exodus_rev 
Hmm was expecting to here component cable (red blue green (red white for sound))Some game just don't support component display and do black out after the logo's or on starting the game
As for burning speed though I don't think that is the real issue, just burn at the slowest your hardware can, easiest way to do that is to set the burning software to burn at 1x, it will auto adjust the speed to the slowest.
All the guides/advise that have said burn at 4x had been based on hardware that 4x was slowest and that was usually for CD's and was silly advice back then as hardware that could only burn up to 4x gave unreliable burns at 4x and produced higher quality burning at slower speeds.
I would also advise you try a clean dump of the game matching crc records verified at redump.org, then at least you will know that the disc image is not the issue
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