This database brings together archived and current Advance Wars design maps for Advance Wars Revolution.
It currently features 1351 playable map entries: 70 original awRev maps and 1281 recovered AWN maps.
Maps are organized by gameplay category with restored metadata, images, creator attribution, and contributor profile links.
Want to help rebuild the Design Maps archive? Create an awRev account to link your contributor identity, preserve your map history, and submit new maps to the database.
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Built by Roma_emu, AWS (Advance Wars Map Editor) helped make large-scale online Advance Wars map creation and sharing possible across communities like AWN and awRev.
Over time, thousands of player-created maps, strategies, experiments, and competitive ideas circulated through the system.
Works on Windows and Linux. Setup instructions are in the ReadMe.txt.
Latest version: AWS 1.0 (August 16, 2007)
AWN Design Maps was originally created by Kamek and later maintained by The Sleeping Leg and Roma_emu. YoyoYoshi also served as an AWN Design Maps moderator, helping review and approve map submissions during the original community era.
The original awRev Design Maps section was created by Syzygy.
As websites, hosting, and archives disappeared over time, much of that shared map history became fragmented or inaccessible. This unified database was later restored and rebuilt by YoyoYoshi, including archived map recovery, metadata reconstruction, image matching, contributor attribution, and relational system design supporting both preservation and future community expansion.
