Anyone use Mame?

If so, do any of you guys have recommendations for arcade style joysticks? The only ones i've seen around are the "X-Arcade" and the "Hotrod", both of which are 200 bucks. I'm lookin' for something a littttle more affordable.

Secondly, anyone use Nesticle? In Nesticle, the filenames of all my ROMS show only the first 8 characters in the filename, how do i get it to show the whole filename? Is this an option in the folder tools in Windows Explorer?

Finally, i would really appreciate it if no one flipped out about emulation or copyrights or morals or any of that [censored], cause i couold totally see where some people here would go nuts.

Thanks if you can help, thanks if you can't