EoSD Hard a few days ago.
Starting Patchy's battle with ~2 lives and no bombs. I was somehow able to capture Green Storm, which brutally murders me even on normal.
Oh yeah, i just remembered this: I was experimenting with UFO Hard back before the full game was out and I had made it to Stage 3. You know those superfast 3-bullet waves that the fairies spew out near the end of stage? I got walled by them, took a deep breath, and just RAN through everything, somehow leaving my unscathed.