I was just wondering, the rules for glitchless say that "no infinite bullets at Wiley, Gradius, and The Guy", but it doesn't mention anywhere else as being expressly forbidden. Is it just because those are the only three places where it is possible? Or it is allowed everywhere else? Because I was watching the WR run of glitchless, and when he was fighting Mother Brain at 6:07 to 6:10, he very clearly did not have 4 or less bullets on screen. I paused to count it, and he had at 6-7 on screen at a time. Is this not the infinite bullet glitch? Just wondering...

What you seen at Mother Brain was that glitch. I believe that rules are so specific about it because it's actually pretty easy to trigger that glitch by accident, even in casual gameplay if you can just mash fast. In those 3 specific places mentioned in the rules using it is prohibited because you would need to "go out of your way" to trigger the glitch and keep mashing to keep it up. And that would be pretty obvious that you are doing it to gain advantage from it. (I'm not really sure about what I wrote really, that's just how I was interpreting it).

Makes sense! Thanks for the reply 🙂