Hey I was wondering if the usb pump it up pad works in stepmania or not.
I was thinking of buying one.

Not sure, but the Naki and Matcatz Xbox pads should be available now, I got the Naki one yesterday , and it works great.

...as does Madcatz ($24.99 at Best Buy).

Yeah, but I'm looking for a Pump it Up! pad, I already have a DDR pad.
Pump it Up! is a korean dancing game with 4 arrows in the corner and one button in the middle. Basically, it has buttons everywhere that the DDR pad doesn't.

There is only a PC version of the game, no console version was ever made, but Stepmania has support for it.

You can map the A & B buttons to the diagonal arrow keys. It's how they handled it on the PSX versions.
I guess not for the middle button, tho.
It's possible it would work. I'm not really sure, but it would likely depend on if the USB pad needed drivers, or if it mapped to keyboard keys...

It's supposed to detect as a keyboard on the pc when you use the ps/2 adapter.
But I dunno, since I never tried it.