• Stage 1: I grabbed laser spread instead of double spread because I think it's faster. The first wall can be taken down faster. Also with some luck the turtle boss can be beaten a lot faster.

• Stage 2: With some luck you can beat the boss with one set of double crush missiles.

• Stage 3: No mistakes in this level.

• Stage 4: I keep double crush instead of getting laser because it is a lot faster. All the mini bosses and the boss were done very well. After you beat the boss you can still die if you're not on a missile when the alien ship explodes. It has happened to me quite a few times and is definitely one of the worst ways to end a run in this game.

• Stage 5: Couldn't do the wall trick by the last spider pod because a spider spawned in the way. Boss was well done.

• Stage 6: I didn't risk using a bomb on the crawling boss so I couldn't kill him in one turn. I paid for this as he took his long path before I was able to attack again costing me around ten seconds. Not all bad though because I rocked the winged demon and the armor for the brain. However the fight with the brain was more colorful then I would have liked as I ended up choosing three different attack patterns that I didn't want. Only the brain armor attack pattern was my fault though, the other two were because the brain switched his attack pattern direction at the last second.

Thanks to Mike Uyama for his speed run which I learned a lot from.

Also thanks to hero of the day for his 2 player tas and Ash Williams for his pacifist tas. I got a lot of time savers from them.

Finally thanks to the entire SDA crew: Radix, Nate, Mike Uyama, and DJGrenola for doing whatever it is they do for this site.