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And as for the Dreamcast and dinner-plate shaped Saturn 3D Controller, Retro-Bit could only offer a tentative estimate for the third quarter of 2019. In fact, ...
Retro-Bit has put out Saturn-style pads before and now they're coming back with one that blends the best of the 3D Controller from the Saturn alongside the regular Saturn pad while adding in some ...
Instead of using potentiometers, which will inevitably drift, Sega used what are called Hall effect sensors first in the Sega Saturn 3D controller and then in the Dreamcast controller.
Back to the Saturn 3D controller, it was a very odd design that "worked" but perfected with the Dreamcast later on. The best controller Sega had made in ages was the six button Genesis Arcade Pad.
Its 3D engine used quadrilaterals, rather than triangles, as the underlying primitive structure, which also made it more difficult to program.The platform sold 9.26 million units over its lifetime ...