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dragula96 has updates his Tetris game TetriAbetes once gain.

Changes:

* Fixed a bug with ghost where it would appear above piece if piece was right under some blocks.
* Fixed Audio Loop Time Delay, music should loop after music ends and not right before.
* Fixed High Score bug, where High Score would not load the last Digit.
* Adjusted soft drop delays(the piece dropped to fast).
* Fixed Hard drop points added, now hard drop will give you 2 points for every square based on how far up you drop it.
* Adjusted Drop Delay on Piece(it was dropping to slow at start up).
* Adjusted delay for left/right auto repeat(just slightly-it was to fast).
* Adjusted Ghost transparency level(made it less visible for less confusion).
* Added Rotate Left Function(yes finally, press x to rotate left)
* Fixed a bug where level 10 was broken
*Removed sound event of when piece drops down(it gets annoying at higher levels).
* Adjusted Hard drop delay to 0.5 second(as requested by jungle-cat).

Carlos Desseno released a first beta of his game “Avoid It”. As the name of the game already implies, you have to avoid something.

Peuppy needs light, help him to find the most luminous part of images!

Hyena is an AudioGame player for multiple platforms. Inspired by the AudioBooks, Hyena allows game-books to be played with only sound and just one button.

Changes:

* Scans the AudioGames/ directory for game-books, and gives a choice on which to load.
* Detailed the .gamebook file specifications at http://www.collectingsmiles.com/wiki/index.php?title=Hyena_AudioGame_specifications
* Integrated information on how to play the games.
* Better error messages if files are missing.
* Removed crashes due to memory fragmentation.
* Removed .xml format in favor for plain-text.

Release thread: http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=14979

Using iFile is very simple, all you have to do is put the according “.nds” file in your flashcard/linker and through it’s menu, load the program, once done, use the up and down arrow to select the file/folder. Use “A” to open and “B” to go to the parent folder.

Changes:

*Fixed the typo (Folrder xD) (thanks to Josiah for telling me about this)
*Canceling renaming was broken, now fixed (Thanks to Gh0st for telling me this)
*Raised the number of files permited to show to 600 (Hope that’s enough -.-”)
*Added check for deleting folders( if something goes wrong he’ll warn you!)
*Fixed a bug that ocurred when entering the first folder in the card’s root!
*iFile now says happy birthday 😀 (When the right time comes of course XD)
*Source now under GPL License v3
*Can now create folders! 😀 (may be buggy)
*By Pressing “A” when keyboard on screen, it’s the same as pressing enter
*Added check for successfull folder creation
*Now supports multi extension files (ie: this.file.is.a.jpg is now identified as an image =D)
*Fixed an extension bug (case is now ignored when checking file extensions)

MobileChat is tan AIM instant messenger application for the iPhone.

Release notes:

Localizations (English, Italian, French)
UTF8 Character Support
Conversation Themes
Added WiFi Keep-Alive option
Added XMPP Options for Plain Auth and TLS
Added MSN “HTTP Method” Option
All protocols allow you to specify the server and port now
Changed Network Detection
Fixed iPod Touch chat bubbles
Added sound files
Correct handles line breaks
Fixed HTML stripping
Fixed text size detectiong
Fixed clear history crash

Relavak Labs updated their first Nintendo DS homebrew game “PinHockey” to v0.2.

Changes:

Added Dual Screen field with moving paddles and various options
Added Booster and Spin Booster obstacles
Added “Win At” options
Added one puck/two puck option
Updated underlying Box2D library to version 2.

Tris is yet another Tetris game for the iPhone.

This project is intended as an example both of general programming practices within the iPhone frameworks and of attractive interface and effective interaction design for the iPhone platform.

PuzzleManiak is a port of the marvelous Simon Tatham’s Portable Puzzle Collection on Nintendo DS. All 27 games are ported on NDS: Tents, Dominosa, Mines, Bridges, Light Up (aka Akari), Pattern (aka Picross), Net (aka Netwalk), Untangle (aka Planarity), Sudoku (aka Solo), Galaxies, Slitherlink (aka Loopy), Blackbox, Mastermind (aka Guess), Map, Filling, Solitaire (aka Pegs), Sixteen, Fifteen, Slant, Rectangles, Netslide, Samegame, Unequal, Flip, Inertia, Twiddle and Pyramid (adaptation of Cube).

Alex has now released a first PUBLIC and OFFICIAL version for the iPhone, but with only three games included so far – compared to the Nintendo DS release.

Chuzzle is a game similar to “Zoo Keeper”. This is NOT a skin for iZoo.