Streets of Rage 3 is not an enjoyable experience (still)

I went down a bit of a nostalgia rabbit hole recently and bought the Mega Drive Collection on PS4, mainly to replay the SoR games and bask in Yuzo Koshiro’s soundtracks.

Aaaand I’d forgot how maddeningly difficult SoR3 is. Storyline-wise I still think it’s great but 30ish years ago the only way I could legit complete this game was to have a second controller plugged into my Mega Drive so that when you ran out of continues you could take over from player 1. Alas, I only have one PS4 controller so this tactic has gone out of the window!

I’ve saved my progress up to rescuing the Chief (two lives left and no continues) but keep dying at the Jet boss battle. Any hints or tips on how to actually complete this game with finite resources would be appreciated!

Sincerely, An old gamer