Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising Hints & Cheats

Like in the first Advance Wars, you can erase your save data by holding L+Right+Select before turning the game on.

At the Design Maps/Map or CO screen, highlight Map and hold A + L + R. The screen will go blank, then the Nintendo map will appear.

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

To unlock the soundtest, beat a normal campign with an any rank to purchase the soundtest. It costs 5000 points.

To unlock the Gallery, beat the Campaign. To unlock the all pictures, beat the Hard Campaign. The gallery is found in the Sound Room.

To turn your menu icons from their regular colors into Sparkling Gold, do the tasks below for each icon.

Go to ''Design Mode'' and click on ''Map''. Then hold the L and R buttons while it's loading. Once you get there, you should see a map with three Japenese letters on it made out of mountains that spell out Nintendo.

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.

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.