Virtually every single stick on Aliexpress uses the same components; knockoff Sanwa sticks and buttons and a generic PS3 USB encoder board. The board itself supports a lot of stuff that isn't used by the sticks due to their lack of buttons, like the ability to assign rapid fire for individual buttons or to have the stick swap between being the d-pad or left analog stick. The one thing I do not like about this encoder is that it defaults to the joystick being mapped to the left analog stick rather than the d-pad, so if you use it on an actual PS3 console with PS1/PS2 games they won't work (unless you wire up an additional button) since most fighters don't support using analog sticks for movement.Originally Posted by bb_hood
You can buy a these same components (minus the stick box) for around $25 USD shipped. While not the greatest things ever the sticks are a lot more responsive than the usual crap you'll find in sticks that don't use actual arcade components. They're comparable to some of the first released Madcats Street Fighter IV stick innards. If it suits your price and you don't plan on going to Evo 2k18 with it, you should be fine. After all, you said it's being used in a Retropie MAME setup, so dropping $150 may be putting lipstick on a pig.
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