Converting Official DDR Arcade Pads Into PS2/PSX?

[Alejandro Sanz II]

Good evening from México..

Yesterday, I bought two DDR Arcade Pads for $250 ($125 each), they are dirty as hell, but also they have almost every sensor (But one, which is missing) and almost every light tube (But two, which are broken), along with every wire and even the two circuit boards (GN845-PWB). Well, that's how things are here in my city: The salesman obviously didn't know a single thing about DDR, he just sold them to me because they look cheap, so I got them cheap, and that's the problem right now! He doesn't wanna sell me the DDR Extreme cabinet, because it looks expensive, and.. Well, I'm sure you get my point until here.. ¬¬

So, my problem now is that I don't have the JAMMA board, so I have no idea of how to power up these two pads, also, I don't know how to rewire the sensors so they can work with my PC, or better yet, PS2/PSX.. Any ideas?

A friend told me: "Theorically, all you would have to do is bridge the sensor wires to a PS2 controller board, and that should be enough to power up the pad and activate the sensors"; Another friend suggested: "Maybe you could strip a cheap soft pad, then place its "sensors" over the sensor brackets, that could do the trick".. I'm don't know if a PS2 Pad voltage would be enough to power up the pads, and about the second suggestion, I don't know if it could work, but I'd like to use the original arcade sensors that I have now.. Suggestions?

I've seen tutorials about powering up the pads and using its sensors with a J-Pac, but it seems like J-Pac needs the Jamma mainboard (Which I don't have) to work, or that's what I understood, correct me if I'm wrong, please.

So, I guess the main question would be: How do I get these two suckers to work as soon as possible, preferently on a PlayStation2 controller port (Which I'd plug to my PC via a PS2 to USB adapter)? Any help/ideas would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

P.S. Sorry about my english, I know it sux.

[infamous360]

official ddr arcade pads that cheap?? right... but anyway

take some ps1 controllers and solder the sensors to it
or Ipac + Console Adpater

you wont get lights to work without an external power source
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[slvrshdw]

The easiest way to get it to work (without lights) would just be to use a ps1 controller and rewire the sensors to the d-pad.

I think trying to mess with the main boards would be much harder.
Also, incredibly lucky to get them that cheap! I'm super jealous!
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[Alejandro Sanz II]

[richard2o9]

You can hook up all 4 sensors in a arrow up to one button. Whats the city and address of these arcade pads? Could you post some pics of your pads?

[Alejandro Sanz II]

Holy s***, it worked!!! It finally worked!

We wired 4 sensors to L1, L2, R1, R2 buttons of a PS1 controller, 4 sensors to each button, and it worked! No more double steps, and all the 16 sensors are working now, oh, jumps and freeze arrows are working like a charm, too. I'm not even using SM Plus anymore since it works flawlessly now without changing the DebounceTime line. I guess I won't need the J-Pac after all.. =)

[slvrshdw]

Man, if only I wasn't broke now, I'd totally try to get ALL those pads.(PIU and DDR) -___- ...especially since I live in Texas, so yeah, stupid money!


Glad you got them working, but you also could just wire ALL 4 sensors per arrow together, then solder that to the corresponding button on the Dpad, but you got it working anyway..
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[mb41186]

Post pics please..
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