CoH Dance Pad Guide

Quick Version

Take a look at the dance mat and game pad.  Then check out the demo video to see them in action playing City of Heroes.

Setup

A USB dance pad is the easiest to setup.  The other important factor is to get one with 10 buttons.  With that some software to convert joystick buttons into keyboard presses I find the easiest way to get things working.  These are used for all the power tray buttons.  A wireless game controller is the perfect compliment to the dance mat.  Two analog sticks and lots of buttons are the useful features.  To get usable gameplay you need movement, mouse usage, targeting, alt power use, and jump.  Highly reccommended are inspiration buttons (can macro these instead in game), and time savers like follow and autorun. 

All that is left after that is to have a screen big enough you can play the game at a safe distance. 

Here is a terribly boring demo video.  With the wireless controller and dance mat you can just tap your feet on the right buttons, or go all crazy elbow dropping the buttons and spinning aound in circle if you want.  Just make sure you have enough room to be safe.  Also don't let anyone record a video of you doing this and upload it onto the internets.

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