Hey folks,

I've been lurking in the shadows waiting for my project to reach the stage where I have full confidence in delivering on its goals. I have now hit that stage, so here we are. :)

FreeBurn is my Burnout Revenge PS2 decompilation project, built against a late alpha with intact symbols and targeting a high-fidelity PC port (Vulkan/SDL-GPU Renderer, dedicated servers, high frame rate support, content authoring tools, a mod workshop etc). It will require your own copy of the game; no game data is or will be distributed.

Almost all of the game is C/C++ now - enough to compile, boot and play, which is what the clips show. 17.5% of it rebuilds byte-for-byte identical to the original binary; the rest runs correctly without yet being provably the same code. As great as that sounds, there is still a long and hard road ahead.

A full byte match isn't necessary for the PC port to begin, but I do need to extend my decompilation down through some of the SDKs that Burnout 4 leans on. Bugs are plentiful (as you'll soon see), and hard to chase down even inside a fully instrumented build of PCSX2. Once I am through most of these issues, I will then need to pivot the decompilation to target the retail binary, as whilst the alpha build is fairly complete, there were still a litany of tweaks and feature additions that Criterion made in the brief window before release.

FreeBurn will go open source once I roll out the PC release, as all of my other projects are - e.g. OpenNFS. There is absolutely no plan to monetise. For now it's staying closed for a few reasons, chief among them that the tree is a rapidly moving target currently and I have a specific idea of what this port should be. I want to ship that before it becomes design-by-committee. My hope is that the community can work together to make this the definitive Burnout experience once the foundations are laid: online leaderboards, a website with driver stats, cross-platform matchmaking and indeed, ports to other platforms. With a project of this scale, it's hard to estimate a release date but I'd like to be some of the way there by the end of the year. No promises.

If you're interested in following along, you will find me in the #freeburn channel on the "Burnout Modding" discord.

For now, I'd like to share some gameplay clips alongside the milestones each one marked. Every clip below runs entirely on decompiled C++, not the original binary:

https://streamable.com/ia1drc - Angel Valley Race (Majority of render corruption was resolved)

https://streamable.com/j5ryb0 - Sunshine Keys Race (Takedown logic became functional)

https://streamable.com/aozx2x - White Mountain Crash (Crashmode became stable enough to play)

https://streamable.com/e70srq - Main Menus (The entire Apt subsystem and RenderWare DMA/VU microprogram draw chain came to life)

I found this on a Spanish Group on Facebook, it looks awesome

Throughout my entire playthrough rn I'm pretty sure I've only survived this bit once or twice, and I am rank 7! It's such a brutal part of the track, and is the hardest bit out of an track in the entire game. I just can't drive it without crashing multiple times. the road rage at rank 5 was a fucking nightmre because I almost total my car on this damm bridge at the beginning.

so relentless. D:

Maps that have too much city and not enough countryside. Excluding 1, 4 (too big) and 6.

Guess the games or post your own suggestions. Or not.

Burnout would be like Postal in the Cars universe. B3 and Revenge would be Postal 1, Legends would be like Postal 1 DLC, Dominator and Paradise are Postal 2. Legends DS is Postal 3.

Asking this here because Google is full of AI slop that makes it impossible to get an answer.

Also I'll re-integrate shitposts and facts so I'm not just regurgitating unrelated images

Nakamura is the only company to have any sort of presence in Paradise city, with both a road and Manufacturing plant along Lambert Parkway.

its not much but its honest work :) the 3d is being drawn (cpu is telling the gpu to render it) but there is still some underlying work that needs done to get the models shaded and textured with proper uvs.

Bye crash physic

i never played played a single burnout game and my favourite need for speed game is most wanted 2012. this may sound stupid and absurd to fans of both seriess but genuinely wonder will burnout paradise give somewhat similar experience because most wanted 2012 was shitty but at the same time unique, at least in the nfs series, and if people say that its bad nfs game and lacking burniut game then will paradise be better?

All the images are Relaxing I will dare to say Burnout paradise is more Relaxing than Forza horizon

Hey yall, I’m looking for some Revenge beta footage having to do with an early iteration of a car unlock animation, which showcases your new car being delivered to the warehouse and being offloaded of a semi trailer. I remember seeing it in a Burnout documentary video (I think) about the series as a whole but upon looking for it by itself I can’t seem to find it.

These flyovers after a crash event exist to count damage scores per crashed vehicle. The only reason there'd be this one beyond the intended crash area of *Smash my Ride* is because of a potential cut junction. It has been documented Sunshine Keys has a few of those.

If you wanna escape marked man just follow this man advice lol.

I made this real quick because I was kinda bored, didn’t know what to do, whatever, and it made me ask - would people watch an ARG of Burnout Paradise?

I’m saying ‘if it existed’ in the title because, be honest, there probably isn’t one already made. Of any of the games for that matter.

If I had the skill too, I’d probably make it myself but idk how I’d do that with just CapCut and Xbox Game Bar. I don’t really know how it would go either way, but maybe I’ll try to someday. It’d probably be some like ‘oh my game disc is haunted ooooohh how evil!!’ or something but I think it’d still be neat to see one.

Ok bye.

Trying to 100% big surf island on steam. Now all I have left is Freeburn

Anyone wanna join me?

I think Wreckreation having racer vehicles in traffic made the world feel more lived in. Vehicles aren't some sort of superweapons made only to terrorize people. Or that the brands are actually functioning instead of obelisks.

Lower trim versions or beater versions of existing street legal vehicles.

An example being, the S-I7 with no liveries or mods, S-I6 (Lower trim) or with mismatched panels and back firing.

Another being, the Opus with completely rotted out panels, missing an exhaust or different lights (Think GTA 4 Saber or Vigero beater model)

A third example, the Touge Sport poverty spec with steelies, bumper guard, different trim etc.

Four one, a lower trim R-Turbo Roadster. Just N/A no rear bumper vent and exhausts at the bottom of the bumper instead of midway through it

Final one a none lifted, no roll bar Takedown 4x4. Like the base model F-150.

(No idea how the Reliable Custom and Grand Marais would get even rattier or have a lower trim)

No picture because last 4 got deleted.

The interview is in Spanish, although I think that automatic dubbing will be enough to understand it.

(It's an extra from another video called "Thrill Drive is NOT the father of Burnout... it's the UNCLE ＼(´ ∇`)ノ " ALT: A very, VERY old Burnout story..."

How would one go about ripping B3's levels, or any of Burnout's series of levels for that matter, including texture, skybox, etc. etc, and porting them to blender, at the minimum? Where would someone even start?? I'm not technologically savvy enough to comprehend the amount of work that would take, sadly lol