Custom Robo GX ROM

Custom Robo GX is an action role-playing game developed by Noise, and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance on July 26, 2002, in Japan. It was translated into English by hmsong. The game stayed on Nintendo Power‘s future release list for a few years, until the release of the next title of the series, Custom Robo: Battle Revolution for the GameCube (known as Custom Robo in North America). NOISE also planned the sequel Custom Robo GX 2, but later dropped it in favor of Custom Robo Arena for the Nintendo DS. 

Nintendo previously planned to release it in late 2005 in Japan. Custom Robo GX is the third title of the Custom Robo series, as well as the last Custom Robo title never released outside Japan. Unlike every other Custom Robo title in the series, the Custom Robo battles in Custom Robo GX are in 2D, instead of 3D, due to the Game Boy Advance not being powerful enough to completely emulate other Custom Robo titles. Also, in its storyline, players can’t move the protagonist the same way they can in any other title of the series.

In this title, the main character’s name is used as the cursor on the map screen for selecting which place to enter. When the players are inside a place, a pop-up window will give the players choices on what to do inside the place they are in. The main object of the whole game is to finish its plot by collecting every Custom Robo, battle part, and other stuff that the player wants, while winning every battle that moves the player from one part of the storyline to the next.

In Custom Robo battles, the object is to reduce the hit points of the players’ opponent from 1000 to 0 by using different Custom Robos, guns, bombs, pods, and Action-Chips. The exclusive Action-Chip within this version allows the players to create an additional shield of defense or to expand on the players’ various maneuvers. In this game, many combinations are present when it comes to the players’ specific weapons. This combinational process, however, is strengthened even greater with the new Action-Chip ability. Battles begin with the players’ robo being launched out of a Robocannon, which is controlled with the D-pad.