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diabloslayer469 · Trick Member Joined: 15 Feb 2003 Location: Neo-Geo Land

Well, my BNS DX-XTreme Dance Pad finally came! Another cool thing is that it came today, today is my last day of school! The pad did come with a free parallel port adaptor which is good. When I first opened the box, i wanted to find out exactly how dense the inserts were, and just like the description, they are Xtremely dense. It came with three inserts with interlocking patterns. They were easy to assemble. The inserts were a bit bigger than the pad, but is wasn't that hard to insert them into the pad. I had no problems inserting the insert and zipping the pad up. When I played 5th mix, i started to get a couple of boos and misses. I found out that the cause of this was the little semi-circle on the arrow. Steping in this circle does not trigger a step. After a couple of songs, I got used to the semi-circle issue, but then I encountered another problem, I kept falling off the pad. I don't know if this is pad is regulation size, but too me it seemed to be a little smaller than normal. On some catas my foot would slide to touch one of the arrows, and then suddenly my foot would come off the pad adn cause me to lose my balance. I think the reason that I think it is small is that before this pad, I played with a RO Metal Pad, which is bigger than this pad. Other than the pad's semi-circle issue, the sensitivity is excellant. When I tried playing with the pad on Stepmania I was dissapointed with the pad's sensitivity. I played songs like Exotic Ethnic Heavy and Maxx Unlimited Standard. The left arrow seemed to be unresponsive. It barely registered and on freeze steps it wouldn't suddeny register for a second and then it would stop, which caused a lot of boos and No Goods. Even though it didn't play stepmania well, don't let that stop you from buying this pad. It might just be my pad or drivers for the cause of the left arrow issue.

diabloslayer469 · Trick Member Joined: 15 Feb 2003 Location: Neo-Geo Land

Which mod could I do to my BNS DX-Xtrene Dance Pad to increase sensitivity?

de_ddr_415* · Basic Member Joined: 04 Jun 2003 Location: san francisco

i was wondering if i could combine the chairmat mod and plywood mod and the pad would be just as good as those mods done uncombined?

To double check on the mods the CHAIRMAT MOD: is when you take a chairmat and put into the pad and leave the foam piece under the chairmat and the PLYWOOD MOD: is when you take a piece of plywood, hardwood floor covering, clear ducktape, and a staple gun, and....put the pad on the plywood, put the ducktape on the edges of the mat and tape to wood, and staple the hardwood floor covering. is that correct????? Because im thinking about getting a redoctane ignition pad 2.0 and i want to mod it so i wanna make sure that the mods work good.

de_ddr_415* · Basic Member Joined: 04 Jun 2003 Location: san francisco

i was wondering what is it with pluging in the cords and everything and repluging them back in the ps2............dont you just leave the pad pluged in all the time????????????????????????????

diabloslayer469 · Trick Member Joined: 15 Feb 2003 Location: Neo-Geo Land

suzfreak125 · Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2003 12:44 pm Post subject: soft pad

i have a soft pad that i got off the internet from kommax.com and i got it in like three days. ive had the pad for a couple of months now and it still kicks buttocks

DDRnIA · Basic Member Joined: 06 Jun 2003

What about the Ignition v 3.1 pads at Level Six? They come with free foam inserts so I thought maybe that'd be good for me.

Zarf

Okay, I'm going to try to just stick to the facts:
1) On E-Bay one can find many listings for DDR pads and bundles from plegend2001 - these are in fact from Cybergames
2) Frequently, plegend2001 offers an item that is "2 DANCE REVOLUTION IGNITION PAD DDR KONAMIX"
3) The item clearly states in its description:

de_ddr_415* · Basic Member Joined: 04 Jun 2003 Location: san francisco

How do you plywood mod a BNS Ultra DX-Xtreme Dance Pad because sine the foam is 1" thick and im thinking of doing tommy guns mod do i have to squish the pad so i can tape it to the wood?

diabloslayer469 · Trick Member Joined: 15 Feb 2003 Location: Neo-Geo Land

diabloslayer469 · Trick Member Joined: 15 Feb 2003 Location: Neo-Geo Land

My BNS Ultra DX-Xtreme Dance Pad now works perfectly with Stepmania, because I used a different driver, PSXPAD. This pad rocks, but now there is another bad thing i found out. The BNS Ultra DX-Xtreme Dance Pad has Triangle and Square buttons in the lower left and right hand corners. I thought that there wouldn't be arrows there, because there is no graphic. But when I played I found out that the up arrow would be triggered with my foot was in the lower-left corner. Why would BNS add triangle and square buttons?

DDRnIA · Basic Member Joined: 06 Jun 2003

Can someone please answer my question?

diabloslayer469 · Trick Member Joined: 15 Feb 2003 Location: Neo-Geo Land

Zep · Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2003 7:34 am Post subject:

If I had the money then I would buy Big Metal pads that cost like $250

look in to it on EBAY

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LouieT · Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2003 10:10 pm Post subject:

I got my DPR2 pad modded today. I duct-taped it onto an 8mm thick fiberboard. The board is really cheap, at around $7.50 for a 4' X 4' piece. It's also surprisingly very strong and light. If anyone is thinking about taping a soft pad to a flat piece of wood, I recommend fiberboard.
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jeremyh · Basic Member Joined: 18 Feb 2003

Glorious Maniac · Trick Member Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Location: ...

The RedOctane Ignition v2.0 Pad...improving my scores since 11:17 this morning. Trust me on this one. I had the Naki soft pad(with the square and triangle buttons) modded with plywood for the past 9 months. For the past month, I've cursed its name when I'm doing fast eighth-note runs and it doesn't register (Dead End, R&P, all Paranoias, etc.) and I get no combos above 50 or so. I just did Dead End Maniac with 37 greats, 3 goods, 1 almost and 2 misses. That's 6 misses in over 400 steps. Compared to when I could barely C it (last night even!), that's great! I am singing the praises of the Ignition 2.0. This is a great pad!

-Edit-Well, I've just proven this pad is great. I did the first 200 steps of Max300 in a single combo...then failed right after the freeze as usual, but that's my own fault.
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Glorious Maniac · Trick Member Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Location: ...

Freak862 · Basic Member Joined: 11 Jun 2003

My RedOctane pad gave out in 4 months. These pads last for a while, but they suck to much. When ever I step on any arrow(Happens with every of my Redoctane pads), it doesnt register, and my up arrow doesn't register at all. Wierd.

Tip: Don't buy redoctane pads.
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Trying to do:

Paranoia Survivor-A (Maniac)
Maxx Unlimited-A (Maniac)

Can't see. To many ARROWS. AGHHHHH...

Little Firefly · Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2003 6:27 pm Post subject:

hello. i bought a ddr bundle that came with BNS nonslip flashing pads. Anyway, i hate playing barefoot. it drives me nuts. does anyone know of a mod for a soft pad that will allow me to play in shoes? My friend said the on on the site by PitterPanda would not allow me to wear shoes.

can anyone help? thanks.