In campaign mode, if you are stuck on a level, just yield and the characters will give you hints on how to beat the level.
An easy way to get the Gold Multiplayer tab is start any map and then immediatley yield. Repeat this for all levels. With 3 & 4 Player Maps, play as 2 or 3 people and yield for them all. It will count as a played and that much faster to get the Gold then playing them all.
Like in the first Advance Wars, you can erase your save data by holding L+Right+Select before turning the game on.
To turn your menu icons from their regular colors into Sparkling Gold, do the tasks below for each icon.
To gain Neotanks , you have to capture a specific city in a specific map to get the lab map, and then beat a hidden mission. You have to do this in each country.
Orange star
Flak Attack: City north of your HQ, within range of your units starting positions.
Secret Level: Test of Time
Blue Moon
Toy Box: South-Western most Neutral city, AKA: the one on the weird island.
Secret Level: Neotanks!?
Yellow Comet
Show Stopper: South-western most neutral city.
Secret Level: Sea of Hope
Green Earth
Sinking Feeling: Southernmost city on the western island
Secret Level: Danger X9