Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising is a turn-based strategy game developed by Intelligent Systems. It is the second entry of a series of games (Advance Wars having come first, Black Hole Rising second, Dual Strike third, with Days of Ruin being the latest entry so far.)

Gameplay is almost identical to Advance Wars, with a few welcome additions - the main one being a "Super CO Power" on top of the normal CO power. You'll find familiar units and hear favorite songs again! The cheesy storytelling is back, too.

While the Allied Nations were still recovering from the war of the previous game, the Black Hole Army had already built back up and launches a large-scale invasion on all four Macro Land nations: Orange Star, Blue Moon, Yellow Comet, and Green Earth. Commanded by Sturm, their armies are sure of their victory! Will you be able to show them wrong?

You play as the Commanding Officer of the army of one of the four Nations. Each turn, you move your units once each and attack. You can also build extra units (one per turn per building) at the harbors, factories and so on, depending on the cash you managed to net from cities you occupy.

This is a single map hack created for the anniversary of Advance Wars 1's release, 10 September 2001. Play as Sturm on a rework of the Jet-Black Forest against 3 allied AI players. Guarding your HQ are 4 minicannons, which the AI players have been taught how to destroy. Other surprises may await.

Sturm has his AW1 stats (Passive: 130/80, no movement cost in clear/rain; SCOP: 150/100(+10), 8 HP Meteor, costs only 7 Stars).

Start the Campaign to access the map.

The hack is contained in an .ips patch, for which LunarIPS is needed.

Update 1.1: The map was too hard due to a testing oversight. More properties have been given the player to capture and neutral production facilities were placed closer to the player, as well as Olaf was given an HQ.

Database match: Advance Wars 2 - Black Hole Rising (USA)
Database: No-Intro: Game Boy Advance (v. 20210227-023848)
File/ROM SHA-1: 14DD0B22C894865867AFF89E8116B2DFFAE25605
File/ROM CRC32: 5AD0E571

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