M.U.S.H.A.

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M.U.S.H.A.
System(s): Sega Mega Drive, Virtual Console
Publisher: Toaplan (Japan), Seismic Software (US)
Developer: Compile
Peripherals supported: XE-1 AP
Genre: Shooting
Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code JP 1990-12-21 ¥6,8006,800 T-35013 US 1990 35046 JP ▼ 2008-04-01 600pts600 US ▼ 2009-01-19 800pts800 EU ▼ 2009-07-17 900pts900 AU ▼ 2009-07 900pts900
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Musha Aleste: Fullmetal Fighter Ellinor (武者アレスタ), known in the US as M.U.S.H.A.: Metallic Uniframe Super Hybrid Armor, is a 1990 shoot-'em-up developed by Compile for the Sega Mega Drive, published in Japan by Toaplan and in the US by Seismic (there was no European release).

Story

Dire51, a supercomputer crafted to control a space colony, goes rogue and sends its attack robots, led by mech Big Asia., to destroy mankind. A team of fighters in giant mechs try to stop it, but all but one, Ellinor (Terri in the US version), are killed, leaving Ellinor to save humanity from destruction on his own.

Gameplay

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shoots; there is rapidfire, but there will be a gap every few shots. There are two means of powering up. First, scattered throughout the levels are pods containing small vertical bars that flash red, green, and blue. Shooting at the pods will have them spit out the vertical bars, which will power up your main weapon. Second, some enemies produce larger, colored powerup balls called "P-chips." P-chips cause the mech to change color and adapt a subweapon which is fired with . P-chip abilities can be upgraded with further P-chips of the same color; taking a different color P-chip will replace whatever P-chip power the player already has. If the player gets hit, he will first lose his subweapon, then one life.

With enough of either chip, you get subships whose firing direction can be controlled with the button (see the HUD to see the current firing direction).

History

Sequels and re-releases

It is the first game in Compile's Aleste series of shoot-'em-ups to be released on the Mega Drive, followed almost two years later by Robo Aleste on its CD add-on, the Sega Mega-CD, and it's the first released-overseas game in the series to not use the Power Strike name.

It has since been released on at least the Japanese Virtual Console; according to Sega of Japan the game is licensed from naxat soft, who are thus presumed to have bought the rights from either Compile or D4Entertainment after Compile's bankruptcy.

Production credits

• Game Design: Compile
• Supervisor: Jemini Hirono
• Programmer
  • 68000 Side: Yu-Ichi Toyama
  • Z80 Side: Kyo-Ra Yumi
• Art Director: Kazuyuki Nakashima
• Visual Cooperator: Janus Teramoto, Hiroshi Satou, Sho-Ji Yamada, Mashira FX-3
• Music Composer: Mr. Sakoda (NOTE: Credited as Washija in the US version)
• Sound Effect: Mats
• Special Thanks: Kouji Mizuta
• Test Player: Bobmitsu, Mikeo, Zenchi, Yasunari Watanabe, 平 (NOTE: Kanji overwritten with an apostrophe in the US version)
• Produced by: Moo Niitani
• Presented by: Compile 1990

Source:

In-game credits

Digital manuals

• Musha MD JP digital manual.pdf

  Mega Drive Mini JP manual

Magazine articles

Main article: M.U.S.H.A./Magazine articles.

Promotional material

US print advert

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average
Publication Score Source

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Sega Retro Average

Publication Version Score 1700 igr dlya Sega (RU) 50 1700 igr dlya Sega (RU) 60 Aktueller Software Markt (DE) 80 Beep! MegaDrive (JP) NTSC-J 78 Complete Guide to Consoles (UK) 71 The Complete Guide to Sega (UK) 71 Console Mania (IT) 90 Console XS (UK) NTSC-J 80 Computer & Video Games (UK) 70 Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 1 (RU) 60 Famitsu (JP) NTSC-J 68 GamePro (US) NTSC-U 92 Games-X (UK) 92 Génération 4 (FR) 84 Joystick (FR) NTSC-J 90 Sega Mega Drive Advanced Gaming (UK) NTSC-J 52 Mega Drive Fan (JP) NTSC-J 84 Mega Play (US) NTSC-U 85 MegaTech (UK) 71 Mean Machines Sega (UK) 71 Power Play (DE) 84 Raze (UK) NTSC-J 80 Sega Power (UK) NTSC-J 50 Sega Pro (UK) NTSC-J 83 Sega Pro (UK) NTSC-J 80 Sega Force (UK) NTSC-U 70 Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) NTSC-J 84 Tricks 16 bit (RU) 65 VideoGames & Computer Entertainment (US) 70 Video Games (DE) 85

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Based on 30 reviews

M.U.S.H.A.

Mega Drive, JP
Cover
Cart Manual

Genesis, US
Cover
Cart Manual PCB

Technical information

ROM dump status

System	Hash	Size	Build Date	Source	Comments
✔	CRC32 58a7f7b4 MD5 d5ced66ba18ec2b8eb69b8b1a6baf0d0 SHA-1 821eea5d357f26710a4e2430a2f349a80df5f2f6	512kB	1990-09	Cartridge (US)
✔	CRC32 8fde18ab MD5 8e147874de78d95634a807f917b270c5 SHA-1 71d363186b9ee023fd2ae1fb9f518c59bf7b8bee	512kB	1990-09	Cartridge (JP)

External links

• Sega of Japan Virtual Console pages: Mega Drive
• Nintendo catalogue pages: US, AU

References

Aleste/Power Strike games for Sega systems/published by Sega
	Power Strike (1988) | Power Strike II (1993)
	M.U.S.H.A. (1990)
	GG Aleste (1991) | Power Strike II (1993) | GG Aleste 3 (2020)
	Robo Aleste (1992)
	M.U.S.H.A. (2008)
	Aleste Collection (2020)
Aleste-related media
	Aleste Collection: Music Album (2022)