FAQ about Arcade DDR

yagsimit69 · Trick Member Joined: 05 Jan 2004 Location: rochester

EDIT: oops
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MrFixIt · Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 4:08 pm Post subject:

Here's a good one:

I was working on ITG (converted cabinet)today, trying to figure out how to alleviate the arrow lag/heat problems and I noticed something:the fan on the back of the cabinet was installed the wrong way, instead of blowing into the cabinet on the CPU,it was blowing out of the cabinet on the wall behind the game.

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-DDR:1st person to play on the new arrows
-ITG:1st person to play on the new arrows
-SC3:1st person to have a legend character

kyaku · Trick Member Joined: 09 Sep 2004

All the better to push the hot air out of the cabinet. ?

Our PIU is that way and I think our DDR is that way.
(The Pump puts out a stiff breeze with it's two fans; the DDR's fan is barely noticable)

kyaku
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MrFixIt · Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 3:57 pm Post subject:

You would think that..However,now that I have turned the fan around,you can feel the air circulating better when you open the coin door;you can now also feel a decent breeze circulating back out of the game from the return vent (which you couldn't before),so I figure it was supposed to be set up like that because it makes a mini convection current,but the tech who installed it made a mistake.
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"Dude...he wasn't even supposed to BE here!"- Big Boss Man

-DDR:1st person to play on the new arrows
-ITG:1st person to play on the new arrows
-SC3:1st person to have a legend character

b-aki · Trick Member Joined: 30 Nov 2002

i got a question. hopefully, no one hasnt asked this question yet (or just recently), but here goes:

i know an arcade whose ddr extreme machine randomly freezes during songs, regardless of the mode and difficulty. is there any way to fix it?

MrFixIt · Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 8:38 pm Post subject:

Hmm....Does the machine freeze in demo mode? Does it happen even when barely played or only after it has been played fairly constant for a while?

Does turning the machine off for a minute then turning it back on get rid of the problem or does it happen again a little while after turning it back on?
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"Dude...he wasn't even supposed to BE here!"- Big Boss Man

-DDR:1st person to play on the new arrows
-ITG:1st person to play on the new arrows
-SC3:1st person to have a legend character

Yeehaw McKickass · Contributor Joined: 06 Oct 2002 Location: Chicago Area

Two big things pop to mind for casuing a freeze up:
Bad disc
Heat

Check your disc first.
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Aoi-chan · Vivid Member Joined: 17 Apr 2003 Location: Wisconsin

dj_sammylvr03 · Trick Member Joined: 20 Jun 2004 Location: Connecticut, US

Is there a way to change the machine from doubles to versus or double to single in between songs?

Yeehaw McKickass · Contributor Joined: 06 Oct 2002 Location: Chicago Area

No. The only game that can do Doubles to singles is Pump. Doubles to versus used to be doable in older pump versions, but isn't worth the trouble; You're wasting your credit if you do it.
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frzamonkey · Trick Member Joined: 15 Mar 2002

http://www.betson.com/products/amusement/IMP-92-501032

the betson sensors are $24.95 now.

Yeehaw McKickass · Contributor Joined: 06 Oct 2002 Location: Chicago Area

Thanks for reminding me. It's edited in here. I'm going to need to do a full update to this at some point to include ITG2 and Supernova information.
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Gray_Paranoia · Basic Member Joined: 09 Sep 2006 Location: The S.C.

I dunno if this is the right thread to be putting this in. I am sorry if it is not.
I am still pretty much a newb to DDR. I got to my local mall with DDR Extreme.

Anyways... I was looking up the song list for Dance Dance Revolution Extreme, and I noticed there were alot of songs not on DDRExtreme's that are on the arcade's that I go to, but I noticed those songs on the lists of newer mixes. Are mixes like expansion packs where they just install the software in them and they have the new songs added on, or is this a bootleg?
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SKTZ · Trick Member Joined: 24 May 2006

I haven't compulsively checked everything, but at a glance i can tell you that the difficulties for End of The Century Heavy and Matsuri Japan from Nonstop Megamix are wrong. If i noticed that first visit then it's probable that there are more oversights that i didn't see.
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