Advance Wars 2 - War Room Challenge 2012 ROM

Advance Wars 2 – War Room Challenge 2012 is a GBA ROM Hack by Xenesis based on Advance Wars 2 – Black Hole Rising in English. It was last updated on June 18, 2015.

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Description

This was a wildly out-of-control result of what was supposed to be a one-month hack to develop a new War Room challenge for Advance Wars 2. Instead, it has turned into something that’s taken over a year to put together, complete with a large amount of refinements and gameplay additions.

Complete with new COs from the AW series, plenty of challenging maps, and a bundle of hand-coded new features, this is a definitive hack to play for Advance Wars fans (or people who like turn-based strategy games!). All the challenges present are hand-crafted by Xenesis and many, many members of the Advance Wars community with over a year’s worth of refinement.

Features

• 30 New War Room Maps to play on – Some remixes of existing maps, most brand new from the AW Community.
• Tutorial map with summary of game rules, scoring and new hack features.
• Each map has an info dossier with the par time and author of the map.
• Each CO has unique combat abilities in the War Room setting. Some COs from Advance Wars Dual Strike and Days of Ruin make an appearance as well!
• Improved high score support – The game records S-ranks achieved on each map with each CO.
• Improved status screens – The unit status screen now shows CO abilities more accurately and with more stats.
• Pre-deployed maps provide unique army compositions depending on your CO selection – a feature returning from Advance Wars 1!
• New deterministic weather rules for fairer scoring!
• Extended Status Screen – Shows your rank in progress and whether you have S-Ranked this map with the current CO.
• Improved Enemy AI – Enemy COs no longer use CO powers when they’d have no reason to use them and use them more intelligently!
• Unlockables – Earn more COs by scoring S Ranks on maps!
• Play against or as the series’ evil villains – Caulder, Sturm and Von Bolt

Game Rules

The gameplay rules are mostly the same from traditional Advance Wars 2 – all units are unchanged, and each CO has access to their own unique sets of gameplay changing powers and abilities. Some of the COs have had their abilities altered for the new setting, while some COs retire for this challenge. Likewise, some other faces join the fray from later Advance Wars games.

The scoring is harsher, meaning you will have to work harder to get those coveted S-Ranks. Indeed, S-Ranks are only obtained by winning a map with a perfect 300 score. The game records your complete progress, recording which COs you have mastered a map with. For predeployed maps, each CO setup has a core army of forces.

Most COs get a small regiment of forces that they’re skilled with – Grit will get extra artillery, Eagle will gain extra aircraft. The bonus COs, however, don’t gain any extra forces on a map. The weather is now deterministic. If you choose or are fighting an Olaf, it will snow every ten days. Vs Drake it rains every six days. This amount increases by every duplicate of the CO in play.

Changelog

V1.3

• Fixed a palette index error for the Current Score Display Function
• Tiling Error Fixes in these maps: Feeling Blue

V1.2

• Added a new GUI Option: Time Countdown. Counts the days left for an S-Rank, turn it on in options.
• Added a new GUI Option: Current Score Display. Shows your current score in each category. Turn it on in options.
• Edited the GUI: Instead of a 5th Rank, displays what fraction of COs have S-Ranked that map (x / 18)
• Tiling Error Fixes in these Maps:
  Barracuda Bay
  Battle Bridge
  Beach Head
  Bombardier
  Crescent Isle
  Feeling Blue
  Island Nation
  Legion Peninsula
  Marshlands
  Split Mountain
  Comet Catcher
  Whirlpool
  Mial’s Cape

V1.1

• Fixed a bug that prevented the saving of S-Rank tally for a map if you didn’t beat your high score
• Fixed an error in the description for Old Wounds

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