weapons with yellow text?

[Ignignokt]

What's the deal with these? I found a ????Laser, and when I tekked it, it became a Chaos Laser(yellow text). This is the first weapon like this that I've found so I thought I'd inquire as to why the text is yellow. Percents are 0/20/30/35. Don't know if that has anything to do with it or not, just thought I'd mention them. Thanks in advance.

[Hrith]

http://www.ragol.co.uk/guides/EpZllVVkVZOzuTZxxL.shtml

[Deathbringer]

All the items in yellow text are rare weapons/armour.

[Hrith]

All the items in yellow text are rare weapons/armour.

Absolutely not, especially not in Version 1 and 2.

[Forge]

Even I find the quide that Kefka linked to confusing in response to answering this question, so I'll answer the specifics.

Firstly, all of the items with CAPITAL LETTERS are 'rares' to some extent. The Merges will have CAPITAL GREEN TEXT, and the ?SPECIAL WEAPONs will have CAPITAL BLUE TEXT until tekked, when the text will become YELLOW CAPITALS. S-Ranks have RED CAPITAL TEXT.

Items with at least nine stars have yellow text, whether or not they are rare. The Yellow Normal Text that you are likely to see are originally ???? weapons whose base form has five stars (Calibur, Vulcan, Arms, etc.) When given the highest powered form of the special abililty (Beserk, Burning, Blizzard, Kings, etc.) the item gains an additional four stars. Therefore, a Burning Gladius will have eight stars and white or green text.

For weapons below nine stars, the colour of the text is dependant upon Photon Efficiency. If there are any percents (positive or negative) then it'll have green text. This is especially frustrating on DC after GC when most of the green texted weapons have negative percents.

I could also explain guard items if you'd like, including mags.

[Shade]

if a basic yellow photon weapon gets a really good effect, it becomes yellow lower case text cos it rules

[rena-ko]

in short, everything with 9 stars turns yellow.

a... yellow type sword = 5 stars
a high level special (hell for example) = 4 stars
sums up to 9 stars, voila.

[K_I_R_E_E_K]

Absolutely not, especially not in Version 1 and 2.

..........what?
in ver.1 or ver.2 when a weapon/armor/shield has 9 or +9 stars (special weapon, db sabers and stuff or the ????weapons exept for sabers and handguns (4* + 4*from special=8 stars) it is in yellow or red
mags, some mags (rare ones) are with the name in yellow
a red lettered weapon may have 9/10/11/12 stars but the main characteristic is that they are very powerfull.

[Forge]

Kireek, we're agreeing with you here. I think that Kefka may have been alluding to the evil (evil I tell you) drop rates for rare items in Ver1 and Ver2.

[Shade]

calm down forge... lol... the evil drps cant get you now...
but seriously, if a weapon is strong enough, it t=will be yellow writing...
problem solved...
(p.s: dont tell em about red writing weapns... lol)