I rigged up my Cobalt Flux control box to play some Pump.
Owwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
Normally, if I see a Pump arcade machine, I warm up with Turkey March CZ. Between the fact that the CF has a nice, grippy Lexan surface, the fact that the Velcro strips are in the corners (which forces you to step a teeeeny bit farther to reliabily trigger the arrow), and the fact that I spent most of the song shifting distractedly back and forth because I couldn't feel where my feet were, it ended up way more of a workout than it usually is.
Following that up with Mr. Larpus medium wasn't a great idea, either.
But hey, it was a good workout in the long run!
Edit: Just to clarify, rigging up the control box was the achievement here. It's annoying how people who make control box replacements forget that there are nine usable panels and "forget" to wire up the center one. Fortunately, the Precision Dance Pads control box (could have sworn I picked one that covered all 9 buttons when I ordered it, but I guess not) was fairly simple to ghetto rig.
There was actually a set of 9 pins (the jumperable ones, sort of like what you'd see on a motherboard), one for the eight outside panels and one for the ground. There were wires soldered to where the connector was mounted to the PCB that lead to the appropriate 9 pins on the male DE-15 connector. I grabbed a turbo LED (from one of my old, old, old computer cases) cut off the LED, trimmed down the extra wire, pushed that onto the connector, stripped the wire, looped it through a jumper, and shoved the jumper onto what corresponded to the center button on the DE-15 connector (the post was just the right size to make a very snug connection). Bingo! Up and center are bridged, dance and pump modes are both possible just by shifting the little fiberboard spacer around in the pad.
It's slightly more annoying than just having nine separately addressable buttons, but it's better than nothing.