I read about this issue countless times, and i wonder, few months ago the team add a lots of crc hacks from the Cutie build, but this hack never was applied. (on the cutie build it is possible to play on the Lost forest on hardware mode with out the texture issue)
http://i.imgbox.com/adoivJNK.png
http://i.imgbox.com/ackBUowU.png
http://i.imgbox.com/adjvRP88.png
http://i.imgbox.com/abmFSsCw.png
It is because it cause issues in other games?, if that, it is not possible to add an on/off feature?
Also the cutie version have a few useful extra options, like skipTex/skiplayer that become helpful when you got some "unwanted/looking bad on hardware mode/not fixed yet but reported effect" and you just want to avoid them because the game looks better whit out it, or is not fixed yet and it makes uncomfortable the gameplay.
You can get some examples of this on the blur on kythena plains, on VP2 Silmeria which can be avoided with skiptex 1, or the blur around the players on captain Tsubasa, which can be avoided wit skip 3.
Yes i know it cause issues like the skip of some lightning effects when it is activate, but you can put it back to 0 and all become normal and don't affect the accuracy of the emulation (goal of most developers i think).
So i was wondering why don't add those features?, i mean the shade boost option was added, what make this ones different?