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You are in control of the ship. You can move it left and right, to let it hover over another lane. In the picture above, for instance, the lanes are coloured red, orange and blue.

When hovering over one of these lanes, you will notice dots on them. On the blue lane for example, you see them being yellow. Those dots are actually targets, and your goal is to shoot them all without missing one. Sounds easy enough, no? The catch is that the targets are aligned to either be on the left side of a lane, in the middle of a lane, or on the right side of a lane. On the blue lane in this picture, you can clearly see the pattern being [ left, right, left ] each time. You need to hit the right buttons in order to be able to shoot down the targets.

The targets are placed on the rhythm of the music. That should make things a bit easier for you. The music of a lane will only play if you’re shooting down all the targets in the right way (ie: not missing one). If you succeed to do that for a while, the lane blows up and the music associated with that lane will play on. For the red lane, that music is usually the drums section. After having shot down a lane, I suggest going to try an other available lane as soon as possible, to rack up your score. Each consecutively succesful destroying of a lane not only gives you points for all the targets you hit, but also increases the multiplier, making your score even higher!

Now, there are also powerups available in the game. These are: autoblaster, freestyle and scoredoubler. Autoblaster destroys an entire lane for you. If you failed a lane, and use the autoblaster to destroy it anyway, you’ll get your old multiplier back (yay!). Freestyle is you scratching on the touch-screen to get points and creating a nice melody yourself. Scoredoubler is exactly what you’d expect it to be; it doubles the scores you’d otherwise receive for a short time.

That’s it. If you want to know more about the concept, please read FAQs and such on the game on which AmplituDS was based on. That should help out. Maybe one day, I’ll put a quick video of this game online as tutorial.

Do you love Sudoku? You may need assistance in solving the puzzles? Then NDSudoku Solver is for you!

Thank to http://www.dev-fr.org for the news.

Stepmania DS is a Dance Dance Revolution like game for the Nintendo DS coded by Daren.

The Nintendo DS port of Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe has been updated – This version comes mostly with sound effects and a few other fixes/features. As usual any bug reports are very welcome.

Changes:

based on r12083
Major new feature: stereo sounds effects!
Sounds require additional memory. Currently up to 200KB might be used for the sound samples. Therefore crashes due to memory shortage (especially on bigger maps) could be more frequent.
Music is still not working due to the lack of a ARM7 midi library
sounds are also played for tiles on the border of the screen
config options and patch settings are now saved
more comprehensible error messages when files from the original game are missing
screenshots in BMP format are working (normal and giant)
(the debug console won’t be drawn onto a screenshot)
added a loading screen and a an exit screen
code cleanup to fit OpenTTD project structure

Thanks to http://www.dev-fr.org for the news.