D's Garage 21 - Tane wo Maku Tori

D's Garage 21 - Tane wo Maku Tori
Developer: Tsunehisa Suzuki Publisher: Bandai Platform: WonderSwan Released in JP: December 22, 1999 This game has hidden developer credits. This game has hidden development-related text. This game has hidden bonus content.

This game/console's online features are no longer supported. While this game/console's online features were once accessible, they are (as of March 31, 2003) no longer officially supported and online-exclusive features may be documented as now-unseen content.

Seed-Sowing Bird is a puzzle game where the player manipulates a system of gutters to guide trickling water drops to help seeds at the bottom of the screen grow into flowers.

The game was an early example of an officially-published homebrew, having been created as part of the short-lived Japanese reality TV show D's Garage 21. Unlike the games published as part of the WonderWitch development kit contests, it was coded from scratch on a PC using assembly language.

Developer Credits

A lengthy set of developer credits is present beginning at hex offset 0004 1AD0.

Defunct Online Content

Holding X1 + Y3 while powering up the console will bring up a hidden WonderGate interface. After accessing the menu once, it will become permanently available. The SwanWeb online service maintained online leaderboards for the "zutto" (survival) and "ohanashi" (single-player story) modes, and players could upload or download new high scores.

As with other SwanWeb services, the leaderboards were disabled when the service ended in 2003.

(Source: http://www.swan.channel.or.jp/swan/software/r_gate.html)