Anyone know of any good pushbuttons that have the press/depress action of a joypad? All I can find are arcade style buttons which are far too deep and large for my project.
Depends how small you need it to be. What you're after is a momentary switch. Any SPST momentary switches should work. What is your project - may i ask?
These look pretty small, depth-wise.
http://www.amazon.com/industrial-scient
B001TL79JE
I actually got those and the action is pretty stiff. Making a usb joypad with footswitches for piggy tracker... I think Ill just use these momentary guitar style footswitches for all the buttons.
Apparently these have the same feel as say... a NES controller. People have used them in lots of console portables and stuff.