First S9! (Failed the credit roll.) Also included my best time, which is an S8 with a credit roll clear. (For reference, all my plays are on shmupmametgm)
I was sick for a week, twiddling around with the SNES controller again during moments of lucidity... and despite an even slower time than usual, an S9 popped out! I was so surprised I messed up the credit roll :/
This was done last week, slower than my actual best time but I didn't have a recorded S5 game before, that happened at CTEC 2016 if I remember correctly. video: twitch.tv/videos/511596364 (not a link because twitch embeds appear to be broken on the forum)
Not a great time but it is my first orange line! (Please tell me if it's not orange, I'm colorblind and my friends mess with me sometimes)
Orange-line GM @ 07:48.51 Three second+ level stop for 999. My heart rate is off the charts right now!
When I saw your name next to the topic tap-master, I immediately thought : "omg...Sure he has just done something sick"
[shmupmametgm] Finally cleared master mode. Got too excited and totally botched the credit roll, though.
After too many months of only time improvement and some embarrassingly green S9 encounters, I finally managed to get an orange S9 (11:08:06)!