I think I managed to replicate the helix machine gun you showed off some time ago! I made the machine gun shoot twice as fast, increased the amount of bullets allowed on screen, and gave it Lv 3 Snake shots using OllyDbg and Randolf's weapons guide. Is that close to what you did? I'm no master of TSCraft and haven't even put together a coherent demo, but it's certainly fun to experiment with assembly. <img src='http://www.cavestory.org/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/grin2.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':D' />
If it helps: "Go EnlightenedOne, and finish what you started." Course, judging by what you had to put into it, what they set you should well be a violation of human rights, but anyway...
I'm sorry that I somehow never noticed your predicament a few weeks ago...I would have liked to offer my wishes at least, but hopefully you're at least feeling better nowadays.
These are all particularly enlightened questions.