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Question about building/wiring a dance pad to my Mame Cab
Flinkly:
go to this post in project announcements to see what other BYOAC guys are up to regarding dance pads. looks like he bought a hard pad and reworked it to fit with his cab theme, no idea how he hooked it up or what he's running. hope this helps.
http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=10;action=display;threadid=25503
bionicbadger:
I built the metal pad using the plans from http://www.geocities.com/ddrhomepad/ (popups).
You don't need to hack a ps2 controller if you have a MAME cab using an IPAC or something similar.
What I did was put an RJ45 (standard ethernet) jack on both the dance pad and the MAME cabinet (on the kickplate at the bottom) and connected them using a network cable. This made it easy to unplug an put away when not in use. You just wire the contacts for each arrow directly to the RJ45 jack and bypass the PS2 controller crap. Then on your MAME cabinet, wire the RJ45 jack to your IPAC/joystick inputs, up/down/left/right etc. Simple. You can even play pac man and stuff on your dance pad ;D
oldskoolcade:
Thanks for the suggestions folks! I looked at some of those soft pad options, but after seeing Riptide's videos on how to make a hard pad, I was sold. My biggest thing was the whole wiring issue. It sounds like I can just wire it up like a joystick to my keywiz (once built),.
Cheers!