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Stepmania spider dance4/16/2023 Unless you have legacy systems like the XBOX 360, you’ll be hard pressed to find a current DDR game with functional DDR Dance Pads for a plug and play setup in the home. With all of us looking for additional activities to do in the home, especially with Winter fast approaching, a home DDR system is a fun and active game that the whole family can get in on. They were so popular, you could even buy DDR with pads for systems like the XBOX 360. You probably remember seeing these Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) machines at the arcade back in the early 2000s. Sadly, they’re also nesting grounds for germs, grime, and bratty kids. the third best pads ever made for consumers, and the first two actually used arcade type sensors and panels (and haven't been available in half a decade).Remember Arcades? They were these massive buildings filled with mystery and wonder where games, lights, and sounds would expand as far as the eye could see. I'm going to post a full review at some point, but the bottom line is that you're not going to find anything better currently. The panels do have some give to them, unlike arcade panels, which makes some charts difficult (>10s take much more energy relative to AC pads - but the pad responds well enough for whatever you can throw at it). I haven't had to do any maintenance since getting the pad and it's very sensitive. They don't need custom drivers, they just work out of the box (with everything I've tried). You can feel the arrows on the Omega GX, but they're much more pronounced on the ITGX. If you've tried that board, would you mind telling me how's their performance? Durability? And of course, do they come with custom Windows drivers? Being able to feel the arrow tiles is a must for me! Otherwise, those look like pretty solid boards, and significantly cheaper than the ones I linked. I appreciate the link shakesoda from the pictures I saw on google images and youtube, I can't really tell if the arrows are recessed or not, or if it's just one flat surface because the website says the arrows feel recessed, but I always hated way before I bought metal dance pads and played on those cheap plastic mats and could never tell if I was hitting the mat correctly or not. Has anyone tried it, and if so, does it work with W7 64-bit? Has anybody else had this issue and got their dance pads working?įinally, I'm highly considering springing for this pad: Impact Arcade. I tried to find a generic 64-bit driver for dance pads, but couldn't. Just to make sure it was not the pads, I plugged them into my old computer with W7 32-bit and they worked just fine however in the new computer, Stepmania 3.4 and 5.0 does not see them no matter the method I use to plug them in - Windows does see the dance pads right away. So one new computer later and I discover my ddr pads don't work with Windows 7 64-bit. I bought some generic metal dance pads maybe six years ago off ebay and they've worked well for years on 32-bit versions of Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 without any drivers to install - I just plugged them in, Windows saw something, and I started Stepmania 3.4 before Windows said the device was unrecognizable and they worked fine ( if I waited until Windows saw the device AND said it was unrecognizable, I had to restart my computer because it wouldn't let Stepmania see it after that point).
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