Home or Arcade?

Rancidfish · Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2003 12:48 pm Post subject:

Arcade. I like being able to feel where the buttons are, rather than just going on memory. I can full-combo many 9s in the arcade, and I have trouble passing 7s at home.

I also find playing at home much more tiring than playing in the arcade, depsite the fact that I'm not wearing shoes. Go figure.
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PyschoPolak · Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2003 1:51 pm Post subject:

I find arcade pads being a lot better for me.
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NalarZ · Trick Member Joined: 15 Feb 2003 Location: Westland, MI

Anyone have any suggestions for making the transition from home to arcade platforms? I have trouble doing some of the easy 9 footers on the arcade when I AA them at home... the whole sunken arrow thing is killing me. I'd MUCH rather be better at playing on the arcade machines than at home.
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Rancidfish · Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2003 12:14 am Post subject:

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samurai sarai · Trick Member Joined: 06 Apr 2003

The arcade kicks the home version's as.s! THe arcade has sturdier hard pads, a trick bar so you can keep yourself from falling, more songs, it's louder and flashier, and there are people to talk to. The arcade experience is so much better. Home plastic pads are a pain and they make that annoying crinkly noise when you step on them. Then you might have the problem of stupid people yelling at you because you're stomping around in your room. If I could get to the arcade more often, I would sell my PS2 and just play at the arcade. Unfortunately, my parents are extremely overprotective and I can't drive yet, so I don't get to go as often as I want.

Basically, the arcade kicks as.s and the home version sucks.
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.fill · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2003 6:10 pm Post subject:

I prefer the home pad. I have more room than at the aracade. First time I went, I felt so confined because of the close proximity of the bar and second player pad. Also, I use a Red Octane Ignition, so the arrows are raised up and it's easier to slide. With the arcade, the arrows seem to be lowered and I find myself constantly missing the arrow, not to mention I'm not used to sliding in shoes. But I've come to like the arcade, mostly because I don't have to keep on buying pads.

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Serendipity_007 · Trick Member Joined: 17 Jun 2003 Location: St. Marys, GA

Well, since i never tried DDR on a home pad, i can't really say, but from what i have heard, the home pads can't hold a candle to the arcade ones. That is, if they are in good condition.

Question: for smaller, lighter players, is it easier to do freeze arrows on a home pad or the arcade? A few kids (and even some lighter teenagers) have trouble doing freeze arrows on the DDR MAX 2 machine at my arcade.
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smardm1 · Basic Member Joined: 20 Jun 2003

I have to go with arcade. The one I have at home moves to much and I lose my step easily. At the arcade, I can fell where I step and I end up scoring better there then I do at home. Plus, the pad messes up on me sometimes. I could be looking at it and hit a step and it won't count it in the game. It gets really annoying sometimes.

cristian989 · Trick Member Joined: 11 Dec 2002 Location: Amherst, MA

i like the arcade cause i get less tired than when playing at home with my ignition 2.0 pads. I also have a better PA on arcade than home, again prolly cause my pad sucks compared to metal arcade pad. Plus i also like the fact that i can sometimes get a change to play infront of a crowd, sweet rush if you ask me hehe

Phrekwenci · Administrator Joined: 27 Feb 2002 Location: New York, NY

I am going to sticky this due to the popularity of the subject. Raise your ideas, but don't flame because you favor one over the other otherwise this type of thread wont be allowed.
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I like arcade pads, but I seriously dislike people raping my trick bars. We've considered removing them a few times.

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J. S. Mill · Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2003 5:03 am Post subject:

A big selling point of the arcade: If you AAA something, people care.
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bemani-man · Trick Member Joined: 14 Jun 2003 Location: Ridgeland, SC

The arcade pads. They light up! Plus, I don't step on the arrows accedently (size 11 shoe). And the sound is good on all DDR machines. Its the owners that don't open them to turn up the volume.

Serendipity_007, they have to stomp the pad to register it. As long as there is pressure, the arrow will stay, but you have to register it.
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illezt · Trick Member Joined: 20 Jun 2003 Location: Paramus, NJ

i can't play for poopy on home pads... i barely pass songs like holic and crap ( on heavy ). then again, i'm not much better on arcade, but i usually get B's or A's on holic.
i think the home pad is just too small. i always miss the back step because my legs are so long and i'm used to the arcade pad
i guess that' why i'm not getting any better, because i can't practice at home.

::B u S t 0 p:: · Trick Member Joined: 07 May 2003 Location: Bronx, NY

welll....at new roc the crappy 3rd mix machine is soo damn loud compared to the max2 machine right next to it.....when u play on the max2 all u hear are the 3rd mix songs which throw you off......but for some strange i still prefer the arcade becuz there are a lot of ppl u cud socialize with....and the mats respond a lot better too...

Trance Of Sorrow · Trick Member Joined: 01 Feb 2003

Arcade w00t! I like playing on something that doesn't move, now if I had a CF or something hard like the arcades I play SM on a Big Screen.

Romulus141 · Trick Member Joined: 10 May 2003 Location: Oxford, PA

I love to play at the arcade, because as someone mentioned earlier, it just has an atmosphere that isn't captured by playing at home.

However, I play the hell out of my home versions (almost everyday, for at least an hour), and I have gotten better at the arcade as a result. I'm used to using both my home pad (I use a Cyphergames Ignition 2.0 w/chairmat mod, no foam insert) and playing in the arcade, and the accomplishments in one carry over to the other. For example, I completed Exotic Ethnic Heavy in the arcade for the first time last Wednesday. Thursday night, I beat it on the home version.

I know what I'm going to say next is flame-bait, but people kept saying how the CF is better than the arcade. My brother got a Cobalt Flux a few weeks ago, and uh... I wasn't really impressed. Maybe he has a bad one, but I play worse on that thing than either on my Ignition pad or the arcade pad. My PA really suffers on that thing. I get far more goods and misses than I should, and this is on easy streaming songs like Holic Heavy. I know that my timing isn't so bad that I get a good out of the blue in the stream section. I can't really slide on it, and when I stand in the center inbetween songs it constantly registers up (and yes, I have opened it up and tried to fix it, it didn't really work). My friend (who is slightly below my level in technical skills, but has a better sense of timing for perfects than I do) also gets more goods and greats on the thing, and on an easy Oni like BeForU, will lose in the first song because the pad refuses to register a couple steps properly. For three hundred dollars, I wouldn't expect there to be these sort of accuracy issues (and no, I don't think the problem lies in the control box, which BTW constantly falls out of its slot due to the movement on the pad). My brother contacted the CF guys, and they told him to bend the metal contacts. Guess what, no dice, still doesn't work all that well. *Sigh* At least I didn't buy one as well. My Ignition works more than well enough for me.

Regardless of that, I like the home version for its free play, and I usually play with a friend, so it sorta has the feel of the arcade of having someone to play with.
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