History VideoGame / SuperRobotWarsAdvance

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: [[Anime/MetalArmorDragonar The D-Team]] sneak out of the [[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Argama]] and infiltrate a Giganos base where they successfully evacuate all refugees and get them to safety. Rather than be celebrated or have the incident overlooked for their success, the D-Team and protagonist were all punished thrown into the brig for deploying without permission as they are part of a military organization.

The first ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' title for the Creator/{{Nintendo}} UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance, ''Super Robot Wars [[SuperTitle64Advance Advance]]'' was released in 2001 and features some of the NintendoHard difficulty in the same vein of older [=SRW=]s, and [[{{Expy}} borrows a lot of mechanical designs from]] ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars64''. It is the only game in the franchise where [[LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe shields are given]] a seperate HitPoints gauge. Unfortunately, like previous [=SRW=]s, ''Advance'' [[ScrappyMechanic can't skip combat animations]], which [[BrokenBase didn't sit quite too well for many fans]].

In 2008, ''Advance'' was given a VideoGameRemake for the Sony UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable, titled ''Super Robot Wars A Portable'' ('''not''' ''Advance/Advanced Portable'', since it's no longer on the Game Boy Advance), boasting ''[[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsOriginalGeneration Super Robot Wars Original Generations]]'' visuals, voice acting, modern gameplay mechanics (such as [[SkillScoresAndPerks selectable pilot skills]]), skippable combat animations and many other improvements. Yet, the difficulty is taken up to eleven, thus fans are divided whether ''A Portable'' was a good remake or not.

* EarlyGameHell: If you picked a super robot, the very first stage can quite hard due to the lack of a proper tutorial, available resources and because you're outnumbered (Getter Robo is your only ally). Plus, you begin the battle with a damaged mecha.

* EarlyGameHell: If you picked a super robot, the very first stage can quite hard due to the lack of a proper tutorial, available resources and because you're outnumbered (Getter Robo is your only ally). Plus, the player beings the battle with their mecha damaged.

* AlternateUniverse: The universe that Shadow-Mirror hails from.

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In 2008, ''Advance'' was given a VideoGameRemake for the Sony UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable, titled ''Super Robot Wars A Portable'' ('''not''' ''Advance/Advanced Portable'', since it's no longer on the Game Boy Advance), boasting ''[[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsOriginalGeneration Super Robot Wars Original Generations]]'' visuals, voice acting, modern gameplay mechanics (such as [[SkillScoresAndPerks selectable pilot skills]]), skippable combat animations and many other improvements. Yet, the difficulty is taken UpToEleven, thus fans are divided whether ''A Portable'' was a good remake or not.

** There is a system where shields have their own HP that must be depleted before a mech starts taking damage; this doesn't carry over to ''any'' other ''Super Robot Wars'', not even ''A Portable''.

* TheArtifact: ''A Portable'' was the first ''SRW'' to be published by Bandai Namco. However, since development almost certainly wrapped up before the ''SRW'' team was folded into Bamco, it still sports the Banpresto logo and the originals are called Banpresto Originals. References to Banpresto would be quietly phased out over the next few games.

** The graphics engine is based on ''Original Generations'', with the background zooming and tilting that ''[=OGs=]'' introduces. Despite this, Banpresto reused as much as they possibly could from ''Super Robot Wars MX'', only making changes when there's a discrepancy with a unit's original ''Super Robot Wars A'' movelist. The explosions used in the animations are an easy way to determine whether an attack came from ''MX'', as ''MX''-style explosions are jarringly different from the ''Original Generations''-styled explosions that the other attacks use.
** Units from the ''Super Robots Wars Alpha'' series are given a graphical facelift, as they are squarely in SuperDeformed territory in their home games while ''MX'' units are slightly more faithful to their original proportions. However, many of their animations are heavily-inspired, if not directly taken, from the ''Alpha'' games.

* NintendoHard: The original game was already pretty tough, but ''A Portable'' sets out to translate the challenge of the late 90s ''Super Robot Wars'' games to the 21st century -- before tossing on a ''boatload'' of nerfs to accuracy and evasion, completely changing how the game is played. Not only is the player's accuracy much lower than average, the introduction of "Successive Target Adjustment" heavily favors the enemy army. This forces the use of Spirit Commands to mitigate the accuracy issue, which means less opportunities to increase damage or use other Spirit Commands. And just to add insult to injury, ''A Portable'' attempts to combat SaveScumming by having the same result occur regardless of the game being reset.

* NintendoHard: The original game was already pretty tough, but ''A Portable'' sets out to translate the challenge of the late 90s ''Super Robot Wars'' games to the 21st century -- before tossing on a ''boatload'' of nerfs to accuracy and evasion, completely changing how the game is played. Not only is the player's accuracy much lower than average, the introduction of "Successive Target Adjustment" heavily favors the enemy army. This forces the use of Spirit Commands to mitigate the control issue, which means less opportunities to increase damage or use other Spirit Commands. And just to add insult to injury, ''A Portable'' attempts to combat SaveScumming by having the same result occur regardless of the game being reset.