>>534922152
baste. I use a retrobit saturn pad myself.

>I would like to try a proper arcade stick someday, but good ones are a bit too expensive for something I don't know if I'll end up liking.
The idea that you can't get a good stick for a reasonable price is an absolutely criminal grift perpetrated by highly melanated individuals in the fighting game "community". It used to mostly be true in the west when 99% of sticks sold here weren't even microswitched, and most of the very few that were, were still kind of jank and didn't use standardized parts you could easily swap. There was a time where you either had to import a HRAP or pay someone to build a stick for you if you didn't know how to do it yourself (obviously expensive). Now days, you buy can a Mayflash F101 for cheap and it's great right out of the box. Already gets you 95% of the way there that a $200 stick does. If I were you, I'd order one of those. If you really like it, you can always order a chink copy of seimitsu ls-32 stick/seimitsu buttons off Aliexpress for cheap, watch a youtube video on how to install them, and you're 99.9% of the way there at a fraction of the price.