Just when you thought you’d seen the last of them, the Black Hole Army is storming back in this sequel to the award-winning Game Boy Advance strategy game. With new COs under his command, Sturm is leading a new invasion force, and it’ll take advance strategy to stop him!
View Pictures
Press Select while in the sound room. You will be able to see several pictures from the game. Press Left and Right to cycle through all of the pictures (26 in all) or press B to exit.
In-Game Reset
Hold Start + Select + B during game play.
Deleted Saved Games
Hold L + Right + Select when turning on the Game Boy Advance.
Nintendo Mountain Map
Use the following trick to get to a map with the text “Nintendo” made with mountains. When you are at the selection with: Design Maps-> Map or CO, highlight “Map” and hold A + L + R for a second. The screen will turn blank. After a few seconds. it will be done.
Japanese Character Mountain Map
Use the following trick to get to a map with the three Japanese characters made with mountains. When you are at the selection with: Design Maps-> Map or CO, highlight “Map” and hold L + R for a second.
Erase Data
Like in the first Advance Wars, you can erase your save data by holding L+Right+Select before turning the game on.
Gold Menu Icons
To turn your menu icons from their regular colors into Sparkling Gold, do the tasks below for each icon…
- Gold Battle Maps Icon: Buy everything from Hachi.
- Gold Campaign Icon: Beat all levels including secret ones in Normal Campaign.
- Gold Design Room Icon: Buy all CO Edits from Hachi.
- Gold Link Icon: This will automatically turn Gold after the other 5 have.
- Gold Versus Icon: Buy and play every map at least once (win or lose).
- Gold War Room Icon: Buy and Beat every war room map with any grade.
Lab Map Locations
To gain Neotanks , you have to capture a specific city in a specific map to get the lab map, and then beat a hidden mission. You have to do this in each country.
- Orange Star
Flak Attack: City north of your HQ, within range of your units starting positions. | Secret Level: Test of Time - Blue Moon
Toy Box: South-Western most Neutral city, AKA: the one on the weird island. | Secret Level: Neotanks!? - Yellow Comet
Show Stopper: South-western most neutral city. | Secret Level: Sea of Hope - Green Earth
Sinking Feeling: Southernmost city on the western island. | Secret Level: Danger X9
CO Adder
Beat Campaign Mode once.
CO Colin
Buy Grit or Olaf.
CO Drake
Beat Green Earth Campaign.
CO Eagle
Beat Green Earth Campaign.
CO Grit
Beat Blue Moon Campaign.
CO Hachi
Beat Hard Campaign Mode.
CO Hawke
Beat Campaign Mode once.
CO Jess
Buy Drake or Eagle.
CO Kanbei
Beat Yellow Comet Campaign.
CO Lash
Beat Campaign Mode once.
CO Nell
Get an overall rank of A in Campaign Mode.
CO Olaf
Beat Blue Moon Campaign.
CO Sensei
Buy Kanbei or Sonja.
CO Sonja
Beat Yellow Comet Campaign.
CO Sturm
Get an overall rank of S in Campaign Mode.
Unlock Gallery
To unlock the Gallery, beat the Campaign. To unlock the all pictures, beat the Hard Campaign. The gallery is found in the Sound Room.
Unlock Hard Mode
Beat the game on easy, then go to Hachi’s store and buy Hard Mode for 1000 points. To play press Select when starting a new campaign.
Unlock Sound Test
To unlock the soundtest, beat a normal campign with an any rank to purchase the soundtest. It costs 5000 points.
Design Mode Message
If you try putting a unit on illegal terrain placements 50 times in a row in Design Mode, it’ll trigger a special message from Nell. She’ll mock your efforts by saying, “You must really like doing that over and over again. Keep it up.”
Forfeiting the Tutorial
With some planning and AI manipulation over several turns, it’s possible to lose on the tutorial map by completely running out of fuel. If this happens, it’ll trigger a special message in which Nell will scold Andy for goofing off and instruct him to forfeit.
Campaign Mode: In-Game Hints
In campaign mode, if you are stuck on a level, just yield and the characters will give you hints on how to beat the level.
Easy Gold Multiplayer
An easy way to get the Gold Multiplayer tab is start any map and then immediatley yield. Repeat this for all levels. With 3 & 4 Player Maps, play as 2 or 3 people and yield for them all. It will count as a played and that much faster to get the Gold then playing them all.
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