Can You Beat Advance Wars 1 WITHOUT Losing Units?

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🕑 Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
02:29 Mission 1 - It's War!
06:03 Mission 2 - Gunfighter!
09:46 Mission 3 - Air Ace!
12:20 Mission 4 - Max Strikes
15:55 Mission 5 - Sniper!
17:43 Mission 6 - Blizzard Battle!
20:03 Mission 7 - History Lesson!
22:24 Mission 8 - Sami's Debut!
26:35 Mission 9 - Kanbei Arrives!
28:27 Mission 10 - Mighty Kanbei!
29:19 Mission 11 - Kanbei's Error?
33:21 Mission 12 - Divide & Conquer
35:59 Mission 13 - Sami Marches On!
39:43 Mission 14 - Sonja's Goal!
41:15 Mission 15 - Captain Drake!
45:36 Mission 16 - Naval Clash!
48:03 Mission 17 - Wings of Victory!
50:47 Mission 18 - Battle Mystery!
53:18 Mission 19 - Andy Times Two!
55:49 Mission 20 - Enigma!
59:31 Mission 21 - The Final Battle!
1:07:49 Mission 22 - Rivals!
1:16:31 Outro

Can You Beat Advance Wars 2 WITHOUT Losing Units?

Advance Wars is a turn-based strategy video game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance. It is the seventh title in the Wars series of video games, and the first in the Advance Wars sub-series. The game takes place on a fictional continent, where two nations, Orange Star and Blue Moon, have been fighting each other for years. The conflict enters a new stage when an Orange Star commanding officer named Andy is accused of attacking the armies of two other nations, Yellow Comet and Green Earth, without reason, resulting in a worldwide war.

As with previous Wars titles, Advance Wars was not originally intended for release outside Japan, due to Nintendo feeling that Western consumers would not be interested in turn-based games because of their complex mechanics.[citation needed] In order to alleviate this, the developers made the mechanics easy to understand, adding in an in-depth tutorial that did not require players to read the manual. Designer Kentaro Nishimura commented that the game's success shifted Nintendo's attitude over Western tastes [citation needed], and that same success is frequently credited [citation needed] as a driving force for Nintendo bringing another Intelligent Systems franchise, Fire Emblem, outside of Japan beginning with the seventh installment.

Advance Wars was released in North America on September 10, 2001.[1] Its release in Japan and Europe was delayed, supposedly due to the September 11 attacks in the United States.[2] Although eventually released in Europe in January 2002, it would not be released in Japan until the Game Boy Wars Advance 1+2 compilation in 2004 alongside its sequel Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising, whose original Japanese release was cancelled. Advance Wars has been re-released for the Wii U Virtual Console simultaneously in Europe and North America on April 3, 2014. On April 21, 2023, the title was remade for the Nintendo Switch alongside its sequel Black Hole Rising in a compilation developed by WayForward titled Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp, which was announced by Nintendo at E3 2021. It was released in America and Europe, but not Japan.

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[Mangs]

*Spoilers*




Update. I have a theory on what happened with Snow on Rivals.

You may notice that I sometimes turn fog of war off to show enemy units, I do this with a memory viewer command. I am effectively altering the ROM's code. I turn it off to record, then turn it on again. However, messing with the ROM's code can have unintended side-effects. I think the snow glitch may have been caused by me doing this. I guess that means my Rivals attempt isn't legit, and it is actually impossible to clear it normally, but at least it made for an entertaining video!

[NieOrginalny]

"We didn't lose 40 mechs advancing on that rocket, we reorganized 50 mechs into 10 mechs."

[DustD.Reaper]

The most interesting part was this challenge made 2 huge discoveries, the first during Kanbeis Error being that the Sonya Gaiden unlock is actually 30 total days for the 3 missions instead of 8/10/12 days individually, and the second in Rivals being that Olaf is sitting somewhere off-camera can cause it to snow, which was probably the best gift he could have given Andy in Rivals

[BigBlueandWhite]

Who knew there's Olaf somewhere sending you a random snow blessing when you need it.

[DevilSlayr]

Honestly idk whats more impressive, doing AW1 deathless or making 2 new discoveries that have never been found in a nearly 20 year old game. Either way this video was amazing.

[Ephraim]

You discovered something new about AW well over twenty years later???

Oh my word. That's amazing.

[GreyWind]

Hawke, you're going to Green Earth. Eagle just spent 47 days attacking Andy, losing countless units and not able to kill a single one.

Flak, you're going after Orange Star ... good luck

[asclepihex]

I love it when Mangs said "it's advancing time!" and he advanced all over the place.

[GurraDesu]

Wow! Not only was it possible, but Mangs also somehow managed to discover how unlocking Sonja missions work, dispelling a 20-year-old misconception, but he ALSO discovered that you can somehow make it snow in Rivals?!

How is it possible?! Mangs really is working overtime for the Advance Wars and Fire Emblem community. XD
It is going to be exciting to see if someone can solve the Rivals Snow bug and see if speedrunners figure out how future runs of Advance Wars runs will incorporate it.

[XIIIHearts]

So for the Sonja missions in the advance campaign, it’s apparently just a case of the turn limits being different compared to the normal campaign. According to a Reddit thread I found about this, the turn requirements for the Kanbei missions in the Advance Campaign are 8, 14, and 16 compared to the 8, 10, and 12 turn limits in the Normal Campaign. I’d link the Reddit thread but YouTube doesn’t like people posting website links.

[Wgar]

"We're just Infantry, we're meant to be expendable"

"Not to me"

[palaceknight]

Speaking of rare "glitches" in Rivals, I found something incredibly strange while I played it.

I was attempting my probably 15th try to beat this map. At some point, I got to a high day count, around 17 or so. I managed to build up an army to start pushing back on the north and south roads. I pushed through a bundle of Eagles troops on the road and after that...


There was almost nothing there. No enemy units other than a couple of stray tanks and recons. For whatever reason, Eagle just stopped producing units. I know he didn't hit the unit cap since I looked through the whole north and south paths. I made it all the way to his HQ and saw him end his turn with nothing on his bases.


Eventually, I moved an infantry in a transport copter over there and capped the HQ. I have no clue what caused such a lucky break, but I was grateful for it. Maybe it was the emulator I was using, or the game itself? I don't know.

Seeing this video, it seems like Rivals is a much stranger map than we thought.

[SteamWolf]

56:43 Mangs: “This day to day power is pretty bad as you might expect, ”

Grimm Alts: “And I took that personally, ”

[DeejusProductions]

WOW, very impressive! Completing the Rivals! mission like that was beautiful, major props

[doubl]

The snow falling during Rivals after so many attempts... It's like you were hoping for a miracle and suddenly the sky answered your prayers, giving you a single turn of relief. That's incredible. Please don't leave it at that, I'm really curious to get to the bottom of this and know if it was a glitch, or something that happens after you die so many times, or an easter egg, or anything else. Make another video called The Miracle of Snow in Rivals or something, cause I really wanna know xD.
It's so cool when things like that are discovered more than 20 years after the release of the game. I loved all your deathless runs, they're really interesting to watch, but this one is probably the best due to your two discoveries.

[paumb]

The victory quotes of the COs are extremely fitting lmao.
Great video btw.

[luketalbot]

Pasting Grimm's face over Sturm after describing his passives absolutely killed me godamn

[Fadexpl]

Snow appearing on Rivals! is such an anime ending - if you only believe hard enough the impossible can happen and alter the fate itself!
I watched it whole in one sitting, I absolutely love it. Most of the maps feel absolutely hopeless to do without losing a unit - I know it by heart spending a lot of time in this game - and yet you always found a way.

Such a treat, an absolute banger of a video.

[blahmasterk]

There's no bug here. It's obvious that Olaf had a change of heart after getting beaten by Andy at the very start of the game and decided to help from the shadows in the final mission.

[vlad_s_lavburavzev]

Grit at 9:03
"What is this 'URAAA' sound coming from the mountains?"