How Long Does Your Pad Last?

[DefaultGen]

Cobalt Flux: 2 month and counting

2 Mad Catz Softpads packaging-taped to 2 wooden boards fixed together with screws: 9 months and counting. Take THAT crappy softpads

Mad Catz Gamecube pad: Probably a year or two and counting. Consider that MC Groovz and Mario Mix offer 0 challenge and I never use it

[Kalek]

Two RedOctane Ignition 2.0's

the 1st pad lasted about a year and a half (as in, it got killed when I got ITG), now I get a bunch of stupid pad misses and crap

2nd pad, I had problems with since about a month after I got it. After about 15 min of play the left (or right? I forget now) would almost completely go out. now it has the same problem as the other

[mikieson]

Mine last forever because they are homemade. I know what im doing and I know what materials are being used.

[PentaKier]

I have gotton three soft pads, and they have all broken withen 40 days. I have done nothing wrong with it, I store it right, and I only weigh 70 pounds, so I don't know what happened. Every time, it is the same thing. one of the arrows break, and only sometimes work. Other times they don't. It's really annoying.

[jjang1993]

Gamestop Dance Pad 1: 3 days before left arrow was sticking

Gamestop Igniton: 2 Hours before left arrow was sticking

Gamestop dance pad 2 (modded this time): 1 and 1/2 months before back arrow stopped working

ITG Soft Pad: 55 days before the top bunched up while playing on a particle board surface and ripped the insides. shouldnt have playing on a hard surface
_________________

My Favorite DDR Song is So Deep.

[Canaduh]

I got an Ignition a year ago Christmas along with my first home version. It still works fine. I have a couple tears on the outside and th inside is in shreds, but I can still play on it. Guess I got a good one eh?
_________________

[Wakka Lakka]

Two Naki flatpads - discarded because they suck
Two innex.com ebay ignition type pads - purchased over 1 year, both work
TX-5000 - 8 months, no issues
Afterburner - 6 months no issues
Blueshark - 1 week no isseus

I play 9 foot usually. I have passed harder nines repeatedly on every pad I own.

[dylan™]

konami standard soft-3 years
tx-1000- 3 weeks

[Liquid Zero]

[kaosskratchet]

madcatz soft pad- 3 months

madcatz soft pad (gamecube)- a few weeks

standard konami pad- 4 or so months and counting

standard konami pad- 5 months and then down arrow didn't work.
_________________

[quote:bd08be2732="Schupo"]People with phDs are still stupid, just in a smaller percentage.[/quote]

[aluminum.]

konami official: 4-5 months
Mad Katz: 3-5 days
tx1000: 6 months
tx600: 9 months
Cobalt Flux: 2 years
Hard Plastic Pad: 3 months
Ignitions: 5 months
Afterburners: 9 months
Bluespark: 5 months
Blueshark: 6 months
MyMyBox: 4 1/2 months


yeah ive gone through a lot of pads

[Marq(uistadorous)]

madcatz soft for ps2 only- a few months
tx-1000- 8 months and counting (that's with alot of repairs you know. But hey, If you can solder and stuff it's just fine...)
_________________

[Bookworm]

A neat trick I found on my metal pad was how to fix it once one of the arrows became stuck.

First I unscrewed all of the metal holders around the arrow that I needed to fix. Then I took off the hard plastic covering with the arrow decal on it. Underneath, attached to the pad, there is a metal contact pad and attached to the hard plastic was another contact pad. The top pad was coated with stuff that looked like tinfoil, and a tiny amount had scraped off of the top and onto the bottom. I scraped out the foil stuff off of the metal contact attached to the pad, and there have been no problems since.

I hope this helps anybody else to save there pad because the thing costs like $150 and did this after about a year of 9/10 foot songs.
_________________

"Tragedy is when I cut my finger, comedy is when you fall into an open pit and die" (Mel Brooks)

"The worst part about being better than everybody else is that people tend to think that you're pretensious" (Despair.com)