Star Ally is a shoot-em-up developed by JungleTac and originally released in 2003. The game was originally made for UM6578 hardware before being ported to VT03. This game is very similar to the Famicom title, Recca.
Gameplay[]
Gameplay.
The player plays as a spaceship, who flies through outer space. The objective is to pass 4 different stages and destroy each boss. The game has a few different power ups to improve the spaceship's ammo firing power, or even change the directions that the ammo fires in.
Infamously, if the player chooses powerup "B", they can never move their ship and still destroy all enemies on screen. The player would only need to move their ship during bosses.
The bosses in this game have very simple patterns and move in the same few directions. The boss for the first and third stage and the boss for the second and fourth stage are mostly identical to each other. The only difference being that the third and fourth bosses also fire lasers.
Versions[]
There are four versions of Star Ally: the earlier version (included on UM6578-based systems) has a logo on the title screen, copyright, and allows the player to exit to the game selection menu screen from the main menu. A VT03 port was made after the aforementioned chip was discontinued. This version removes the title and copyright. In a later revision (included on systems like the Lexibook Retro TV Game Console), the Exit option is still available on the title screen but cannot be selected. The player can only exit the game from a soft or hard reset.
As a result, a bug was introduced in the later revision: the player can re-enter the same score from the top score options on the main menu as many times (but still change the three-letter initials). By default, there are six high scores from "ZXH", the top default score of which is 11,300 points (which can be beaten very easily).
Another version of this game known as Space War is known to exist on a generic 14-in-1 plug and play developed by Ex-Subor developers. This version changes the title screen, music order, most of the graphics and backgrounds, and even adds a new ending.
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Trivia[]
- The ending screen is ripped from Super Space Fortress Macross.