I've read the reviews, the consensus is that it's the "best DDR game yet". Of course I'm sure the pad sucks. I still have plans on building my own, so that's not really an issue.
Basically my ultimate goal is to build a metal pad with 8 outer trigger-pads and a center solid one to use with both stepmania and hopefully DDR Ultramix. But I'd need to configure the keys in stepmania to hit the top diagonals. I've not seen a homebuilt one like that (mostly just the arcade 4-way version), so I think it'd be cool. I'm looking at
Riptide's plans for the construction and using
tubing instead of weather stripping. Thoughts? Nice holiday project me thinks.
Edit - I figured out how to remap keys in stepmaniax - had to do it manually through the INI file.