When you're upgrading, just buy one weapon, save, upgrade it to +5 (load if you fail), save, upgrade to +7 (load if you fail), save, upgrade to +9 (same as above), save, and upgrade to +10 (load if you fail /o/).
I use this only on normal difficulty.
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