Dreamcast Controller
HKT-7700 / HKT-7701 · Sega · 1998
Why
There’s no units produced with a source and not enough listings. We don’t make things up.The Dreamcast is the final home video game console manufactured by Sega. It was released in Japan on November 27, 1998, and worldwide in late 1999. It succeeded the Sega Saturn and was the first sixth-generation console, preceding Sony's PlayStation 2, Nintendo's GameCube, and Microsoft's Xbox. A team led by Hideki Sato began developing the Dreamcast in 1997. In contrast to the expensive hardware of the unsuccessful Saturn, the Dreamcast was designed to reduce costs with off-the-shelf components, including a Hitachi SH-4 CPU and an NEC PowerVR2 GPU. The Dreamcast shared hardware with Sega's NAOMI system board, enabling authentic arcade game conversions.
For now, in English only. Source: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0How to tell them apart
Analog stick, D-pad, round A/B/X/Y, triangular Start, analog L/R triggers, two expansion sockets (upper one with a VM window); cable exits at the bottom.
Details from sources
HKT-7700 is the model packed with the console, HKT-7701 the separately sold one (ja.wikipedia; Sega lists HKT-7701). Early units had slits in the trigger pivots and broke easily; a later revision without slits and with a slightly raised D-pad was produced, and Sega support swapped early ones free (ja.wikipedia). Coloured controllers came in the Hello Kitty, R7, Sega Sports, Sakura and CX-1 sets (see variants/models); separately sold colour controllers were not confirmed in the sources read. Soft reset: A+B+X+Y+Start.
Data source: sega.jp
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