it is better than a thin plastic pad.

Maistorm · Trick Member Joined: 14 Jun 2002 Location: B'ham, AL

This was my first pad, I remember buying this same one (identical down to every detail on that picture) from RedOctane. Sure it was loud, but it took over half a year for it to break, so it didn't really bother me much.

Allusedup · Basic Member Joined: 09 Jun 2005

Yeah, we had 2 of these at my house too, after the crazzappy madcatz soft pads we bought to learn the game on broke withing a few weeks. They were a definate step up from the madcatz.

They are loud, not very precise, they do slide around alot, and I would not try anything over a 6 footer on them, and once they break, they would be very difficult to fix, but they wouldn't be all that bad for an uncoordinated preteen who sticks to light or beginner mode, and that doesn't weigh more than say 120 lbs. Other than that, they are great

So, while I wouldn't reccommend them to anyone, they were better than some soft pads, and they lasted through about 4 months of intense abuse.

Beo.Flux · Basic Member Joined: 27 Jun 2005

heh. just looking at this thing i could tell you that its crap.

the buttons are freaking ROUND! why?!?!

it looks like a toy. made out of styrofoam.

its ugly. horribly ugly.

and judging from the reviews on this thread, i'd say that it's crap.
total overpriced crap.

do yourself a favor and get an ignition.