Yeah sounds a bit ghetto lol.  Uhhh im pretty sure you can buy those molex (2pin) connectors.  Might save the stripped ones and get them fixed for use in ddr or whatever else.

Edit: smartphone typos :/

Hey y'all, I usually never check the forum, but I've been playing with my friend Yuri exclusively at Acme every Thursday for... I dunno, five or six years now? We go by D0S and MIU on the charts, but we both suck so you'll probably only see us on the double charts. XD

Anyway, the poll thread got locked, but I'll forget to post in it once it gets unlocked, so I'm gonna dump my vote here:

I really like the flush pads. I don't think I could currently be in the 12s and 13s without them - in the previous 12 years, I'd pretty much topped out at 11. (Yes, I'm an old fart who's been playing since 3rd mix.)

Amount spent on games at Acme in the last 3 months: $6.00/week * 13 weeks = $81

I live in Seattle.
I obviously don't avoid Acme.

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One additional anecdote: As far as I know, Yuri and I are two of the only people who regularly play doubles. We haven't been doing it for a while now, because the lack of the two middle-most sensors made doubles really frustrating.

However, APHR let us know that those two sensors are hooked up again, and I beat "NB Rangers" about as well as I ever have (EDIT: and got a personal best for "longest no-great combo" on Perfume), so the pads are back in business for doubles as far as I'm concerned.

Someone needs to say it:

Come. Play. At. ACME's. Pads. At. Least. Once.

Then judge the modding.

I like your font. 

:|

i should repost this in comic sans so that it'd get more attention

Hi vyhd, I'm going to respond to your questions and concerns to the best of my ability with our current situation.  

Besides the pads being flush or not, I have some other concerns about the ITG machine.

Is there any way of safely resetting the machine when it gets frozen? I have experienced this a few times and it is very frustrating to drive all the way down and have it be frozen.

Also, I can't believe I am asking this but maybe there could be an upgrade to the coin slot? About every 3 or so sets one of my quarters will fail to be recognized and the return slot doesn't work.

Just some observations.

Typically, when the machine freezes you can find the switch behind the machine on the lower left hand side to turn the machine off. Just simply turn it back on and let the machine reboot and you should be good to go! I wouldn't suggest pulling the plug and plugging it back in. I've accidentally unplugged the machine while pushing it back closer to the wall and when I plugged it back it, it gave me some sort of error and had to call a technician to come fix it. 

As far as the coin receptor goes, its been bad for ever and a day. I know Bill and his techs have done many repairs on the receptor but it still isn't functioning how it should. Just understand that the game actually costs $1.25 and if you are lucky it costs $1.00.

On my machine I found that flipping the switch off/on quickly is best. This is more like a "reset" then a true power off/power on event.

Missed this from a while back. I need a link to a clean version of the pack first; I know at least one song, Hollaback Girl, has profanity in it. Songs in the pack with profanity will either need to be removed or censored so they're safe for ACME.

I'll see if Kevin can get that to you soon.

ALSO!

BEN! Come run with us in the up and coming 5k! It is going to be super fun!  

So far we have...

Tuan
Josh
Abbye
Kevin
Nick

Going to this race! Hopefully we can get Michael and Kyle to go!

Just wanted to make a quick post with regards to the USB ports on our machine at ACME. 

When will those be functional for the players to use? We have been waiting quite some time for them to function. I know Tony has done a "quick-fix" on them but they still won't read our USBs. If we are able to use our USBs on the machine, the request for new packs will be less frequent since we are able to simply use our USB. 

Could we get someone who has dealt with fixing this to comment for us on the forums? I just want to know a rough time frame in which we would have to wait for this or if its possible. 

I believe it has been over a 2 years (maybe more) since they've broken down and they are still in rough shape. As I mentioned in a previous post, the USB ports are held together by electrical tape and there have been situations where people have been tampering with them.

Once again, it would be extremely wonderful if someone with experience repairing the USB ports would post on the forums with regards to when they will be available or if they will be available at all.

YES BEN, JOIN US

Also, not to mention, the port is almost falling apart lol

and I am working on de-sexualizing the sexuality violation pack still

Is walkin the dog still on the cab? There's no way that song should be on a public machine and it was there last time I played.

This is one of the ultimate questions that literally everyone in the community has asked at least thrice 

From what I know, the current OS build will not support any USB format, and it needs to be programmed from scratch or entirely new PC/hardware needs to be swapped in and then you could start OpenITG from scratch.
No one currently has the time to work on coding in the background for this though.

We could nominate all of our dev buddies to collaborate on this, but it's more complicated than that and extremely unlikely. If there is however a skilled coder with familiarity on the current OS in the machine and has loads of time, it would be radically cool if they would volunteer their services.
We'd totally all buy you a beer, if you fix the usbs ;p

I'd take up on that offer, if only I understood Linux and all that, but otherwise have plenty of time. and maybe if i do it, replace beer with ITG.. lol

Yes, I hear the current system will not work with a USB port.  :-(

I second this! If there is anyone with enough knowledge with regards to fixing this and would like to volunteer their time to work on the USB ports, we all would greatly appreciate this! So, I guess we will buy you 2 beers! 

ALSO!

ZACH! COME RUN THE 5K SANDBLASTER WITH US! You should bring your fiancé too!

Good news everyone! (Trying to sound like Professor Farnsworth from Futurama)

Just got word from Bill that the new sensors have arrived. Abbye and I will be picking them up from his shop first thing tomorrow and will be heading up to ACME to install them. During this time we will need roughly 2 hours to install and test them, so please plan your trip to ACME accordingly.

We are planning on being at ACME at 3:00 PM tomorrow, 8/20/2014!

Also, after the new sensors are installed we would appreciate constructive feed back with regards to the performance of the stage. I encourage all of you to try them out as soon as possible! This entire weekend will be the perfect opportunity for you to check them out. I will be starting a new thread for feed back so please post in the newly formed thread and not in this one.

Thanks,

Chris

On other news:

To either Ben or Tony or whoever is in charge of modifying the pack list at ACME:

I have reviewed the Sexuality Violation pack and tried my best to censor anything that is inappropriate for a public family venue. I was too lazy to mix in music to areas I've silenced, so it will sound awkward sometimes when there's just an abrupt silence in the song.

Here are songs that I've cleaned:

• Blurred Lines
• Gas Pedal
• Hollaback Girl - I've also pixelated the word "shit" in its graphics, and you can try to copy this to the IWSS2 pack Chris is requesting as well
• Niggas in Paris - This song's in-game title and graphics have also been changed
• Scream & Shout
• White Walls

This is a link to download the edited/cleaned versions of the audio. Simply copy and paste to overwrite the folders to the same pack (I'm assuming you can just do that on the OS running?): https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B02WHE9YpaYeVWZzaGgzVFYxbkE/edit?usp=sharing

Here are songs that are not at all decent and need to be removed entirely from the ACME Cab:

• I Don't Like
• Racks
• Smell Yo Dick

Also, because SV2 is simply an expansion of SV, can we just have the first Sexuality Violation pack removed? Takes off some space.

Thanks.

Good news everyone! (Farnsworth)

Abbye and I have finished installing all the new sensors that we've received from Bill today!

They are quite different, they are significantly less sensitive than the DDR sensors. From what I've noticed, they require more pressure to trigger them, therefore the ghost/false triggers are practically nonexistent. As far as the modding goes, we've only made minor adjustments to compensate for the under sensitive sensors; the modding is basically unchanged, still at 65% flushed.

The stage feels better than ever, at least to me, Abbye, and Nick.

Having said that, we will need everyone's cooperation in order to make the stage better! 

Bill, I just wanted to thank you for doing this for our community, we couldn't have any of this if it weren't for you. Also, it is nice to finally have a face to you Bill! It was definitely nice to meet you in person!

I will start a new thread once I get home so people can post their feed back.

The face of an arcade life scarred old man, LOL's  Thanks for getting the sensors installed.  :-)

I may go tomorrow to test arrow stomp

Going tonight, can't wait to test it out!

Holy moly...  

Just got back from ACME!

Abbye and I have been there since 11 AM in the morning installing and testing the sensors. Throughout the day we had several players test the stage out for us and all the players really liked how they've turned out.

We had the following players test the stage for us today:

Tuan - Plays w/ shoes and w/o powder
Nick - Plays w/ socks and w/ powder
Josh - Plays w/ shoes and w/o powder
Nim - Plays w/ shoes and w/o powder
Taylor - Plays w/ socks and w/o powder
Isra - Plays w/ sandals and w/ powder
Kevin - Plays w/ socks and w/ powder

EDIT: Forgot to mention KEVIN!  

Of course Abbye and I tested them as well and all 9 of us agreed that the stage was performing better than ever.

I really wanted to take different play-styles into consideration when modifying the stage so all these players with vastly different play-styles giving me their input helped tremendously! We had players attempt to FA 10's and 11's and had players attempt to beast 200+ BPM 16's and 17's. All of theses players found little to no miss/ghost triggers throughout the entire days worth of testing.

We are in need of doubles players to test out the stage and give us some feed back. I know that Abbye and I will be going to ACME after work tomorrow night to meet up with Yuri and Dave, both of them play doubles so their feed back will be taken into account. Also, Tyrgannus might be going tomorrow so, hopefully we can hear some feed back from him.

Also, I've decided to keep the discussion about how the ACME stage is performing in this thread instead of starting a brand new one.

Please keep in mind that the stage is not finished yet! There will be some more modifications made throughout this process, so if you do happen to miss trigger, please don't rage on the forums about how bad the stage is. Just give us a detailed description of what arrow(s) was giving you the miss trigger and how that miss trigger occurred.

Thanks guys!