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Double Dragon Advance is a side-scrolling beat ’em up for the Game Boy Advance, developed by Million and published by Atlus. It remakes the 1987 arcade game with roughly twice the stages, new bosses, and moves drawn from later entries, including the rising knee, dash punch, and wall jump. Billy and Jimmy Lee fight the Shadow Warriors using fists, bats, and chains.

How To Play Double Dragon Advance

ControlAction
D-PadWalk in eight directions; tap twice to dash; combined with attack buttons it produces throws, grapple moves, and directional strikes
AJump; press attack in mid-air for a jump kick, or hold toward a wall to wall jump
BPunch and kick; pick up and swing dropped weapons; repeated presses run a combo
L / RElbow strike behind you and switch between the Lee brothers in the single-player two-character mode
StartPause the game; joins a second player on the menus

About Double Dragon Advance

Release dateNA: November 2003; JP: March 5, 2004
DeveloperMillion, with S-NEO and Paon
PublisherAtlus (JP), Atlus U.S.A. (NA)
PlatformGame Boy Advance
GenreBeat ’em up, side-scrolling
SeriesDouble Dragon; remake of the 1987 arcade original, re-released in 2023 on Switch, PS4, Xbox, and Steam
ModesSingle-player; a mode where one player controls both brothers and swaps between them; two-player co-op and versus over the Game Link Cable
Also known asダブルドラゴンアドバンス (Daburu Doragon Adobansu)

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“` Two notes: sources give the North American date as November 12, 13, or 18, 2003, so I listed the month only. No scanned manual turned up, so the button assignments follow the series’ standard layout — the moves themselves (dash punch, wall jump, brother switching) are documented for this version.

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