BUYER BEWARE! crappy metal pads.

fenwick · Basic Member Joined: 07 Jun 2005

okay, my High School put DDR in the noon activity room. Anyways, its been like 1 and 1/2 weeks and one of their metal pads left arrows stopped working. That thing is a POS. Nobody who plays it can even pass a Light song. Thats it. And it broke from light songs. They took the button off and it looked like this (sorry for MSpaint picture).

And thats it. A piece of tinfoil over a piece of circutboard thingy. Proportions ARE accurate. And yes, its tinfoil. Seriously.

I advise nobody to buy these pads. The bars basically fall out and the buttons are overall unresponsive. I got an E on tsugaru on standard (which I always do as a warm up) and I usually get an A at home/in the arcades. After that I stopped playing.

I don't exactly know what the pad is called, but it looks a lot like the True Arcade pads. Please dont buy these.

My home-brew $15 modded pad is better than these. The metal isnt even real metal, its plastic, at least on top im sure. It looks a lot like the "TRUE ARCADE" pads but I doubt it is. Anyways im just telling you that these suck and to watch out for the blue box and yellow buttons! Seriously!

KILLJOY · Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 5:40 pm Post subject:

try to post a pic cuz im getting a new pa and i dont want to be ripped off. ill post a pic of my dead one later
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fenwick · Basic Member Joined: 07 Jun 2005

KILLJOY · Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 5:56 pm Post subject:

KILLJOY · Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 5:59 pm Post subject:

ne ways heres my ghetto dance pad. as you see i attempted to make it work by switching arrows around, using duct tape, etc. which works when the arrows crack but eventualy it stops working all together.

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Bosher · Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 7:29 pm Post subject:

at least he is consistent...
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kyj197 · Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 8:28 pm Post subject:

Rychan · Contributor Joined: 01 Jul 2003 Location: Castle Rock, CO

A lot like these cyphers

. Yeah, they're a little old. I modded mine and took out the foil tape. They didn't survive too long before they started having electrical problems though.
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kyj197 · Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 10:07 pm Post subject:

Rychan · Contributor Joined: 01 Jul 2003 Location: Castle Rock, CO

xbskid · Trick Member Joined: 06 Sep 2004

Honestly, this demonstrates the saying "You get what you pay for". I would suggest they either upgrade to Cobalt Flux pads, or get an actual DDR machine.

Minger · Trick Member Joined: 24 Jul 2004

Ouch.

Looks like the same pad I've got...hope it holds out, guess I definately need to switch outt he contacts.

fenwick · Basic Member Joined: 07 Jun 2005

OKAY i checked it out and could not find any brand on it anywhere. BTW the janitor fixed the one that broke, but they both still suck. Anyway I saw that the wire leads to a pin connector before going to the blue box. It's too bad that many of them look extremely similar. I will check again for a branding on Monday but until now, watch out for that blue box

(which may or may not come with it). PS its not the cyphergames one cuz its got a different cord.