DDR anyone?

[DDRAngelKurumi]

Anyone out there like to play DDR???

[Allison K]

Raises hand!

I'm not spectacular at it but I can handle standard mode pretty well. Before I was made coach I was going to take my DDR to Pittsburg. We did have it with us in the hotel, but didn't have al ot of time to play since it made to much noise to play late.

I also have stepmania on three of the six computers in my house, I just need to have time to make my PS2/usb converter work so I can hook up my dance mats.

[bombadier337]

DDR r0x0rs. All my friends and I used to make fun of the kids playing it at arcades, until my neighbor bought it for ps2. We spent entire weekends playing nothing but ddr. :-)

Also, we had plans to set upa ddr stand during lunches and charge kids $1 to play to fundraise for our team. It never materialized, but I still argue its a good idea.

[Jay H 237]

Wow, a DDR thread and Genia wasn't the first person (let alone the second or third :p ) to respond to it................surprising! ;)



DDRAngelKumuri, be careful using light colored fonts. It's difficult, and depending on how your monitor is set might be impossible, to see the pale blue words in your post against the default gray background used in posts. Stick to the medium and darker shades. :)

[JonBell]

DDR rocks.
I have a step mania machine with an EMS USB adapter (for connecting a Playstation pad), and in true engineering fashion, a home made ddr pad (http://stonewallcs.com/~jon/bellslabs/ddrpad.php) held together largely by hot glue :)

[Rombus]

ive been playing ddr for about a year now, i think its part of the reason i can skiboard pretty well, i have alot more eye foot reaction time because of it

[DDRAngelKurumi]

I have been playing for about a year and a half. I can do about a 7 or 8 fotter. I own Konamix, disney, 1-5th mix, Max, Max2... okay, so I own ALL of them... I have a jap PS, so yay!

[JonBell]

I have a jap PS, so yay!

Or a modchip/boot disc :P

Rombus: Next year when I'm captain of our ski racing team, I think that I'm going to seriously institute DDR training. But seriously, now we do a lot of running drills, which unfortunately don't help that much with balance or co-ordination. However, DDR can seriously help improve co-ordination, balance, and reaction time - three incredibly valuable elements to a successful ski racer.

[Watashi_wa_Kame]

I tried playing it :) it was a lot of fun! :) but i sucked :(

[Eugenia Gabrielov]

AHHH! DDR! DDR!!!!!

A DDR thread has resurfaced. Sorry I didn't reply earlier everyone, I was travelling from Michigan to West Lafayette and just got home.

I play DDR with a passion, and I'm even on a team, though at the moment we're in a slight transitional phase, and will be branching into two groups.

:)

I love my Cobalt Flux. It is a pet.

- Genia

[tml240]

last time i played... it was 2002... DDR 3.0V :P

i could go upto 6 feet...... :)

[Wetzel]

There is a 8th mix at VCU in the Student commons. I'm working my through all the songs in alphabetical order. Since I got my memcard late last fall, I've gotten A upto midway through the Bs, with a few exceptions.

20, November is the bane of my exsistence, and I refuse to play bag with speed modifiers.

Wetzel

[Eugenia Gabrielov]

I commend you for refusing to attempt Bag with speed mods. It's a bloody 7 or 6 footer with 3x on. I like it 1x myself too. With 20, November, you just gotta crank thru it.

Anybody got experience with actual DDR competitions? Let me know, I travel sometimes to compete and I love finding buddies.

- Genia

[Raven_Writer]

I really enjoy a good game of DDR, especially with friends.

Best of all, it's fun and exercise (woo!)

[Alaina]

The nearest DDR machine is about a half-hour's drive away, so I don't get to play that often!
I've been stuck at 3-4 feet for the past year. =P

[Blacknight]

I used to be better, but am building back up.
Can still struggle through 8 feet but need to get back to my 9'er
I know ddr is a pastime for many of the ppl on SPAM and we played it for about 4 hours straight at our last competetion :p

[Donut]

I wish our team had that many DDRers. There are a few of us on our team, but not enough in my mind. We were talking about being weird and seeing if we could drive the robot with a DDR pad sometime.

Does anyone know of competitions in Arizona? I'm interested in competing sometime once I build up a little more at it. I can do most 9's and am working on 10's (I've done Max 300 once on a crappy soft pad, never done a 10 besides that). Of course I'll still lose to one of the other members of my team.

[JonBell]

I wish our team had that many DDRers. There are a few of us on our team, but not enough in my mind. We were talking about being weird and seeing if we could drive the robot with a DDR pad sometime.

Shouldn't be hard at all, just cut open the wire and splice the wires onto a joystick cable (or for some of us, not cut /anything/ (http://p1x.stonewallcs.com/store/ddrctrler.jpg) :P), you would probably want to set them all up as digital inputs though (And then you could have a joystick hooked up too for axes).

Too bad that it might be a bit too large to fit the rules :P

[Donut]

That might take up a rather annoyingly large amount of your digital IO's though. The 16 we had dissapeared in no time with our drive killing switches and automatic arm position switches. It'd still be funny to do though.

[Rombus]

That might take up a rather annoyingly large amount of your digital IO's though. The 16 we had dissapeared in no time with our drive killing switches and automatic arm position switches. It'd still be funny to do though.

Except they wouldnet be on the robot itself, it would be on the OI, and you could sacrafice 2 controller inputs and get atleast 8 digital i/o's (4 arrows, 4 other buttions on the soft pads)

[JakeGallagher]

Wow, a DDR thread and Genia wasn't the first person (let alone the second or third :p ) to respond to it................surprising! ;)

She's at Purdue today, Boilermaker...I'll bet she'll respond as soon as she sees it.
PS--I like DDR, though I'm terrible at it now lol

[Ian Curtis]

I played once at an arcade and swore I would never play again. Last week my sister got a pad for her birthday and look whose still playing despite getting a D on "Breakdown" on light mode.

[Eugenia Gabrielov]

She's at Purdue today, Boilermaker...I'll bet she'll respond as soon as she sees it.
PS--I like DDR, though I'm terrible at it now lol

Silly Jakey! I already posted in this thread twice! You're a bit behind. Must be me and Court as a distraction again!

I love DDR. There was DDR at Thursday's BMR team social.

- Genia

[DDRAngelKurumi]

Shouldn't be hard at all, just cut open the wire and splice the wires onto a joystick cable (or for some of us, not cut /anything/ (http://p1x.stonewallcs.com/store/ddrctrler.jpg) :P), you would probably want to set them all up as digital inputs though (And then you could have a joystick hooked up too for axes).

Too bad that it might be a bit too large to fit the rules :P
Now that would be fun!

[Donut]

I will say if anyone can try this DDR pad to drive a robot, remember to hook up the arrows to digital IO's only. If you use joystick axis you run into the minor problem of only being able to move a joystick in one direction at a time, so the arrows up & down/left & right can't be switched between easily.

An average pad will take up at least 4 digital IO's, 6 or 8 if you wanted to use more buttons. That sounds pretty good for driving, now just for the annoying coding part. Would you want the up and down arrows to control the robot going forward/backwards, or would you want the robot to be driven from the driver's perspective (push left arrow, robot goes to the left side of the field)?

[Enterprize]

Driving a robot with a ddr pad, would, quite simply, own all. not particularly effective, but gets the mad style points ^^

Anywho, I play ddr quite a bit. I dont practice as much as I should, but as long as I'm not dying of lack of sleep or hunger, etc, I can usually tackle 9-steppers with little difficulty (but some heavy breathing XD). Need to work on my speed/endurance before being able to take down those gosh-darn 10-steppers though...

[Jill1022]

There's a kid on our team who is WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY obsessed

[Winged Wonder]

i <3 DDR and so does a grand majority of the people on our team. two years ago we had a DDR Team Party so members of the team could hang out and get to know each other a little before the build season.. needless to say, many people fell in love with the game at that moment and time. i was absolutely horrific when i started.. and no one could quite understand why, considering i'm musically inclined and i can dance, but apparently i lacked eye-foot coordination. i stopped playing for a few months, but got the game and new pretty red-octane pads for my birthday, and suddenly, i am a lot better. ^_^ i wish i had more time to play, but i'm busy.... :-/

last Friday the team went to Red & Jerry's in Denver, CO with a couple of other teams (for those of you who dont know, its a place to eat + a huge arcade.. i was literally in heaven.. although waiting for my card to activate was such agony...) and we were complimented by many teams, for having students who are "really good at DDR", considering we were a mile above normal altitude and we could still play with decency. :D we still have a few people on the team who have never played before... and i am determined to drag them to my house and get them to play sometime :p

[Jill1022]

Someone should bring some DDR pads and have a tournament at Nationals.

[Nhiem]

Meeee. I was playing at the Waterloo Regional in their arcade =D lol.

[JonBell]

Someone should bring some DDR pads and have a tournament at Nationals.
Too late now but next time we can try and slip some hard pads in the crate before shipout :P

[Winged Wonder]

Someone should bring some DDR pads and have a tournament at Nationals.

some pink people have already been planning to bring some Red Octane pads and a few versions of DDR for PS2 so we can play at the Omni... anyone's invited ^_^ its just going to be a matter of finding whichever room we'll be playing in at the time.

[GennyMS]

DDR WHERE!!! >>.>< ><.<< MEOW!

We played DDR at the hotel in Pittsburg but the adults wouldnt let us play late because they were below us. We couldnt play at the comp do to the fact that the matches were so close together (we like matches so not hurt feelings at all :D)

[Eugenia Gabrielov]

I'll be bringing a laptop with 3000 or so songs (less if I delete some I don't like), as well as some bad soft pads, which will be in the Hyatt. So gimme a holler anybody that is up for some DANCE DANCE REVOLUTION!