Japanese Hiragana and Katakana Review is a kana character review tool aimed at upper-beginner and intermediate Japanese students. The application allows the user to review their ability to recognize each of the 46 hiragana or katakana characters from visual and audio cues. Performance is ranked by speed, mistakes made and review difficulty. The application will also highlight the user’s weakest kana characters for further study. Features include voice samples from native Japanese speakers, Rumble Pak and DS Motion support. Cute bonus: the application will greet you appropriately depending on the time of day!

Thanks to www.nintendomax.com for the news.

http://multiple-option.blogspot.com/2009/08/japanese-hiragana-katakana-review.html

fooshi has updated his Shoot Em Up game Xplosive Combat.

Changes:

– Change animation level 01
– Best Management Game Over
– Management of the collision between the ship and the enemy
– Modification of the break of the game
– Optimization of the source code

Thanks to www.nintendomax.com for the news.

http://www.playeradvance.org/forum/showthread.php?p=222186

“You Have To Burn The Rope DS” is a remake of a Flash platform game. Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Have_to_Burn_the_Rope

Thanks to www.nintendomax.com for the news.

http://forum.palib.info/index.php?topic=7700

A simple yet addictive game, just point and click on two or more connected and identical ‘chunks’ to ‘munch’ them up.

Changes:

– Texts are now much clearer (added a black or white edge through multiple font renderings)
– Multiplayer co-op, with color and number seperation (skinning support for colors will be added later)
– Example skin update, to make it look a bit nicer
– Used fractal art instead of a gradient fill for Example Skin Background.
– Found and fixed a bug where the game would think it had ended, even though there was still one move left

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Chunk_Munch

Simon Tathams Portable Puzzle Collection (STPPC) is a collection of 31 puzzle/board games. Dingoo port by Zear.

http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/dingoo.cgi?0,0,0,0,25,133

Ezial released a port of X-pired. X-pired is an action-puzzle game written in C using SDL, SDL_mixer, SDL_image and SDL_gfx libraries distributed under the terms of GNU GPL. The goal of the game in each level is to reach the exit square, avoiding exploding barrels and other deadly stuff.

http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/dingoo.cgi?0,0,0,0,25,132

One More Music Player Client is a music player by Coder_TimT.

Changes:

– Only refresh setting screen when needed
– Look for broader range of album art names/types
– Fixed flicker on gp2x wiz
– Fixed songdb thread to wait longer before starting in case mpd db update hadn’t started yet(Fixed db update crashed?)
– Choose lang in option menu

http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?/topic/49064-ommpc2x-version-0-4-2/

The platform sequel “Giana’s Return” is probably going to hit the iPhone!

ZodTTD has ported it as proof of concept, reported here: http://www.zodttd.com/blog.php?b=26

http://www.gianas-return.de/?p=440

Spinal made an imitation DSi menu for the DS/Lite, which looks and feels very authentic.

Currently it supports stylus and button controls, shows battery status, charging status, time, date, your name and the gui even uses your colour settings from your firmware. It loads homebrew only at the moment.

Thanks to http://www.nintendomax.com for the news.

http://forum.palib.info/index.php?topic=7710

hiei03 and mastersonic released an update to their shell application “X-Soft”. It comes with a bunch of simple mainstream tools such as picture viewer and music player.

Thanks to http://www.nintendomax.com for the news.

http://nds.scenebeta.com/noticia/x-soft