Advance Wars: Dual Strike Cheats
for Nintendo DS

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.

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.

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.

Unlockable: Brutal Combat Mode

Beat Hard Combat mode once.

Unlock Extra Modes And Maps

Champion Turn Mode ... Clear the Survival Turn course


Champion Time Mode ... Clear the Survival Time course


Champion Money Mode ... Clear the survival Money course


Special Custom Map ... Hold L + R when entering Map Design Mode


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Unlockable: Flak

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

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: Von Bolt

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

Unlockable: Gallery

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

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: 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.

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.

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.

Unlock Lash

Clear Mission 26 in Normal Campaign with 1000 points.

Unlock Sasha

Clear Mission 20 in Normal Campaign with 1000 points.

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.

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: Hachi's Land

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

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: Chakka

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

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.