IGN: Advance Wars: Dual Strike Cheats, Codes and Cheat Codes

So you think you know how to play war, huh? You think you've got everything figured out and right smack dab in the palm of your hand, waiting to execute a few aircrafts and some tanks to seal the victory, yeah? Well what happens when they drop the nuclear bomb on your silly buns, soldier!? Drop down and give us twenty!

Don't you worry that pretty little head off, sugarcakes. We've got everything under control, because you're at IGN Guides, baby! We make it aight! If you're voting for Christopher Walken in '08, you're here in the Intro. If you don't know what a war is, tell us that Hootie sucks. Or just visit the Basics section. Are you a total "n00b" when it comes to your terrain, or are you simply looking to brush up your "mad skillzorz?" Whatever your cause, view our Atmosphere section. Looking to see the different types of weaponry in the game? View the Units section. Want to browse the Rank Skills? Take a look at that section. Need help on those tougher missions? Glance at our Campaign section. Looking for the secrets? Go to Secrets then! It's not that hard to understand, people!

In this Advance Wars: Dual Strike strategy guide, you'll find:

Basic strategy to get you started.
Atmosphere and environmental tips.
Unit info, with details on ground, air, and sea units.
Rank skills list—know what bonuses you get as you rank up.
Complete Advance Wars: Dual Strike campaign walkthrough.

C-9? We sunk your battleship! Hey now, put away those guns...

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Unlockable: Adder

Complete Mission 26 in Normal Campaign. At that point you can buy them from Hachi for 1000 points.

Unlockable: Candle

Complete Mission 26 in Normal Campaign. At that point you can buy them from Hachi for 3500 points.

Unlockable: Chakka

Complete Mission 26 in Normal Campaign. At that point you can buy him from Hachi for 3500 points.

Unlockable: Advance Warpaper

Purchase for 1 point when Advance Wars 1 is inserted in your DS.

Unlockable: Advance Warpaper 2

Purchase it for 1 point when Advance Wars 2 is inserted in your DS.

Unlockable: Hachi's Land

Purchase it for 1 point when Advance Wars 1 is inserted in your DS.

Unlockable: Lash's Land Map

Purchase it for 1 point when Advance Wars 2 is inserted in your DS.

Unlockable: Nell's Land

Purchase it for 1 point when Advance Wars 1 is inserted in your DS.

Unlockable: Strum's Land Map

Purchase it for 1 point when Advance Wars 2 is inserted in your DS.

Unlockable: Mission 11

Once you're at Mission 10, capture the city east of your HQ.

Unlockable: Mission 14

Once you're at Mission 13, capture the city in the northeast corner.

Unlock Sasha

Clear Mission 20 in Normal Campaign with 1000 points.

Submitted by Haon 1

Unlock Lash

Clear Mission 26 in Normal Campaign with 1000 points.

Submitted by Haon1

Unlock Officer's Alternate Costume

When you level up your Commanding officers to rank 10, you may buy an alternate outfit (not a colour edit) from the store.

Submitted by Lightspeed

Unlockable: Alternative Costume

You have to reach Level 10 or higher with a CO. Then go to buy the CO edit from Hachi, and you will unlock the alternative costume in the CO edit menu.

Unlockable: Soundroom

Complete Normal Campaign and buy everything from Hachi.

Unlockable: Character Wallpapers

Once you complete the entire campaign, the wallpapers for the three COs that you used most that campaign will become available. They're selectable from the Display menu.

Unlockable: Oozium

You must comeplete Misson 22. At that point you can purchase Oozium from Battle Maps for 1000 credits. You can then have predeployed Ooziums in your design maps.

Unlockable: Gallery

You must complete the normal campaign once, then purchase it from Hachi for 2000 points.

Unlockable: Von Bolt

Complete the Hard Campaign Mode once. After that you can buy him from Hachi's store.

Unlockable: Hard Combat

Beat Combat mode.

Unlockable: Special Map

Hold L and R while selecting Map Design mode.

Unlockable: Mission 17

You must acquire the map in Mission 16, Snowy Hunters. Check in the southeastern most city, on the small island that has the com tower.

Unlockable: Flak

Complete Mission 26 in Normal Campaign. At that point you can buy him from Hachi for 1000 points.

Unlockable: Grimm

Complete Mission 20 in Normal Campaign. At that point you can buy them from Hachi for 1000 points.

Unlock Sasha, Grimm, and Javier

Complete mission 22: Crystal Calamity to unlock COs Sasha, Grimm, and Javier the store.

Submitted by Matthew

Unlockable: Brutal Combat Mode

Beat Hard Combat mode once.

Hint: Survival Level Up

For an easy way to level up your characters go to the survival mode, select the "turn" option, you will go through the basic course with 11 maps and 99 turns to do this. these maps are way easier to complete than the "money" or "time" maps are. upon completing the basic course you will receive well over 1000 exp. plus a bonus for any turns you have left over. after you do this you will have the option to do the champion course which is the same 11 maps as many times as you can in 120 turns. unlike the basic course, if you choose to yield early you will get bonus points for all turns left in the champion course. if you can manage to get to the second wave of maps with about 40 turns left you can earn well over 2000 exp. plus bonus. these maps are a quick and easy way to seriously level up those low ranking co's.

Submitted by darkstarlou

Hint: Rank Increase The Wash-Out Way

To get an easy rank promotion, just start a new campaign and complete the first two levels with Jake. Each time you complete one of those levels, you should receive 300 experience points. Continue starting new games and doing the first two levels until Jake is level 10 or higher. He will now be that same level in any other mode.

Submitted by Michelob

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Most recent posts on the Advance Wars board:
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I forward the motion that the Blue Moon Money siblings are the best Co's in the game.
- posted by: terymacrae- last activity (PST): 11/23 12:42pm
Favrite co theme?
- posted by: RPG_gamer75- last activity (PST): 11/21 10:31am
What is your opinion about Ooziums?
- posted by: robinvandervoort- last activity (PST): 11/21 06:57am
Are both CO Super Powers activated for each character during a Tag?
- posted by: vich00- last activity (PST): 11/21 06:54am
Post the enemy's blunders
- posted by: KentishMadCow- last activity (PST): 11/21 05:10am

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Published by: Nintendo
Developed by: Intelligent Systems
Genre: Turn-Based Strategy
Release Date:
US: August 22, 2005
Japan: June 23, 2005

ESRB Content Descriptors: Cartoon Violence

Media Size: 32 MB + 256KB EEPROM

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