I was wondering about an alternative ending of this game, since a nuclear explosion doesn't seem a happy ending.
So I disassembled the game and found that there is no alternative ending

But I found that there are some text screens inserted in the ending, only shown if you run the game on a japanese MSX. They explain the nuclear explosion, and show the game staff. This is the translation of those screens (credits of translation goes for Gunkan):

"Afterwards, when I was investigating the materials about Ushas that
the Assistant Professor Atley had newly found, it was made clear that
the statue of Ushas was a nuclear bomb fuse that the ancient
civilization had developed.
It's switch was the jewel, and to prevent from using it, it is said that
the jewel was split into four pieces, and were scattered
amoung many places and sealed"

How ironic!
Konami rules, a bad ending in a game

I never liked playing Usas. I t always felt wrong somehow. I now know why

Great work Guillian! Nice effort to translate that I bet many people didn't know about this text.

I never finished Usas, got stock in one of the final rooms of stage 5. But erhm....Indeed, a bad ending....I'm too much of a romantic to see the funny side of that.........Darn, Usas' ending is bad.....Going to think about it for a while. Reset my Usas-status...and life

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Great work Guillian! Nice effort to translate that I bet many people didn't know about this text.

Thanks, but I sent the texts to Gunkan and he translated them (^^!)

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Indeed, a bad ending....I'm too much of a romantic to see the funny side of that....

It's not supposed to be funny, it's called irony.
Ofcourse, some people think irony is funny, but that's their problem

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It's not supposed to be funny, it's called irony. Ofcourse, some people think irony is funny, but that's their problem

It is irony, or a strange sense of humor.
From Usas intro:
"If they find 4 pcs of precious stone, some good thing will happen."

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I never finished Usas, got stock in one of the final rooms of stage 5. But erhm....Indeed, a bad ending....I'm too much of a romantic to see the funny side of that.........Darn, Usas' ending is bad.....Going to think about it for a while. Reset my Usas-status...and life

this is one of best platform games on msx II

the ending maked me laugh for hours

someday i shall play this again. two thumbs up!

hi i'm newbbio here.

last time i played usas i was about 5 years old and it was before my brother type format a: so until today i'd never played usa again so... there is question (maybe i shouldn't ask here but i'm totally lost) when spirits touch you, then you lose vit how to increase vit?
thanks, and thanks i wanted discovering the ending by myself but now... well, maybe i'll never be able to reach te end. Thanks

Collect the coins, and use them during game-pause (F1 key) to increasi VIT, Speed and Jump parameters.
good luck

in world 1: take cles to the 2nd ruin, and after a while you find a ladder with a 10-coin hanging in the air, which always returns. While climbing the ladder, cles can 'rotate' (the 2nd emotion) and you can pick up the coin, climb up and down quickly so that the coin returns, and get the coin again while rotating.

It costs you a number of minutes, but sooner than you think you've over 1000 !

There are many similar situations in the game. You just need to pay attention which coins return and which don't.

Level 1, Ruin 1. Cles can walk in the air with 1st emotion (happy). On the last 2 screens you can walk back and forth to collect the 10 and 5 coins

Reactivating this old thread - Does anyone know who two pass through the third entrance in the last level. I got stuck and need this to complete usas map