Deluxe USB Thick Hard Foam Pad

I've been playing DDR for a long time at the arcade and on the PlayStation 2 and I'm trilled to be playing DDR on PC with the Deluxe USB Thick Hard Foam Pad. This dance pad is a great replacement for my old Red Octane thick dance pad for PlayStation. I'm happy to be able to play DDR like I used to. Too bad my body gets tired a lot faster nowadays. Haha :) Thanks a lot to DDRPAD.com for the great product!

The rigid foam fits snugly into the pad with a little bit of effort zipping it shut and it did not seem to slip around on me when I tried out a couple songs earlier with it sitting on the rug in my living room. The buttons also seem responsive from the limited testing I did while setting up Project Outfox. I'm extremely a beginner here but I think this will be fun to learn on, glad I sprung for the deluxe version. The foam comes as a like, jigsaw of six pieces that fit snugly together so if I wanted to pack this up and take it somewhere I definitely could.

Shipping was incredibly fast I ordered it yesterday and it showed up by noon today. Site support was very helpful and responsive when I asked about the differences between the three home pads they offer here.

The only thing I'd change is to mess with the design of the cable to make it detachable from the front of the pad, either with a short connecting cable that can come apart from the rest of the USB cable (I recall old xbox 360 controllers that had something like this) or like by just plugging one end of the cable into the front or something. My main worry is someone (me, lets be real) tripping on the cable and either damaging the front of the pad or yanking my Steam deck off the TV stand. But that's a minor critique and just a thought I had if this ever gets redesigned a bit. Looking at this I bet if I ever did damage the cable it wouldn't be terribly difficult to replace.

I am also incredibly bad at DDR though holy moley I never played when I was younger and just trying to do a couple of songs in my late 30s here was pretty humbling.

Probably the best affordable dance pad I've bought so far. It's accurate and durable. It shifts slightly but that's easily fixed with a gripper sheet that sticks rugs to carpet (not rugs to hardwood, those are different). I use this to play rhythm games almost every day now. The connection to my PC was straightforward, no software necessary

I replaced the basic soft pad with this one, and it doesn't move around nearly as much as the basic one. It also dampens the sound of my stomping so it's less of a nuisance to my family.