well if you really want money you should get an DDR Extreme arcade machine... you'd get people traveling from Wyoming, Grandville, Kentwood, and Jenision there.... you could charge like $1 for 4 or 5 songs and it'd do well and have the projector seperate from the machine... it'd bring in more people... a LOT more... but you'd have to keep the pads cleaned off every once in awhile otherwise those customers will leave and post on www.ddrfreak.com that you have crappy pads... as for PIU you could wait for summer and buy Pump it Up Exceed SE for PS2 or Xbox (depending on which version is better) and have that setup so it can be played too... I'm guessing that this release will alow configuration so you could use colbalt flux pads with it.

Now hold on there. I put step mania on my computer, the one i bought from you mike, running a P3 500 mhz, with 128 megs of ram. But i think there might inhold your problem. See i wasnt running onboard video, i was running a geforce 4 mx 440 64 mb card, so maybe its your video?

Man your getting a head start on your criticism! We haven't even got that 'lil box in commission and probably won't because it??s a piece of junk. When you played SM down here was it running on your computer? (someone led us to believe that SM would run on a P3 500) What are its specs? I suggest, for the time being, we throw SM and Pump It Up on one of our machines near the projector and go from there. Seriously though, why don't you have an Arcade DDR machine at home? I imagine there freakin' expensive. Which means if we invested in one we would certainly have to raise our prices. Maybe if you willing to patronize our place more often we might be willing to humor the suggestions of a good customer.

p.s. It would probably be years before we got our hands on SM or Pump It Up without your help. So thanks.

I think the problem is simple... the piece of crap they plan on using for it is not capable of sustaining windows and a program running in windows at the same time.... select a song in SM... restart!

What this says to me is if it does get working

-No changing the rate (known as Rush mode)
-No background videos
-No dancing characters
-No long version songs (might overload that computer)
-No beginner helpers
-Very slim selection of arrow skins... because that thing is ridiculous...

When I heard the specs I was like "It'll run it..."
I was dead wrong, Iit never runs SM at this point and Pump it Up runs at a frame rate choppier than... well I don't know what's choppier... a chef with a knife? Oh wait that would be the fast kind of choppy... never mind.

Well on topic of SM.... does ULX have the crap box running Stepmania yet? heh

lol, no they are still working on it, I think its a memory issue

Well on topic of SM.... does ULX have the crap box running Stepmania yet? heh