Haha JXQ, awesome nose dive into the pit! :-P
I really must say, you have along with moozooh, such a big potential to make extremely funny movies for some reason. I would wish to see a complete Super Metroid playthrough of you some day. Maybe you can break moozoohs record for the most entertaining run there. :-)
As for me, after a very long time I tried my first Super Battle playthrough in
Super Street Fighter 2 on max. difficulty (8 Stars) again.
Even though skill is terribly rusty, I managed to play through the entire Battle (12 Fights) with only 2 losses. Used 3 different characters in total to make some variety in the run. Only sucker FeiLong (maybe it's my fault :-P) lost very early, Balrog managed to win a good ammount of fights before his loss, and King Zangief stayed undefeated till the end!
Even though you can't match the CPU's reactions in such fights in realtime, I used smart tricks all the time to confuse them and abuse their weak-points in the fights.
Enjoy!