that first pic of harder mode looks pretty hectic, but still do-able. then i realised that underneath that purple pattern, was another dense pattern of bullets in dark green..

dear god
so the whole 80 mins per run thing wasn't so much about excessive boss-milking, but more about mass slowdown

are you gonna experiment with other characters at all? i still hate lace's ship design and can't bring myself to abondon shasta

shasta's bomb would be much better at absorbing boss patterns for small gains, but i'm sure her tick damage is lower, so galford's 19.8mill is somewhat more impressive than YOS.K's 20 mill, just because i imagine it's closer to shasta's theoretical max
what's your plans now? Pink Sweets Max Rank Demonstration Video ??

mark: you basically need to get four 1ups without a death. with no auto-B you can get the first, with some heavy milking of destructable bullets, around the end of stage 2/early stage 3. then get the one in the tank halfway through stage 3. then one from the midboss, done by destroying his arms, and cancelling tons of destructable bullets. as for the last, you *may* get it at the end of stage 4. the trouble is, at this point the rank is very high, and stage 4 doesn't have any enemies that spew lots of destructable bullets. and stage 5 is the same. however, there is one fixed extend towards the end of stage 5, if you destroy all of the egg turret things; and again, still be on your first life. before the auto-B was expounded upon, most of were chasing the infinite lives by the end of stage 5. very very tough