Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: Well Fed Games on October 12, 2012, 03:23:14 pm
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As title states, anyone ever connect arcade controls to the guts of a dance pad? Got a 360 one today at Goodwill for 5 bucks and it seemed worth the risk. I will say that playing Pacman with it in MAME is kind of a kick.
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I'd think it would work, but it would probably be lacking in a few inputs. I think most dance pads have 11 inputs. You're standard street fighter arcade input count is 12 with start and coin.
You might be on to something as a good, cheap solution for classics though. I wonder if you could hack a remote in the same way?
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Yeah, I think I just get 4 directions and the 4 face buttons, along with start and back and the x button, pretty limited.
I'd think it would work, but it would probably be lacking in a few inputs. I think most dance pads have 11 inputs. You're standard street fighter arcade input count is 12 with start and coin.
You might be on to something as a good, cheap solution for classics though. I wonder if you could hack a remote in the same way?
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It would be interesting to do a dedicated foot pac controller.
Actually at one of the (two) arcade auctions I have been to there was this game called spider stomp:
Spider Stomp (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4bvn_Z1ACs#)
It went for more than I could afford, but made me think about what kind of games (even educational games, like what you might find in a museum or whatever) you could build with a similar idea (foot switches). Maybe I will hack the dance pad into a game like that someday so it can continue its destiny of being stomped on.
(I would say I just need to find a 360 copy of a DDR game, but my PS2 dance pads are still collecting dust in the closet... as they have been for many, many years.)