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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.

Read this for an overview.

tepples wrote:Read this for an overview.

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.