Interesting you're hot-rodding a Sony. The consensus back in the day was that they were nowhere near as good as Pioneer models. (I personally owned a MDP-333 for a while and was unhappy with it.) Although the indusrtrial units seem to be the exception.

Any idea how it will handle moderate to severe laser rot? One legendary feature of the X0 is the ability to play badly rotted discs.

With all the rare LD titles still out there, I'm amazed nobody thought of this sooner!

Will you be posting more pictures of this beast? :)