This was the first attempt of a Arcade Hard speedrun that I've done, it's pretty rough. It's not optimal and playing with Pod/Spread for the entire game is rather hard, I'd suggest sticking with Beam Rifle/Spread until stage 7 then swapping to Pod/Spread. Hime refused to be singlephased in this run, which you could probably imagine is a huge time loss, getting that in a run is very ideal.

Mod Edit: Retimed to 16m20s