Evil alien jellies, the Wekas, have arrived to Earth. Their plan is to colonize our planet and subdue every form of life on it. But Waimanu, beside being only a little blue penguin, will fight the Wekas for the freedom of Earth inhabitants.

Waimanu can push blocks and make them slide, and sliding blocks can squash Wekas between them. He can also destroy blocks if they cannot be pushed, for instance if they’re already against to a wall or if there’s another block behind them, but also Wekas can destroy blocks whenever they want, and try to reach our hero.

The field borders can be also hit by Waimanu and they will vibrate for a second, stunning each Weka that is leaning to it. A stunned Weka can be eliminated simply by touching it, but beware because they recover consciousness quite fast!

Finally, blocks containing hidden Wekas are highlighted at the beginning of each level, and they can be destroyed before they deliver the alien life form.

Each level contains a different number of blocks and a different number of Wekas, but you’ve got a fixed amount of seconds (75 or 50, depending on difficulty level EASY/HARD that you selected when you started the game) to eliminate them, of they’ll become faster and will eventually catch you easily, or they’ll try to escape before you could eliminate them all, if only one Weka is left.

Points are awarded for every second saved when you completely wipe Wekas from a level. Then 400 points are awarded for each Weka that is eliminated, and extra points are awarded when more that one Weka is squashed with the same sliding block.

A small amount of points, 30, are awarded also for each destroyed block, and much more points are awarded for lining up all the three special ‘Diamond’ blocks (which are deployed in each level, they’re also completely indestructible): if they line up against a wall, you’ll be awarded 5,000 points, or 10,000 points if you’re able to line them up with at least one of them not touching any wall.

GBAtemp holds a coding competition for Nintendo DS and Wii. There are over 5000 US$ worth in prizes and/or cash. Deadline is 31st May 2011!

http://gbatemp.net/t284145-homebrew-bounty-2011

PokeMini is an Open-Source Pokemon Mini emulator for various systems.

Changes:

Fixed interrupt flag status after interrupt jump/call
Added “Generated”, “Direct PWM” and “PWM+Filter” sound modes
Generated – Mode used in slow platforms
Direct PWM – Same as direct but with ability to play PWM raw sounds
PWM+Filter – Direct PWM with filtering to simulate PM’s piezo speaker
LCD update now when “dirty” instead of PRC rate counter match
Unofficial colors information structure changed to lower memory usage
Support for 4×4 attributes in unofficial colors
Added “Reload colors info…” to reload the .minc file
Soft reset now supported, changing rom won’t reset clock
FreeBIOS 1.2: Display status and improved compatibility
SDL Only: Added joystick support (disabled by default)
Joystick can be enabled under “Platform…” -> “Define Joystick…”
SDL Only: Color depth can be changed between 16bpp and 32bpp
Wiz Only: Fixed crash when sound disabled and added SDL port (wizsdl)
NDS, Wiz and PSP Only: Battery can be setup to reflect real battery
Source Only: Added some simplified platforms based of others

Thanks to http://www.nintendomax.com/viewtopic.php?t=13237&f=19 and http://www.emucr.com/2011/04/pokemini-emulator-v045.html for the news.

http://code.google.com/p/pokemini/

Nyan Cat DS by insanepotato is a remake of Nyan Cat for Nintendo DS.

For those owning a SuperCard DSTwo might be interested in checking BassAceGold’s version here.

Thanks to http://gbatemp.net/t289130-homebrew-nyan and http://nintendomax.com/viewtopic.php?t=13233&f=19 for the news.

http://filetrip.net/f24842-nyan-for-nds-1-0.html

DSaveManager can be used to transfer save files from DS/3DS games via wLAN to a PC.

Changes:

Improved UI
added restore from FAT
added better savefile size detection for 3DS FLASH

Thanks to http://www.nintendomax.com/viewtopic.php?t=13231&f=132 for the news.

http://3dbrew.org/wiki/DSaveManager

Links Crossbow Training DS is a crossbow shooting game. It comes with three different training modes and 10 levels in total.

Changes:

NEWEST UPDATE (unlockable levels) (technically 4.1) – NEW UPDATE! AGAIN! – You no longer have to hold down the stylus, just tap. New level select screen. I put a scrolling background in the back of most the menus. I’ll start working on a system to lock/unlock levels, that should be in the next update. <-DONE

Thanks to http://www.nintendomax.com/viewtopic.php?t=13228&f=19 for the news.

http://dsgamemaker.com/dsgmforum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=1500

Links Crossbow Training DS is a crossbow shooting game. It comes with three different training modes and 10 levels in total.

Thanks to http://www.nintendomax.com/viewtopic.php?t=13224&f=19 for the news.

http://dsgamemaker.com/dsgmforum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=1500

Space Impakto DS is an old school space shooter for Nintendo DS. The game has been updated many times the past months and turns into a more complete game each release.

Changes:

Finalized Boss sequence
Added a lot of enemies
Enemy sequence test
boss timer to remove “boss milking”
Bugfixes

Thanks to http://www.nintendomax.com/viewtopic.php?t=13216&f=19 for the news.

http://rel.betterwebber.com/

Stockmarket DS is a trading simulation for Nintendo DS.

Changes:

cash sound with each click (souds better)

Thanks to http://www.nintendomax.com/viewtopic.php?t=13223&f=19 for the news.

http://dsgamemaker.com/dsgmforum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=893

DSx86 is a PC/DOS emulator for Nintendo DS written by Patrick Aalto. It’s purpose is to allow you to run old DOS games on your Nintendo DS game console. Some of the older games run quite good and bring back memories.

Changes:

– Page Fault handling in the protected mode RETF opcode implemented.
– Implemented some additional XMS INT calls, for Commander Keen 4 etc.
– Implemented Mode-X Smooth scaling for 320×200 and 320×240 resolutions.
– Implemented preliminary Smooth scaling for EGA 320×200 mode.

http://dsx86.patrickaalto.com/