I finished my "sloppy" 1% run (I shouldn't really call it that, since it's only really sloppy compared to runs where barely any mistakes are made, such as Sess's run, and my other run that's still far from being finished). My time at the save before SA-X is 0:57, total completion time was 1:01. I was expecting a time like that...at any rate, i'm very happy with my time. Beat my old 1% time by 21 minutes. :P
And now I can finally delete my old run. That was the main reason I couldn't save at all in my any% run; I didn't have any free files left.
Oh, and I refined my Nightmare strategy and ended up finding a way to knock Nightmare into his second phase really quickly. It's hard to do though, and i've only pulled it off once. You have to lure him up to the top of the screen, then space jump right up to his gravity generator and shoot a close range charged shot at it to get him into his gravity distorting phase immediately. Then, while he's slowly coming down to the ground, keep firing charged shots up at the generator until it's destroyed, and prepare for phase 2. It'll be destroyed long before he comes down far enough to hurt you.
The problem is that it's hard as hell to get the swoosh plus all three plasma beam shots to hit him while you're in midair...but if you do it right, it should take around 10 seconds to knock him into phase 2.
And now I can finally delete my old run. That was the main reason I couldn't save at all in my any% run; I didn't have any free files left.
Oh, and I refined my Nightmare strategy and ended up finding a way to knock Nightmare into his second phase really quickly. It's hard to do though, and i've only pulled it off once. You have to lure him up to the top of the screen, then space jump right up to his gravity generator and shoot a close range charged shot at it to get him into his gravity distorting phase immediately. Then, while he's slowly coming down to the ground, keep firing charged shots up at the generator until it's destroyed, and prepare for phase 2. It'll be destroyed long before he comes down far enough to hurt you.
The problem is that it's hard as hell to get the swoosh plus all three plasma beam shots to hit him while you're in midair...but if you do it right, it should take around 10 seconds to knock him into phase 2.