Ah, Fast Striker. Nice. I have a score on the NG:Dev site scoreboard...(Original, 6+billion, "mamahaha2049")...even have that run captured and on my Youtube channel.
That was nearly 2 years ago though, and I haven't touched the game since. So doubtful I can immediately get that now. But perhaps it's a good time to dig the game out again...
The tech bonuses I've found are on stages 1 and 3 (I think it's 3). You get them for destroying the extra non-core parts of the boss. On stage 1 it takes me a couple shields to get the tech bonus, but the bonus itself is a shitload of points, way more than the extra shield bonus would be.
Yeah. And each boss has this tech bonus; stages 2 and 4 just aren't so obvious (and I'm not sure about stage 6). For stage 2, during the boss's "2nd form", after a few attack patterns, 3 small spinning bits will drop, 1 from its left side first, then center, then right. Shoot all 3 for the tech bonus. It's easy to kill the boss before it drops the bits so be careful. Stage 4 boss is something similar...
What I didn't get was all the "secrets found". It seems to be just shooting certain stuff during the stage that makes those white...cat things appear in place of medals... Gives decent points I think, but no miss and tech bonuses are the biggies.
And as for turning off slow load times, it's been awhile, but I think the game has some little intro scenes and maybe some animations between stages. "Turn off slow load times" just cuts that stuff out. Very minor.