Hooking up a dance pad to Stepmania

[alainbryden]

Allright, so I bought the PS2 to USB converter and now can use my dance pad for stepmania. The only problem is that my computer interprets the Dance pad as being a joystick. This means that I cannot do Left and Right at the same time, or Up and Down at the same time.

This is a giant problem and I baisically can't play as long as it's like this. I don't want to turn the pad diagonally and use the buttons, because then the jump spread is too wide.

If someone can help me out by showing me how to make a macro or some other way to change the way my computer responds to the dance pad, I would appreciate it.

[Mindfields]

RE: Hooking up a dance pad to Stepmania

The matter of fact is that the pad IS a joystick.
Go with a metal pad, or take the inner buttons from a metal pad, wire them to your pad, then wah-la.
Just go and buy a metal one.
Other than that, there's not much of a way you can fix it.

[ad0gg]

RE: Hooking up a dance pad to Stepmania

What kind of converter do you have?

[DDRplyer13]

RE: Hooking up a dance pad to Stepmania

I use a mat and it lets me do the jumps just fine, its NOT a metal mat.

[alainbryden]

RE: Hooking up a dance pad to Stepmania

no Mindfields there is a way. The pad can send out a signal for both up and down arrows at once, so the computer should be able to read it. The pad isn't a joystick, because if it were it wouldn't work for the PS2 DDR game. Again, does anyone know how to construct a macro? or DDRplyer, how is your configured?

[talisman]

RE: Hooking up a dance pad to Stepmania

dude, the code, obviously.

hold down up, start, and select (simultaneously) for three seconds before booting up stepmania.

go into options, reconfig your settings, it should work fine.

btw the problem is not in your computer, it's in the adapter. this changes the adapter from like regular mode to usb mode or something.

[ad0gg]

Re: RE: Hooking up a dance pad to Stepmania

dude, the code, obviously.

hold down up, start, and select (simultaneously) for three seconds before booting up stepmania.

go into options, reconfig your settings, it should work fine.

Unless, of course the converter is not compatible. If you have one from RadioShack, it can't convert the arrows to individual buttons, it reads them as axes. Which is why I asked what kind of converter you had.