Dance Pad Non Slip PS2

by Naki

Product Details

• Item Weight: 2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B00007G38X
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (40 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #45,605 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 17, 2006

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Dance Pad Revolution is a dance game controller that must be used in conjunction with compatible dance games.

Product Description

Item number 25223-45, Grading is cover/record: VG using Goldmine standards. 195?,sol Please see seller profile for abbreviation descriptions.

Customer Reviews

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132 of 138 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars It works, but there's better., December 2, 2002

By 

A. Stefanski "just someone" (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dance Pad Non Slip PS2 (Vinyl)

When I first became addicted to dancing games, specifically Dance Dance Revolution, I went right out and purchased a game for the Playstation, along with a pair of Naki dance mats. And for the first few weeks, I really had a lot of fun playing.

Then, I got better. And the pads got worse. As I moved up to harder and faster songs, the mats started sliding around significantly on the carpet. They stopped responding fast enough when I had to step on them quickly. I started to become annoyed with them very quickly, and haven't touched them in months, preferring to play on arcade machines.

The mat is sufficient for a beginning player. But the problem is that no player will stay a beginner for long, and the mat doesn't have the quality to be truly useful for more advanced players. There's also a very significant engineering flaw with the mats - often, you'll step on one of the arrows, and your foot will overlap one of the corner buttons. And when that happens, often no other button on the pad will respond until you've stopped stepping on the multiple buttons at once. When you're playing on a faster song, it becomes very easy for this to occur, and suddenly the controller is not registering steps that you're making. This is not a flaw in the Playstation either - the standard controllers work fine in this situation, and higher quality dance mats don't have that problem either. This is simply a huge engineering flaw in these pads.

So I'd recommend that you stay away from these mats, and find ones of higher quality if you plan on seriously playing dance games on your Playstation. They'll cost more, but they'll also last a lot longer.

48 of 53 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Is This Pad For You? Read First., June 29, 2003

By 

piff (Ny) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dance Pad Non Slip PS2 (Vinyl)

This is a warning for everyone...DO NOT BUY THIS PAD UNTIL YOU READ MY REVIEW! I will start off with the bad first. First off, the pad is LESS that 1 inch thick meaning that there is no padding to support your feet. After 30 minutes the MAX your feet will be sore. Second, the no padding means that this pad will rip very easily...yep, after about a month of use the bottom got all ripped up and now it looks all ugly with ductape all over the bottom. Now here's the worst thing with this pad- it slips. If you plan on playing on a hard wood surface then forget it...the pad will slip to the other end of the room before you know it.

Now for the good features...well...err..is cost efficient, extremely cheap compared to the quality pads. You pay for what you get. Umm...it looks nice?? Well thats about all I can think of.

If you an extreme DDR player, then this pad is definately not for you. If you play on basic or light, then you can consider this pad for your starting pad if you have absolutely no money to buy another pad. This is the cheapest and worst kind of pad there is...it will last you for about a month the most. For players like me who play on heavy or even people that play on standard will see that this pad wont even last them through one game. All the slipping and no padding effects your score and your feet. ...

27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars You will outgrow this pad quickly., February 10, 2003

By 

Joseph Johnson (St. Petersburg, FL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dance Pad Non Slip PS2 (Vinyl)

I got a pair of these pads along with my copy of DDRMAX for the Playstation 2. While I had a lot of fun with them in the first few weeks that I owned them, once you become more experienced with them you'd do well to get a sturdier, albeit more expensive pad as soon as possible. Two major problems with these pads caused me to give up on them within 2 months of buying them and to seek a better pad elsewhere.

Problem 1: These pads slide around a bit more than is acceptable when you use them on a carpet. By which I mean you can start with the pad perfectly lined up in front of your TV, but by the end of a medium-level song the pad will be skewed about 10-20 degrees, and that's the sort of thing that can cause you to miss a step or two, which is VERY frustrating for experienced players. They don't slide around so much on wood or stone floors, but I'm guessing the majority of the people who own these pads use them in their living room or bedroom, which are rooms that are carpeted way more often than not.

Problem 2: The pads are pretty flimsy. I found my pad curling up at the rear corners as I used them, which was annoying. The reason for this, I think, is that the foam-rubber-type material on the underside of the pad stretches ever-so-slightly over time, but the material the upper side of the pad is made of does not. As a result, the underside is slightly larger and since the two portions are stitched together, the pad curls up. Another example of the poor quality of this pad is the time I overstepped and my foot came down on the plastic casing at the head of the pad and, well... *CRUNCH*. From then on, any time I used the pad it would not work sometimes, and would cause the game to behave strangely (like a song would end 1 second after it started!). The other pad worked fine for a while, but eventually the cushiness of that pad disappeared and also the accuracy of the sensors. I began to notice that sometimes when I stepped on the pad and tried to hold my foot there, the pad would read it as two quick taps, which is a pain when you hit a note in a song where you are SUPPOSED to keep your foot down for a second or two. Also, the right-arrow "button" stuck occasionally - I'd take my foot off of it and the lights at the top of the pad indicated I was still standing on it. This is beyond frustrating when you're doing well on a song, and even more so when you're doing a song you've done perfectly dozens of times in the past and can no longer get, not due to YOUR lack of skill, but because of the shoddy craftsmanship behind the pad.

In defense of the pads, though, the price is quite reasonable, considering a metal-based, 40 lb pad can cost you hundreds of dollars, and from what I've heard some of them aren't much better in durability than this pad (The Cobalt Flux model pad is excellent, based on things I've read on message board). You could easily buy about 7 of the Naki pads for the price of a more expensive one, and if you don't mind the hassle of replacing them (and you almost certainly WILL). Just be sure to wear socks when you use these pads, despite what the manual says (going barefoot will often cause the pad to stick to the soles of your feet when they sweat). Otherwise, cross your fingers and pray this pad holds out until something better comes along.