Advance Wars

Advance Wars Unlockables

• Unlock Field Training bonus'

  Finish field training mode to unlock the "War Room", "Campaign", "Design Maps", "Stats", and "Special Intel" options.

• How to purchase Strum

  Unlock Grit, Eagle, Drake, Kenbei, and Sonja. Now Strum can be purchased for 100 coins at the Battle Maps screen.

• How to purchase Sonja

  First you have to win the "Kanbei Arrives" mission in less than 9 turns; the "Mighty Kanbei" mission in less than 11 turns; and the "Kanbei's Error" mission in less than 13 turns to unlock the bonus Sonja missions. Then beat the bonus Sonja missions in the campaign mode. Now Sonja can be purchased for 60 coins at the Battle Maps screen when the campaign has finished.

• How to purchase Nell

  Achieve a "S" rank in advance campaign and war room game modes. Now Nell can be purchased at the Battle Maps screen when the campaign has finished.

• How to purchase Kanbei

  Finish the campaign mode under the normal difficulty. Now Kanbei can be purchased for 50 coins at the Battle Maps screen when the campaign has finished.

• How to purchase Grit

  Use Max to win mission 4 in campaign mode. Grit can be bought for 50 coins at the Battle Maps screen after the campaign is over.

• How to purchase Eagle

  If you use Sami to win the Captain Drake, Naval Clash, Wings Of Victory, and Battle Mystery missions in campaign mode. After this is done you need to win the Rivals battle. Now Eagle can be purchased for 80 coins at the Battle Maps screen when the battle has finished.

• How to purchase Drake

  If you use Andy to win the Captain Drake, Naval Clash, Wings Of Victory, and Battle Mystery missions in campaign mode, Drake can be purchased for 50 coins at the Battle Maps screen when the campaign has finished.

• Unlock Advance campaign mode

  Finish campaign mode. Open the battle maps screen and purchase the "Advance Campaign" item for one coin. Press and hold Select and select campaign mode to begin an advanced campaign, with a more difficult artificial intelligence.

• Play in ghost mode

  Press and Hold B during your turn

• Delete saved games

  Press and Hold L + Right + Select when turning on your GBA.

• In-game reset

  Push Start + Select + B + A while playing the game. This may have adverse effects if you have plugged the Game Boy Advance into the GameCube.

• Quickly finish Field Training

  Select the final battle in field training. Win this battle to quickly unlock all options that require field training to be completed.

• Stopping the enemy from building

  Put any troop type (or at least a medium tank) on an enemy building.