I recently got very into DDR at the arcades and wanted a pad of my own to play with Stepmania at home.

After buying a cheap mat on Amazon and not being totally satisfied, I found a Cobalt Flux DDR pad on my local OfferUp. However, it did not come with a control box and had a connector I'd never used before. After some research, I discovered that it was a DSUB-15 connector and that the control boxes were listed as Sold Out and the group did not appear to be in business anymore.

After searching through a few posts, I happened on this forum. From the advice here I was able to build my adapter, but the I found that the process had a lot of holes and lacked explanation of some aspects. While I was able to figure all of these things out, other people might struggle with some of the guess-work, so I created this tutorial on how to make the adapter.

Note: This is not a tutorial on how to make an actual DDR pad, but instead a tutorial for a DSUB15 to USB adapter.

Supplies:

Total cost: $28

Total cost of non-reusable parts: $21