That wasn’t your REAL dance, you can do BETTER!

So, my quest to be able to play StepMania with my dance pad is still incomplete. The first adapter I got will only send buttons on an axis, so it can’t send up/down and left/right together.. but it works great in Mac OS X, and I’ve been using my Playstation controller in a few emulators.. lots of fun. Yesterday I received my Super Dual Box, which is another 2-player PSX to USB adapter. Everyone raves about how compatible it is an how well it works.

Sure it works well… if you’re on Windows. It claims to be USB HID compliant, but in typical chinese-knockoff fashion, it only pretends to be enough of a USB device for Windows to see it, but not Mac OS X or Linux. It shows up correctly on my Mac and my linux boxen, but it wont send any data when you press buttons.. making it pretty useless.

If any of my Windows friends would like the adapter, feel free to give me $10 and you can have it.. it works perfectly in StepMania on my Windows XP machine, however I refuse to play DDR upstairs, so it’s time to purchase yet another cheap chinese adapter and hope for the best.