+1 jmustang1986. Thanks again!

The PCB's are the exact same, so yes you can just swap cases

Your CRT isn't "hiding" anything. Your screen is being drawn on by the guns in the back of the tube LINE by LINE. An interlaced image is half of the image being drawn at any given time on the ODD or EVEN rows. Due to the glow of the phosphorus in the pixel mask, you can't tell that only ha...

You bet! It's pricey, but if the ultimate goal is to play on a LCD, then there are no real other alternatives.. A CRT s a much cheaper option, usually free these days.

Take a look at this

http://retrogaming.hazard-city.de/framemeister.html

Its up-scaling as it should. Its up-scaling an interlaced image to another larger interlaced image 720i/1080i. To convert to progressive you'd need a beefy piece of hardware to deinterlace a signal fast enough. Even the best equipment introduces a delay, which you'd class as "input lag"

While the Retron 5 does dump the rom to emulate it, I doubt you'd be able to actually take the dump from memory and save it. Building a rom dumper wouldn't be very hard at all.. All you'd need is parallel port, 72 pin slot, 4 shift registers and a very basic program...

If you don't want to mod the Playstation, you can just swap discs while booting. 90% success rate, so not too terrible.

Honestly it looks like a pin isn't making perfect contact. Hell it could even be the MAD1-1 chip addressing the wrong banks for whatever reason. I suggest the same as Ziggy. Dump the cart if possible... Who on here even has a cart dumper??

Might be a stupid question, but have you tried resetting the BIOS and removing the CMOS battery?