There is no warranty for a conversion, and it can, if done improperly, potentially ruin the machine. DisclaimerĪlthough this guide is written with safety foremost in mind, please be aware of the inherent risk of working on high-power electronics and wiring.īefore beginning a cabinet conversion, please understand that this is being done at your own risk. The rest of this guide assumes you want to use your cabinet. Note: if you are not interested in connecting to your cab’s monitor, speakers, and your cab and pad’s lights - or if you only own official DDR pads and no cabinet - you might be more interested in reading about boards which turn your pads into USB devices that you can plug directly into PCs. Items that you might need to purchase or otherwise physically procure are highlighted in green. These steps can all be reversed, so you can still use the hardware that came with your cabinet. One of the most popular approaches is to connect it up to a PC so you can run StepMania, an open-source music game simulator, which allows you to run custom songs, themes, mods, and game modes. If you’ve recently bought - or are looking for - a DDR cabinet, you are likely interested in adding more songs to it. Note: This guide adapts lots of info and verbatim passages from this archived guide.

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