PIU Arcade Pads to Regular PC interface?

[adonis_minus_20]

I've always wanted to be able to play PIU at home and I have several versions of the game that can be played on PC, as well as the PS2 releases, but the home pads are awful so I just don't play.

If I were to buy arcade PIU pads, can they be easily interfaced with a regular PC and PS2 system? Is it just a regular USB interface between the arcade pads and the arcade hardware?

Thanks in advance for any information.

[Gordina Brown]

The cost of a set of arcade pads alone is far beyond worth it. The connection between the pads and the machine itself are not USB, either.

Either play at the arcade, or get yourself a metal pad.

[adonis_minus_20]

I know the arcade pads are expensive. I was asking if it is possible to do and if so, how? I was considering buying a complete arcade machine so the pads would be much cheaper even if I bought them brand new. The closest arcades to me that have any version of Pump worth playing are an hour and a half away. It would be nice to play at home and I also unfortunately need the bar as well.

Do you know how one would interface them with a regular PC or perhaps PS2?

[Gordina Brown]

There is no way to get them to work with anything other that an arcade machine, to my knowledge. Even so, if there was a way, why would you bother playing Exceed PS2 when you have an arcade machine already? I highly doubt anyone who buys a machine is going to waste their time and money just to play stepmania with arcade pads.

If you need a bar, use a chair or make one. You can pick up the supplies at any hardware store.

[Hellacious]

Arcade pads are $2,500 from Andamiro the last time that I checked. It would be possible but you would have to re-wire them depending on what you wanted to use it with. PS2 would definitely have to be re-wired. SM.... not necessarily.

[Mystic]

sm is probably your best bet

or rather, head to the simulation forums

[adonis_minus_20]

Yeah, I saw that they are $2500 which is expensive, but it would be nice to have perfect brand new pads. I would want to use them on both PS2 and PC (for sims). I just wanted to know if it's possible to do, so thanks for the information.

Maybe for now, I'll just try to see if I can find some good metal pads somewhere. I don't want to get MyMyBox as I've read less than great reviews regarding them. Has anyone ever gotten these pads link: Plataformasdebaile Expert Pads. They look great for home pads.

[Kuhazan]

You could get a used machine with perfectly working pads for less than $2,500 so you should probably just go that way.

[Gordina Brown]

If he were to buy a machine, why bother with SM or PS2 Exceed anymore?

[adonis_minus_20]

I do see machines that come up on Ebay from time to time but I haven't really seen any that I thought were a good deal. Also, the shipping would be a killer. Any other good places to look for used machines?

I guess I wanted the pads more for SM and other sims and less so for PS2 Exceed. There's a lot that has been done with SM and other sims that make it that a lot of content is available to play if you have good pads. I've been using the crappy PS2 Exceed pads that are like playing on a Slip-n-Slide.

[Kuhazan]

there are machines that pop up at $1,500 shipping = $700 in most cases : $2,200 another suggestion would be to check your local arcades... if they haven't been upgrading they haven't been making money so they might let it go for a cheap price.

[H4M573R]

no rewire

you need an usb joy and the ENTIRE PIU ARCADE dancepad, in order to use the JAMMA connector to make the modification.

here a picture explaining the JAMMA circuit:

this diagram is not perfect to make piu modifications, but helps ;D because JAMMA is for arcade dedicabs like street fighter, neo geo ..you know)

the UP DOWN LEFT RIGHT AND BUTTON 1 = 5 inputs for player (depending the JAMMA side)
the other side is exactly the same

dont worry about wire order...., you can wire in any signal point because the game can be remapped in options mode, otherwise in your joy2key favorite software.

the coin, service and test are the same in a PIU Cabinet. (because JAMMA is a wiring RULE for arcade systems)

the final result must look like this:

homemade board used to make workable STEPMANIA into a PIU cabinet.

tip: in order to JAMMA pinout, make sure you have connected a +12v wire (yellow power wire) from computer... because the I/O boards inside each dancepad needs power to work.

cya

[adonis_minus_20]

Thanks for the info, not sure if I will ever try to do it but I'll save it for the future.

[jesaltori]

Originally Posted by H4M573R

no rewire

you need an usb joy and the ENTIRE PIU ARCADE dancepad, in order to use the JAMMA connector to make the modification.

here a picture explaining the JAMMA circuit:

this diagram is not perfect to make piu modifications, but helps ;D because JAMMA is for arcade dedicabs like street fighter, neo geo ..you know)

the UP DOWN LEFT RIGHT AND BUTTON 1 = 5 inputs for player (depending the JAMMA side)
the other side is exactly the same

dont worry about wire order...., you can wire in any signal point because the game can be remapped in options mode, otherwise in your joy2key favorite software.

the coin, service and test are the same in a PIU Cabinet. (because JAMMA is a wiring RULE for arcade systems)

the final result must look like this:

homemade board used to make workable STEPMANIA into a PIU cabinet.

tip: in order to JAMMA pinout, make sure you have connected a +12v wire (yellow power wire) from computer... because the I/O boards inside each dancepad needs power to work.

cya

i have a piu arcade panel and i do exactly whta you say ,but not work what i have done wrong?

[TougaKiryuu]

why not just use a jpac?