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Name: | Advance Wars |
Console: | Gameboy Advance (GBA) |
Release Date: | 2001 |
Publisher: | Nintendo |
Genres: | Turn-based tactics, Role-playing |
Advance Wars, later released in Japan as Game Boy Wars Advance is a turn-based tactics video game developed for the Game Boy Advance by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo. It was released in North America on September 10, 2001 with a later release date on Japan and Europe, but the game release was put on hold in both Japan and Europe region due to the following day's September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States. Although the game was released in Europe in January 2002, neither GBA game was released in Japan until the Game Boy Wars Advance 1+2 compilation on November 25, 2004. Advance Wars has most recently been released for the Wii U Virtual Console simultaneously in Europe and North America on April 3, 2014. Advance Wars is the first game in the Advance Wars series of video games, followed by Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising, and then by Advance Wars: Dual Strike and Advance Wars: Days of Ruin for the Nintendo DS. These games form a sub-series of the Nintendo Wars set of games. |
There are two components for playing a gba Advance Wars rom on your PC. The first component is the emulation program which can imitate the gba OS and software.
The second component is the Advance Wars rom itself to play on the emulator.
Step 1: you can start by downloading a reliable and bug free emulator. We’d suggest VBA-M – it’s open source, fast and one of the most frequently updated.
Once you have finished downloading VBA-M, extract the downloaded .zip file to a location, for example your Desktop. After, double click the visualboyadvance-m.exe file in order to start the emulator.
Your emulator will now be ready to play Advance Wars rom. But now you’ll need to find the correct ROMs online. A ROM is essentially a virtual version of the game that needs to be loaded into the emulator.
Step 2: return to Visualboyadvance-m and hit File > Open. Navigate to the downloaded .zip file and double click it to open it. The game will now run on the emulator and you can play the game freely.
Tip: Saving games on an emulator functions a little differently. The integrated save system will not save your progress.
Instead, you’ll need to click File > Save State and then choose an empty slot. You can save your progress in whatever point you like within the game, not only on the official checkpoints offered by the game.
When playing in the future and you want to continue from your saved state, you can use File > Load State to load up the game from exactly where you last saved it.
Emulator | Console | Platform | FileSize | Emulator |
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GPSP FOR VITA 0.9 | Gameboy Advance (GBA) | PSP | 0.9MB | Download |
VBA Link 1.72 | Gameboy Advance (GBA) | Windows | 0.5MB | Download |
Mednafen 1.21.3 Linux | Gameboy Advance (GBA) | Linux | 3.1MB | Download |
VBA-M 2.0.2 | Gameboy Advance (GBA) | Windows | 10.5MB | Download |
Boycott Advance 0.4 | Gameboy Advance (GBA) | Windows | 0.6MB | Download |