StepMania in an arcade cabinet question

Matthew Coutts · Trick Member Joined: 04 Mar 2002 Location: Nr Skegness, UK

I've read on all sorts of different websites about how people have been having problems with putting StepMania in a DDR cabinet. My question is...........

How did you do the wiring of the pads to the cabinet itself? Did you leave the existing wiring configuration as it was and just connect the JAMMA harness to the J-PAC or did you manually wire each of the pads directly to the J-PAC?

If you did manually wire the pads to the J-PAC which pins did you connect the pads to?

Appreciate any help anyone can give me, thanks

BreakfastPirate · Trick Member Joined: 05 Feb 2005

Many people have said that the J-PAC does NOT work properly with the ddr JAMMA harness for some reason. You have to redo the wiring somewhat to get all of the inputs to work properly.
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Matthew Coutts · Trick Member Joined: 04 Mar 2002 Location: Nr Skegness, UK

I know that some people have had to redo the wiring to get all the inputs to work properly. What i am asking for is a guide on how to do this properly.

AFIpunk572 · Trick Member Joined: 26 Jan 2005

Couldnt you just put step mania on a disk and not take apart the pad

Matthew Coutts · Trick Member Joined: 04 Mar 2002 Location: Nr Skegness, UK

erm how can StepMania possibly work with Konami's 573 Analogue/Digital Hardware?

Hence why you need a PC inside the machine to run StepMania

Techno Riot · Posted: Tue May 24, 2005 9:23 pm Post subject:

I have no idea what I'm talking about but here I go. Why don't you just get some nice metal pads and hook them up to the cpu with a usb adaptor and do it that way? Or figure out which wire in the pad goes to which arrow then solder them to the arrow keys of a broken keyboard inside the cabinet?

ps. If you have any ideas about what to do for the options menu on the start screen let me know. Like how to keep people who play on the machine from going, "Hmmm, what's configurations do?" then going and screwing with everything. I doubt I'll ever actually build an arcade machine like I'm planning to, and if I do I doubt anyone will play it but me and my friends but it'd still be nice to know.
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tricky1 · Basic Member Joined: 12 May 2005

Techno Riot · Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 8:56 pm Post subject:

Yes! Thanks, I should have figured that out I guess.

=EDIT=

Ok, here's another question. How do I keep people from using the "Fail Off" mod in the game? I'd like to make it where that second list of mods doesn't even show up.
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BreakfastPirate · Trick Member Joined: 05 Feb 2005

I believe it's in gameplay or machine options. It should say something like "Options Menu" SHOW - HIDE - PROMPT. If you turn it to "hide" only the first options menu will show up, not the other one.
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IamMe · Posted: Fri May 27, 2005 4:14 am Post subject:

OR you can go to the metrics.ini and just erase failoff from the options, I think.

{Team Legndz} ElderOfNar · Trick Member Joined: 18 Mar 2004 Location: somewhere

ask tokyo game action in woonsocket rhode islan they made a machine called DDR Forever which is stepmania ina a cabinet with every DDR song every released!!!!!!!! go to there site at http://www.tokyogameaction.com/ try and email them to ask them about it
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The Letter K · Posted: Sat May 28, 2005 6:31 pm Post subject:

When I say this, for the love of GOD do not ramble to me about all the legal crap....

Why not just take the machine, get in ITG upgrade, taek the game drive out of the BoXoR and put in a hard drive with Windows and SM on it then put SM in Startup and put the modded BoXoR back in the cabinet? ITG is nothing more than SM surrounded by the machine and its own boot squence...
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