I just pulled off a one-death, no-bombs run of SA Stage 6 on Normal.
May not seem like much to the common person here, but I was really not expecting to have improved as much as I did on this stage so quickly - my previous record was a three-death, no-bombs run made two days ago (I only played UNL in the limited free time I had yesterday, no SA at all). Today I managed to pull of consecutive captures of "Hell and Heaven Meltdown" AND "Hell's Artificial Sun", and my only death was on "Mega Flare", when I misjudged a blue bullet coming out of a sun. My control is definitely getting better. I could very well perfect this stage if I spent some more time to practice (namely, over Thanksgiving break).