Ad/v/ance Wars

The -Wars games were once a series of turn-based strategy games developed by Intelligent Systems and published on Nintendo consoles and handhelds, which revolved around the premise of conquering your opponents by either capturing their main HQ while wreaking havoc on their terrestrial, aerial and naval army with your own, or having the strongest infrastructure control of any given map.

These games had a (mostly) solid Single player campaign, but later iterations also had a robust Multiplayer component which not many people were able to enjoy.

Fortunately, there's a way to be able to play most these games easily on PC with other people over the internet. And that's where we come in.


1.- Download and extract {LINK REMOVED}www.mediafire.com/download/35cct9gh28jc9qa/
2.- Double click mednafen.bat
3.- Press Alt + Shift + 1 to setup your controls. (At every unique button prompt, press the key you want to assign it to TWICE so it moves on towards the next button).
4.- To connect to an active server, press T to type /server IP PORT or /connect IP PORT
5.- So we can tell you apart, press T to type /nick YOURNICKNAME
6.- Play the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game.

If you join a session with people on it, ask if there's any available open spots. If so, type:

/dupe 1

to share the control. Please note that this emulator IS NOT emulating a Link Cable, so it's as if we were physically in the same room sharing a single GBA and passing it around on turn end to each other.
I know this is 4chan, but don't be a ♥♥♥♥ and take control or move other people's units when it's not your turn.

Still, it would be a wise decision to keep a number of available savestates (just in case). Choose a slot by using numbers 0-9, press F5 to save and F7 to load.


Getting the server up is easy, but you need to do at least one of the following BEFORE you run the server application:

a) Open up port 7845 (both TCP and UDP) on your computer AND network's firewall. Or...
b) Edit standard.conf and change the port number to something else you may already have opened before. Or...
c) Use Hamachi.

Once you did one of these, inside your emulator folder, there's a folder called server. Inside, double click mednafen-server.bat to get it up and running, then provide people with your external IP and Port so they can connect. Do note that when hosting, you STILL need to connect to your own server manually (you can type in your LAN IP, external IP or just localhost).

Or you can just wait for someone else to host if this is somehow rocket science to you.