Ghetto pop'n controller

[bLOOdSAW]

My friend saw this online and wants to make it. He's cutting the tennis balls as I'm posting this. (I'm at his house). I had an old USB keyboard that has a non working spacebar, so i gave him that to work on, and we got 6 tennis balls for like 3$ at walmart.




He can't afford a pop'n ASC so he wanted to make this lol

He wanted me to ask people here if they have any recommendations as to what keys to assign to which button.

[DJ Tomoe]

This is pretty awesome.
I would love to have this instead of an official PS2 controller.

[s e a n a]

z -left white
s -left yellow
x -left green
d -left blue
c-red (enter key works too)
f -right blue
v -right green
g- right yellow
b- right white

that's what I'd reccomend, unless you're talking about multi-key buttons.
can't help you there, if that's the case.
D:

[bLOOdSAW]

Originally Posted by シャナ

z -left white
s -left yellow
x -left green
d -left blue
c-red (enter key works too)
f -right blue
v -right green
g- right yellow
b- right white

that's what I'd reccomend, unless you're talking about multi-key buttons.
can't help you there, if that's the case.
D:

No i don't think you understand :P

I mean which keys do you guys think he should assign for the pictured tennis ball pop'n controller lol.

Also, I will totally post pics when it's finished

[s e a n a]

Now I'm confused.
DX
Are you using specific keys or a group of keys?

[bLOOdSAW]

Originally Posted by シャナ

Now I'm confused.
DX
Are you using specific keys or a group of keys?

Specific keys. It will be easier to attach a tennis ball to a specific key.

[Timer Rabbit]

Hmmm... I don't know. Other than it's up to you to diecide. ^^;

But i'm interested in the finished product.

[Shollkee_]

DAAAAAAMN. This is the most epic thing I've ever seen.

[Uno-kun]

Pretty awesome.

I would say whatever letter be the most center in relation to the ball.

paint the balls for win

[bLOOdSAW]

Originally Posted by Uno-kun

Pretty awesome.

I would say whatever letter be the most center in relation to the ball.

paint the balls for win

He plans on doing that but were not sure how well spray painting tennis balls will work lol.

[Syaoran2]

I'm the one planning on making this, bLOOdSAW's friend, and last night we came to the conclusion that each ball will be attached to about 2 keys... but I have to figure out which keys... I'm thinking that the left white would attach to the left shift key but other than that I don't know what keys to do.

[Chao Freak]

Just figure out the key configuration when you get the balls cut in half so you can see the size. I'm so making one of these tomorow. Then I can bring Feeling Pomu out when my friends are over, instead of them being confused playing pop'n with a daulshock.

Also is there ANY possible way to get it to work on the PS2? I've been seeing things about remapping keyboard keys, but I don't think that would work at all...

[Syaoran2]

Hopefully mine will be done by the end of this week, I want to spray paint all of the tennis ball halves white tomorrow, and then the next day finish them by putting a strip of tape across the center and spray painting them their respective colors, so then I'll super awesome ghetto pop'n buttons.

[Chao Freak]

Post pics when you're done! ^^ This will be made out of Shweetness.

[sectrimte]

i know thats an old thread, anyway here are some pics of my ghetto pop'n music controller. Just built it yesterday, took me 3-4 hours (im slow with my hands).

i bought 6 tennis balls (1 extra) for 6 euros (8.6$)
and a cheap keyboard for 10 euros (14.4$)

The final product without paint looks like this:


Without the tennis balls:


One sanwa button ghetto style:

strange odor+rasp feeling+invisible tape and cardboard=win*3

got fun with the tennis balls (harder to kill than they look)


Oh, and i disabled all the keys except for the mapped ones, with a pierced paper between the circuits sheets:




my keys map:
4 9 Back prior
Z B . left numpad3

You need vjoy (keyboard to joypad input software) to assign the keys to buttons, as LR2 doesnt recognize the left key and the numpad.
No need for vjoy in osu! taiko mod (the ghetto minicon can be used as a tatacon, its sturdy enough)



voila