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 was a wildly out of control result of what was supposed to be a one-month hack to develop a new War Room challenge for Advance Wars 2. Instead, it has turned into something that's taken over a year to put together, complete with a large amount of refinements and gameplay additions. Complete with new COs from the AW series, plenty of challenging maps and a bundle of hand-coded new features, this is a definitive hack to play for Advance Wars fans (or people who like turn based strategy games!). All the challenges present are hand-crafted by Xenesis and many, many members of the Advance Wars community with over a year's worth of refinement.

Game Features:
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[li]30 New War Room Maps to play on - Some remixes of existing maps, most brand new from the AW Community.[/li]
[li]Tutorial map with summary of game rules, scoring and new hack features.[/li]
[li]Each map has an info dossier with the par time and author of the map.[/li]
[li]Each CO has unique combat abilities in the War Room setting. Some COs from Advance Wars Dual Strike and Days of Ruin make an appearance as well![/li]
[li]Improved high score support - The game records S-ranks achieved on each map with each CO.[/li]
[li]Improved status screens - The unit status screen now shows CO abilities more accurately and with more stats.[/li]
[li]Pre-deployed maps provide unique army compositions depending on your CO selection - a feature returning from Advance Wars 1![/li]
[li]New deterministic weather rules for fairer scoring![/li]
[li]Extended Status Screen - Shows your rank in progress and whether you have S-Ranked this map with the current CO.[/li]
[li]Improved Enemy AI - Enemy COs no longer use CO powers when they'd have no reason to use them and use them more intelligently![/li]
[li]Unlockables - Earn more COs by scoring S Ranks on maps![/li]
[li]Play against or as the series' evil villains - Caulder, Sturm and Von Bolt
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Standard Patch:
Advance Wars 2 - Black Hole Rising (U) (Clean Rom)
MD5 46599031EF71117C587BD3666C326C07

Alternative Patch:
1060 - Advance Wars 2 - Black Hole Rising (U)(Mode7)
MD5 29366BC79094492456210AA7013E14EC