What's the best way to tell if a button is a Nintendo button?

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What's the best way to tell if a button is a Nintendo button?

What is the best way to tell if a button is a Nintendo button? Also what colors did they come in? Have a bunch of buttons laying around would like to recirculate some of them if I can confirm they are Nintendo.
 
Pulled a few to the side.
 

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Pulled a few to the side.

None of those are nintendo buttons, but I'd be interested in a clean shiny set of mustard color buttons for Galaga/BT

A couple easy ways to spot ninty buttons are the threads don't go all the way up the shaft and the plunger has a much sharper edge.

Thanks,
 
4/5 of the orange ones look like the high sharp Nintendo shoulder tho, no?

Definitely, but they lack the other identifier. I've got some orange leafs that came from Bob years ago that have the sharp plunger edges, but are definitely not ninendos.
 
Just cleaned some Galaga buttons, the yellow ones match the ones I cleaned, even down to the washer on the C-clip.
 

These are Nintendo buttons. Any color Nintendo button looks like these..... green, red, crimson, yellow, blue, black, purple, orange, ect. If they don't look exactly like these, then they are not Nintendo buttons.
 
Nintendo buttons are a bit smaller too, right? So, if you try to put the button in a Nintendo CP and it fits, it's a Nintendo button... if it doesn't, it's not?

DogP
 
Nintendo buttons are a bit smaller too, right? So, if you try to put the button in a Nintendo CP and it fits, it's a Nintendo button... if it doesn't, it's not?

DogP
Kinda true, mikesarcade has been selling generic leafs for a long time before his real nintendo button reproduction and the generic leafs fit, they just don't look right.

and I'm sure some other random ones would fit.

The holes in nintendo cpos are smaller correct, because nintendo buttons are smaller. But it doesn't take much work to make an incorrect button fit.

So no. If it fits it might not be nintendo.

Nintendo is very specific and easy to tell. Generic leafs are generic and easy to tell.
 
some of you are over-thinking the whole debate

when determining if a button is a Nintendo button or not, there's no need to TRI to FORCE the issue

yeah? amirite?

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What's the best way to tell if a button is a Nintendo button?

Wow. Some people are in rare form in this thread. Thanks for the chuckles. Taste? Triforce? ...and I even haven't had coffee yet
 
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