I live in an area where the arcade is nearly dead. Every ddr game near has been neglected and needs 2 to 3 sensor replacements for all 8 arrows. So I figured its about time to get my man cave started with some Stepmania. I was going to build a set of pads, but found 2 decent DDR Game PS2 metalpads on craigslist for dirt cheap. Not my first choice in pads but for the price I couldn't turn away. I had to bridge a few sensor connections and cut about 3" of cable from one of the controller boxes with some odd short going on in there.
The pads work flawlessly with the PS2 but SuperNova is the only PS game I have where I can adjust for LCD TV lag and it's still not spot on. So I got some PS to USB adapters, learned about the whole opposite arrow input issue, got another USB adapter (the blue V-shaped). Axis issue solved, got Stepmania calibrated to my tv perfectly.
I'm ready to play some doubles and I fail just a few second in to a song. From what I can tell, any song I play "trick" or above (yes I'm old-school), singles or doubles, after about 10 steps in depending on BPM its like I hit some type of buffer where the pad just locks up and by the time I'm nearly about to fail the song I see the target arrows flash really quickly as if the pad is just then sending my step inputs. I've tested this on an ok AMD A6 4GB RAM laptop (both TV and monitor) and an i7 8GB RAM Desktop (w/ monitor).
Anyone know of a fix? Would a USB control box solve the issue? Is there a setting in Stepmania?
The pads work flawlessly with the PS2 but SuperNova is the only PS game I have where I can adjust for LCD TV lag and it's still not spot on. So I got some PS to USB adapters, learned about the whole opposite arrow input issue, got another USB adapter (the blue V-shaped). Axis issue solved, got Stepmania calibrated to my tv perfectly.
I'm ready to play some doubles and I fail just a few second in to a song. From what I can tell, any song I play "trick" or above (yes I'm old-school), singles or doubles, after about 10 steps in depending on BPM its like I hit some type of buffer where the pad just locks up and by the time I'm nearly about to fail the song I see the target arrows flash really quickly as if the pad is just then sending my step inputs. I've tested this on an ok AMD A6 4GB RAM laptop (both TV and monitor) and an i7 8GB RAM Desktop (w/ monitor).
Anyone know of a fix? Would a USB control box solve the issue? Is there a setting in Stepmania?
Last edited: 29 August 2015 9:45am