Dance Dance Revolution Upgrade Question

Shadowknight93

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Hello Everyone,
Here is my situation, A local arcade has a Disney's rave machine that is in working order, except several of the pads arrows do not work (bad sensors) and the arcade does not want to fight trying to take the brackets off the arrows as most of the screws are stripped, so they are parting out the machine. They have a buyer for just about everything except for the complete PCB (enclosed in the metal container, has everything plugged in, security cart, CD ROM with CD, Flash Card in slot 2, ect ..) in which it has been tested and works with no issues.

So my question is, could I disconnect everything external from the PCB in my extreme machine, slide it out, then slide in the Disney's rave complete PCB, and connect everything to it, then power on the machine and it should simply boot to disneys rave, since the security cart would be in the original pcb with the same serial number and would be still installed on the same flash card it was, basically everything would match up.

The arcade technician told me, the DDR machine installs on the Slot 2 flash card drive, and the security cart verifies the PCB's serial number, thus all I need to do is simply remove the external connectors from the current PCB housing in my machine, slide it out and slide in the Disney's rave and connect everything to its housing, then power on the machine and it would boot disneys rave. I am not sure this would work, so I figured I'd ask as they want $1200 for the complete PCB which I am fine paying if it would work that way, but to me, it seems too easy for it to work like that, and I see lots of threads saying you cannot downgrade, but in this case the entire PCB would be removed and replaced so technically shouldn't it work as I am not trying to install disneys rave on my current PCB, I am simply replacing it with a PCB that has it installed.
 
Alright,
So I figured everything would be good and ordered it (Talked the guy down to $400), so now I am going to reach out to you pro's and get opinions (Chances are I will fight to get a refund unless you guys can help me to get things working).

1.) When I swapped the PCB'S, I noticed the Disney's Rave one had different connectors (Still has JAMMA), so I figured it wouldn't be an issue and it booted up ... but both sides of the PAD (On the Disney Rave) registered the TOP and RIGHT arrow as being held down (Thinking they are short closed, See below). The Left and bottom registered fine (See Below Picture), in the 1 in a million chance would I somehow be able to fix this? I just figured the JAMMA would be the same in both PCB's, and it appears to be but I could be wrong and perhaps I need some sort of adapter to make it work right. (Also note, The pad lights do NOT come on when the button is pressed on the Disney rave PCB even on the working arrows)

Image of the PCB'S.
disrav_01.png
ddr8_01.png


Image of the error on non-error (First Disney's Rave which shows the security card out (for seller as proof he sold me bootleg) and up / right arrows held down), Second is DDR 8th which is using the same pad with no issues (They work when stepped on)
disrav_02.png
ddr8_02.png


2.) This got me thinking something was wrong, So I checked and noticed it has no Flash card and still booted, so for the hell of it, I removed the Disney's Rave Security cart and guess what? It booted (Yeah at this point I am annoyed).

3.) I realized this is a bootleg... Good news is Ebay protects against this crap.

However, the CD appears to be legit ... and if somehow I could get the pad to work correctly I wouldn't really mind, but in the current state, the game is unplayable as only two arrows on each side work. Perhaps I need an adapter or something I don't know, it just really sucks and I'm very annoyed at this entire thing.

Any help is appreciated.
 
the disney rave is two player game, right?
you can swap the pad harness from extreme to disney rave's. the pad harness not go to jamma. they're those white and red sockets. you have to open the box, and take photo or label everything before you pull them up from board, and swap them. swap the whole of those white and red harness.
 
Double check your connections for the non-jamma harnesses. If those aren't connected properly the in-pad boards will hold up and right. If they're connected and it still does that, you can try running a jumper wire between pins 1 and 6 on the P1 and P2 connectors - that should force the boards into the proper mode.
 
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