Editing Mario Golf: Advance Tour

|developer=[[Camelot Software Planning]]

|publisher=[[Nintendo]]

|languages={{languages|en_us=y|es_es=y|fr_fr=y|de=y|it=y|jp=y}}

|genre=[[Genre#Role-playing|Role-playing]], [[Mario Golf (series)|Golf]]

|modes=Single player, multiplayer

|platforms=[[Game Boy Advance]], [[Virtual Console]] ([[Wii U]])

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|input={{input|gba=1|wiiu=1|wiiupro=1|wiiuclassic=1|wiiusideways=1}}

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The game is compatible with the [[Game Boy Advance#Wireless Adapter|Game Boy Advance Wireless Adapter]].

==Controls==

===Menu===

The game features eight playable Mario characters in all, four of which have to be unlocked. There are also even more exclusive human characters that [[Camelot Software Planning|Camelot]] made for the game. The two main characters in ''Mario Golf: Advance Tour'' can be transferred to the [[Nintendo GameCube]] game ''[[Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour]]'' if the player uses the GBA to GameCube link cable. Star versions of the Mario characters can be unlocked by beating them in a Character Match, which increases distance but decreases impact. Character stats can also be altered by using Custom Clubs that have been obtained in the Story mode. Character statistics are listed below.<br>

'''Drive''' - How far the ball travels in the air for on a perfect shot with a driver (1W).<br>

'''Height''' - How high or low the ball travels in the air. The higher the ball travels, the more affected by wind it is, the higher it bounces, and the more it is affected by spin. The lower it is, the less it gets affected by wind; additionally, it makes the ball bounce further, roll more and get more affected by lie.<br>

'''Impact''' - The amount of the sweet-spot marker left for certain shots. Less makes bunker shots much harder to land and often results in mis-hits.<br>

'''Control''' - The amount of movement away from the targeted spot when hit off the perfect impact point. The higher the amount, the less the ball moves from the target spot.<br>

'''Spin''' - The amount of affect spin has on the ball. Having a higher amount will mean that the ball will roll further with the use of spin.

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These characters are usable for Quick Play in both single player and multiplayer. [[Donkey Kong]], [[Bowser]], and [[Waluigi]] are playable in a handheld console ''Mario Golf'' game for the first time after previously being playable in at least one home console installment. The characters originating from outside the ''Mario Golf'' series have unlockable Star versions that will dramatically increase shot distance will also lowering Impact. These can be unlocked by beating the character in a Character Match.  

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*[[Buzz (character)|Buzz]]

*[[Helen]]

*[[Grammie]]

*[[Elf (character)|Elf]]

==Courses==

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|[[Marion Course]]

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Additionally, [[List of Mario Golf: Advance Tour star courses|Star versions]] of the tourney courses can be unlocked to play in Quick Play. Each of the star versions of the 18 holes must be unlocked with separate conditions, such as completing a challenge in story mode or linking to ''[[Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour]]''. If a Star hole is not yet unlocked, that hole will be the regular version of the hole.

====Score table====

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==Game modes==

===Story===

The story begins with [[Neil]], [[Ella]], [[Buzz]], [[Helen]], arriving at the Marion Clubhouse to improve their golf skills that they've been practicing as pupils of [[Kid]], a champion golfer that got injuried and could no longer play golf.

===Quick Play===

===Multiplayer===

===Records===

===Options===

====Taunt & Support Editor====

Here, all the eight taunts from the player character chosen in the Story mode can be customized and be used in other modes.

==Reception==

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|align="left"|"''With Mario Golf: Advance Tour, Camelot proves it has that shrewd appreciation of what keeps people coming back to the likes of Toadstool Tour, {{wp|Tiger Woods}} and the console Links - and also like those games it renders the sport with a degree of artistic licence. The result is a game that you can pick up and play, but won't necessarily be able to turn off and put down for several hours if you do, and the only drawbacks are that it sometimes looks a bit ropey, it doesn't quite manage to pull off the RPG idea completely, and the lack of a proper putting game detracts a little bit from the final few feet of every hole. But, in all honesty, if our [[Game Boy Advance#Game Boy Advance SP|SP]]'s battery hadn't run down last night and the power cable hadn't proved elusive, we might have sat up in bed playing it until we had piranha plants burnt into our retinas. As it is, we're up at dawn to try and convince you to buy it. Well, if you want portable golf, just do. Ho-kay?''"

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==Staff==

==Pre-release and unused content==

[[File:betaMGATcastle.jpg|thumb|200px]]

An earlier build features a different layout for the Marion Clubhouse than in the released game.

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==References to other games==

*''[[Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour]]'' - The music and overall structure of ''Mario Golf: Advance Tour'' are similar to this game.

==Gallery==

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MGAT group.jpg|The main characters

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==Names in other languages==

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[[File:MGAT Albatross misspelling.png|thumb|"Albatross" misspelled]]

*When the player prepares to putt for an [[List of golfing terms#Albatross|albatross]], the "Albatross Putt" text spells "albatross" as "albatoross".

*The BGMs played during the chance for getting a Par (or higher) and Bogey (or lower) are swapped compared when they are played in ''[[Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour]]''.  

*Peach, Wario, and Waluigi all strike poses from a certain frame shot of their losing animations from ''Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour'' as their selection image. Peach and Wario use a frame from their bogey animations, and Waluigi uses his double bogey's (and lower).

==External links==

{{MGAT}}

{{Super Mario games}}