(Crosses Figures this works)
Now lets play Fool the Link Block!
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(If I was smart i would have figured this out a week ago when I first tried to post this)
So the things you are going to need
ParaParaParaadise sensors from the PS2 Japanese game: Price $65-90 on Ebay
The rest of this can be bought at Home Depot
Hamton Bay Floor Lamp (5 arm lamp): Price $20
Adjustable Black Velcro Straps (You will need two but they are usually sold as a pack of 2.
IT IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT THAT THEY ARE BLACK): Price $5
Two foot long Heavy Gauges (I have no idea what these things are supposed to “Gauge” but they look like thick rulers with several holes in them) Price $1.25 each
The following I already had but you should be able to find at Home Depot as well
Twine or string
Wire Cutters
Phillips Head Screwdriver
Wrench
Now as far as the game goes, I used Stepmania 4 Alpha 5 and Dance Maniax 1st and 2nd Mix which I found somewhere on this forum but I can’t remember wear.
Ok so first thing to address is the lamp (Do not assemble it yet!)
1) Take the wire cutters and cut the wire as close to the dial (The section with the arms) as possible.
2) Remove the wire from the entire lamp body. You have now killed the lamp.
3) Now you should see a nexus of wires inside the dial head linked the lamp arms and the dial. Cut the nexus so all the wire are no longer connected
4) Now the tough part, You need to remove the arms. Use the wrench to try and loosen the nuts attached to the end of each arm. Once you have loosened the nut enough to make the arm spin in place, You can simply hold the nut with your hand and twist the arm off it.
5) Now take the screw driver and remove the two screws off the top (Make sure they are opposite of each other, your new “arms” are going into these holes and don’t loose those screws)
6) Ok now we can finally assemble the lamp. Put the lamp together but remove one of the pipes that makes up the length of the lamp (Otherwise it will be too tall for the sensors to calibrate properly)
7) Now take the Heavy Gauges and place them so that one of the holes are lined up with the screw holes of the screws you removed before (Try to pick a hole so that you get as much of the length as possible. You don’t want the sensors to be so close to the pole that you hit it with your hands)
8) Now take the screws you removed and screw them back in with the Heavy Gauges now in place (The screws are long enough to support the arms but if you wish you can use longer ones)
You now have done everything you are going to do to the lamp. Now for the sensors (and a small world of pain). Assume you have to do the same step for each set of sensors (two left and two right sensors) unless I specify otherwise.
1) You are going to be using the two right and two left sensors for the game while the center sensor will act as your controller so you won’t need to touch the PC once the game is playing
2) Take two of the sensors and position them so once faces down and the other faces up (Doesn’t matter which is up and which is down)
3) Take a Velcro strap and wrap it around the sensors so it blocks two of the three sensors points on both the upper and lower sensor. (The reason you needed Black Velcro straps is because this completely absorbs the IR beams emitted from the sensors making the sensors believe they are completely blocked.) This is going to be tricky because the straps have a habit of causing the sensors to slide out of position so just tighten the straps enough so the straps stay in place.
4) Now take the twine or string (whatever you have that is NOT tape) and wrap it so it creates an X pattern using the Velcro straps (See the pictures above).
5) Now finally, place the sensors on the arms so that the arm covers the diameter of the sensor and place the center sensor so it rest of the head where you screwed the arms in (See pictures above)
Now I had to make my setup a bit more portable (I travel between homes and college a lot) so I did not fasten the sensors onto the arms, they merely rest on them. It would however not take much to attach the sensors permanently onto the arms or to fasten the arms more securely then with just screws. Calibration can also be a little tricky (I set all the sensors to minimum after the set up was complete) and for reasons I am unsure of, sometime one sensor likes pointing down better then the other so if you still see a sensor flickering after you set everything up, try flipping it and see if the other has the same problem.
I hope this helps everyone who is trying to do this themselves. Once you have all the parts it only take a couple of hours to build and it is easily dissembled for storage.
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I think maybe i'll release the DMX 3rd mix pack earlier even if there's no theme, although i would prefer releasing it with it's own theme.
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I can't wait to see it. The 1st and 2nd mix are fun but I have played those songs so many times on DDR I can recite them in my sleep. Be nice to see some new ones
