Best Dance Pad

**necrolop** · 02-27-2005,02:37 AM

I want to buy a new DDR pad, but want to find what one is built to the highest quality. I dont have room for the metal ones that cannot fold up, but the one I have now is pretty cheapo. I want non slip, and nice plastic that doesnt wrinkle up much. Also would be good if it had some sort of texture or peices on it for foot reference. The normal flat plastic ones are easy to lose track of your placement on. TIA

**agee** · 02-27-2005,03:33 AM

I think gamestop carries one for 39.99...it's more of cotton feeling then plastic and it's thicker...I haven't try it yet so I'm not sure how it is...I think it's either gamestop or ebgame

**omegatron** · 02-27-2005,11:15 AM

ok some ppl swear by red octane but they are one hundred dollars a peice... I have been playing 2 years now and i have always used the official pads that come with the games... Yes the shitty plastic ones with the rubber bottoms... I just mount them over ply wood and iff you like to play in shoes yoiu can put on some lamanent floor vinal that can be found at home depot.. I ill post pictures of my pads if you like.... DONT GET THEM OFF EBAY UNLESS THEY ARE NAME BRAND

**xechoxx** · 02-27-2005,02:40 PM

I get pads off ebay. Just as long as you get anything called ignition pads, they're going to be nice. The foam inserts make the world of the difference. Although they're supposed to last like 3 years, I usually go through a pair every 6 months. They're 100 each brand new at gamestop, but an average of 50 for 2 on ebay. good luck!

alex_murphy · 02-27-2005,02:59 PM

I bought mine from Wal-Mart, they are the MadCatz Beat Pad Pro ones. You can use them on both PS2's and Xbox's, they come with connections for both systems, and they also have a 5 year warranty. I don't know the specifics on the warranty, though, as I haven't had a problem yet and I've had them for 5-6 months.

They are $40 CDN, and they are better quality than any of the other ones I've seen in stores. I guess they are kind of like the Konami ones, in the material and the nonslip bottom, but I just mounted them on plywood and plexiglass anyway, as there's no way you could do a song on heavy mode with a loose pad on the floor, it'd move everywhere and scrunch up.

**SephirothTNH** · 02-27-2005,03:31 PM

The madcatz beat pad pro pads are IMHO the best soft pads that arn't konami official ones. Mine lasted for a year. But realy you should just find the space and build your own hard pads. They will theoreticly last forever, and not slip.

**BakaNeko** · 02-27-2005,05:29 PM

I made my own pad. Mine worked much better than the one on the arcade machine... don't know about the metal ones you can buy, don't have money to get one!

Making my own cost me about 50$ canadian (means maybe 35-40$ us?) since I had some problems and miscalculated things. If I do another one, since I now know how to do it, it could cost me like 35$ can?

**omegatron** · 02-27-2005,06:00 PM

ignition pads are nice but beware about ebay if it has no brand name on the pad its self not just in the name of the item the seller gives dont by it... Also i think that the konami pads are the best for the retail buck... And if you dont have ddr extreme yetr you can buy it in places like gamestop and it comes with a ddr pad

**agee** · 02-27-2005,10:34 PM

How would one go about making a home-made one...?...what do one need and what skills must one possess??

**andreq** · 02-27-2005,11:55 PM

Made 4 homemade pad (1 for me, 3 for friends) and they work better than arcade..(more sensitive) Mine cost about $100 CAD...plexiglass is the damn thing witch make it more expensive.

Here is a pic :
http://membres.lycos.fr/csclanbef/DDR/DCP00991.JPG

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