Template talk:Infobox iNES mapper

Don't Repeat Yourself?

"If you provide nescartdbgames, it automatically inserts..." Is there a way to likewise automate/fold into the box Mappers with bus conflicts? Myask (talk) 16:52, 21 April 2015 (MDT)

NesDB linking, non-1:1 issues

I think it would be better if the template was just for "mapper" not "iNES mapper", simply because a lot of articles are organized around something other than iNES number (Nintendo board, multiple iNES, no iNES, etc.)

I think we need more comprehensive NesDB linking, as well. For each thing there are several relevant ways to search NesDB, and we should probably have all of them in the infobox. Also, there are much cleaner and succinct URLs you could be using, e.g.:

• http://bootgod.dyndns.org:7777/search.php?unif=NES-CNROM
• http://bootgod.dyndns.org:7777/search.php?ines=3

If an artice is about 3 different iNES mappers, it would ideally have a seachlink to each relevant iNES, should probably have a search link for each relevant board too. I dunno if the "number of games" is very useful either; not sure how often that changes, but if it's just copy pasted from the search result, it's easy to find it there. Seems like an annoying bit of extra maintenance; why do I need a number of games to create an NesDB link? I feel like the link text should have something to do with the mapper/board used for search, not some number you have to look up manually, maybe something like: NesDB [CNROM] -br- NesDB [iNES 001] -br- NesDB [iNES 185], I dunno.

Also, how come only the first iNES mapper number has leading 0s? - Rainwarrior (talk) 17:03, 21 April 2015 (MDT)