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Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising Hints & Cheats

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Cheat Codes

  1. Erase Data

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

    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.

Unlockables

  1. 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
    UnlockableHow to Unlock
    To gain NeoTanks in Orange star - Flak Attack: capture city north of your HQ, within range of your units starting positionsSecret Level: Test of Time
    To gain NeoTanks in Blue Moon - Toy Box: Capture South-Western most Neutral city, AKA: the one on the weird island.Secret Level: Neotanks
    To gain NeoTanks in Yellow Comet - Show Stopper: South-western most Neutral citySecret Level: Sea of Hope
    To gain NeoTanks in Green Earth - Sinking Feeling: Capture Southernmost city on the western islandSecret Level: Danger X9
  2. Unlock COs

    UnlockableHow to Unlock
    Beat Campaign Mode onceCO Hawke
    Buy Drake or EagleCO Jess
    Beat Yellow Comet CampaignCO Kanbei
    Get an overall rank of S in Campaign ModeCO Sturm
    Beat Blue Moon CampaignCO Olaf
    Buy Kanbei or SonjaCO Sensei
    Beat Yellow Comet CampaignCO Sonja
    Beat Campaign Mode onceCO Lash
    Get an overall rank of A in Campaign ModeCO Nell
    Beat Blue Moon CampaignCO Grit
    Beat Hard Campaign ModeCO Hachi
    Beat Green Earth CampaignCO Drake
    Beat Green Earth CampaignCO Eagle
    Buy Grit or OlafCO Colin
    Beat Campaign Mode onceCO Adder
  3. Unlocking Sound Test

    To unlock the soundtest, beat a normal campign with an any rank to purchase the soundtest. It costs 5000 points.
    UnlockableHow to Unlock
    Beat normal campaignSoundtest
  4. 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.
    UnlockableHow to Unlock
    Beat Hard CampaignGallery
  5. Unlocking Hard Mode

    UnlockableHow to Unlock
    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.Hard Mode
  6. Gold Menu Icons

    To turn your menu icons from their regular colors into Sparkling Gold, do the tasks below for each icon.
    UnlockableHow to Unlock
    Beat all levels including secret ones in Normal CampaignGold Campaign Icon
    Buy and play every map at least once (win or lose)Gold Versus Icon
    Buy and Beat every war room map with any gradeGold War Room Icon
    Buy all CO Edits from HachiGold Design Room Icon
    Buy everything from HachiGold Battle Maps Icon
    This will automatically turn Gold after the other 5 haveGold Link Icon

Secrets

  1. Special Design Map

    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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
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