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Author: Xenesis
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ROM Cleaner Patch (AW2)
Base Game: Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising (U)
Release Date: 24th February 2007
Version 1.0: Download (IPS Format)
Short Description: Cleans a dirty Advance Wars 2 (U) ROM – aka the “Flower Intro” version.
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Andy’s Adventure (AW2) by Mark999
Base Game: Advance Wars 2 (U)
Release Date: 1st June 2017
Version 0.9: Download (IPS Format)
Forum Thread: View
Short Description: For the first time in AW hacking history, a brand-new custom campaign hack of Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising! Starring Flak! Impossible situations! Silly HQ Captures! And Factories!
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Eurogamer Short Interview
A Eurogamer interview with Nintendo’s Hitoshi Yamagami and Intelligent Systems’ Masahiro Higuchi contained an excerpt about Advance Wars and the possibility of future installments.
“Personally, I’d love to do Advance Wars, but since it’s harder to create relationships between its characters compared to Fire Emblem, I don’t have a clear idea of what kind of setting it could have.” – Yamagami
“The Advance Wars series is one that I personally have a lot of interest in. I hear some of the staff here saying that they want to make one too, so if we have a chance it’s something I’d like to do!” – Higuchi
Versus Mode Turn Timer (AW2) by Xenesis
Base Game: Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising (U)
Release Date: 16th May 2017
Version 1.0: Download (IPS Format)
Source Code (Version 1.0) Download (ARMIPS Format)
Forum Thread: View
Short Description: Adds a new feature to the game – a Versus mode timer for multiplayer matches.
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Unlockables and Secrets
Unlocking COs
Spoilers
Nell: Complete the Advance Campaign
Grit: Choose Max for “Max Strikes!” and Max for “Blizzard Battle” to play “History Lesson” and complete the Campaign
Kanbei: Complete the Campaign
Sonja: Clear “Kanbei Arrives” within 8 days, “Mighty Kanbei” within 10 days and “Kanbei’s Error?” within 12 days to play “Divide and Conquer”, “Sonja’s Goal” and “Sami Marches On” and complete the Campaign
Eagle: Choose Sami for “Captain Drake”, “Naval Clash”, “Battle Mystery” and “Wings of Victory” to play “Rivals!” and clear the Campaign
Drake: Choose Andy for “Captain Drake”, “Naval Clash”, “Battle Mystery” and “Wings of Victory” and clear the Campaign
Sturm: Complete the Campaign and purchase all other COs except for Nell
Game Modes
Spoilers
Advance Campaign: Complete the Campaign
Campaign Secrets
Spoilers
Dogfights: Clear this map in 2 days to get special dialogue
Special Intel: Clear every Field Training mission and return to the mode to play this map
Olaf’s Navy: Win the map by rout (instead of HQ capture) to play “Olaf’s Sea Strike”
Blizzard Battle: Play the map with Max to play “History Lesson”
Kanbei Arrives, Mighty Kanbei and Kanbei’s Error: Clear these maps within 8, 10 and 12 days to play “Divide and Conquer”, “Sonja’s Goal” and “Sami Marches On”
Captain Drake, Naval Clash, Battle Mystery and Wings of Victory: Play all four of these maps with Sami to play “Rivals”
The Final Battle: Your allied COs depend on what path you took throughout the campaign.
| CO | Army | Criteria |
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| Olaf | Blue Moon | Clear "Olaf's Sea Strike" |
| Grit | Blue Moon | Clear "History Lesson" |
| Max | Blue Moon | Default commander for Blue Moon |
| Eagle | Green Earth | Clear "Captain Drake", "Naval Clash", "Battle Mystery" and "Wings of Victory" with Sami |
| Kanbei | Yellow Comet | Clear "Divide and Conquer", "Sonja's Goal" and "Sami Marches On", don't unlock Eagle |
| Drake | Green Earth | Clear "Captain Drake", "Naval Clash", "Battle Mystery" and "Wings of Victory" with Andy, don't unlock Kanbei |
| Sami | Green Earth | Default commander for Green Earth |
Maps
Spoilers
“Nintendo” Map: Hold L+R when starting Design Maps to load a special map.
Secret Dialogue: When in Design Maps, attempt to place a unit in an illegal position 50 times in a row. You will get some special dialogue from Nell.
Golden Menus
Spoilers
Field Training: Clear every map in Field Training
Campaign: Clear the Advance Campaign
War Room: Clear every single map in the War Room
Battle Maps: Purchase every single item from Hachi
Rank: Achieve Rank 1: “Gold Dragon”
Records: Achieve an S-Rank on every single War Room map
Stats: Meet the requirements for a golden menu for both “Rank” and “Records”
Damage Changes from AW:DS to AW:DoR
This is an abbreviated list of the unit damage changes from Advance Wars: Dual Strike to Advance Wars: Days of Ruin. It is particularly helpful to see how the roles of units have changed between the two games.
| Attacking Unit | Defending Unit | Damage Change | AW3 Damage | AW4 Damage |
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 Anti-Air |  Tank | -10 | 25% | 15% |
| Anti-Air |  AW3 Mid Tank/AW4 War Tank | -5 | 10% | 5% |
| Anti-Air |  Bomber | -5 | 75% | 70% |
| Anti-Air |  Fighter | +5 | 65% | 70% |
| Anti-Air |  Transport Copter | +15 | 105% | 120% |
 Battle Copter |  Anti-Air | -15 | 25% | 10% |
| Battle Copter |  Mech | -10 | 75% | 65% |
| Battle Copter |  Missiles | -10 | 65% | 55% |
| Battle Copter | Transport Copter | -10 | 95% | 85% |
| Battle Copter | AW3 Mid Tank/AW4 War Tank | +10 | 25% | 35% |
| Battle Copter |  Rockets | +10 | 65% | 75% |
| Battle Copter |  APC/Rig | +10 | 60% | 70% |
| Battle Copter | Tank | +15 | 55% | 70% |
| Battle Copter |  Recon | +20 | 55% | 75% |
 Bomber | AW3 Mid Tank/AW4 War Tank | -20 | 95% | 75% |
| Bomber | Anti-Air | -10 | 95% | 85% |
| Bomber | Missiles | -10 | 105% | 95% |
| Bomber |  Infantry | +5 | 110% | 115% |
 Infantry |  Artillery | -5 | 15% | 10% |
| Infantry | Rockets | -5 | 25% | 20% |
| Infantry | Missiles | -5 | 25% | 20% |
| Infantry | Anti-Air | -2 | 5% | 3% |
| Infantry |  Battle Copter | +1 | 7% | 8% |
 Mech | Anti-Air | -10 | 65% | 55% |
| Mech | Battle Copter | +3 | 9% | 12% |
 Missiles | Battle Copter | +5 | 115% | 120% |
| Missiles | Transport Copter | +5 | 115% | 120% |
 Recon | Tank | +2 | 6% | 8% |
| Recon | Anti-Air | +4 | 4% | 8% |
| Recon | Infantry | +5 | 70% | 75% |
| Recon | Battle Copter | +8 | 10% | 18% |
| Recon | Missiles | +27 | 28% | 55% |
 Rockets | Anti-Air | -10 | 85% | 75% |
| Rockets | Tank | -10 | 80% | 70% |
| Rockets | AW3 Mid Tank/AW4 War Tank | -10 | 55% | 45% |
| Rockets | Missiles | -5 | 90% | 85% |
 Tank | AW3 Mid Tank/AW4 War Tank | +5 | 15% | 20% |
| Tank | Battle Copter | +8 | 10% | 18% |
| Tank | Anti-Air | +10 | 65% | 75% |
 AW3 Mid Tank/AW4 War Tank | Battle Copter | +23 | 12% | 35% |
Site HTTPS Support
The site has been updated to support HTTPS through Let’s Encrypt! – This means that forum logins should no longer make Firefox and Chrome grumpy about being insecure.
The front page may take a while to be fully compliant though, it’ll take some time to convert all the links to use the new urls, so you’ll probably see the “partially encrypted” or “parts of this page are not secure” message at the top for a while.
The forum has also been updated to the latest version of the software – send me a message somewhere if you have issues with it behaving for you and I’ll see what I can work out. The required “dark” theme will be updated/enabled in a day or 12.
Advance Wars: Dual Strike on North American VC
Advance Wars: Dual Strike has been announced for release on the Virtual Console this week (Dec 1st)! It has been priced at $9.99
Minimum Turns 300 Pts Dual Strike Run by dxdydzd
User dxdydzd has put together an amazing youtube playlist showing a minimum turn-count S-Rank run of the entire campaign. Each one of the map playthroughs match or beat the current “lowest turn counts” for each of these missions. For some maps with alternative best turn counts (e.g. Snow Hunters with/without the Lab Map), both routes are shown, too!
You can watch it below, or here from this direct link.
Advance Wars: Dual Strike on European VC
Advance Wars: Dual Strike has been announced for release on the Virtual Console this week (March 3rd)! It has been priced at €9.99 / £8.99
Advance Wars 2 on North American Wii U VC
Advance Wars 2 is being re-released on the VC on the 20th September! Exciting!
It’s $7.99 USD/CAD
Advance Wars 2 on Wii U VC in Europe!
AW2’s being released on the Wii U Virtual Console in Europe with this week’s (2 June) update!
Yay!
It’s €6.99 / £6.29
IRC
Wars World News has an IRC channel. Come log in and talk to other WWNers (being-awake permitting!)
You can connect using the mibbit webclient and chat in-browser.
WWN IRC (mibbit)
You can also connect using a dedicated IRC client (such as mIRC, Chatzilla, colloquy, etc.)
Server: irc://irc.arg-irc.net:6667
Channel: #wwn
Basic Information
Game Platform:
- Super Nintendo
Release Dates:
- Japan: 1st May 1998
Digital Re-release Dates:
Wii Virtual Console:
- Japan: 16th February 2010
Wii U Virtual Console:
- Japan: 2nd October 2013
New Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console:
- Japan: 28th November 2016
Other Information:
- Players: 1 to 4
- Game Mode: Single Player, Single-System Multiplayer
- Virtual Console Game Mode: Single Player, Single-System Multiplayer
Lander
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| The Lander is a naval troop-carrying unit. It is lightly armoured and mobile, but has no weapons of its own. It is the only way to move heavier land units across oceans. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Price: | 12000G | Move: | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Built: | Port | Move Type: | Naval Transport | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Vision: | 1 | Fuel: | 99 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ammo: | None | Consumption: | 1 per Day | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Abilities: | Transport | This unit is capable of transporting other units. It has the Load and Drop commands. Details Transports:           Capacity: Two Units Load/Unload:   |
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| Primary Weapon: | None | Secondary Weapon: | None | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Transport Copter
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| The T-Copter is a basic troop-carrying unit. It is lightly armoured and mobile, but has no weapons of its own. It allows Infantry and Mech units to be transported to areas of the map that would not otherwise be possible, due to the fact that it can fly. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Price: | 5000G | Move: | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Built: | Airport | Move Type: | Air | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Vision: | 2 | Fuel: | 99 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ammo: | None | Consumption: | 1 per Day | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Abilities: | Transport | This unit is capable of transporting other units. It has the Load and Drop commands. Details Transports: Capacity: One Unit Load/Unload:            |
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| Primary Weapon: | None | Secondary Weapon: | None | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
APC
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| The APC is a basic troop-carrying unit. It is lightly armoured and mobile, but has no weapons of its own. It also supports the army by replenishing the supplies of other units. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Price: | 5000G | Move: | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Built: | Base | Move Type: | Tread | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Vision: | 1 | Fuel: | 70 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ammo: | None | Consumption: | None | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Abilities: | Supply | Restores the fuel and ammo supplies of every unit adjacent to the APC. The APC automatically supplies at the start of a turn, and can also use the command manually. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Transport | This unit is capable of transporting other units. It has the Load and Drop commands. Details Transports: Capacity: One Unit Load/Unload: |
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| Primary Weapon: | None | Secondary Weapon: | None | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Infantry
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| The basic foot-soldier unit available to all armies. They have low firepower and are inexpensive, but are essential due to their ability to capture properties. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Price: | 1000G | Move: | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Built: | Base | Move Type: | Foot | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Vision: | 2 | Fuel: | 99 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ammo: | None | Consumption: | None | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Abilities: | Capture | Allows the unit to capture neutral properties, or properties held by the enemy. Captures 1 point per current HP. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mountain Vision | Improves the unit’s vision by 3 when standing on a Mountain tile. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Primary Weapon: | None | Secondary Weapon: | Machine Gun | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Range: | 1-1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bean Island
Map Data:
- Map Case: Classic
- Players: 2
- Unlock: N/A
Big Daddy
Map Data:
- Map Case: Pre-Deployed
- Players: 2
- Unlock: N/A
Alakule
Map Data:
- Map Case: 4 Player
- Players: 4
- Unlock: N/A
Archipelagos
Map Data:
- Map Case: 3 Player
- Players: 3
- Unlock: N/A
Eon Springs
Map Data:
- Map Case: Versus
- Players: 2
- Unlock: N/A
Cog Isle
Map Data:
- Map Case: Versus
- Players: 2
- Unlock: N/A
Maps
2-Player:
3-Player:
4-Player:
Pre-Deployed:
Beaker River
Map Data:
- Map Case: Versus
- Players: 2
- Unlock: N/A
Asphalt Maze
Map Data:
- Map Case: Versus
- Players: 2
- Unlock: N/A
Basic Information
Game Platform:
- Nintendo DS
Release Dates:
- North America: 21st January 2008
- Europe: 25th January 2008
Digital Re-release Dates:
DSiWare:
- Japan: 30th October 2013 (Club Nintendo Reward)
Other Information:
- Players: 1 to 4
- Game Mode: Single Player, Single-System Multiplayer, Multi-Cartridge Multiplayer, Nintendo Wifi Connection (Ceased: 20th May 2014)
- DSiWare Game Mode: Single Player, Single-System Multiplayer, Multi-Cartridge Multiplayer
Basic Information
Game Platform:
- Nintendo DS
Release Dates:
- Japan: 23rd June 2005
- North America: 22nd August 2005
- Europe: 30th September 2005
Digital Re-release Dates
- Japan: 20th April 2016
- North America: 1st December 2016
- Europe: 3rd March 2016
Other Information:
- Players: 1 to 8 (1 to 4 on Wii U)
- Game Mode: Single Player, Single-System Multiplayer, Multi-Cartridge Multiplayer, Download Multiplayer
- Wii U Game Mode: Single Player, Single-System Multiplayer
- Accessory Support: GBA to NDS Game Link
Basic Information
Game Platform:
- Nintendo Gameboy Advance
Release Dates:
- Japan: 25th November 2004 (As a compilation in Gameboy Wars 1 & 2 Advance)
- North America: 24th June 2003
- Europe: 3rd October 2003
Digital Re-release Dates:
Wii U: Virtual Console
- Japan: 3rd April 2014 (As a compilation in Gameboy Wars 1 & 2 Advance)
- North America: 20th August 2015
- Europe: 2nd July 2015
Other Information:
- Players: 1 to 4
- Game Mode: Single Player, Single-System Multiplayer, Multi-Cartridge Multiplayer, Download Multiplayer
- Wii U VC Game Mode: Single Player, Single-System Multiplayer
- Accessory Support: Game boy Advance Link Cable
Basic Information
Game Platform:
- Nintendo Gameboy Advance
Release Dates:
- Japan: 25th November 2004 (As a compilation in Gameboy Wars 1 & 2 Advance)
- North America: 9th September 2001
- Europe: 11th January 2002
Digital Re-release Dates:
Wii U: Virtual Console
- Japan: 3rd April 2014 (As a compilation in Gameboy Wars 1 & 2 Advance)
- North America: 3rd April 2014
- Europe: 3rd April 2014
Other Information:
- Players: 1 to 4
- Game Mode: Single Player, Single-System Multiplayer, Multi-Cartridge Multiplayer, Download Multiplayer
- Wii U VC Game Mode: Single Player, Single-System Multiplayer
- Accessory Support: Game boy Advance Link Cable
Language Lockout Disabler (AW4) by Xenesis
Base Game: Advance Wars: Days of Ruin (U)
Release Date: 15th November 2012
Version 1.0: Download (XDELTA Format)
Forum Thread: View
Short Description: Enables all Languages in the US version of the game that would normally be disabled by a software lock. Allows the game’s Japanese, German and Italian translations to be used by setting your NDS Region to that language.
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Super Force Ranks (AW3) by Xenesis
Base Game: Advance Wars: Dual Strike (U)
Release Date: 6th Jan 2015
Last Updated: 16th Dec 2016
Version 1.1: Download (XDELTA Format)
Source Code (Version 1.1): Download (ARMIPS Format)
Forum Thread: View
Short Description: Extreme customisability for your COs – play as you like with over 90 modified and new CO Skills!
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Hacks and Mods on the main page
I’ve added a new section to the frontpage for hacks and mods. At present, there’s only one item listed but I’m willing to add more as people want to have them submitted.
I’ll only be putting up ‘complete’ hacks of any variety, for your WIP stuff, use the forum.
It opens with the War Room Hack 2012, I’ll add more in the near future.
Hacks
Full Hacks:
- Andy’s Adventure (AW2) by Mark999
- Super Force Ranks (AW3) by Xenesis
- War Room Challenge 2012 (AW2) by Xenesis
Minor Hacks & Patches:
- Versus Mode Turn Timer (AW2) by Xenesis
- Language Lockout Disabler (AW4) by Xenesis
- ROM Cleaner Patch (AW2)
Patching Utilities: (From Romhacking.net)
- Lunar IPS (Windows) – For applying IPS Patches
- UIPS (Mac OS X) – For applying IPS Patches
- XDelta GUI (Windows) – For applying XDELTA Patches
- Multipatch (Mac OS X) – For applying IPS, XDELTA Patches
Resources:
War Room Challenge 2012 (AW2) by Xenesis
Base Game: Advance Wars 2 (U)
Release Date: 25th March 2012
Version 1.3: Download (IPS Format)
Forum Thread: View
Short Description: The ultimate War Room Challenge! Take on 30 maps in this Advance Wars 2 Gauntlet.
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AC02: Gunfighter!
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Glitches
As a first release, Advance Wars was a very polished game. However, it has a handful of glitches, one of which is infamous and rather disastrous. Continue reading