Wiped to Ridley over and over. Died before breaking the final zebetite and ran out of missiles trying to return to it.
Defeated Mother Brain after I finally reached her and managed to attain the striptease ending due to the FDS version's more lenient par time.
The zebetite clusterfuck at the end remains bastard hard.

Fucked up the Early Varia trick and decided to restart entirely.

Cleared two loops of the game. Attaining Helmet-less and Leotard endings.
The slowdown in Tourian is r o u g h.