UPDATED---Write for the KB!!!

[Jibbajaba]

THIS WEEKEND ONLY (6/24-6/26): I will pay up to 200 meseta per article. Amount of meseta is based on length, complexity, and the amount of correcting/editing I have to do. PM me if interested.

Need some extra meseta? Got your eye on some flashy schwag in one of the DP shops, but don't have a steady source of income? Don't +1 post until you're blue in the face! Put those fingers to good use by writing articles for the Digital Press Knowledge Base! Writing articles for the Knowledge Base not only earns you meseta, it gives you the opportunity to put your name on some DP content!

I am currently offering 50 and 100 meseta payments to ANYONE on DP who submits an article that gets used in the KB. The amount of meseta paid depends on the length and complexity of the article submitted.

Articles must be free of spelling and grammar errors, and must give credit where credit is due. If the source material from your article comes from the Technical and Restoration Society forum, you need to give credit to the original posters. If the source material comes from an online FAQ, you need to give credit to the author of the FAQ. (read the FAQ first to make sure that it is permissible to quote their FAQ).

Here's how it works. Follow this link:

http://www.digitpress.com/livefaq/index.php?action=add

to the Knowledge Base content submission form.

-Under "your name", put your DP handle.
-Under "Your e-mail address" you should put whatever e-mail address you have registered with DP.
-Under the "Which category to choose" drop-down menu, choose whatever category the article would be most appropriate in.
-Under "Headline", you should write out the question that you are answering.
-Under "Your FAQ record", you will write out the body of your article. When applicable, write the name of whoever asked the question initially (if it was a question posted in the tech forum), and include the name of whoever answered the question. If the question was answered by a DP member, put their handle. If you found the answer in an online FAQ, cite the FAQ and put the author(s) name(s). If you answered the question based on the knowledge floating around inside of your own head, then put your own DP handle.

Once you have submitted your article, I will review it, edit it if neccesary, properly format it for the KB, and post it. Once it is posted, you will get your meseta. If the article is not used, you can inquire as to why not so that you can avoid the same pitfalls in the future.

Browse through the Knowledge Base to get a feel for the content. Some articles are long and complex, while others are short and simple. We need it all.

Overly simplistic and trivial questions will not be used. Questions like "What color is the power LED on a NES?" would not be suitable. "How do I modify my NES with a different colored power LED?" would be a GREAT article, though. Articles covering detailed specs of the various consoles, ratings of various console AC adapters, etc would all be easy and fast to write, and would earn you 50 meseta each. Articles covering more complex topics like console repair and modification would earn you 100 meseta each.

This offer is not going to go on forever. I am trying to quickly boost the amount of content in the Knowledge Base, and get all of the easily answered questions out of the way so that we can concentrate on adding more advanced articles.

If you are interested in becoming a Knowledge Base staff member, PM me for more details.

If you have any general questions, please post them here so that everyone can see them. If you have a specific question about certain material or a specific article or whatever, you can PM me.

Thanks for reading!

Chris

[Jibbajaba]

Is anyone even mildly interested in this? Is there something more I could do to sweeten the deal? You could really earn quite a bit of meseta in a relatively short amount of time doing this.

Again, if someone is interested in becoming a member of the staff and taking charge of fleshing out a particular section or two of the KB, let me know. We'll put you on the meseta payroll or something.

I should add that you don't need an extensive technical knowledge of hardware. You just need to be able to read through FAQs and posts in the tech forum, and be able to turn them into a short article using proper spelling and punctuation. You just need a very basic knowledge of how consoles work and decent english skills.

Chris

[chadtower]

You would do well to include the Arcade Alley among places from which you grab info. A LOT of good, technical answers are given there.

[Jibbajaba]

You would do well to include the Arcade Alley among places from which you grab info. A LOT of good, technical answers are given there.

Agreed, but so far no one is showing any interest in this whatsoever.

Dissapointing. I would have thought that there would be at least a few DPers eager to become part of an official DP project. Certainly enough people came out of the woodwork when Jaime was looking for someone to interview for the DP wire.

Probably after this weekend this post will get unstickied due to lack of interest, but the offer remains open indefinitely.

You guys should feel free to leave comments in this thread. Something is up when I have nearly 300 reads and not a single response. I think that the amount of meseta I am offering is extremely generous. I think that meseta is quickly losing it's marginal utility around here as people are amassing more and more of it. What else can I offer you guys?

Chris

[chadtower]

Some of us WERE part of the Knowledge Base. I was part of that as well as part of the Wire.

[Jibbajaba]

Some of us WERE part of the Knowledge Base. I was part of that as well as part of the Wire.

Yes, I'm aware. However you quit for reasons which you chose not to discuss so I'm not really sure why you chose to bring it up here.

Chris

[chadtower]

Because you mentioned the fact that no one seems to want to be part of it... which is, or at least was, wrong. There were people eager to be part of it, some who even were, who then left with reason.

[demen999]

Not to sidetrack your topic, but where are the meseta counters now? My amount doesn't go up anymore either. I checked it in the shop link.

[Jibbajaba]

:frustrated:

[Kamino]

:frustrated:
pwned.

[Quintracker]

I simply don't have the time right now between jobs, switching jobs, looking for new jobs, etc. If I ever have time and an idea though, be sure I'll send you something.

And off topic, I didn't know what the knowledge base was til this morning, when I ventured off of the boards to the main site :embarrassed:

[The_EniGma]

I could, im pretty good at xbox modding/tech specs and am currently part of two dev teams (its not the age that counts its what you do, another team has a 14 year old) although wil lthese qualify for the knowledge base?

[Jibbajaba]

I could, im pretty good at xbox modding/tech specs and am currently part of two dev teams (its not the age that counts its what you do, another team has a 14 year old) although wil lthese qualify for the knowledge base?

Go ahead and write up some articles. I dont care if you're 4 or 84. You can write on any technical aspects of gaming, as long as it has nothing to do with game copying or piracy. So modding an X-Box so that you can play game backups is out, but case mods, LED mods, etc are totally cool.

Chris

[D-Lite]

I could do a wealth of stuff for the NEC section, like system capabilities (what system cards do what, video formats, etc), fix info (can you post pics?), and compatibilities (the one post of which is wrong in the forum, about playing US cards on JP systems, which is fully possible).

I notice there are TurboGrafx-16, SuperGrafx, and PC-FX sections, but nothing for PC Engine, Duo systems, other CD systems, portables.

Let me know what needs to be done and what is possible.

[Jibbajaba]

I'll PM you. Thanks D-Lite.

Chris

[Kamino]

I could, im pretty good at xbox modding/tech specs and am currently part of two dev teams (its not the age that counts its what you do, another team has a 14 year old) although wil lthese qualify for the knowledge base?

Go ahead and write up some articles. I dont care if you're 4 or 84. You can write on any technical aspects of gaming, as long as it has nothing to do with game copying or piracy. So modding an X-Box so that you can play game backups is out, but case mods, LED mods, etc are totally cool.

Chris
I thought i'd mention here, modchips can be used to play Imports, not just illegal crap, so IMO that would still be a useful article...one I'd personally read anyway, since I'm still pondering an xbox mod for imports. *shrug*

[Jibbajaba]

I could, im pretty good at xbox modding/tech specs and am currently part of two dev teams (its not the age that counts its what you do, another team has a 14 year old) although wil lthese qualify for the knowledge base?

Go ahead and write up some articles. I dont care if you're 4 or 84. You can write on any technical aspects of gaming, as long as it has nothing to do with game copying or piracy. So modding an X-Box so that you can play game backups is out, but case mods, LED mods, etc are totally cool.

Chris
I thought i'd mention here, modchips can be used to play Imports, not just illegal crap, so IMO that would still be a useful article...one I'd personally read anyway, since I'm still pondering an xbox mod for imports. *shrug*

True, but it is still a fine line. I would have to consult with the higher-ups before adding any articles talking about modifying current-gen systems.

Chris

[The_EniGma]

I could, im pretty good at xbox modding/tech specs and am currently part of two dev teams (its not the age that counts its what you do, another team has a 14 year old) although wil lthese qualify for the knowledge base?

Go ahead and write up some articles. I dont care if you're 4 or 84. You can write on any technical aspects of gaming, as long as it has nothing to do with game copying or piracy. So modding an X-Box so that you can play game backups is out, but case mods, LED mods, etc are totally cool.

Chris

Well modding is one of the main points of the xbox (not to play backups) but the thriving homebrew scene. THere are 5 or so ports of linux to it and a very very good media center app www.xboxmediacenter.de too, maybe i could show the modding but not the ILLEGAL bios loading which allows backups to be booted but instead a legal bios that only loads linux to be included in my tut?

Anyway tell me what you think :)

-Oh btw it runs MAME (pretty well too) :D

[Jibbajaba]

I could, im pretty good at xbox modding/tech specs and am currently part of two dev teams (its not the age that counts its what you do, another team has a 14 year old) although wil lthese qualify for the knowledge base?

Go ahead and write up some articles. I dont care if you're 4 or 84. You can write on any technical aspects of gaming, as long as it has nothing to do with game copying or piracy. So modding an X-Box so that you can play game backups is out, but case mods, LED mods, etc are totally cool.

Chris

Well modding is one of the main points of the xbox (not to play backups) but the thriving homebrew scene. THere are 5 or so ports of linux to it and a very very good media center app www.xboxmediacenter.de too, maybe i could show the modding but not the ILLEGAL bios loading which allows backups to be booted but instead a legal bios that only loads linux to be included in my tut?

Anyway tell me what you think :)

-Oh btw it runs MAME (pretty well too) :D

Sure. Write up whatever you want, and I'll review it. If there is anything that maybe shouldn't be in there then we can take it out. Better to have too much information and have to remove some than to not have enough information, right?

Chris

[Sothy]

Articles must be free of spelling and grammar errors

You lost me somewhere around that part.

[demen999]

Bah...

[Jibbajaba]

Let's stop the compination threadcrapping/+1 posting, mmkay?

Thanks

Chris

[The Sage of Sega]

How about an article on refurbishing old 72-pin slots on NES systems?

[Jibbajaba]

How about an article on refurbishing old 72-pin slots on NES systems?

Sounds to me like you haven't looked around the Knowledge Base much.

There is a rather extensive article about that very subject, written by FABombjoy and myself, here:

http://www.digitpress.com/livefaq/index.php?action=artikel&cat=59&id=16&artlang=en

:P

Chris

[googlefest1]

Is this still on or has it ended

i had an idea for a genesis mod - but i have to check if i can get the PIC to work with whats exisiting on the genny board with out much extra parts

[Jibbajaba]

Is this still on or has it ended

i had an idea for a genesis mod - but i have to check if i can get the PIC to work with whats exisiting on the genny board with out much extra parts

Sure it's still going on. If you need a pic to be in the body of your article, you can put the html code into your article and e-mail me the pic. I'll edit the html code to reflect the pic's new home.

Chris

[googlefest1]

no no no - PIC i meant PICmicro - i have to see if i can use the clock on the genny to run the PIC chip

but you brought up a good point i wasnt going to include any pics becasue i dont know how to get them to work on here

i dont know html

edit: i was thinking of a series of mods but becasue im COO KOO for meseta puffs i was thinking of breaking it up in to separate guides - can one do that or is it one guide total per person?

[Jibbajaba]

No you should have seperate articles for mods as long as they are either for different systems, or the mods perform different functions. Don't worry about being a meseta whore as long as you are producing some quality content for the KB. :)

Chris

[Logicdustbin]

I sure could use some meseta :D

when writing an article, is it much like writing a post in a thread?

or do I write it up in MSword type program?

I've have done a mod that it totally useless in North America, but might be pretty handy in the UK (I think)

Its a mod done on a Genesis that allows a color picture through the AV port when in PAL mode.

preview picture (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v246/Logicdustbin/123_2326.jpg)

I guess I could write articles on Genesis region, 50/60, LED, S-vid, RCA stereo mods as well...if they haven't been done yet...

[Jibbajaba]

You can write the article in MS Word or a text editor and cut-and-paste it into the submission form, or you can type it right into the submission form just like typing a post.

Your article idea sounds very interesting. A lot of our members are located in Europe, so it might be quite useful for them.

Where the hell did you get 29k meseta???

Chris

[Logicdustbin]

You can write the article in MS Word or a text editor and cut-and-paste it into the submission form, or you can type it right into the submission form just like typing a post.

Your article idea sounds very interesting. A lot of our members are located in Europe, so it might be quite useful for them.

Where the hell did you get 29k meseta???

Chris

now that I think about it, it might be useful, if someone had imported a megadrive from the UK.

if some one has a megadrive model 1 for cheap (console only) I could mod it, document it, and submit it to the KB.

as for the meseta; in the arcade - Demonic Defense 3 @_@

BTW - I will donate 25000 meseta to the KB project :D

[Jibbajaba]

Talk to Cauterize. He seems to trip over megadrives in his search for schwag.

Feel free to write up articles about any other topics as well.

Thanks!

Chris

[Jibbajaba]

Bump for an update. Up to 200 meseta paid per article!

Chris

[TheSmirk]

I'll have to double check but theres a article or two that I could add, just have to make some time to write 'em up