The ultimate dance pad gets an upgrade

by Kyle Orland { Mar 21st 2007 at 2:45PM }

Want the arcade DDR experience at home. You can go the wimpy route and buy a decent metal pad for a couple of hundred dollars. Or you can geek it up and build your own custom DDR pad for a little over 400 smackers and over 16 hours of heavy duty construction time.

We covered the original version of this pad back in June, but the updated version 2.0 comes complete with a sturdier frame of one inch thick steel beams, adjustable spring-loaded sensitivity and an even cooler LED lighting system than before. Hey Jared, how much to get a version for casa de Joystiq?

[Thanks Jason]

Tags: arcade, dance dance revolution, dance pad, DanceDanceRevolution, DancePad, DDR, DDR pad, DdrPad, pad

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Derbeste @ Mar 21st 2007 2:49PM

"The Ultimate Dance Pad Gets an Upgrade"

Isn't that a paradox? O.o

Crono @ Mar 21st 2007 3:14PM

NO, a paradox is when you go back in time and meet your dad in 1955, and your mom gets a crush on you.

sheppy @ Mar 21st 2007 3:21PM

Why does that dance pad seem to remind me of some sort of evil scifi lab where the next doomsday virus germinates?

Derbeste @ Mar 21st 2007 3:27PM

That's not as wierd as going back in time, meeting your mom, and having your dad get a crush on you.

Ken @ Mar 21st 2007 3:28PM

Good call on another Futurama reference Crono. Crono ftw!

Ken @ Mar 21st 2007 3:29PM

Errmm... wait, the Futurama episode was about his Great great great great Grandma getting a crush on him.

My bad. I get things mixed up too easily.

Trace @ Mar 21st 2007 3:30PM

@Crono - #2

No, a paradox is when you go forward to 2015, have a heart attack from the shock of seeing your older self (instead of simply passing out) and then think about how you could have possibly seen your older self if you just died.

Farseer @ Mar 21st 2007 3:39PM

Sorry Ken, I can't help it, but I'm a geek.

Crono's comment about traveling to 1955 is in reference to Back to the Future.

The Futurama episode you're referring to involves Fry not just meeting, but killing his Grandfather. Also, Fry's Grandmother not only had a crush on him, he became his own Grandfather.

(I like the Fururama paradox better) :)

Trace @ Mar 21st 2007 3:43PM

@Ken - It was BTTF!

hvnlysoldr @ Mar 21st 2007 3:49PM

No it was Fry's grandma. Fry traveled back to Roswell 1950s killed his gay grandpa and then became his own grandpa and grandson. Making his father his son. His brother his grandson. His nephew his great grandson. The prof. who was his great great great... nephew his great great great great great... grandson. So he cheated on Leela with his grandma with the ultimate bastard child that is the Prof. who helped the time travel. And this started because Nibbler froze him but then Fry came from a future and he himself froze himself so he could repeatedly save the universe from giant brains because his brain is so advanced but degraded, as shown by worms making him stronger and smarter. And his advanced brain was because he grandfathered himself from time traveling. That's a paradox.

mcondon3 @ Mar 21st 2007 4:02PM

He did do the nasty in the pasty.

Farseer @ Mar 21st 2007 4:02PM

Looks like I'm not the only geek...

jk ;)

jared bouck @ Mar 21st 2007 4:53PM

Free if you realy want one.

jxmxb @ Mar 21st 2007 6:18PM

i believe the term is "past nastification"

Scot Evel @ Mar 21st 2007 8:15PM

NO, a paradox is, when u travel to the future to discover a time machine, than use it to travel back to 1978, find ur parents, which are both guys at the time, give ur motherdad money for an operation to become a full woman, have sex with her, than make her go out with ur dad so she can dump the baby u just impregnated her with on him, and ull be home free, that is of course if u didnt bring disease infested bananas with u, that infect the whole world, making ur time machine useless unless u find the evil ape warlord who has ur girlfriend and kill him by shoving THIRTEEN golden bananas up his ass at the same time...... thats a paradox.....

:)

Chris @ Mar 21st 2007 9:29PM

Thats an oxymoron. How can you upgrade something thats suppose to be ultimate.

hvnlysoldr @ Mar 21st 2007 10:04PM

You can upgrade something if it's an ultimate upgrade. (cough Vista Ultimate cough) It can be both an oxymoron and a paradox. It's an upgrade to an ultimate DDR setup. That's an oxymoron. Something ultimate that is upgraded is a paradox in that if it's ultimate why is it being upgraded? Now that it has been upgraded is it ultimate? Before this upgrade it was the ultimate setup in that we don't know of any better setup. Now that it has been upgraded it is ultimate. So does this mean the previous ultimate version is not ultimate anymore or do we just look at it that in history it was ultimate until its predecessor beat it?

Also the Back to the Future paradox is that Marty causes his existence to cease by preventing his birth. If he prevents himself from being born how can he go back in time to stop himself from being born. A version of the grandfather paradox in that if you kill your grandfather and it kills you since you won't exist. But that means you will exist since you didn't stop yourself from existing to stop your existence. But then you do prevent your existence forever and ever. Is time ever forward even if you go backwards and create an entire new tangent like Biff's messed up timeline? If Biff messed with the past and then went to the future how did he arrive to the same future as Marty and Doc when that future should have been altered? Why would the photo of Doc's grave have been taken if it was blank? Why was there a blank grave in that picture anyway?

Also look at Terminator. Because Skynet invented time travel they created the doorway for John Conner's father to impregnate his mother. The second and third terminators further his role as the leader of the rebellion. If Skynet hadn't invented time travel they would have prevented the existence of their worst enemy and also probably created themselves due to CPU chip of the first assassin.