Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising
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.
| Effect | Code |
|---|---|
| L+Right+Select | Erase Data |
Contributed By: avataboo.
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.
Contributed By: SpikeDragon.
Unlockables
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 |
|---|---|
| Buy everything from Hachi | Gold Battle Maps Icon |
| Beat all levels including secret ones in Normal Campaign | Gold Campaign Icon |
| Buy all CO Edits from Hachi | Gold Design Room Icon |
| This will automatically turn Gold after the other 5 have | Gold Link Icon |
| Buy and play every map at least once (win or lose) | Gold Versus Icon |
| Buy and Beat every war room map with any grade | Gold War Room Icon |
Contributed By: XxThunderxX.
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 |
|---|---|
| To gain NeoTanks in Green Earth - Sinking Feeling: Capture Southernmost city on the western island | Secret Level: Danger X9 |
| 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 city | Secret Level: Sea of Hope |
| To gain NeoTanks in Orange star - Flak Attack: capture city north of your HQ, within range of your units starting positions | Secret Level: Test of Time |
Contributed By: megabassxz.
Unlock COs
| Unlockable | How to Unlock |
|---|---|
| Beat Campaign Mode once | CO Adder |
| Buy Grit or Olaf | CO Colin |
| Beat Green Earth Campaign | CO Drake |
| Beat Green Earth Campaign | CO Eagle |
| Beat Blue Moon Campaign | CO Grit |
| Beat Hard Campaign Mode | CO Hachi |
| Beat Campaign Mode once | CO Hawke |
| Buy Drake or Eagle | CO Jess |
| Beat Yellow Comet Campaign | CO Kanbei |
| Beat Campaign Mode once | CO Lash |
| Get an overall rank of A in Campaign Mode | CO Nell |
| Beat Blue Moon Campaign | CO Olaf |
| Buy Kanbei or Sonja | CO Sensei |
| Beat Yellow Comet Campaign | CO Sonja |
| Get an overall rank of S in Campaign Mode | CO Sturm |
Contributed By: megabassxz.
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 |
|---|---|
| Beat Hard Campaign | Gallery |
Contributed By: Super Yamcha.
Unlocking Hard Mode
| Unlockable | How 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 |
Contributed By: CO Max.
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 |
|---|---|
| Beat normal campaign | Soundtest |
Contributed By: Psycho13.
Secrets
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.
Contributed By: dementor110.
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.
Contributed By: Super Glitch.
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.
Contributed By: Firedemon4.
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