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'''Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship Tournament 2004''', known in Japan as '''Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters Expert 3''', is a video game based on the [[Yu-Gi-Oh!]] franchise.
The game has been released on the Game Boy Advance. In the game, the player can assemble three Decks and can play Duel Monsters against a variety of computer opponents. The game features the first 1,138 cards released in Japan. (201 spells, 109 traps, 55 fusion monster, 16 ritual monster, 224 effect monster and 533 normal monster) It is noteworthy that you can collect [[Dark Magician]] and [[Polymerisation]] in two different artworks also counting as different cards.
==Game Speed==
Sadly there is no useful sorting criteria for spells and traps beside "name".
For faster scrolling through the card list push the left/right-button.You wil jump to the next 5 4 cards. For even faster scrolling hold the B-button and press up/down.
You start the game with 120 random cards. The default Deck can be optimzed right away with other cards in your trunk in most cases.
* [[List of Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship Tournament 2004 cards|Card List]]
* [[Blue-Eyes White Dragon (WC4-BP)|Booster Packs]]
==Banned List==
===Limited===
* [[Cyber Jar]]
* [[Exiled Force]]
* [[Fiber Jar]]
* [[Jinzo]]
* [[Morphing Jar]]
* [[Sangan]]
* [[Sinister Serpent]]
* [[Slate Warrior]]
* [[Witch of the Black Forest]]
* [[Yata-Garasu]]
* [[Exodia the Forbidden One]]
* [[Left Leg of the Forbidden One]]
* [[Right Leg of the Forbidden One]]
* [[Left Arm of the Forbidden One]]
* [[Right Arm of the Forbidden One]]
* [[Card Destruction]]
* [[Change of Heart]]
* [[Confiscation]]
* [[Dark Hole]]
* [[Delinquent Duo]]
* [[Graceful Charity]]
* [[Harpie's Feather Duster]]
* [[Heavy Storm]]
* [[Limiter Removal]]
* [[Mage Power]]
* [[Mirage of Nightmare]]
* [[Monster Reborn]]
* [[Painful Choice]]
* [[Pot of Greed]]
* [[Premature Burial]]
* [[Raigeki]]
* [[Snatch Steal]]
* [[Swords of Revealing Light]]
* [[The Forceful Sentry]]
* [[United We Stand]]
* [[Upstart Goblin]]
* [[Call of the Haunted]]
* [[Ceasefire]]
* [[Imperial Order]]
* [[Magic Cylinder]]
* [[Mirror Force]]
* [[Reckless Greed]]
* [[Ring of Destruction]]
===semi limited===
* [[Guardian Sphinx]]
* [[Morphing Jar #2]]
* [[Nobleman of Crossout]]
* [[Reinforcement of the Army]]
* [[Riryoku]]
* [[Backup Soldier]]
==Glitches==
===Card Text===
* Cards with "[[Dark Magician]]", and other magician cards such as "[[Magician of Black Chaos]]", in their text mistakenly replaces "Magician" with "Spellian". This can be seen on "[[Dark Magician Girl]]". This is likely as a result of a last-minute changing of "Magic" to "[[Spell Cards|Spell]]" using a mass-text replacer on the ROM before release.
===Card Effect===
* You are not asked if you want to activate a trap on an empty game state. So it is not possible to use [[Call of the Haunted]] during your opponents end phase i.e.
* [[Axe of Despair]] is not placed on top of your deck even if you have offered a monster for its effect.
* You take all the damage from "[[Burning Land]]".
* Terrain bonuses sometimes do not benefit the player, but it does benefits AI.
* Despite the text saying otherwise, "[[Maiden of the Aqua]]" does give the same stat bonuses and penalties as "[[Umi]]" when it is face-up on the field. Until another field card is played then it deactivates.
* After "[[Spear Dragon]]" has attacked, activate "[[Book of Moon]]" and "Spear Dragon" would be flipped facedown, therefore, the effect of "Spear Dragon" makes the card into facedown Attack Position.
* Your monster is destroyed even if you chain [[Book of Moon]] to your opponents [[Trap Hole]].
* Monsters gained through the effects of "[[Vampire Baby|Red-Moon Baby]]" are glitched.
* Despite the text of "[[Spellbinding Circle]]" saying otherwise, if the targeted monster is Tributed, "Spellbinding Circle" is destroyed.
* If "[[Spirit Reaper]]" is targeted by an Equip Spell, only the Spell is destroyed.
* The opponent can switch [[Man-Eater Bug]] into [[Defense Position]] the turn it is [[Flip Summon]]ed if no other cards in play prevent it.
* When you activate [[Call of the Haunted]] during your own battle phase while your opponent has no monsters the summoned monster attacks automatically.
* After [[Book of Moon]] was chained to set the target of an opponents [[Ring of Destruction]] the ring is sent to the graveyard even when [[Banisher of Light]] is faceup on your side of the field.
* The effect of [[Nimble Momonga]] activates even when it was destroyed by the effect of [[Sasuke Samurai]].
* The opponent can pay LP for [[Chain Energy]] even if it reduces them to zero.
* He doesn't pay for [[Chain Energy]] when playing a card that destroys it, like [[Heavy Storm]]
* In the following situation you receive Damage equal to the (600) DEF points of an opponents [[Man-Eater Bug]]: You Attack i.e. with [[Gemini Elf]], the AI activates [[Mirror Force]], you chain [[Ring of Destruction]], opponent chains [[Seven Tools of the Bandit]].
* when [[Zombyra the Dark]] is removed from the field i.e. by the flip effect of a [[Cyber Jar]] it just destroyed, a replacement monster gets his ATK reduced by 200 (even if it is summoned in facedown DEF mode).
==Smartness of AI==
** never attacks a monster with highest ATK on the field even if he has an equally strong monster and would be able to attack with other monsters afterwards.
** only attacks an opponents monster with equal or higer ATK in DEF mode (like i.e. [[Spear Dragon]]) when he has a monster with piercing effect.
** activates (all of his) traps /spells even when while [[Royal Decree]]/[[Imperial Order]] is in play. They are all negated though.
** doesn't use his [[Mirror Force]] as long as he has [[Fairy Box]] in play.
** only returns 1 of the opponents monsters to his hand using [[Penguin Soldier]]
** sometimes uses his [[Mystical Space Typhoon]] on itself.
** allways tribute summons, even if the tributed monster was stronger than the new monster.
** tributes a facedown flip effect monster without flip summoning it first
** activates [[Monster Reborn]] in Main Phase 2 even if he would have won the duel when using it before his battle phase.
** does not hesitate tot finish himself i.e. by destroying a faceup opponents [[Black Pendant]] while having less than 500 LP.
** never uses his [[Snatch Steal]]
** uses [[Backup Soldier]] when its activation requirments are fulfilled even if he doesn't retrieve any monster from his graveyard at that time.
* If a card effect would make one of the AI's monsters stronger than your highest-ATK monster, but the monster is naturally weaker than the latter, the AI will still play it in Defense Position. However, it will switch the monster to Attack Position at the next opportunity.
