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Metal DDR Pads?
Yander:
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Aproximatley how much?
LOKIOLR:
DDRHOMEPAD is an ok design. Persoanlly I prefer Riptide's design. I've built both and Riptide's is way easy to fix if something goes wrong. The metal pad I had was a 3rd party metal pad. The thicker Red Octain pads are very nice. I'd say buy it and look it over first before playing on it. If you think it will hold up, it probably will. I didn't trust mine from the start.
gprime:
Thanks.
All the reviews I've found for this pad havn't came with any pictures, and if they did they were too low to see any detail. I intend to tear it apart and take tons of pics (and hopefully get it back together ;D)
gprime:
K well it came today. I still can't test it because I havn't gotten a PSX to USB adapter (it's "in the mail"), so here are some pics for now:
http://gprime.net/images/index.php?path=%2F2004-01-23
Pros:
Heavy Duty
The arrows look spectacular, couldn't have imagined nicer
No sounds when stepped on (like clicks, etc), and they are of perfect sensitivity.
Light up LEDs when you step on the arrows.
Well built, and nice smooth metal
Strong padding underneith
Cons:
The shipping protective plastic is *way* too hard to get off. You have to unscrew all the stuff and spend 5 minutes per arrow trying to get it off. It's so strong yet thin .... takes *forever*
The middle "stay cool" square has this incredibly sticky protection on it (and yes it's supposed to be removed, it looks ugly), but when you go to remove it, half the stuff stays there. I spent 15 minutes trying to get it off, and most of it is still there (see http://www.gprime.net/images/2004-01-23/100_3796.JPG -- the light exagerates it, but you get the idea). It's so sticky that it actually tore some of the paint off :(
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All in all, I'm happy with it. It's worth the money and it's very professionally built, except for the fact that the material they use to protect the arrows during shipping is *much* too sticky than it should be, and requires unscrewing each support to get it *all* off. But if you have the time to remove it, then I highly recommend this pad to you.
Zathras:
I've built a pair of the DDRHomePad designs and they work great and very durable. The only time I've had to do any sort of fixing was when I tripped over a cord and just about ripped the PS2 cable out of it.
I am probably going to go in and switch them to use cat-5 cables so they will be easier to hack to new systems.
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