QUOTE(Takashi @ Dec 7 2009, 03:51 PM)

Oh yeah this sounds safe.
It's a simple hex edit to modify the drive speed (I've documented the hex locations previously in this forum), and he seems to be applying the same revised settings C4E applied in later "fixed" firmware releases. Assuming he did it correctly, what Secret-Service has done should be safer than the unedited original.
I know that the following three locations control the drive speeds during gameplay:
0000BFB1
0000BFBD
0000BFC9
In the 12x firmware, those values are as follows (0C = 12 in hexadecimal, 08 and 05 are obvious):
0000BFB1 = 0C (12x)
0000BFBD = 08 (8x)
0000BFC9 = 05 (5x)
The first location controls the max speed. The second and third locations specify fallback speeds. The proper (stock) setting is 12x max, with fallback speeds of 8x and 5x. So you can see from the screenshots that those fallback speeds were also fixed by C4E in subsequent releases (and inadvertently fixed here as well by Secret-Service).
I don't have specific knowledge of the 0000BFCE location, but it was changed to 02 in C4E's later (fixed) releases, and one must assume he changed it for a reason. Given that we know what the other settings control, that location presumably controls the dashboard speed. That does seems somewhat puzzling, because 02 = 2x elsewhere, whereas 02 seems to represent something different (12x) here. But again, if you trust C4E, then what Secret-Service has offered here seems like a good thing, not a bad thing.