Not only did Ephraim create a whole new campaign, he created new custom COs with their own abilities and even attempted to give them new CO themes! While the quality of these CO themes is debatable, Ephraim allowed for two patches, one with new music and one with the music from the vanilla game, depending on your preference. If any of these rom hacks deserve an A for effort, this one probably gets it. Number 5: Advance Wars Alpha By: u/Ephraim226 Hack of: Advance Wars 2 Status: "Complete" (Done, but I think Ephraim intends to polish it) Though it is dated at this point, it paved the way for all of the other rom hacks on this list and provided so much challenge for a then-teenaged Stove who was playing AW for the first time since being a kid! Also, Xenesis deserves major respect for sticking with the community all of these years! I see this as like the godfather of my favorite AW hacks. Honorable Mention: War Room Challenge 2012 By: u/XenesisXenon Hack of: Advance Wars 2 Status: Complete I know "top 5" makes up the majority of them, but that's also why I wanted to post this: to show some appreciation! The hacking community is basically a few people, but I want to make it known how much myself and others appreciate the time and effort put in to a franchise that up until this year was more-or-less dead.
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