Advance Wars: Days of Ruin

Advance Wars: Days of Ruin is the latest entry in the Advance Wars series. It was unusual in that it was never released in Japan as well as being a radical reboot of the series. The Japanese version resurfaced 5 years later, converted to DSiWare for Nintendo 3DS.

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
The US ROM contains two leftover title screens: the final European version, and the unreleased Japanese version.



Unused Japanese Translation
Despite not being released in Japan, the game contains a complete Japanese translation that is functional but dummied out in the game files. The Japanese script most closely resembles the English script 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 from  to.

Cleanup Batch Script
Present in the file system is a batch script called unused_map.bat, a standard batch file with commands to delete a huge amount of maps that are supposedly unused. There appear to be a list of test maps and a maplist by various developers who had a category of maps removed.

Filenames systematically seem to refer to either games or individuals within Intelligent Systems.

AGB = Game Boy Advance (Advance Wars)

SFW = Super Famicom Wars

daisuke = Daisuke Nakajima

muramatu = Toshitaka Muramatsu

nakazawa = Kyouko Nakazawa

hayashi = Hiroyuki Hayashi

cmp = Days of Ruin Campaign. cmp00.map was likely a Campaign test map or tutorial map.

The maps with the w2_ and w3_ prefix appear to refer to Advance Wars 2 maps, and Advance Wars: Dual Strike maps respectively, which can be worked out from the remaining maps in the game that conform to that pattern.

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