Tips on Beating Bosses
The Levels
Corneria
Meteo
Fortuna- StarWolf
Sector X
Titania
Bolse- StarWolf
Venom- Through Bolse
Sector Y
Katina
Solar
Macbeth
Aquas
Zoness
Area 6
Venom- Through Area 6
Corneria
Easy Boss
The easy boss' weak spot is the pack on his back, it's the only target that will cause him to lose power. The fastest, and harder, way to beat him is to fly around him, which is hard to do because he keeps turning, and rapidly fire at the pack on his back. Another way is to immediately start shooting at one of his legs until it blows away. The boss will fall down, and won't be able to move. This will allow you to easily get behind him and shoot at his pack.
Hard Boss
This boss seems easier than the easy boss, but it is called the hard boss because you can only fight him on the hard route. When the boss opens the hatches on its sides to shoot out rockets, shoot in them. Eventually they will blow off. Now rapidly fire at the body. It will retreat backwards, then turn around and fire at you. You should be able to take it out before its next pass.
Stone Runner Andross To destroy the mothership, shoot at the four hatches that stick out of the edge of the ship when Bill says, "The hatches are open." Once you destroy all four, or you wait long enough, a sharp cone sticks out of the middle of the ship. Repeatedly fire at the cone until it is destroyed.
Shoot the boss in is arms until they blow off. Dodge his swings by darting left or right. If he goes under and makes a wave, do a loop-de-loop to avoid it. Once his arms are blown off, shoot his head until he dies. Weave up and down to avoid the lava balls he spits at you. Start by shooting the lower section of the boss. If he swoops down to pick you up, turbo forward or barrel roll. After you blow off his lower section, aim for the head. To avoid the laser, barrel roll left or right. Once his head is blown off, go for the train. When the train opens its rear to let out a box, blast it. The train will turn red, and the boss will shake. Shoot the boss when he shakes. Start by locking onto the top barnacles on the clam, three shots destroy each one. They fire out worms that hurt you, so shoot them first. Now, rapid fire on the pillars in the Clams mouth. When they stop bouncing, fire a torpedo. The pearls that it fires are easily avoidable, and hardly ever hit. Destroy both pillars, then fire at the eye. The lasers don't hurt it, so use torpedoes. The clam fires more pearls now, which are harder to avoid, so use the lasers to kill them. This boss only takes damage from bombs, until you destroy both cannons. When the boss surfaces, dodge the ball and chain it launches at you. Shoot the cannon balls it fires to stock up on bombs. Watch out for the barrels it drops, they explode into vertical pillars of fire. Dodge left or right if one gets right underneath you. Shoot at the two smoke stacks that stick out of the middle of the ship. Once you blow both of them off, the boss can't go under water. If it does go under water, dodge the ball and chain by going left and right. Next, fire three bombs at either side cannon. Make sure you have at least 6 bombs before shooting one of the cannons. When one blows off, the boss will turn around and lower a crain. Fire three bombs to destroy the crane. Next, destroy the other side cannon. Now you can hit the boss with lasers. It will weave side to side firing charges and its ball and chain. Weave up and down and keep shooting it.Meteo
Try to keep all your wingmen alive for this boss, because he aims most of his rockets at them, and not at you if they are alive. This boss has 3 stages. In the first stage, shoot the yellow spots as the disk reveals them while spinning. If you blow all of them up, move to the sides, for the disk will blow straight forward, possibly in your face! Don't shoot the disk though, because your laser will power it up and it will fire back at you. The boss will start powering up a laser, in the middle of a yellow blast panel. Fire at the blast panel, but make sure you dodge the laser. After you blow up the blast panel, the boss will "surrender." After he finishes flipping over, he will start firing rockets. Rockets will alternately fire from top and bottom blast panels. Shoot the blast panels when rockets aren't firing from them. He will charge up a circular laser. To dodge it, simply boost forward right before he fires it. Enough shots in the yellow blast panel and he's done for.
Sector X
This boss' weak spot is its yellow eyes. Blast them every chance you get. When you see it powering up its eye beam, swurve any which way to avoid it. After this he will try and swat you with his hands, so dodge them too. After this he will reveal his eyes again, so blast 'em. Keep repeating this. Once you think he's dead, he springs back to life. This time when he swats, he'll throw pieces of wreckage at you, these are harder to dodge. This time you can blast his entire head, so blast it, and he's dead.
Titania
Aim for this boss' many arms first. When he swings his tail at you, hover to avoid it. If he fires the laser from his mouth, barrel roll left or right to avoid it. Once all his arms are blown off, fire at his heart. If you take too long to kill it, it will collect his limbs and you have to blow them off all over again.
Venom- Through Bolse
It is MUCH easier to kill the Stone Runner with hyper laser, so try and get to him with it. Fire at the boss' limbs, feet, hands, and back. It will try and kill you by throwing obstacles in your path. You must constantly weave up and down, left and right, to avoid the obstacles. Using the turbo boost is not advised. Once you have blown up almost every part of his body, his head will turn noticably red. Fire at the head until it blows up, then fire at his back until he falls.
Go here for help on beating Andross. Note that when fighting Andross through Bolse, he will not turn into a brain, but a robot. To beat the robot, fire at its eyes until it is destroyed. It will lunge forward and chomp if you do not destroy it quick enough.Sector Y
Quickly turn and fire at a robot left or right. If you're good, you can destroy one in the first pass. Keep a sharp watch on your radar. The robots are white dots on the radar. Keep rapid firing on them until they both are destroyed. A third, larger robot comes. Rapid fire on it also. If you get to close, do a U-Turn, or swurve left or right, to avoid being kicked by him.
Katina
Solar
Macbeth
Aquas
Zoness