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Title: DDR
Post by: mouse_clicker on February 15, 2003, 12:04:09 PM: I went to an arcade in my area today that had a DDR machine. I'd never played it before and my friends said it was great, so I tried it out. Even though I sucked, I have to say it's easily the best arcade game I've ever played. It's incredibly fun and extremely addictive- I'd play it all the time if the arcade was closer and I had money to blow. It's just a great game. I'm definetly looking into buying the home version and a mat.
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Post by: Ace on February 15, 2003, 12:16:21 PM: I know what you mean mouseclicker. I just bought a psone yesterday to play ddr. Man i love that game, but i cant STAND that announcer!!!
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Post by: manunited4eva22 on February 15, 2003, 06:23:18 PM: I bought DDR Max last weekend and have gotten hooked in under a week. I bought 3rd and 4th mix this weekend and have seriously become a ddr freak. (pun yes I know) As for our resident ddr PARANOIA SUPER man, Ty, he hasn't been in the forums in a while/
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Post by: mouse_clicker on February 16, 2003, 10:47:15 AM: Manunited: Can you suggest a good, inexpensive mat to use for the home version? I know of several good ones, but they're very expensive (around $100), and the cheaper ones suck I've heard.

As for being DDR freaks, some guy I was watching got a 216 point combo on a step 6 I think- he only got one good- the rest were all perfects or greats.
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Post by: BlkPaladin on February 17, 2003, 04:42:22 AM: I'm absolutly maddly in love with the Game so much so that me and one of my business partners are going to push to buy a machine for my business. (One way to keep the Otakus fit.)
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Post by: manunited4eva22 on February 17, 2003, 06:23:12 AM: What I did was buy a cheap one off of ebay and then buy a few pieces of self adhesive vinyl tile and a piece of plywood. I had the wood cut to the size, and then cut out the button shapes in the tile. I stuck the tyle to the board and then nailed the mat down with carpet tacks. All in all it took me about 3 hours to do it, but it was worth it.
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Post by: Shadow_Troopa on February 17, 2003, 09:56:57 AM: Hey im a DDR freak too.
Anyways, can the PSone mat for DDR work on PS2 cause I wanna get DDR max without buying another.

NOTE:I have the import versions of DDR so I can not test it because my PS2 is not chipped, thanks.
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Post by: mouse_clicker on February 17, 2003, 10:46:18 AM: Shadow: It should- since a mat is a substitute for a controller, and we know they work between the PSX and PS2, I see no reason why your mat shouldn't work.
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Post by: manunited4eva22 on February 17, 2003, 03:09:16 PM: Yes, it does, I bought a mat that was formally used for DDR on PSX.
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Post by: S-U-P-E-R on February 18, 2003, 04:23:38 PM: Quote
Originally posted by: mouse_clicker
As for being DDR freaks, some guy I was watching got a 216 point combo on a step 6 I think- he only got one good- the rest were all perfects or greats.

Hey guys, I'm using the internet!

Hey, I saw a guy full combo a bunch of 9s with 90% perfects, get 100% perfects on songs up to 5 feet, and get combos in the thousands on ranking courses. I think his name was Ty something.
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Post by: Marcus Arillius on February 18, 2003, 06:09:37 PM: could someone explain what DDR is?
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Post by: S-U-P-E-R on February 18, 2003, 08:52:31 PM: Yeah, it's the arrow smashing wacky music dancing game. Exhibit A:

http://www.ddrfreak.com/videos.php
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Post by: mouse_clicker on February 19, 2003, 02:26:47 AM: Ty: That goes beyond the boundaries of "incredible" and passes into the land so many others cross into that can only be called "pathetic". How often and how long do you practice, man, and how did you ever have time for the site?
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Post by: manunited4eva22 on February 19, 2003, 11:21:54 AM: What happened to the sewers Ty?
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Post by: S-U-P-E-R on February 19, 2003, 12:26:24 PM: Quote
Originally posted by: mouse_clickerHow often and how long do you practice

I go to the arcade between one and five times a week and play for hours generally. I play at home sometimes, but not that often.
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Post by: Marcus Arillius on February 19, 2003, 01:22:57 PM: Oh okay. Now I know and knowing is half the battle "G.I.Joe!"
Actuallly, I went to the movies a couple weeks ago with some of my friends and we saw this guy just dancing in this room and he looked real intense. We watched him for probaly 20 min until we realized he was on an arcade machine. I thought he was playing that Britney Spears dancing game. He was going pretty fast. Looked like he was having fun, I'll have to try it. What stores sell mats for the game? (I'm assuming most game stores sell the game, but I've been in a lot and have never seen mats for the dance game there.)
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Post by: mouse_clicker on February 19, 2003, 02:09:25 PM: Well then you must be a god at foot-eye coordination, Ty- how lnog have you been going to the arcade for the game? Since it's been there?
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Post by: S-U-P-E-R on February 19, 2003, 02:17:48 PM: Yeah, since my arcade got 3rd mix two years ago (I think)
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Post by: mouse_clicker on February 19, 2003, 02:24:22 PM: Well then maybe you're a good person to ask- what's a good mat to use at home? Manunited suggest I mod one, but I don't really have the time or the resources to do that (mainly the resources). Is there a quality mat I can buy that I don't have to mod?
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Post by: Shadow_Troopa on February 19, 2003, 04:14:33 PM: I played 7th mix (same as DDR MAx) and someone laphed at me cause there was a new move called the freeze step where you leave your foot on the arrow. What I was doing was repeatedly pressing the step, really embarrising

But I once played Tony Hawk 2 with the dance pad, really fun, felt like I was really skating
Title: DDR
Post by: S-U-P-E-R on February 19, 2003, 06:46:10 PM: Quote
Originally posted by: mouse_clicker
Well then maybe you're a good person to ask- what's a good mat to use at home? Manunited suggest I mod one, but I don't really have the time or the resources to do that (mainly the resources). Is there a quality mat I can buy that I don't have to mod?

http://www.beat-gear.com/ <- These guys have a nifty metal pad, but it's $350 I think. Otherwise, you're pretty much outta luck unless you build one.
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Post by: mouse_clicker on February 20, 2003, 02:32:06 AM: Yeah, I'm also 14, Ty, with nullo income. I was lucky enough to have saved around $250 now, but I'm not going to blow all that on a single dance pad. Are you telling me there's NO good soft pads?
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Post by: Ace on February 20, 2003, 08:25:07 AM: Mouse_Clicker, I wouldn't buy from them, seeing as only a few people have gotten their pads and there are plenty of pissed off people in the fourms who have not gotten their pad in over 18 months. The you could get one of those soft pads with foam in the middle. You can find a lot of them on ebay, or any pad for that matter.
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Post by: manunited4eva22 on February 20, 2003, 11:29:50 AM: Look at the store at ddr freak and find one of the nicer soft pads. Go on ebay and look it up. Save 20 dollars, be happy.
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Post by: S-U-P-E-R on February 20, 2003, 11:51:59 AM: Quote
Originally posted by: mouse_clicker
Are you telling me there's NO good soft pads?

Yes
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Post by: mouse_clicker on February 20, 2003, 12:02:41 PM: Is this a good deal? It's 2 RedOctane dance pads (which I've heard are among the best soft pads) and DDR MAX for the PS2 at $69.99 starting and a buy it now for $75 I believe. Shipping's $25, but it appears to me this is a really good deal, since the game itself is some $40 and Ignition's dance pads tend to be pretty expensive.

::EDIT:: Then again, I was looking at the specific dance pads the guy is offering and they go for roughly $24 each- that's $88 combined if you add in another dance pad and the game, which is less expensive than what he's offering with shipping, and an online retailed would probably have better shipping charges. Besides, I could get a better pad new and the game for a little less, actually. Guess I'll keep looking.

Yeah, Ty, let's pretend that I'm not a *freak* like you and don't need the best pad there is out there.
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Post by: S-U-P-E-R on February 20, 2003, 10:34:31 PM: That's a fine deal indeed, but I can't stand RedOctance pads, they're like standing on giant squishy marshmallows - still, they're better than regular soft pads.
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Post by: mouse_clicker on February 22, 2003, 02:05:51 PM: I found a better auction (which I won)- it was 2 Deluxe Ignition pads (which initially went for $130 each- not sure what they are now, but I assume expensive) new for $29.99. Shipping's another $25, making the total $54.99. I'd say that's a pretty great deal for 2 top of the line pads new. I still have to buy the game, but I'm happy.
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Post by: mouse_clicker on February 27, 2003, 02:29:15 AM: Hey, what DDR games do you guys recommend? I'm planning on picking up DDR Max for my PS2, but should I get some of the PSX ones, as well?
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Post by: S-U-P-E-R on February 27, 2003, 05:55:59 AM: DDR Max (USA) is great, and Konamix for PSX is pretty good, too (30 bux or less for 52 songs). The original USA DDR doesn't have many songs at all, so don't pay too much for it. And then there's, er, Disney mix...

If you want to get into any import shenanigans, I'm pretty sure all of those are very good.
Title: DDR
Post by: -=Manaknight=- on February 28, 2003, 07:12:25 AM: Another fun solution if you're looking for a dance pad is to do what my friend and I did. He had bought a cheap Mad Catz dance pad and eventually the sensors in the pad were bunching up inside the mat and it was becoming unresponsive. So we dismantled the pad and reassembled it over a piece of drywall (it was all we had to work with although any large flat surface would work). We made sure each layer of the pad's inner pieces were laid out as flat as possible so that there would be no more bunching. Now it works better than ever and it's way more sturdy!
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Post by: manunited4eva22 on February 28, 2003, 05:51:30 PM: You just described what I did today, good stuff so far.
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Post by: mouse_clicker on March 04, 2003, 10:20:09 AM: I just got DDRMAX for my brithday, whcih was yesterday. Since my pads won't be here until later this week, I've just been screwing around playing with the d-pad and face buttons. I was a bit surprised to see a workout mode, though. Interesting that even Konami has recognized that a good session of DDR can be a great workout.