EDIT3: Dump 5 done and no bueno but I flashed xell blindly anyway and it works just fine except everything is in monochrome on my TV but my Dell 2405FPW is in color; both using composite cables as I don't have any component to test nor do I have anything with HDMI. Weird. SNES9X boots just fine as does Gentoo.
That's normal, XeLL outputs in PAL60 when using Composite