aw2 faq

Advance Wars 2 faq

What are you trying to do?
Beat the campaign of Advance Wars 2 as fast as possible

Why?
I like Advance Wars and someone recently beat my WR

What is the WR?
1:12:09 by Me

What is your PB?
See above

Where can you save time?
I should save 5 seconds on Toybox and Drake's Dilemma, and 10 on Great Sea Battle. I can potentially save ~10 seconds on Flak Attack, The Hunt's End, and Sea Fortress if I get better RNG

Why are you resetting before some missions?
RNG manipulation. When you save the game in a mission, the game also saves the current RNG value, which makes it very difficult to know it and manipulate it. However if you save between missions, you can get a new RNG value from the title screen and carry that into the mission, and since there is a large window to buffer through the intro, we can consistently get the same value. From here, as long as we don't do any attacks, which cause the RNG to advance every frame, we can consistently control the RNG value.

Where is this used:
I chain a manip through Toybox, Reclamation, Two-week Test, Sensei Returns, and Silo Scramble. We then manip Factory Blues, maybe Sea Fortress, Drake's Dillema, Navy vs Air, and chain another manip through Rain of Fire into Great Sea Battle. I may also manip Final Front, but the normal strat is fairly consistant there.

What is your goal?
1:11:xx, though a 1:10 is possible if everything goes (near) perfectly

Why are you playing on the japanese version?
The japanese version saves ~22 seconds in text, and is also required for consistent RNG manip