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Arcade Dance Pad interface
mattudland:
Hey, does anyone have any experience with taking an Arcade Dance Dance revolution pad and hooking it to a computer? What are the imputs? Would an Ipac or an Optipac work or would something else have to be bought?
I did a search through the forums and came with a lot on building a pad, but not much on interfacing a "real" arcade pad into a computer.
Just curious, thanks for the info. An example of the pad I'm talking about would be:
http://www.channelbeat.com/products/parts/dance_dance_revolution_parts/130.html
Thanks again, all and any help is appreciated.
paigeoliver:
An I-Pac would do it somehow. I would have to open one up first to tell you for sure how to do it though.
Generic Eric:
--- Quote from: mattudland on May 24, 2003, 06:49:55 pm ---Hey, does anyone have any experience with taking an Arcade Dance Dance revolution pad and hooking it to a computer? What are the imputs? Would an Ipac or an Optipac work or would something else have to be bought?
I did a search through the forums and came with a lot on building a pad, but not much on interfacing a "real" arcade pad into a computer.
Just curious, thanks for the info. An example of the pad I'm talking about would be:
http://www.channelbeat.com/products/parts/dance_dance_revolution_parts/130.html
Thanks again, all and any help is appreciated.
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$380? Ouch. <--without shipping I bet.
What is your intention? Besides the obvious "to play the game" answer. I mean would you be against building one? I haven't built one, so I can't tell you how easy it is, but from my research, it looks pretty straight forward and easy.
As to how to hook it up, the squares are just giant buttons, so interfacing it to an ipac would be fine, but not to an Opti-pac. Also, if you were to buy that particular unit, you could replace the circuit board with a Playstation 2 game pad hack so you could use it on your PS2(if you have one.) With a PS2 to USB adaptor cable you can hook it up to your PC to play some of the DDR simulators.
I think you could make one cheaper. If you still have questions post back
mattudland:
Hey no problem - it's actually not for me, it's for a friend of mine who really really lives for Dance dance (it's sickening.) And he has broken every pad he's bought, including the Red Octane metal ones and stuff. Anywho, he seems to think an arcade pad would be the way to go, but he doesn't have the cash to get a whole system so we are buying in pieces.
But until he can afford the big stuff, he wants to be able to use the pad with computer dance dance games.
Anywho, that should do it for my questions, if we end up with it I'll make sure to take a bunch of pictures so we'll know for sure next time.
THanks a lot!
Matt
paigeoliver:
You do realize that the pad you linked to is going to be a used one that is probably already pretty much worn out (otherwise it would still be out on the arcade floor).