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's online features are no longer supported. While this game'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)