Why is there no "JAP" region in the database?
Recently, there was a thread posted about possibly moving some obscour Tiwanese-manufactured 72-pin NES carts over to USA catagorey despite not ever being released here:
http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=70176
It was an interseting read in and of itself, and really made me take a closer look at the categories available. One thing that really bugged me, was that despite Nintendo being a Japanese company, there are no entries for any Famicom games, period. It kind of irks me that the database includes every single region in existance, but no Japanese region. I've recently been exploring the possibility of importing a variety of Japanese Famicom games, now that I finally have in my posession a couple of Venesuelan adapters that allow standard Famicom carts to be played inside a toaster style NES.
I've basically been looking for games that yield a new experience without paying a fortune for high-priced rares. Many Famicom-exclusive games have a certain cuteness, charm, or weirdness to them that most American releases lack. Due to the fact that the Famicom came out in 1983, there are a number of popular arcade games which were released prior to the NES launch, which never made it across the pond.
So far my list of Famicom-exclusive games:
Galaxian
Dig-Dug
Pac-Land
Mappy
Space Invaders
Poo-Yan
Nuts-and-Milk
Binary Land (still in transit as of May 31st)
Rod-Land (won't fit in a toaster-style NES, so I had to use my clone system)
A Week of Garfield
Tetris2+Bombliss
Super Pinball
One Pirate cart:
Super Joy 001
Super Famicom Games:
Parodius Da!
Bombliss
Super Bonk 2
I also have a handful of Famicom versions of NTSC released games which I didn't already have in my NES collection.
There doesn't really appear to be any really difinitive database for Famicom games online, at least not in English. The database already includes really obscure stuff like Hong Kong bootlegs and unlicensed games, but no Famicom, licensed or not. It's really a crying shame because many collectors do collect Famicom games, but none of them are in the database. Every frikking region on Earth is listed, but not Japan, and I believe that is a serious omission.
http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=70176
It was an interseting read in and of itself, and really made me take a closer look at the categories available. One thing that really bugged me, was that despite Nintendo being a Japanese company, there are no entries for any Famicom games, period. It kind of irks me that the database includes every single region in existance, but no Japanese region. I've recently been exploring the possibility of importing a variety of Japanese Famicom games, now that I finally have in my posession a couple of Venesuelan adapters that allow standard Famicom carts to be played inside a toaster style NES.
I've basically been looking for games that yield a new experience without paying a fortune for high-priced rares. Many Famicom-exclusive games have a certain cuteness, charm, or weirdness to them that most American releases lack. Due to the fact that the Famicom came out in 1983, there are a number of popular arcade games which were released prior to the NES launch, which never made it across the pond.
So far my list of Famicom-exclusive games:
Galaxian
Dig-Dug
Pac-Land
Mappy
Space Invaders
Poo-Yan
Nuts-and-Milk
Binary Land (still in transit as of May 31st)
Rod-Land (won't fit in a toaster-style NES, so I had to use my clone system)
A Week of Garfield
Tetris2+Bombliss
Super Pinball
One Pirate cart:
Super Joy 001
Super Famicom Games:
Parodius Da!
Bombliss
Super Bonk 2
I also have a handful of Famicom versions of NTSC released games which I didn't already have in my NES collection.
There doesn't really appear to be any really difinitive database for Famicom games online, at least not in English. The database already includes really obscure stuff like Hong Kong bootlegs and unlicensed games, but no Famicom, licensed or not. It's really a crying shame because many collectors do collect Famicom games, but none of them are in the database. Every frikking region on Earth is listed, but not Japan, and I believe that is a serious omission.
Comments
I know for a fact Gundam Wing: Endless Duel, Umihara Kawase, Tales of Phantasia, Live-A-Live, Final Fantasy V and Custom Robo 1 and 2 have entries, because I did it myself. The only thing you could really do is add them yourself if possible or contact someone to add them for you. Doing every single game ready for images would take far, far too long though, that's probably the main reason. The sheer amount of games would take hundreds of man hours to even set up in the database and I suppose there's just not enough demand to warrant it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famicom_games
Originally posted by: Mog
Look here: http://famicomworld.com/
This. Also RF Generation has a pretty thorough list, not including all of the unlicensed Famicom games.
But what about the Famicom Disk System? Shouldn't there be a separate category just for those?
http://nintendoage.com/index.cfm?FuseAction=Search.Results&pId=1 - nes
http://nintendoage.com/index.cfm?FuseAction=Search.Results&pId=15 - virtual boy
The pId number is apparently the console. By bumping it higher, you can see other consoles that are in the database (?) but not shown on the site yet:
http://nintendoage.com/index.cfm?FuseAction=Search.Results&pId=25 - atari 2600
I thought I remembered seeing one for the FDS but I dunno.
As for FDS, I remember there being a lot of dupes on the Famicom World list. Hopefully I didn't miss anything.
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As far as the Virtual Boy database, that is super easy because there are not that many titles. I didn't even realize that the 2600 had database entries at Nintendoage, new one on me. I'd assume people would go to the sister sites like Segaage and Atariage for that info. Famicom World seems to deal primarily with English-language Famicom titles, and while that is nice, there are still pleanty of Japanese-language titles, such as platformers and such, which are simple enough to figure out without the benefit of reading. For esample, I had fun playing Do-Re-Mi Fantasy on Wii Virtual Console despite not knowing Japanese. My friend and I played through Akumajou Densetsu (aka "Castlevania III" in the west) on my PowerPak, which sounds spectacular thanks to my NES's audio mod (I use a grounded 10k pot to fine tune the expansion channel volume, instead of the fixed 47k resistor recommended by BunnyBoy).
Most titles I have discovered so far have been through internet searches, and reading up on "top 100" type lists. I discovered Rod-Land by reading through Satoshi Matrix's top-100 list on his blog. I also recently placed an order for Binary Land, which I discovered on my Power Joy 001 multicart, albeit mislabled as "Ding Dong" with a hacked title screen, but quite frankly the real deal is better.
http://nintendoage.com/index.cfm?FuseAction=Search.Results&pId=9
Maybe someday we'll get a list. I'd also be interested in knowing which lists on NA are for sure complete. You'll have to get Dain to chime in to see what he thinks about famicom on the site.
http://nintendoage.com/index.cfm?FuseAction=Search.Results&pId=10
That's also for the famicom, I guess? I dunno.
Either way, with the Super Famicom and N64, Nintendo reverted to uniform looking carts, lockout etc, just like the 72-pin NES gamed, but the sheer variety of Famicom carts is mind-blowing.
EDIT: Excuse me for erroneously mentioning that Rod-Land was not on the above lists; the official long name is "Yousei Monogatari Rodland" which starts with "Y" instead of "R". Urrrg, Japanese Engrish phonetic spellings!
Originally posted by: Mog
Look here: http://famicomworld.com/
great link...thx
now maybe i can identify the 20-30 carts i have. some you can make out, but most are in japanese. i helps that the site includes some of the numbers that are on the label.
Originally posted by: Dain
I've wanted Famicom for years, but I always put out the feeler that we just needed a semi-reliable list to use as a starter. Should I just import the two lists above and go from there? There's no publisher info on that list, so they would all say "Unknown". I can easily import those two lists, so if we all think it's a start, I'll do it.
I'd definitely be in favor of that. You can always build upon it later. I've wondered about other lists as well. Game Gear EUU for example only has two games listed; are those the only two games released in that region or is the list incomplete? I'm guessing it's just incomplete but don't know enough to be sure. I'm more concerned about longer lists and their accuracy. With any hobby I suppose it's hard to be certain about complete-ness.
Wouldn't the different options you mentioned require changes to the format of the database in ways that would be irrelevant to the other regions? I think it may be easier to make note of that in each individual title's listing instead, although this makes searching a bit more difficult (although maybe something could be done utilizing the search function to list the English-friendly games).
One potential hurdle is that each famicom game will often have multiple alias titles since they have been translated various ways into english and / or developed english nicknames that are not direct translations of the Japanese titles. Having a way to enter aliases that are searchable is pretty much essential for famicom I think.
For japanese games, they should not have an english language requirement, so you could just say japanese language requirement and have a slider with something like:
none,negligable,overcomable,confusing,impossible