I'm looking for a gamepad with good analog thumbsticks on it. I've had a macally ishock for about a year now and the thumbsticks have always been flakey. Basically, they seem to randomly change their output range every few days.
The only gamepad I've seen that I really liked is sony's psx2 gamepad. Only thing is that would probably be $20-$30 for the gamepad plus a similar amount for psx2 to usb adapter, assuming one even exists.