DDR Pacman (AKA DDR Pad rewiring) - Hack a Day

DDR Pacman (AKA DDR Pad rewiring)

posted Dec 15th 2007 11:28pm by Will O'Brien
filed under: home entertainment hacks

[Jason] sent in his low-tech, but interesting hack to allow the use of a DDR pad with his Gameboy advance to play PacMan. He took a $15 DDR pad, gutted it and wired directly to each of the foil pads that he wanted to use as buttons. For his project, he simply wired each pad directly to the DPad buttons on his Gameboy. It’s really a pre-manufactured version of [fbz] zone switches that she built for her backpack strap wifi detector.
By the way, [matt] over at Instructables wanted me to let you guys know that they’re giving away a $15k Versalaser.

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First post!

Also, why would you want to play packman like that? Looks hard, but I guess it is good exercise.

Posted at 1:25 am on Dec 16th, 2007 by epicelite

cool concept, but he really could have simplified the wiring by tapping the signals from the PCB on the mat instead of his foil method.

Posted at 3:38 am on Dec 16th, 2007 by danadamkof

Aw. This would have been far more impressive if the native signal from the ddr pad had been utilized.

Posted at 8:24 am on Dec 16th, 2007 by BigD145

I agree with BigD145, I prefer a clean and user friendly hack over a “lets just gut it and rewire it” hack any day.

Posted at 9:39 am on Dec 16th, 2007 by twistedsymphony

If this doesn’t qualify for the “Gameboy Hacks” catagory, I don’t know what does.

Posted at 8:22 pm on Dec 16th, 2007 by Wolf

Informated Article… Appreciated!

Posted at 6:55 am on Dec 17th, 2007 by Shabby

Solemn article. It make me lost in thoughts.

Posted at 3:44 am on Dec 21st, 2007 by Lucas

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