Hi, first of all I hope not to being writing this in the wrong place .

Well...I REALLY hate the blurry look of every xbox game (I´m sure games like Wreckless uses flicker filter at level 5 and soften at the same time), It seems sometime in Xbox hardware development somebody had the "wonderful" idea of making flicker filtering turned on by default, which blurs everything and makes some games to look sharper on the ps2 (even tought xbox games are rendered at greater resolutions), specially if you use RGB cables on both consoles.

Some people complains a lot about flickering, but for me and (I guess) many other people is not a problem, and I prefer sharper and flickering image to blurry and not flickering image.

I´m sure making a patcher for disabling the flickering filter on a certain xbe is not so hard to do, after all, every xbox game uses the same function to set flickering filter and soften filter included in the sdk.

Maybe the only problem would be changing that value in games that doesnt set the flicker filter to an specific value, as if you compile something with xbox´s sdk and no reference to the set flicker filter function the result xbe will have the flicker filter turned on.

We´ll I hope not to be kicked for this post ....anyway if people managed to patch media checks this one should be a kid´s game.

Yeah, I'd really like a BIOS that can be configured to switch off the damn flicker filter and soften.

7 months since this post...and no real answer

Just as I tought

This never got anywhere? I just asked this same question (if the bios could force these to off) in the av forum.

With the xbox, it's either get a small tv (like under 20") or one that does 480p, or have your eyes bleed from the blurry picture

Though I do sometims think the 0 setting for the flicker filter is pretty rough, the optimal would be between 0 and 1 (1 is too soft) but in any case any old console starting from the genesis and snes blows the xbox away in per-pixel clarity of the picture on a regular CRT esp using RGB signal.