Hello Folks
Long time lurker here and lover of this hobby, been reading saints book for ages and I am slowly collecting parts to put together my cabinet.

I got a pretty good idea what I am going for but I am struggling with stick choice. The cabinet is going to be purely MAME. I have an original Star Wars Yoke

to go on the panel, there will be a trackball, two spinners, 6 buttons per player, player 1+2 buttons and a hidden admin button under the panel. That parts was easy to decide.
Finally a joystick per player. This is where I struggle. I was originally thinking U360 for having the most options but I expect a switchable 4/8 way stick would feel better? I do need the option to change as my most favourite games list is quite varied control wise:-
Star Wars
Centipede
Black Widow
All the Street Fighters (except 1!)
KOF
Pac-Man
Tapper
Discs Of Tron
zzyzzyxx (what kind of name is that!!??)
Zookeeper
Donkey Kongs
Gorf
Simpsons
Space Invaders
So even if I made a cabinet JUST for these there is a lot. I have been searching these forums for ages now for help there are so many varied and contradicting opinions its been difficult to decide. I expect I will get the same here lol. The U360 seems to be the right choice, I want to know how it FEELS, does it feel like an arcade stick, does it feel vastly different? I expect the stiffer spring helps? Is it enough? If I went with a 4/8 way stick would the yoke pick up the slack for many other analogue games? It works well with driving games at least

Cheers peeps!!