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Play Heroes of Mana (US edition · English) Online
Heroes of Mana
Play Heroes of Mana online and explore its Nintendo DS gameplay. Gather resources, develop the Nightswan and direct heroes and summoned troops in real time. See how to start and use the original controls.
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Nintendo DS (NDS) — EmulatorJS controls
Default Player 1 keyboard mapping. Change keys in Controller Settings.
| Console button | Keyboard |
|---|---|
| ↑ / ↓ / ← / → | ↑ / ↓ / ← / → |
| A / B / X / Y | Z / X / A / S |
| L / R | Q / E |
| START / SELECT | Enter / V |
| Microphone | Not assigned |
Open Controller Settings to configure your keyboard or gamepad. Touch controls are available on mobile.
How to Play Heroes of Mana
Quick start
Choose New Game and follow the early Forest of Beasts lessons. Tap Roget and send him east to reveal Gaia. Use the prompted carrier steps to build the Gatherer Unit Base, summon a Rabite and order it to collect stones. Then reveal Treant and learn the berry route before expanding the force.
Controls
Tap a unit, then its destination, enemy or resource target to give the appropriate order. For groups, touch the group-selection icon and draw a loop around the units. The D-pad scrolls the battlefield and L/R rotate it. Hold B to speed events or battle. START opens the system menu and pauses the mission. Build and summon only with the carrier anchored.
Heroes of Mana — About this game
Heroes of Mana turns the DS series toward real-time strategy. Roget's force relies on the Nightswan as a mobile carrier: gatherers bring back Gaia's stones for facilities and Treant's berries for new units. Building and summoning require the carrier to be anchored, so moving your base has a cost as well as an advantage. On the battlefield, select individual troops or groups and match their jobs to the mission's conditions. Watching a harvesting route while directing a fight makes preparation and battlefield awareness as important as an attack order.
Heroes of Mana Game manuals
Cheats
No cheats have been added for this edition.
Player verification and sources
Browser play was reviewed before this edition was published in the catalogue. The date below is the catalogue publication date, not the game’s original release date.
- Browser test and catalogue publication date
- Browsers and devices
- PC: Chrome, Edge and Firefox. Mobile: Chrome on Android and Safari on iPhone and iPad.
- Player engine and core
- EmulatorJS 4.3.0-pre · nds
- Tested by
- rwEmulator
Sources and editorial basis
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