I would recommend you save your money until you can afford one of the sticks available built with real arcade components.(posted 9799 days ago)There is nothing like the feel of a real arcade joystick and buttons - as we found out when we built our own joystciks for the good old C=64 back in the early 80's. It knocked the socks off everything except my good old trusty Wico joystcik made with real arcade gold- leaf switch technology and didn't click like crazy like microswitched joysticks do.
The next best joystick I found used gold pads and gold contacts that rotated onto the pad when you moved the joystick. It was likewise brilliant for single joystick games until the gold pads wore out.
There is definitely something to be said for having a solid/heavy base unit on a dual joystick setup for games like robotron and black- widow. One of these days when money and time permit I'm going to get around to buying some arcade parts and destroying a keyboard to build me a decent controller.
Until then, I will be sticking with the keys like I do for all my recordings. ;-)
Cheers, BeeJay.