Streets of Rage: "Mania" difficulty, no specials (2P hardest done pure solo)

June 10th marks the day of my birthday!
This is not a romhack.
All I did was set the difficulty to hardest, start a 2 player game and played through all 8 stages "solo" by taking out the other player before advancing.
The mechanics will still use 2 player rules throughout the entire game, even after the other player is in game over status. Because the game thinks it is still 2 player mode, it will spawn a lot more enemies than usual and nearly every boss/mid-boss encounter will involve fighting against 2 of them. On the flip side there will be twice the amount of 1UP items.
Specials are not used at all except at the very end of each level where I only use it for funky camera panning.