US DDR Extreme Corner Button Fix Thread

Bean · Trick Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002 Location: Syracuse, NY

Very simple mod I came up with last night, shouldn't take more than 10 minutes. Saved me from taking the game back.

I feel bad for soft pad users, however. The only thing you can really do is email KOA and let them know of their mistake.

http://www.cobaltflux.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3086

Edit: My apologies, looks like someone's already posted a fix and linked my version. Sorry! Lock/delete/whatever.... just as long as people can access the mod information easily. It saves a bunch of grief for CF users.
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Mr. A · Trick Member Joined: 20 Oct 2003 Location: INTERNET

WTF! I have FOUR corner buttons on a soft pad, size 13 shoes, playing on standard and heavy, and somehow I'm experiencing zero problems! Wierd... maybe it's just me.

Anyhoo, cool that there is a fix for CFers.

Reenee · Trick Member Joined: 21 Nov 2003

Already been posted and SHOULD be discussed in the currently locked EXTREME thread: http://www.ddrfreak.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=94417

GE0. · Trick Member Joined: 08 Jul 2003 Location: Boston, MA

Is there a way to do this on my Ignition 2.0 SOFT pad?
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Shinmizu · Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 12:36 pm Post subject:

Cutriss has put a 24 hour ban on Extreme threads and the rest of us are upholding that ban until he returns to lift it.
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VxJasonxV · Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 11:06 pm Post subject:

Since this topic isn't full of whiners, you may have your thread back

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Any further solutions for Soft Pad users?
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Dancing Dan · Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 11:17 pm Post subject:

Oo those corner fixes look great. Ill try them out on my CF. Shoudnt damage them tho right? AS for soft pad users......what is there really to do? I Gues open the damn thing up and modify some of the sensors? I really dont know...

Kenshinchan · Basic Member Joined: 07 Aug 2002 Location: Arizona

I guess the key to modding the soft mat would be to obstruct the holes in the foam between the two layers, which would involve cutting open the mat as per the foam replacement mod. My first impulse was to tape foam rubber or cardboard on top of the foam layer with holes in it, but you might be able to do as well by just taping over the holes in the foam. Either way, of course you'd have to leave a few holes open on the O button so you can stomp hard to move through the menus. I'm not sure if I'm feeling ambitious enough to try it out myself, though...certainly not tonight.

Does anyone know if an actual Konami mat registers as a controller in the game like Ultramix, or was that just a theory?

MirAge · Trick Member Joined: 20 Aug 2004 Location: Wallingford, CT

yea, im really glad they got a fix for the cf users. if i deciide to get extreme for us im definetly gonna use that guide

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ChronoBasher · Trick Member Joined: 02 Feb 2004

but for the sake of argument, what if some day you wanted to use those arrows in gamplay...like solo mode or somthing on stepmania...PIU or somthing.

How would you get the tape off? Wouldn't it leave a sticky residue makiing it immpossible to use the buttons for gameplay?
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VxJasonxV · Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 4:37 pm Post subject:

This is officially the global Extreme USA corner button fix thread.

Why is it not in ExUSA/Soft Pad/Metal PAd threads?
Because I Said so

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No, seriously, because it's a little bit of everything, and a very specific topic.

So please, everyone pitch in solutions for anything and everything related to soft/hard/metal pads and wiring changes and such if you have them.
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clubbinguy · Trick Member Joined: 19 Jan 2003 Location: USA

Mkay, since my "non-official" thread on this got locked, I will reiterate here (aka copy & paste):

sfdldude · Trick Member Joined: 03 Feb 2002

when people came up the theory about the "getting people to buy konami pads" came up... i must say, i have an official konami pad.... but the corner buttons still register during the game...

I think they just wanted to come up w/ an excuse and make the situation sound like konami did it on purpose.... or i have a really old/defective pad... or something...

dlm · Trick Member Joined: 16 Jan 2004 Location: Columbus, OH

Clubbinguy... you wouldn't be able to use a simple hardware adapter (it'd have to actually read and filter the signals) that would just plug inline to the PS2. An adapter like that may induce latency (though if its *constant* latency, you can just adjust the timing window to match I suppose), and would likely cost some cash.

But it wouldn't be too difficult to chop your way into the control circuit of the actual pad and rip the corner button wires out. Though that would make song selection difficult.

Not having a PS2, I'm afraid it's really not worth the time for me personally to design a schematic, but if you knew which wires control the corner buttons, it wouldn't be too difficult to splice a little switch into them that would let you flip them on and off at will. Though making a setup like that pretty... or even very stable would be pretty tough.

claw · Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 12:13 pm Post subject:

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claw · Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 5:19 pm Post subject:

mine are size 12, never hit the corner.

diddrstrait · Trick Member Joined: 01 Jan 2004

hey, do you guys think that if we complained about it enough to konami they might do a recall of the game? the way I see it that's the only true way to fix the corner button issue.

EDIT: and HyDrA, I wasn't the one who bolded the size 13, I was saying that it's a problem for players who flat foot and are used to the arcade pad. it's sad to see higher grades at the arcade than at home on a 7 footer :-\