White Saturn controller with purple button?
Mar 25, 2016 20:07:18 GMT
Post by alia on Mar 25, 2016 20:07:18 GMT
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?
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?