Well, I'll give you my two cents... There is no special trick. It just requires patience and refining the search terms (such as using +, -, AND, NOT, OR). However, even with these you might end up with nothing. Search engines use mainly the metadata (read: predefined keywords put into HTML code) found on sites to display searches to the user. This is why you sometimes get porn sites when you're trying to search for something completely different. Another reason why some ROM sites are hard to find is because some search engines have excluded the bigger sites from the search results automatically. Personally, I've found most ROM sites by accident, usually as a reference from another site. Furthermore, most good ROM sites are not even english. Sure, there are a good deal of english sites, but majority of the sites out there are either chinese, japanese, korean, french, spanish or even russian (others too of course). At this point, I'd still like to stress the almost-first sentence: There is no special trick to finding the sites that offer ROMs, it just requires trial and error and enough patience to go through pages after pages of some foreign board for instance. True, a community should help eachother out, but seeing as distributing copyrighted material or even linking to it is considered illegal according to numerous laws, we just can't share the information. I don't hate people that ask for rom images, but it does get under one's skin when people don't even bother to read the rules... and in the past, this place had it's fare share of those who only registered to ask how to find a a game and after that were never heard from again. btw, I really like your topic title. I also give credit to someone who is the first to ask a question like this when I'm around.