White Saturn controller with purple button?

[alia]

Have been meaning to ask this somewhere online for years, and now seemed as good a time as any given that I've just joined a forum full of Saturn-y people. ^^ Has anyone ever heard of a revision of the white Saturn controller with a purple (rather than blue) C button on its bottom row of coloured buttons? The white Saturn controller that I bought about nine years ago from eBay has the usual green and yellow buttons, but the third one is a very deep purple instead of the typical blue. At first I didn't think all that much of it, as I had never seen a white Saturn controller in the flesh before and wasn't sure of what the colours were supposed to be, but a year or two on I bought a white Saturn in Japan and immediately noticed the difference. I thought it might be a variation that was widely sold, but I can't seem to find anything about it online, and thought I'd ask here.

I'm fairly certain it's a genuine Sega controller (if it's a repro or a knockoff, it's a very good one, and I can't tell any difference at all between it and the other official Saturn controllers I have, either to look at or to hold). My immediate suspicion would have been discolouring of the button in question, but it's a really, really dark shade that looks nothing at all like the original blue, and the colour is even across the button, which I think wouldn't be the case if it were discolouring. The outer shell of the controller also doesn't show the kind of yellowing I'd expect if that were the case. Does anyone have any tips on what might be up here? A very good knockoff? A random manufacturing fault? A revision I don't know about?

[Madroms]

Any picture ?
Maybe a button replacement ?

[zyrobs]

I think that some of the plastic they used may have been slightly different coloured, or was more susceptible to yellowing. If you google around for Saturn pads, you can easily find ones with both blue and slightly purple-ish C buttons.

[alia]

Thanks for the answers, guys. Sorry for the late reply. ^^

zyrobs That makes sense, particularly if you've seen other cases elsewhere! Though the colour of the button is a very deep purple, and doesn't look like it came from the original blue colour at all. If it's discoloured, it's very severely discoloured indeed. :'D

Mar 25, 2016 20:57:37 GMT Madroms said:

Any picture ?
Maybe a button replacement ?

No access to a camera at the moment, unfortunately. But I'll upload a picture the next chance I get. I figured that could be a possibility too, but was curious about where the purple button might have been sourced from were that indeed the case.