All right I decided to create this thread as a general interest thread and because I want advice on a new mat (Internet reviews are so.... contradictory that every where I've looked for reviews on every mat gave them 1-5 stars so if anyone would like to reccomend something that would be nice. ) I would also like to note that my ps2 is a bit messed and MadCatz dance Mats don't work on them. I had two, 1 I had had for 2 years, the other I had was three years old but I only had it for 1 1/2 years (got it used from a friend).
Random Tangent of Meandering: But then I screwed around with my ps2 and hard drive stuff and then they stopped working on it. Because the analog no longer automatically boots up on my ps2 and at the same time the lights stopped lighting up on the dance mats - thusly I concluded that they ran off of analog power - ps: I trouble shooted a lot to come to that conclusion... aka they worked on my friends ps2, they worked on the new ps2 I bought so I wouldn't need to replace them- until I screwed up the analog on that one and ebgames wouldn't give me my money back or even store credit even though it was still under waranty)
So I currently use a Konami Mat as my primary mat, it works well... doesn't slip too much...but due to careless
folding the buttons have gotten wonky.
I also have an Intec mat, well it's my friends she keeps it here so we can play 2 player, but I really don't like that mat.
My two favorite version of DDR would be DDR Extreme 2 or DDR Party Collection.
Also thinking about trying Pump It Up or In the Groove.