I did another search online for an older piece of software from Japan, the Family Basic V3 cartridge. It's used with the keyboard attachment for the Nintendo Famicom. Once again I see the top spot is taken by GameFaqs and GameSpot....sites whose entire page about the V3 is limited to listing the words "Family Basic V3" as the title to a page that has no information at all. The 3rd listing is to a large site with cheat codes that has the title + no information page. That seems to be happening more and more these days. The large websites are creating as many blank pages as possible to have their site show up in search rankings. I'm getting tired of this crap....
ditto..hate that like the pest, when searching for some certain infos and 99% turns out to be empty bullshit like that.
I'm mad about that shit popping up all the time as well. Neither GameSpy nor IGN or GameSpot ever had anything to offer me, just a title. That's why I had spent quite a lot of time searching for several pages with actual information and instantly bookmarked them. If you are still looking for information about that FB cart, famicomworld is an excellent source for Famicom-related data, but a bit short on reviews. There's an excellent one about FB V3 though: http://www.famicomworld.com/Games/Game.php?dbid=310
I've been through this for years. I have conducted thousands of searches for dozens if not hundreds of pieces of retro & obscure software, and hardware. I have to wade through all the empty bullshit to find something meaningful.
The problem is good, relevant information isn't all collected in one place. The information that is there is linked to, so it is so highly ranked by Google and real information is burried. People link to them helping their SEO and hurting any real info out there. I've been working on this myself from what started as a way to keep myself from buying duplicate games to hopefully one day be a useful and insightful website. Right now it just tracks the games I have and it privately generates eBay listings from selected games for game lots. http://superfamicom.org/ As a one man show, it will take some time. I've scanned hundreds of carts but there are hundreds more to go. Collecting relevant information from across the web from, in multiple languages takes time, which takes money, which doesn't fare well for the end use in most cases. I hope to change this someday. What information would be most useful to you guys? What types of information are you looking for when you go searching? Shameless promotion yes, but it's purpose is to someday replace the bad sources online.
Depends on what type of info you want to provide and how deep you want to go. I personally find this one awesome for NES/FC cart info. http://bootgod.dyndns.org:7777/
Yea I hate having it dredge through so much junk to find a small bit of info. The net is filled with trash just like the real world.
I've noticed the GameSpot curse more and more when I look up old C-64 games. Of course they have absolutely no information on the game, but are more than happy to show me 20 links where I can by PS3 games... Try doing a search for an electronic component, like a microchip.. It's a complete waste of time. You get 6000 sites like 'PartMiner' that just have a complete list of every electronic component ever made, and then links to parts warehouses that want to sell them in huge bulk-quantities... All I want is a pinout (info the manufacturer gave out for free when they made the parts), but 99% of the places that even have that expect you to pay for a subscription before you can see it... I still haven't found a reliable place to search for modern microchips to get things like spec sheets and pinouts...
