msxgamesworld.com

MSX Games World (msxgamesworld.com) is a growing database of MSX software, not just games despite the name. You can find action titles, sports games, puzzle games, adventures, and even music editors and magazine-related software. Entries are organized into browsable lists such as Recently Added, Last Updates, Top Rating, Top Likes, and Random, and individual entries can carry ratings, likes, comments, and update history.

What the database actually covers

The site describes itself as "the forever growing MSX software database." Based on the titles visible on the homepage, the catalog spans several categories:

• Action and arcade — Aleste 2, Aleste, Knightmare Gold, Elevator Action, Exerion, Warroid, Star Fight
• Sports — Konami's Soccer, Family Stadium Professional Baseball, Lotus F3, TT Racer
• Puzzle — Niwatris, Cue Brick, Bank Panic, Find it - Metal Gear Solid Edition
• Adventure and role-playing — The Secret of Monkey Island, The Castle, La Corona Encantada, Lilly's Saga - The Stones of Evergreen, Nobunaga's Ambition
• Platformers and action-adventure — Penguin Adventure, Yie Ar Kung-Fu 2 - The Emperor Yie-Gah, Magical Kid Wiz, The Awakening
• Homebrew and modern MSX releases — Yoomp!, Doom, Psy-Kongs - Attack of the Giant Gorillas, Uchotos City, YokoXevi, Strawberry Milk World
• Tools and non-game software — EMU Editor de Músicas (a music editor)
• Magazine-related software — MSX Soft Magazine No 7 - Agente Especial, Load 'N' Run 2-8

So the range goes beyond commercial games to include homebrew projects, utilities, and software tied to MSX print magazines.

How entries are organized

The homepage surfaces several different views of the same catalog:

Each entry can accumulate a rating score with a vote count, a like count, and comments. For example, Aleste 2 shows 88.8 from 3 votes, while Niwatris shows 84.0 from 2 votes. This means the same title can appear in multiple sections depending on how users interact with it.

What you can do with an entry

Beyond browsing, entries support community signals and sometimes detailed content:

• Ratings and likes let you gauge how other MSX users received a title, though vote counts are often low (1–3 votes in the examples shown), so treat scores as indicative rather than definitive.
• Comments can contain substantial material. One comment reproduces a full solution to La Abadia del Crimen written by Carlos Mesa for issue 42 of MSX Club magazine (July 1988), including day-by-day steps and map references.
• Update history means entries are not static — a title can be added, then revised later, which is why the Recently Added and Last Updates lists differ.

Practical notes before you dive in

• The catalog mixes original-era commercial releases with modern homebrew, so "MSX software" here is broad. If you only want commercial classics, use the Top Rating and Top Likes lists as a starting filter.
• Ratings are based on small vote counts, so a high score from one or two votes is weaker evidence than a score from several.
• Some entries are not games at all (music editors, magazine disks), so check the title before assuming playable content.
• Comments are a real resource: walkthroughs, external links (including X/Twitter posts), and magazine references appear there rather than in a separate documentation section.

If your goal is to find a specific title, the Random and Top lists are good for discovery, while Recently Added and Last Updates are better for tracking what is new or revised.

MSX Games World is a growing MSX software database that lists games alongside three separate user signals: a numeric rating with a vote count, a like count, and comments. None of them is a review score from the site itself — they are all visitor contributions, so their value depends on how many people have contributed. Use the rating when a title has several votes, the like count as a rough popularity hint, and the comments when you want practical help such as solutions, maps, or pointers to external discussion.

The three signals at a glance

Ratings: a score is only as good as its vote count

Each rated title displays an average-style number followed by the number of votes in parentheses. In the site's top-rated list you can see both ends of the reliability problem:

• Aleste 2 — 88.8 with 3 votes
• Aleste — 83.8 with 3 votes
• Niwatris — 84.0 with 2 votes
• Penguin Adventure — 84.5 with 1 vote
• Yie Ar Kung-Fu 2 – The Emperor Yie-Gah — 84.5 with 1 vote
• Elevator Action — 84.5 with 1 vote
• Knightmare Gold — 84.5 with 1 vote
• Yuureikun — 82.9 with 1 vote
• Magical Kid Wiz — 82.4 with 1 vote
• The Castle — 82.1 with 1 vote

A single vote can produce a high score, so a title sitting at 84.5 with one vote is not comparable to one at 88.8 with three. When two titles are close, prefer the one with more votes, and treat any score backed by one vote as a first impression rather than a consensus.

Likes: a separate, simpler signal

Likes are counted independently of ratings, and the site's top-likes list shows how flat the distribution can be:

• Konami's Soccer — 3 likes
• Lotus F3 — 3 likes
• Aleste — 2 likes
• Castle Excellent — 2 likes
• Knight Lore — 2 likes
• Warroid — 2 likes
• Lazy Jones — 2 likes
• Bank Panic — 2 likes
• Exerion — 2 likes
• EMU Editor de Músicas — 2 likes

Because the numbers are small, likes work best as a tiebreaker or as a signal for entries that have no rating votes yet. A game with 2 likes and no votes still tells you someone thought it was worth flagging.

Comments: where the practical help lives

Comments are not limited to opinions. On the site they can carry full walkthroughs, maps, and links out to other platforms. One long comment, credited to Carlos Mesa and originally published in issue 42 of the MSX Club magazine (July 1988), gives a day-by-day solution to La Abadía del Crimen, including maps, and opens with the note that players have to follow the steps "DÍA a DÍA" (day by day) to finish it. Other comments are short reactions or links to posts on X, such as a remark that a game was made using only MSX-BASIC.

Practical reading of comments:

• For a game you're stuck on — scan the comments first; a solution or map may already be there.
• For a game you're considering — comments reveal difficulty and quirks that a score won't.
• For provenance — some solutions credit their original magazine source, which tells you how old and how tested the advice is.

Putting the signals together

1. Check the vote count before the score. A high rating with one vote is weak evidence; the same rating with three or more is stronger.
2. Use likes when ratings are absent. Many entries have likes but no votes, so likes are often the only community signal available.
3. Read comments before deciding. They can change your mind about a title by showing a solution exists, or by revealing that a game is harder or quirkier than its score suggests.
4. Cross-check across lists. A title appearing in both the top-rated and top-likes lists, such as Aleste, has more than one kind of support behind it.

The site also shows recently added and recently updated entries — for example Odyssey, Berzerk, Cue Brick, Yoomp!, Doom, Psy-Kongs – Attack of the Giant Gorillas, The Secret of Monkey Island, Niwatris, Uchotos City MSX, YokoXevi, and Strawberry Milk World — which is where new ratings, likes, and comments will accumulate first. If you want your own vote to matter, contributing to a title with one or two votes has more effect on how it reads than adding to an already well-voted entry.

MSX Games World surfaces new and revised entries directly on its homepage through two lists: Recently Added and Last Updates. If you want to see what just entered the database, scan Recently Added; if you want to see which existing entries have been touched most recently, scan Last Updates. Both lists sit on the front page, so no account or search query is needed to start browsing.

Recently Added vs. Last Updates: What Each List Shows

The two sections look similar but answer different questions.

In the site's own excerpt, several titles appear under both headings — for example Odyssey, Berzerk, Cue Brick, Yoomp!, Doom, Psy-Kongs - Attack of the Giant Gorillas, The Secret of Monkey Island, Niwatris, and YokoXevi. That overlap is a useful signal: a title showing up in both places has both entered the database and been worked on recently, which often means its entry is more complete than a brand-new one.

The Last Updates list also includes entries that don't appear in Recently Added, such as Kong ate my City, En busca de Mortadelo, and Uchotos City MSX. Those are revisions to existing records rather than new additions.

Step-by-Step: Tracking New and Updated Entries

1. Open the homepage. The Recently Added and Last Updates lists are part of the front page content, not buried behind a menu.
2. Read Recently Added first if your goal is discovery — this is the shortest path to titles new to the database.
3. Read Last Updates second if you're following a specific title or want to know what changed. Compare it against Recently Added to spot entries that appear in both.
4. Cross-check against Top Rating and Top Likes when you want a quality signal rather than a recency signal. These sections rank entries by community scores and likes, so a title can be old, recently updated, and highly rated at the same time.
5. Revisit periodically. The site describes itself as "the forever growing MSX software database," and the update lists change as entries are added and revised.

Using Top Rating and Top Likes as a Second Filter

Recency tells you what's new, not what's good. The homepage's Top Rating and Top Likes sections give you the other axis.

Top Rating shows scored entries with vote counts, for example:

• Aleste 2 — 88.8 (3 votes)
• Penguin Adventure — 84.5 (1 vote)
• Yie Ar Kung-Fu 2 - The Emperor Yie-Gah — 84.5 (1 vote)
• Elevator Action — 84.5 (1 vote)
• Knightmare Gold — 84.5 (1 vote)
• Niwatris — 84.0 (2 votes)

Top Likes shows entries ranked by likes instead of scores, including Konami's Soccer, Lotus F3, Aleste, Castle Excellent, Knight Lore, Warroid, Lazy Jones, Bank Panic, Exerion, and EMU Editor de Músicas, each with 2–3 likes in the excerpt.

A practical workflow: check Recently Added for something unfamiliar, then check whether it also appears in Top Rating or Top Likes before deciding it's worth your time. Note that vote counts are small — a single vote can put a title near the top — so treat these as rough signals, not verdicts.

What Else the Homepage Exposes

Beyond the update and ranking lists, the page shows a Latest Comments feed. In the excerpt, comments include links to external posts and a note that a game was "made ONLY using MSX-BASIC," plus a long walkthrough for La Abadia del Crimen credited to Carlos Mesa for issue 42 of MSX Club magazine (July 1988). Comments like these often point to solutions, maps, and technical observations that the entry itself doesn't contain — useful when a recently added title has little documentation yet.

Common Snags

• Overlap between the two lists can be confusing. A title in both Recently Added and Last Updates isn't a duplicate — it means the entry was added and then revised.
• Small vote counts distort rankings. With 1–3 votes per title, Top Rating and Top Likes are indicative rather than authoritative.
• Recency isn't quality. A newly added entry may be a bare record; a Last Updates entry may have gained maps, solutions, or corrections. Check the comments and the entry itself before assuming either list reflects completeness.
• No pricing or login details are stated on the page, so don't assume anything about access or cost from these lists alone.

Yes, but not as a dedicated guides section. MSX Games World is primarily a software database, and any solutions or walkthroughs appear inside the comment threads attached to individual game entries. The clearest example in the site's own content is a full solution to La Abadía del Crimen, posted as a comment, which walks the player through the game day by day and references accompanying maps.

Where help content actually lives

The site describes itself as "the forever growing MSX software database." Its main structure is built around listings — recently added titles, last updates, top-rated games, top-liked games, and random entries — not around a how-to-play or strategy section.

Help material surfaces in two places:

• Comments on a game's page. The La Abadía del Crimen solution is a comment, not a standalone article. It credits the solution to Carlos Mesa for issue 42 of MSX Club magazine (July 1988) and frames the walkthrough as an answer to a question players have asked themselves: how do you finish the game?
• Content embedded in that comment. The posted solution includes day-by-day steps ("DÍA 1", "DÍA 2", and so on) plus references to maps meant to help the reader follow the route.

So the practical answer: if you want a walkthrough, open the specific game's entry and read its comments rather than looking for a guides menu.

What the La Abadía del Crimen solution shows

The comment illustrates the format you can expect from user-contributed help:

• It opens with context — the abbot welcoming the novice and recounting strange events at the abbey — then moves into the assigned cell.
• It instructs the reader to follow the steps day by day, and to pay attention to the route shown on the map.
• It explicitly says maps are included to make the solution easier to follow.

This is a complete, structured solution rather than a hint. It also shows the limits of the format: the help is tied to one game entry, written in the language of the original contributor (here, Spanish), and depends on that comment remaining visible on the page.

How to find solutions for a specific game

1. Identify the exact game title you need help with.
2. Open that game's entry in the database.
3. Read the comments section on that entry — this is where solutions, maps, and day-by-day instructions have been posted.
4. Check the language: some solutions are written in Spanish or other languages, as the La Abadía del Crimen example is.

A reasonable expectation to set: coverage is uneven. A well-known or frequently discussed title is more likely to have a comment-based solution than an obscure entry with no comments.

What this means for you

The key takeaway: treat MSX Games World as a database whose comment sections occasionally carry full solutions, not as a walkthrough archive. When a solution exists, it tends to be thorough — the La Abadía del Crimen post is a complete day-by-day guide — but availability depends entirely on whether someone has contributed one for that particular title.

MSX Games World (msxgamesworld.com) is an online database of MSX software. It is built for people who want to discover, browse, and keep track of MSX games and related titles in one place. The site describes itself as "the forever growing MSX software database," so the collection is meant to expand over time rather than stay fixed. If you are looking for a single reference point to find MSX titles, check ratings and likes, or follow what has been added recently, this site fits that purpose.

What the site contains

The homepage surfaces several categories of information:

• Recently Added – new entries such as Odyssey, Berzerk, Cue Brick, Yoomp!, Doom, Psy-Kongs - Attack of the Giant Gorillas, The Secret of Monkey Island, Niwatris, Uchotos City MSX, YokoXevi, and Strawberry Milk World.
• Last Updates – entries that have been revised or updated, including Kong ate my City, En busca de Mortadelo, and others.
• Top Rating – games ranked by user score, for example Aleste 2 (88.8 from 3 votes), Penguin Adventure (84.5), Yie Ar Kung-Fu 2 - The Emperor Yie-Gah (84.5), Elevator Action (84.5), Knightmare Gold (84.5), and Niwatris (84.0 from 2 votes).
• Top Likes – games ranked by likes, such as Konami's Soccer, Lotus F3, Aleste, Castle Excellent, Knight Lore, Warroid, Lazy Jones, Bank Panic, Exerion, and EMU Editor de Músicas.
• Latest Comments – user comments and links, including references to X (Twitter) posts and a detailed walkthrough for La Abadía del Crimen.

How it works as a reference

Each game entry can carry a rating, a like count, and comments. Ratings are shown with the number of votes, so a high score from a single vote is less reliable than one from several votes. The comments section can include external links and long-form content, such as the La Abadía del Crimen solution written by Carlos Mesa for issue 42 of MSX Club magazine (July 1988), which walks through the game day by day.

This combination makes the site useful for two different tasks:

1. Discovery – browsing Recently Added or Top Rating to find something new to play.
2. Tracking – following Last Updates to see which entries have changed, or reading comments for tips and solutions.

What it is not

The available page evidence does not show pricing, payment platforms, or login requirements. It also does not describe a download service or an emulator. Treat it as a catalog and community reference rather than a storefront or a place to play games directly. If you need to know whether a specific feature requires an account or payment, that information is not present in the source material and would need to be checked on the site itself.