Metal "Pump" style dance pad

[paigeoliver]

Has anyone ever made, found, or can make a metal "Pump it Up" style Dance Pad.

The Pump it up layout is exactly reverse of the common DDR layout. It has 5 buttons, center and all 4-corners.

Matter of fact, I would be willing to trade a nice dedicated classic and extras for dual Metal Pump style pads (must be good quality).

[kenzo42]

i've made a metal ddr pad, from ddrfreak's website. it was pretty easy to make. the instructions are also pretty detailed. i can't imagine a pump it up pad would be much different.

[pointdablame]

I know I've seen one, but I have no idea of the link.

But Kenzo is right... the basic DDR pad plans that are floating around the net will work fine with PIU.  You have to cover those squares anyway, so it's just a matter of swapping button panels and blank panels.  The rest of the plans will be identical.

[SirPoonga]

or make a 9 panel pad to do both PIU and DDR

[Dire Radiant]

Now thats some sound thinking there!

[pointdablame]

or make a 9 panel pad to do both PIU and DDR

that's actually exactly what I seem to remember seeing a while back, but for the life of me, I can't find it again.  You'd just have to be sure that the "other" buttons for the respective games wouldn't screw with your controls obviously.

[ErikRuud]

A nine button (Actully 11 buttons including start and select) is what I plan on doing.  My nieces & nephews play DDR on their Playstation so I want to have pads for Stepmania on my cabinet.

I am most likely going build a hybrid of these to pads, and connect it through my IPAC.

http://webpages.charter.net/jamjohn/ddrhow.htm

http://home.comcast.net/~stoli16/ddr/index.html

[SirPoonga]

I have a softpad with 8 directions,  I wish it had the middle button for PIU

[Timstuff]

If you're a BYO type of guy, this guy's project looks like it could work it you were to modify it.

http://www.digitaltorque.com/mydancepad/

[Lilwolf]

btw, they are getting CHEAP on ebay.  less then 100 shipped on a daily basis.  They used to be MUCH more expensive. 

I might consider buying one for my daughters! 

[SirPoonga]

Yes, I've noticed that too. $60 before shipping.  They use to be $150 before shipping a year or two ago.

[abrannan]

Dancing game geek accuracy note:

The corner arrows on a PIU pad are 11"x13", which means that you cannot have an arcade accurate 9 panel pad for both PIU and DDR. 

[SirPoonga]

Actually, you can but it would look goofy

[paigeoliver]

Dancing game geek accuracy note:

The corner arrows on a PIU pad are 11"x13", which means that you cannot have an arcade accurate 9 panel pad for both PIU and DDR. 

You can't have one anyway, I don't know about DDR, but in Pump the feel of the raised metal blank areas is one thing that helps keep me on track and not having to look down at the pad. A 9 panel pad would just be ALL panel with no reference points.

[screaming]

You can't have one anyway, I don't know about DDR, but in Pump the feel of the raised metal blank areas is one thing that helps keep me on track and not having to look down at the pad. A 9 panel pad would just be ALL panel with no reference points.

  What if you design your pad with those squares raised?

The corner arrows on a PIU pad are 11"x13", which means that you cannot have an arcade accurate 9 panel pad for both PIU and DDR.

  What size are the squares on DDR?

-sab

[paigeoliver]

Boo Yah! Found one.

There is a high end metal pad called "Cobalt Flux", and the sucker has the middle button.

Now I am gonna have to move (I live on the second floor).

Either I will have to move, or build a Pump setup in the common basement. No way could I get away with having it in the apartment, even if I got switched to a first floor unit I would still shake the whole building.

[abrannan]

The corner arrows on a PIU pad are 11"x13", which means that you cannot have an arcade accurate 9 panel pad for both PIU and DDR.

  What size are the squares on DDR?

-sab

11"x11"

[pointdablame]

Boo Yah! Found one.

There is a high end metal pad called "Cobalt Flux", and the sucker has the middle button.

Now I am gonna have to move (I live on the second floor).

Either I will have to move, or build a Pump setup in the common basement. No way could I get away with having it in the apartment, even if I got switched to a first floor unit I would still shake the whole building.

I wish I could afford a CobaltFlux, they are the best dance pads on the market short of an actual machine.

If I had known you were willing to buy a premade one, I'd have recommended it, but I thought you were looking for a new project heh