DDR Floor

Aim/Details

Dancing Stage in earlier games in Europe and Australasia, and some other games in Japan, is a music video game series produced by Konami.

Dance Dance Revolution is the pioneering series of the rhythm and dance genre in video games. Players stand on a “dance platform” or stage and hit colored arrows laid out in a cross with their feet to musical and visual cues. Players are judged by how well they time their dance to the patterns presented to them and are allowed to choose more music to play to if they receive a passing score.

Construction

It was made out of plywood and hardboard.The base was made of plywood entirely as shown in figure.

The simple arrangement of metal sheets pasted to plywood and 3mm hardboard sheet which is quiet flexible and Insulation foam tape made it strong as well as durable. Metal sheets were soldered to the wire which goes through small holes and by side of insulation tape. The assembly is shown in figure

Connections and Interfacing:-

He hacked into a gamepad and found that the direction keys sent a signal when they are grounded. After spending some time with multimeter and gamepad he found where wires were to be soldered. The metal sheets on the base were grounded while on the hardboard plate were connected to direction switches.

To play this game, Stepmania 4 was used.