The battle lines have been drawn, and an elite group of sly strategists are massing troops at your borders. You’ll have to command ground, air and naval forces if you hope to survive the coming wars, and it won’t be easy. With 114 maps to battle on and both Single-Pak and Multi-Pak link modes, Advance Wars brings turn-based strategy to a depth never before seen on a handheld!
In-Game Reset
Press Start + Select + B + A during game play. Note: Do not use this while the Game Boy Advance is linked to a Gamecube or it may cause data loss.
Deleted Saved Games
Hold L + Right + Select when turning on the Game Boy Advance.
Ghost Mode
Hold B during your turn.
Glowing Field Training
To make the field training glow bright flashing gold at the beginning of Advance Wars, get an “A” rank on every mission in field training.
Advance Campaign Mode
Successfully complete campaign mode. Enter the battle maps screen and buy the “Advance Campaign” item for one coin. Hold Select and select campaign mode to begin and advanced campaign, with a more difficult CPU opponent.
Field Training Bonuses
Successfully complete field training mode to unlock the “War Room”, “Campaign”, “Design Maps”, “Stats”, and “Special Intel” options.
Quickly Finish Field Training
Select the final battle in Field Training. Win that battle to quickly unlock all options that normally require Field Training to be completed.
Data Clear
If you would like to erase data, press L, Select, and right on the D-Pad immediately after turning the Gameboy Advance on. The delete data option will appear, and if you want to begin again, you can.
Unlock Olaf’s Sea Strike Mission
Use Andy on Mission 4, then defeat every enemy unit in Mission 6.
Unlock Rival’s Mission
Use Sami for the Captain Drake, Naval Clash, Wings of Victory and battle Mystery missions.
Unlock Sonja’s Secret Battles
Beat Kanbei Arrives! in 8 or fewer turns, Mighty Kanbei! in 10 or fewer turns, and Kanbei’s Error? in 12 or fewer turns.
Unlock Advanced Campaign
After you finish the main Campaign and buy the Advance Campaign, hold down the Select button before entering Campaign Mode and you’ll play in Advanced Mode. You’ll face stronger enemy opposition, but win more coins if you complete the mission.
Unlock Open Up New Gameplay Modes
To open up the War Room, Campaign, Design Maps, and Stats options on the main menu, you must first complete the final mission in Field Training.
Unlock Special Intel
To access the field training mission called Special Intel, first you must clear all of the other Field Training missions. When you go back to field training you’ll see it in the list of missions.
Unlock Unlock CO Drake
You must select Andy for these missions during campaign mode: Captain Drake – Naval Clash- Wings of Victory – Battle Mystery.
Unlock Unlock CO Eagle
Choose Sami for Captain Drake, Naval Clash, Wings of Victory, Battle Mystery – At the end of the campaign, you will have a final battle, between Andy (you) and Eagle.
Unlock Unlock CO Grit
You must select Max for Mission 4 in Campaign mode and complete the campaign. Grit will then appear in the Battle Maps section to be purchased for 50 coins.
Unlock Unlock CO Kanbei
You must complete the Campaign. He will appear in the Battle Maps section to be purchased for 50 coins.
Unlock Unlock CO Nell
Once you have purchased all of the CO’s and completed Advanced Campaign, Nell can then be bought in the battle maps section for 80 war coins.
Unlock Unlock CO Olaf
Successfully complete the Campaign Mode.
Unlock Unlock CO Sonja
Unlock and win Sonja’s secret missions in the campaign (see other hints) and complete the campaign. Sonja will appear in the Battle Maps area to purchase for 60 coins.
Unlock Unlock CO Sturm
Once you have purchased all of the CO’s except Nell from Battle Maps (Grit, Eagle, Drake, Kenbei, and Sonja), Sturm will appear on the list and can be purchased for 100 coins. Note – Sturm can only be used in Vs. mode.
Unlock Use Other CO’s in Multiplayer
To use other CO’s in multiplayer, you first beat campaign and then go to battle maps where you can buy them.
Gold Menu Icons
To change certain icons in the main menu screen from their original color to a flashing gold, you must complete the condition listed next to them:
- Records: Complete all 20 war room maps, regardless of rank.
- Rank: Obtain the final rank, rank 1.
- Stats: Get both rank and records gold, and this’ll turn gold too.
- Field Training: Get an A-Rank in all 14 training missions.
- Campaign: Complete the Advance Campaign, regardless of rank.
- War Room: Get an S-Rank in all 20 war room maps.
- Battle Maps: You have to unlock and buy every CO, and buy all the maps.
Design Maps, Vs. Mode, and the Multiplayer menu cannot be turned gold.
Nintendo Design Map
Hold the L and R buttons while opening the Design Map function. The map that loads will feature a series of mountains and forests that spell Nintendo in Japanese.
Skip Field Training
If you want to skip field training and get into the war campaign, map maker or etc., instead of winning every battle in field training, just go to the last one and beat it. It’ll save time, and you can always go back to play it any time on the main menu.
Easier Final Battle Against Sturm
To make the final mission a lot easier, allow Sturm to capture the Airport just north of the Orange Star base, and make sure you have Missiles in range of the Airport panel. Sturm will spend 22000 per turn building a Bomber that you can immediately destroy before use, making him much less of a threat. With Sturm wasting 22k per day making Bombers, his army is much weaker and easier to manage, no matter which allies you end up having in this battle.
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