Do what I do; restart if you use a bomb or die on stages 1-4.
Btw, holy crap! 59mil with A-L already? How much have you been playing?
Seems like a good idea... and don't worry about the 59 mil, that's not a legitimate score.
That came from my original attempt to savestate to Hibachi, but that ended up with the sound effects screwing up, so I borrowed a savestate from Donut/Banana instead. My actual high score is still 36 mil. :V
[Edit to avoid double post]
After many attempts and getting far too annoyed at Stage 2, I managed to chain
the whole stage in an actual run, which came up to a 474 hit chain. :V That was a very nice score booster (over 12 million points for the chain itself, and of course the max bombs bonus). I managed to no-miss the first four stages, 1 miss Stage 5 and... managed to die 4 times on Stage 6. Still, entered the second loop at 0/6 this time and managed to make it up to 2-2's midboss tank before getting a game over. ...2-2 is a lot harder than 2-1 was. ;_;
At any rate, though, I beat my old high score by quite a lot.
50,405,970.
...I also hit the 20 million extend halfway through Stage 3 before getting the red ship extend, which I found kind of funny.
