Homebrew developer Alex has released PuzzleManiak v3.1 for the Nintendo DS. For those unfamiliar with this application, it is a partial port of Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection for the Nintendo DS.

It contains 27 different puzzle games such as Sudoku, Pattern (Picross), and Mastermind. This latest version reinstates the hall of fame feature which displays the global rankings for players and fixes some of the bugs that were found in version 3.0. More information and the download link can be found in the full article.

The Nintendo Entertainment System, or NES, is an 8-bit video game console that quickly became the most successful gaming console of its time in Asia and North America (Nintendo claims over 60 million NES units sold worldwide). The NES helped revive the flagging video game industry following the video game crash of 1983 and raised the bar for subsequent consoles in everything from game design to business practices.

It was only a matter of time before a DS homebrew master came up with  an NES Emulator for the DS. That master happened to be Loopy. Loopy (and later with FluBBa) released three versions of nesDS almost a year ago. In case you're wondering whatever happened to nesDS, we'll we got great news.

emu_kidid has been working on the Loopy original and here is what he has accomplished so far:

• Added Save State save/load
• Added SRAM save/load
• Added Setting save capabilities
• FrameSkip option

Meanwhile his to-do list includes:

• Fix games like double dragon 2
• Update to latest libFAT (to support SCSD Saving)

emu_kidid will issue a WIP binary in a few days and promises nesDS will have latest update release not too long from now. For now, you can try out the older versions by clicking on the link below.

Gladius has updated Loopy’s Super Nintendo emulator for the Nintendo DS. To install, use SnesDS.exe and unpack the binary.

You can get it in our NDS Download section [here].

Dr. Neo and neoflash.com have released Neo Power Kit v1.1 for the Nintendo DS. Changes in this release include:

– Fixed one bug of PocketNES,thanks Loopy debug it Smiley

– Upgrade PCEAdvance to V7.3 and Goomba to V2.2,thanks FluBBa's
wonderful EMU Smiley

– Added the SRAM backup and restore function(but for english
module only), now you can backup your NDS/GBA save to PC and you
can modify it then restore to the NEO cart,in this version just
support whole 2Mb save data backup and restore,and we don't make
the backup progress bar yet,it'll take 10 seconds to backup 2Mb
data to your PC.
– Can support XG2005 serial now.

You can get it in our NDS Download section.
Or you can buy the NeoFlash Flash cart [here].