History VideoGame / SuperRobotWarsAdvance

** Taking on the steps to unlock [[Anime/MobileFighterGGundam Master Asia]] means taking routes that will not let you unlock [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Lalah Sune]], [[Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico Gai Daigoji]]. Failure to get Master Asia, however, has one consolation prize: Fuun Saiki and his horse Gundam for Domon to ride on.

* FixFic: In this title where ''Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico'' debuts, the game gives one about the fate of Gai Daigoji, success or failure still leads to a fix. If you fulfill the requirements, Gai simply survives the story. If you didn't, Gai dies, but he dies TakingTheBullet meant for Nadesico, meaning that rather [[DroppedABridgeOnHim than given a sudden, undignified death]], he gets to [[HeroicSacrifice die like a hero]], just like in ''Gekiganger 3''.

* FixFic: In this title where ''Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico'' debuts, the game gives one about the fate of Gai Daigoji, success or failure still leads to a fix. If you fulfill the requirements, Gai simply survives the story. If you didn't, Gai dies, but he dies TakingTheBullet meant for Nadesico, meaning that rather [[DroppedABridgeOnHim than given an undignified death]], he gets to [[HeroicSacrifice die like a hero]], just like in ''Gekiganger 3''.

* HeroicSacrifice: [[Anime/{{Daimos}} Richter and Raiza]], though [[spoiler:not by throwing themselves into the sun like how Richter did it in the original series, but blowing themselves up in a nuclear level explosion, wiping out half of the army of the [[Anime/UFORoboGrendizer Vegan Alliance]]]].

* NintendoHard: The original game was pretty tough, but ''A Portable'' was made even harder. In particular, the RandomNumberGod who presides over ''FireEmblem'' wandered in and is now out for your blood.

* BecomingTheMask: The chosen protagonist, either Axel or Lamia, was originally supposed to scout out the main dimension for Shadow Moon. Cue EasyAmnesia (for Axel) or HumanityEnsues (for Lamia), and they end up aligning with the various heroes of said dimension.

* BecomingTheMask: The chosen protagonist, either Axel or Lamia, was originally supposed to scout out the main dimension for Shadow Moon. Cue EasyAmnesia, and they end up aligning with the various heroes of said dimension.

* AnachronismStew: Universal Century Gundam has plenty of this, mainly due to ''Advance'' adding numerous [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam 0079]] characters despite the game taking place circa ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamCharsCounterattack Char's Counterattack.]]'' For starters, we have the ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamCharsCounterattack Char's Counterattack]]'' iteration of Amuro Ray starting out by piloting the original [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam RX-78 Gundam,]] along with [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Ramba Ral, the Black Tri-Stars and Lalah]] showing up as well, not to mention the [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam 0079 iteration]] of [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Char Aznable]] (Who later on changes to his [[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Quattro Bajeena persona]]). A few [[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Psycho Gundams piloted by Four Murasame and Rosamia Badam]] show up too.

* EleventhHourRanger: Depending on your route choices, it's possible to only have nearly the entire cast of ''Series/MobileSuitZZGundam'' for ''four stages''. The Gundam Wing cast isn't much better, being present throughout most of the story but only joining the Londo Bell in the last third.

* CombinationAttack: ''Advance'' is not the first appearance of the ''Final Dynamic Special'' and the CombinationAttack (that would be 64), it is the first handheld with this function, and would set up for every other handheld having them.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Although it was foreshadowed much earlier in ''64'', if the player chooses Lamia as the protagonist, a villainous Axel makes mention of a Gespenst MK III back in their dimension before entering the ''Advance'' universe. In ''[[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsOriginalGeneration Super Robot Wars Original Generation 2]]'', a large part of the story is the rivalry between Axel and the [[Characters/SuperRobotWarsCompact2 pilot of the Alt Eisen]].

* AlternateUniverse: The universe that Shadow Moon hails from.

* AlternateUniverse

* NewWorkRecycledGraphics: ''A Portable'' is the absolute champion of this trope when it comes to ''Super Robot Wars''. Not even the developers tried to hide that this game came into existence precisely because every single series was in another PS2-era SRW.

The first ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' title for the Creator/{{Nintendo}} UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance, ''[[SuperTitle64Advance Super Robot Wars 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]].

A FanTranslation has been released by [=ROMHacking.net=] and can be found [[http://www.romhacking.net/translations/3658/ here]].

* MythologyGag: In the Shadow-Mirror universe, [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Amuro Ray died in the Battle of A Baoa Qu]]. In the ''Mobile Suit Gundam'' novelization written by Creator/YoshiyukiTomino, this is how Amuro meets his end.

* SuperTitle64Advance

* BecomingTheMask

In 2008, ''Advance'' was given a VideoGameRemake for the Sony UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable, titled ''Super Robot Wars A Portable'' ('''not''' ''[[YouKeepUsingThatWord 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 [[LoveItOrHateIt fans are divided whether]] ''A Portable'' was a good remake or not.

The first ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' title for the {{Nintendo}} GameBoyAdvance, ''[[SuperTitle64Advance Super Robot Wars 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]].

* OriginalGeneration: Axel, Lamia and the Shadow-Mirror; for the {{mecha}}, the [[WingedHumanoid Angelg]], [[MotionCaptureMecha Soulgain]], [[{{Ninja}} Vysaga]], [[BeamSpam Ashsaver]], [[MoreDakka Laz Angriff]], Gespenst MK II, Zweizergain and Weiss Saber (''A Portable'' exclusive)

* ShoutOut: In the Shadow-Mirror universe, [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Amuro Ray died in the Battle of A Baoa Qu]]. In the ''Mobile Suit Gundam'' novelization written by Creator/YoshiyukiTomino, this is how Amuro meets his end.
** Exclusively in ''A Portable'', mixed alongside ActorAllusion, there's a chance Axel will say "'''LISTEN TO MY SCREAM!!''' - now's not the time to be saying that!" Creator/NobutoshiCanna voices Axel and Basara Nekki of ''Anime/{{Macross 7}}''.