Board Thread:Wiki management/@comment-26732842-20160823131808/@comment-6031945-20160824124941

Pretty Lightningreed (PL) wrote: I played it so, and the boot-up screen, I saw even EA and Popcap logo in it. However, I can't even download it from an official source. I thought the J2ME ports of PopCap games are available on the Opera Mobile Store under the publisher of "Electronic Arts Games" when is used to be on the Ovi Store (aka Nokia Store) before it closed down due the agreement between Microsoft and Opera Software (and note that "Microsoft Mobile Oy" is the developer of the Nokia Store).

Meanwhile, there's some PopCap J2ME ports not mentioned much even as far as the past of PopCap (aside from the stores of (the now vintage) mobile phone stores, including the Ovi Store), probably because most of them are from EA Mobile. Although there's been some attention of some PopCap games like a 2006 trailer of the J2ME port of Bejeweled (although, it's not Bejeweled 2 when EA Mobile simply remade it with Bejeweled 2 assets) and a video about the J2ME port of Bejeweled Twist which was released on the same year of the release of the Ovi Store (which is 2009).

The problem is that J2ME didn't have much attention sometime when Android and iOS games dominated the mobile game and despite of that, EA Mobile continued making ports of newer PopCap games like Bejeweled 3 (which has half the game modes of the original release) and Plants vs. Zombies (despite of it being "late" and lower quality for such release, although the DS and DSiWare versions of Bookworm also shared the same case).

Also, due to great limitations of J2ME, those PopCap ports are affected such as Bejeweled Twist; which some of it has no "Bonus Challenges" due to the screen limitations of smaller mobile phones, a messed up soundtrack of the "Blitz" music that probably mighty ruin your ears hearing it, and the fact it's the only port that you can actually save and load in Blitz mode. Although, it had something when (the handheld port of) Nintendon't, a simple replay feature.

In conclusion or TL;DR, the J2ME port of Plants vs. Zombies is official since it was released on the Ovi Store back then since EA Mobile ported it despite of it looking "bad", just like the other J2ME ports of PopCap games, including Bejeweled (which isn't bad at all but the problem is that it's misleading since it used Bejeweled 2 assets). It's now (and still avaialble) on the Opera Mobile Store ever since the Ovi Store was discontinued and transitioned to the Opera Mobile Store sometime in 2015.

Therefore,