Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising Hints & Cheats
Game Guide
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Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising Game Guide
The Black Hole army has mustered an invasion force and threatens Wars World once again. It's time to rally the troops!
Advance Wars 2 Cheat Codes
Erase Data
Like in the first Advance Wars, you can erase your save data by holding L+Right+Select before turning the game on.
| Cheat | Effect |
|---|---|
| L+Right+Select | Erase Data |
Advance Wars 2 Unlockables
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
| Unlockable | How to Unlock |
|---|---|
| Secret Level: Test of Time | To gain NeoTanks in Orange star - Flak Attack: capture city north of your HQ, within range of your units starting positions |
| Secret Level: Neotanks | To gain NeoTanks in Blue Moon - Toy Box: Capture South-Western most Neutral city, AKA: the one on the weird island. |
| Secret Level: Sea of Hope | To gain NeoTanks in Yellow Comet - Show Stopper: South-western most Neutral city |
| Secret Level: Danger X9 | To gain NeoTanks in Green Earth - Sinking Feeling: Capture Southernmost city on the western island |
Unlock COs
| Unlockable | How to Unlock |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Unlocking Sound Test
To unlock the soundtest, beat a normal campign with an any rank to purchase the soundtest. It costs 5000 points.
| Unlockable | How to Unlock |
|---|---|
| Soundtest | Beat normal campaign |
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.
| Unlockable | How to Unlock |
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| Gallery | Beat Hard Campaign |
Unlocking Hard Mode
| Unlockable | How to 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. |
Gold Menu Icons
To turn your menu icons from their regular colors into Sparkling Gold, do the tasks below for each icon.
| Unlockable | How to Unlock |
|---|---|
| Gold Campaign Icon | Beat all levels including secret ones in Normal Campaign |
| 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 |
| Gold Design Room Icon | Buy all CO Edits from Hachi |
| Gold Battle Maps Icon | Buy everything from Hachi |
| Gold Link Icon | This will automatically turn Gold after the other 5 have |
Advance Wars 2 Secrets
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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.
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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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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.
Advance Wars 2 FAQs & Walk-Throughs
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- Intelligent Sys.
- Sci-Fi Turn-Based...
- Release: Jun 24, 2003
- ESRB: Everyone
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