My pad is acting up...

[Vyszion]

Sorry if this is the wrong place but I'm new here.

Ok I have owned a Red Octane Ignition pad for about a year now, with mild play, and I just got into DDR seriously =P. So I take the pad out of its box, and noticed the up arrow was freaking up, I messed around in Test Input and figured out when another key is pressed, sometimes the up button will randomly be held down. Since it sometimes does this when I hit down, left, or right, I was thinking some wires got crossed, and it wasen't the sensors. But I opened it up to check the wires and the foam...

First, when I first bough the pad I was to lazy to put it back in the box, and it had nowhere to lay flat, so I just left it standing up for months on end, with very mild play, so now the foam is bent... And when I push down on some parts of the foam, other parts (especialy around the top arrow) push up... So I took out the foam, it works perfectly.

Any ideas on what to do? If my foam gets bent this bad is it shot? Anyone had this problem before? and know any ways to fix it? My two options I see are reinforcing the foam so that it stays straight, or pressing the foam down for several days.

Also is it hurting the pad to play on it without the foam? I would doubt it but just wanted to check, don't want to break it any more then it is now =P.

[Anthony of [TGA]]

Broken Ignition Pad

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