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atari2600land has posted an update of his Atari 2600 homebrew game “Jack and the Beanstalk” which is based upon a fairy tale with the same name.

Release notes:

I’ve reduced the number of birds from 3 to 1. Apparently, the NUSIZ0=$03 was making the birds start more towards the right of the screen. If i set it to NUSIZ0=$00, there’s only one bird, and he starts more towards the left. Also, when you get hit, the bird is supposed to find a new y position to start from, I don’t know why you were having that problem.

Keep reporting stuff you find wrong/improvements, I want this game to be as good as possible.

http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=118991&st=100

Jomtris is a “tetris” style of casual game. You handle and remove dropping 4-tile pieces as long as possible and that’s it. One game session should take max 5-10 minutes.

The playing field is vertical 10×20 square field, there are different 4-tile pieces dropping down from top and you have to fit them nicely at the bottom. All full rows are removed, to give you some more space to arrange tiles.

Changes:

Fix: background graphics found with .pyc file

http://jouni.miettunen.googlepages.com/jomtris

hiei03 and mastersonic released an update to their shell application “X-Soft”.

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

http://off-topic-world.forosactivos.com/x-soft-f17/x-soft-40-t13.htm

Mankind’s oldest enemy, the decimal numbers 1 to 5 have launched another audacious attack and it’s up to you to stop them. They have one weakness – they self destruct when they are combined to make the number ten. Select numbers with the stylus and make tens to save the world.

How to play:
– Numbers have to be on the same horizontal line and add up to 10.
– All hope is lost when the numbers break through the top of the screen.

Release notes:

This should now highlight the numbers as you select them with the stylus so it should be clearer to see what is happening.

http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=16312

PSPFlash-Card is designed for students to memorize all of the “important” facts that we all need to know to pass tests. Use this to make studying easier for subjects like history.

Changes:

– Fixed sound cutoff when pages turn.
– Fixed word wrapping bug for the last word on a card.

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=146601

As the name states, this lets you draw anywhere on XMB or In-GAME!

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=146599

High quality arcade game for PocketPC, WM SmartPhone and Sony PSP. You have to collect all the fruits and you must avoid the opponents. 60 levels, 10 opponents and lots of fruits is waiting for you in the different worlds.

Features:

– 60 levels
– high quality graphics
– very good gameplay
– nice music
– user friendly interface
– advanced particle system
– pixel perfect alpha channel
– free for all

The illustration screenshot has been taken from the Windows version.

Thanks to the author Mirek Zielinski himself for the news via e-mail!

http://www.zielok.com/index.php?action=onegame&game=fruitsday

The “Next Element Deluxe” is a logical game, where your task is to destroy all the fields on the screen. To complete this task you have to rack your brain and deal with 80 levels. They all have interesting graphics and nice music. The “Next Element Deluxe” is a game with levels of rising difficulty, which tries to provide all players a lot of satisfaction.

Features:

– 80 levels
– high quality graphics
– many backgrounds
– very good gameplay
– many in-game music
– user friendly interface
– no adware and spyware

This deluxe game edition was available to donators only, but the author decided to give it away for free to everyone. Please don’t forget to donate if you like the authors work!

http://www.zielok.com/index.php?action=onegame&game=next_element_deluxe

The “Next Element” is a logical game, where your task is to destroy all the fields on the screen. To complete this task you have to rack your brain and deal with 30 levels. They all have interesting graphics and nice music. The “Next Element” is a game with levels of rising difficulty, which tries to provide all players a lot of satisfaction.

Features:

– 30 levels
– high quality graphics
– very good gameplay
– nice music
– user friendly interface
– download for free

Thanks to the author Mirek Zielinski himself for the news via e-mail!

http://www.zielok.com/index.php?action=onegame&game=next_element

PPC-DS is a Rock, Paper, Scissors game for Nintendo DS in french language, developed with Lua.

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

http://microlua.xooit.fr/t112-PPC-DS.htm