Christmas 2012 is indeed over but this does not keep us back from posting about Merry Christmas 2012 by SigFLUP.

http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=60841

Blinky Goes Up by Jan Hermanns is a platform game for the Atari 2600, featuring six vertically smooth scrolling levels and superbly animated characters, in a 4kb only ROM.

http://www.lov3machine.com/blinky/index.html

theloon decided to work on a horizontal scrolling game what is currently turning out to be a “The Great Giana Sisters” inspired platformer named The Sensational Santuci Sisters. The development is still in progress, so expect improvements in the near future.

http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/206667-early-demo-sensational-santuci-sisters/

Retrogaming Times Monthly #104 is available. RTM is a retro magazine, sometimes with focus on the homebrew scene.

Content of this issue:

ATTRACT MODE
* Press Fire To Begin
* Retrogaming News

THE RETROWORKS
* Caught On Film – Wreck-It Ralph
* The Pixelated Mage – Top 10 Of 2012
* Apple II Incider – Christmas Gifts For The Apple II Fan
* CoCoLicious! – The CoCo’s 3rd Time Is A Charm (Part 1)
* The Way Things Were – January 1983

THE GAME REVIEW H.Q.
* MAME Reviews – Astro Blaster
* NES’cade – Cabal
* Beyond The Plastic – Tom & Jerry (NES)
* The Retro Junkie – NHL ’94

POWERING DOWN
* Game Over

http://www.retrogamingtimes.com/magazine/?issue=104&theme=purple

ZXDS is an emulator of Sinclair ZX Spectrum for Nintendo DS, written by Patrik Rak. It is steadily reaching a mature stage of development, and it already has some noteworthy features, like accurate emulation of Spectrum 48k, 128k and Pentagon models (including sound), or support for TAP/TZX/PZX tape files, TRD/SCL disk files and RZX playback files.

Changes:

* Spectrum +2A/+3 snapshots are not rejected right away anymore. Instead, they are executed in 128K mode with extended paging enabled. This makes some +2A/+3 RZXs and exclusive software work quite fine.
* Added a bit of color coding to the controls screen.

http://zxds.raxoft.cz/

Epic Realtime by Cosine is a Gameboy Advance Demo released at tUM 2012.

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=60898

Subtera Puzlo by EgoTrip is a homebrew puzzle game for the Nintendo DS console. The object of the game is to escape each screen, collecting the coins, and the key that will unlock the exit. There is an initial time limit of 30 seconds. Avoid the guardians and traps, colliding with these will result in a failure.

Thanks to NintendoMax for the news! If you do not want to register at GBAtemp to get the download, get it from NintendoMax!

http://gbatemp.net/threads/new-game-subtera-puzlo.337294/

Epic Realtime is a demo released at tUM 2012 by Nuance.

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=60903

Paul Wagener updated his VNC Viewer WiiVNC for the Nintendo Wii.

Changes:

* Added ‘-‘ character to keyboard in first screen
* Compiled with latest libogc

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/WiiVNC

c64-network.org is a networked port of the Frodo C64 emulator by Simon Kagstrom and Oibaf.

Changes:

* Compiled against libogc 1.8.11 and SDL-Wii r101
* Fixed full resolution in 576i video mode
* Fixed Restore key

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/C64-network.org