Advance Wars: Days of Ruin

English Translation Differences(Contains spoilers!) Nearly completely different English text.

Alternate C15 Ending#

Completing "Icy Retreat" or "Escape on Ice" while Brenner/O'Brian's tank is still alive gives additional dialogue from him during the ending. It is unlikely this is possible in normal gameplay.

Unused Music#

Some unused music can be found nested in the game's SDAT. Some of it includes midi renditions of what are played as wave streams (.strm) in the final release, while others are just not played in the game.

BGM_RESULT1#

Appears to be a victory track. Replaced by a different one of the streaming audio tracks.

BGM_HAPPY2#

A remix of the song "For the Sake of Omega Land" from Advance Wars: Dual Strike, not used anywhere in the game.

BGM_SADLV2#

An unused track that appears to be two tracks stitched together.

BGM_GMAP4#

A MIDI rendition of the streaming track "Final Reckoning" in the game.

BGM_TITLECALL1 to BGM_TITLECALL4#

MIDI renditions of all of the Mission Intro music that is never played, due to the tracks existing as streams in-game.

Unused Graphics#

Japanese Title Screen#

This needs some investigation.
Discuss ideas and findings on the talk page.
Specifically: Explain how to make the Japanese logo appear. Is this graphic in the European ROM?

The US ROM contains two leftover title screens: the final European version, and the then-unreleased Japanese version. In the 2013 DSiWare release, its outline was darkened.

US ROM	DSiWare

Test Graphic#

The US and EU ROMs also contains a test graphic located in the /ending/ folder as a single graphic "test.cg". The graphic says "title" in hiragana.

Unused Aircraft Carrier#

Found in "bmap_fs/taiki3d.tex", graphics for a smaller aircraft carrier with a seaplane on it can be found. This might've been an older version of the aircraft carrier with specific graphics for when carrying a seaplane. The full graphics for the unit can be found in "mu/ship_k", while the used is in "mu/ship_s".

Unused	Used

Unused	Used

Unused Weapon#

The graphic for the list of weapons lists an "AA Artl" weapon, "Anti-Air Artl." in the Dark Conflict version. No unit uses this weapon, the closest being the Missiles unit, which uses "Anti-Air Msl". Though since it's a shortened name of Anti-Air Artillery, it's most likely it might be the Anti-Air Artillery from Super Famicom Wars since it matches the name and most likely acted mostly the same since in Super Famicom Wars, it's basically an artillery version of the Missiles.

Unused Terrain Name#

Both English versions list an unused "Plsm. trace" terrain name. This was likely meant for land tiles where plasma once was but got removed. These tiles instead use the "Plain" name, albeit with unique graphics for the tile.

Unused Tile#

Tile ID 01C0 is a tile for a neutral HQ. Capturing it allows the player to have an additional HQ, after this, it acts as a normal HQ.

Debug Options#

Found in "bmap_fs/e_menu00/e_mapmenu_lose_l" and "bmap_fs/e_menu00/e_mapmenu_win_l" are debug options which say "Debug [Lose!]" and "Debug [Win!]". Duplicates can be found in e_menu01.

Unused Text#

In mission 13, Greyfield Strikes/Rearguard Action, Greyfield/Sigismundo will give orders for the unit you have the most of to be disabled the next day. Text exists for this regarding all units, however, as the war tank/mega tank cannot be produced until mission 16, the text for these units goes unused.

Days of Ruin

Dark Conflict

Report on the units in Brenner's group.
Where does their strength lie?
War Tanks? Understood. Ensure
you relay my orders tomorrow!

All war tanks, halt! Don't move an
inch without my leave!

Report on the units in O'Brian's Legion.
In which units does their strength lie?
Mega Tank units? Understood. Ensure
you relay my orders tomorrow...

Mega Tank units remain stationary!
Don't move an inch without my say so!

Unused Japanese Mode#

This needs some investigation.
Discuss ideas and findings on the talk page.
Specifically: How to access the Japanese script in the European ROM.

The American and European versions of the game contain the complete Japanese version, later used in the 2013 DSiWare release, that is functional but dummied out in the game files. The Japanese script most closely resembles the non-English scripts of the European version.

The functionality can be restored by turning your Firmware Language to Japanese and changing the byte of the US ROM at 0xE720F from 05 to E5. While changing this byte does not enable the Japanese title screen, it has an additional effect of restoring German and Italian to the European version's behavior (the US version normally only plays in English, French, or Spanish).

Japanese	American		Japanese	American

Unused Maps#

nakazawa53.map#

This map appears in the filesystem, but is unreferenced anywhere else by the game. It is a versus or Trial style map.

hori2.map#

This is a map from the previous games called "Switchback".

TR22.map#

This map appears to be an unfinished pre-deployed Trial map.

Map	+ Pre-Deploy

TR35.map#

This map also appears to be an unfinished pre-deployed Trial map.

Map	+ Pre-Deploy

yasuhara04.map#

This map appears to be a Versus map of some variety.

Extra Unit Lists#

To do:
Transfer all the tables. Add the WIP revision unit lists as well.

Every map with predeployed units has a unit list associated with it that is called on map load or by the in-game scripting engine. Some of these are unused in the filesystem and never loaded.

dispos/cmp01_01#

An enemy reinforcement list for the first mission of the Campaign, C1. The one used in the final build (dispos/cmp01_02) only has a Recon and a Tank.

Unit	Position
Army	Player 2
Mech	15,3
Mech	15,7
Recon	15,4
Tank	15,6

dispos/test#

Test map! Belongs to one of the deleted maps in the batch file of the same name.

Unit	Position	Unit	Position	Unit	Position	Unit	Position	Unit	Position	Unit	Position	Unit	Position
Army	Player 1	Rockets	5,27	Rockets	1,28	Rockets	14,28	Rockets	18,27	Rockets	29,26	Infantry	8,27
Infantry	12,27	Infantry	0,28	Infantry	4,27	Infantry	2,28	Infantry	9,27	Infantry	19,27	Infantry	22,28
Infantry	11,27	Infantry	17,27	Infantry	24,28	Infantry	28,26	Infantry	5,21	Infantry	3,21	Infantry	1,24
Infantry	3,24	Infantry	7,24	Infantry	17,21	Infantry	21,19	Infantry	22,22	Infantry	28,22	Anti-Air	16,22
Anti-Air	21,22	Anti-Air	1,19	Anti-Air	10,29	Anti-Air	4,28	Army	Player 2	Lander	3,4	Lander	5,4
Lander	7,4	Lander	20,4	Lander	22,4	Lander	24,4	Lander	13,4	Lander	15,4	Lander	10,3
Lander	11,3	Lander	17,3	Lander	14,4	Lander	4,4	Lander	6,4	Lander	21,4	Lander	23,4
Lander	29,5	Infantry	29,4	Lander	27,5	Infantry	3,2	Mech	3,1	MidTank	6,2	Recon	4,2
Infantry	7,2	Mech	7,1	Mech	11,1	Infantry	11,2	Infantry	15,2	Mech	15,1	Infantry	21,3
Mech	21,2	Infantry	23,3	Mech	23,2	WarTank	22,3	Tank	14,2	Infantry	17,2	WarTank	5,2
Tank	20,3	Tank	10,2	Infantry	13,2	Mech	17,1	Recon	24,3	Bomber	1,7	Bomber	10,7
Bomber	18,7	Bomber	27,7	Mech	29,3	Infantry	27,4	Mech	27,3	Mech	13,1

dispos/reinforcement_test#

A test unit list used for the reinforcement function. Note the overlapping position of the Rig and the first Infantry - it appears to be testing that two units on the same tile get loaded correctly.

Unit	Position
Army	Player 1
Infantry	4,6
Infantry	4,4
Rig	4,6
Army	Player 2
Mech	4,5

dispos/Beached#

Looks like a beach head defence map, with a large number of indirects and meatwalls to deal with Player 2's many landers, mechs and tanks. Belongs to one of the deleted maps in the batch file of the same name.

dispos/BHD#

Appears to be a map about dealing with a huge swarm of infantry. Looks like some kind of Trial or Campaign map. Belongs to one of the deleted maps in the batch file of the same name.

dispos/Bigfoot#

A map that appears to be some kind of predeployed Trial map or similar. Belongs to one of the deleted maps in the batch file of the same name.