Play Dragon Ball – Advanced Adventure Online

Dragon Ball: Advanced Adventure is a side-scrolling beat ’em up for the Game Boy Advance, developed by Dimps and published by Banpresto in Japan, Atari in North America, and Bandai in Europe. It retells the original manga from Goku meeting Bulma to the fight with King Piccolo. Stages mix platforming, Flying Nimbus sections, and one-on-one duels, with 30 characters unlockable across five modes.

How To Play Dragon Ball: Advanced Adventure

ControlAction
D-PadMove the character; up with attack deflects bullets, down with attack in mid-air is a smash strike
AJump; press again in the air to double jump, or hold away from a wall with A for a wall jump
BAttack; press repeatedly for a combo, or while guarding for a counterattack
A + BThrow
LGuard; in stages it spends one ki bar on a Power Pole special that hits everything on screen
RKi blast; hold longer and with more ki bars for stronger versions, up to a full-bar Kamehameha
L + RUltimate attack, available to Goku, Tien, Jackie Chun, and King Piccolo
StartPause menu

About Dragon Ball: Advanced Adventure

Release dateJP: November 18, 2004; EU: June 17, 2005; NA: June 6, 2006
DeveloperDimps
PublisherBanpresto (JP), Atari (NA), Bandai (EU)
PlatformGame Boy Advance
GenreBeat ’em up, side-scrolling
SeriesDragon Ball
ModesSingle-player story, extra, one-on-one, and survival modes; two-player versus over the Game Link Cable

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“` The controls here are documented rather than inferred. One note: L and R behave differently in adventure stages than in the one-on-one battle mode, where L becomes a super attack or block depending on the character.

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