Most of you know I’m irreversibly addicted to a dancing game called Pump it Up. Well, the addiction continues: Nick Wood and I have begun building our own metal pads, as we’ve become frustrated with the quality of the plastic ones they provide for home use.
The trick is, there aren’t any plans available for building them. We’re basing our plans off of RipTide’s, but his are for Dance Dance Revolution–a similar game, but the pad layout is different. Since nobody else seems to have actually constructed a metal Pump it Up pad before, or at the very least hasn’t bothered to document the process, Wood and I will be taking photographs and writing detailed instructions, part lists, etc.
So far, we’ve completed the base of the pad, and we’re running into trouble trying to get the pad switches to work and be sensitive. Since RipTide’s design seems to be more complicated, we’ve decided to scrap his method for building the switches, and go with a modified version of Marcus Wu’s design instead.
High resolution pictures are currently on my digital camera, and I’ll try to upload them tonight.
Edit: And, as if my ego wasn’t inflated enough as it is, I hold the 95th highest score in the U.S. as of this writing. I looked through the pages, and counting only the U.S. players, I’m evidently 15th in the country. Shway.
reese | 01-Oct-05 at 2:29 am | Permalink
email me the finished product, cause i wanna make one