Plants Vs. Zombies is a demake of the PopCap game of the same name that is only known to have been released for the ES-2016 console. It is unrelated to the BMB version which was released in Russia as a cartridge.
Overview[]
The game is a very simplistic port of Plants Vs. Zombies heavily based on the official Nintendo DS port of the game. There are only 2 modes, Adventure and Quick Play. Adventure, contrary to its name, is actually a cut-down version of Quick Play from the original game, featuring 24 stages. Quick Play, just like Adventure, is also inaccurate to the original game and is just the Whack a Zombie minigame from the original, but now endless.
Interestingly, instead of Grasswalk (Day Music) playing on each stage in Adventure, Cerebrawl (4-5 Music) plays instead. Same goes for the menu theme, which plays Ultimate Battle (X-10 Music). There are only 12 plants in this version: Cherry Bomb, Pea Shooter, Potato Mine, Lily Pad, Sun-shroom, Repeater, Sea-shroom, Cabbage Pult, Wall-nut, Squash, Melon-pult, and Sunflower. Sun only gives the player one each. The game also only has three types of zombies: Zombie, Conehead Zombie, and Buckethead Zombie. Crazy Dave is also nowhere to be found in this port unlike the BMB version, where he is still kept.
Level Passwords[]
Each level now features a password, likely so the game wouldn't need to save, though they only appear for a few seconds before the level starts.
- Level 1: 0000
- Level 2: 3344
- Level 3: 5021
- Level 4: 7778
- Level 5: 3689
- Level 6: 1586
- Level 7: 2254
- Level 8: 1001
- Level 9: 9981
- Level 10: 6053
- Level 11: 4278
- Level 12: 6211
- Level 13: 2012
- Level 14: 4867
- Level 15: 8410
- Level 16: 9234
- Level 17: 5658
- Level 18: 1845
- Level 19: 1985
- Level 20: 7332
- Level 21: 6581
- Level 22: 4430
- Level 23: 3251
- Level 24: 8090
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- The Potato Mines in this version can explode, however instead of 14 seconds like in the original it takes somewhere around 45 seconds for it to get ready.
- Unlike the original, there is a limit to how much plants there are in the lawn, the limit is 18
- There is a glitch where if you put a plant in the seed slot and remove it, the plant next to it will cost the same price as the one you removed
- This game, along with Fruit Ninja HD, Bullethead, and Fishing Joy are exclusive to the ES-2016. The developer of these games are unclear, but they share extremely similar qualities to a fan made Angry Birds port for the Sega Genesis that would later be widely pirated, such as the presence of a movable cursor required to interact with the game and extensive use of sound effects. The Angry Birds port was developed by a Chinese person going by the online alias "Zhengyaxin_8bit" and was originally released online in 2012 as a ROM and source code (the latter no longer being available). His involvement in the ES-2016 original games is unclear.
- In the ROM, there are unused seed sprites for the Puff-Shroom, Fume-Shroom, Kernel-Pult, and Snow Pea. There's also sprites for I, Zombie, Slot Machine, and an entire unused Minigames section.
