I'm developing a tutorial on how to install a battery holder on an NES cart so that one can easily swap out batteries when they run out. I was thinking that this website would be the perfect place to post such information. However, I see no submission guidelines on the main pages. Is there such a document? How does one add a submission?
Please let me know.
Thanks!
Your best bet would be to create a section on the NESdev wiki. I doubt Memblers will be updating the front page any time soon.
I've added stuff to the main page every now and then (or well, more accurately, not for several years, then once.
). Probably is better on the wiki or the forum (linked from the wiki) where there's more recourse for asking questions.
This would be good info to have around. Certainly better than dangerous advice about soldering directly to the battery, which comes up every now and then. Sulfuric acid is pretty nasty, I work with that stuff.
I actually wrote an article on this for NintendoAge a while back that covers various methods of doing this. It is in the first issue
here. I think you need to register / login in order to download though. Feel free to use it as you see fit. I've found battery clips that work in most cases, but depending on the PCB, still can get in the way slightly. If you know of a lower profile one that works in all cases, I'd love to know.
The tutorial is now ready. Its a word doc with pictures. Where does everyone think that I could post it?
Can you convert the Word doc to MediaWiki mark-up? If so, wiki.nesdev.com is as good a place as any. If not, do you want me to try the conversion for you?
I don't suppose that there's some easy way to do the conversion is there? I have no idea how anything regarding wikis work.
tepples wrote:
My time is getting away from me unfortunately but I want to get this up since I spent a lot of time creating it. Could I go back to your offer of assistance and ask you to help me convert this to the wiki format? If so, how do I send you my file?
You could try uploading it to Mediafire.com and then posting the URL.
tepples wrote:
You could try uploading it to Mediafire.com and then posting the URL.
http://www.geocities.com/dastari_creel/ ... TORIAL.zip
That should work. Let me know if there are any problems.
Here it is:
http://wiki.nesdev.com/w/index.php/Battery_holder
My current machine has only WordPad, and WordPad couldn't decode the images. You can make an account on wiki.nesdev.com now and upload them, and I'll attach them to the article. Or if you want, I can put those in later once I can get on a different machine with OpenOffice.org Writer.
The settings of the wiki, for security purpose, doesn't allow the upload of images on the site if my memory is good. In that case, we will have to put the file by ftp manually.
Banshaku wrote:
The settings of the wiki, for security purpose, doesn't allow the upload of images on the site
Is commons.wikimedia.org insecure because it allows image uploads? Or what am I missing?
It's all depends on what you call a security issue. For example, if the wiki software doesn't check the validity of the image, I could use that functionality of the wiki to "hide" some content that I want to share with other people. I give the link to that fake image and I can now use that web site to share my files.
This is what I mean by possible security issue.
MediaWiki software already checks the gross validity: if gd can't read the image, it won't thumbnail.
Or you might be talking about the technique where a file is valid as two different formats: a JPEG file with garbage after it is valid, but a zip file with garbage before it is valid. You might want to look into what (if anything) Commons does to block copy /b screenshot.jpg+roms.zip out.jpg and the like.
We may have to decide the rule about letting user uploading contents. For now, the main goal was to move the wiki to a stable server and it's done. Good thing it was done because right now the original site seems down completely. I think the original site didn't allow uploading picture too.
I may have to find the time to learn more about media wiki. If we could add an approval process for images and the image (or supposed to be image) cannot be accessed by anyone, then in that case that remove the possibility of using the wiki as a hiding place for files.
You may say that I may be too drastic but we have the responsibility to make the wiki safe. And since the hosting is free, we have to be even more careful to not abuse Koitsu's good will.
Admins can always "delete" images upon request from a user. Anything "deleted" on MediaWiki is hidden from anyone who's not an admin. Most large wikis have one or more pages devoted to deletion requests.
Think of it this way: What prevents the idiots from uuencoding child porn and posting it to a (text) page?
Um...so bottom line is that I can't complete my file on the wiki?
Is there nowhere that I can post a tutorial with pictures?
I can manually upload the images and link it in the wiki once I have access to a PC that can connect to the server. We will need to decide about the upload policies later.
Sorry for the double post. I uploaded manually the image on the server but it seems to not be enough to use them (or I don't know how to use that way). This mean I will have to modify the wiki settings for uploading.
I will check what I can do this week.
I may not be able to upload them this week. I need to figure out a few things with the configuration of the server. I will try to upload them as soon as possible.
The ironic part is that they are on the server, just I have no idea on how to add them if you don't use the upload feature of the wiki. So I'm trying to configure the upload function but it requires a few things to be taken care of before.
It will be online soon hopefully.
Images are up on the wiki inside your article. For now there was no general section for tutorial so it was inserted temporary inside the "programming guide" section. I may rename this section to we can add any types of guide in it or create a new one. I have to think about it.