Gary Riches
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The first start now shows a screen of its own while it sets up the game data: a bar, the percent, the time left and a clock, redrawn ten times a second, and that it happens only once. The bar and the time left follow measured install times rather than the share of the bytes, because the console's storage takes the first 80% quickly and then slows down. The installer writes through a 1 MiB buffer and no longer syncs each file (one sync before the marker), and the image is read in large blocks. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GKJmxSbj4ZK3HmPYQjtKAK
Burnout 3 for PlayStation 5
A PlayStation 5 port of Takedawn, the static recompilation of the original Xbox Burnout 3: Takedown by xenophobentx. The 2004 game runs natively on the console: 4x resolution, widescreen with an undistorted HUD, 60 fps crash cameras and split screen, and Takedawn's settings menu, at 60 fps.
Important
You need your own disc image of the North America (USA) Xbox release of Burnout 3: Takedown. Other regions (PAL, Japan) and the PlayStation 2 version do not work. No game data is included.
What you need
- A PS5 that runs homebrew, with an FTP server and ShadowMountPlus (or another way to register a title folder).
- Your own image of the USA Xbox disc of Burnout 3: Takedown (
.isoor.xiso, any name), or the extracted disc folder. - About 3 GB free for the game data, plus the image until the first start has set it up.
Set it up
- Download
Burnout3-PS5-<version>.zipfrom the releases and unzip it. You get aPPSA99316folder. - Copy the whole
PPSA99316folder to/data/homebrew/on the console. - Copy your disc image into
/data/homebrew/PPSA99316/dump/. - Start Burnout 3 from the home screen. The first start checks your disc and sets up the game data. This happens once and takes a few minutes: a screen shows the progress, the time left and a clock, and then the game starts. Leave it running until it does.
- You can now delete the image in
dump/.
If the disc is the wrong region or the image is damaged, a notification says
so and the game closes. An extracted disc folder works too: put the folder that
holds default.xbe in dump/, or name it Burnout 3 Takedown and put it
beside eboot.bin. It's checked file by file, and a missing or damaged file is
named.
Controls
The DualSense stands in for the Xbox pad, and the game's own menus show PlayStation buttons.
| Action | Button |
|---|---|
| Accelerate | R2 |
| Brake, reverse | L2 |
| Boost | Cross |
| Menu select / back | Cross / Circle |
| Pause | Options |
| Settings menu | Touchpad + Options (press both together) |
The Create button belongs to the console (screenshots and clips), so it does nothing in the game. The settings menu is also in the game's own menus: TAKEDAWN SETTINGS under Driver Details > Settings, and in the pause menu.
Inside the settings menu: L1 / R1 change page, the d-pad moves and changes a value, Cross selects, Triangle resets a value, Circle goes back.
The PS2 driving layout (Input > Driving controls) moves accelerate to Cross, brake to Square, boost to R1 and look back to L1.
Settings
The PS5 starts with: 16:9 with the widescreen HUD fix, 4x render scale (2560x1920 inside), FXAA with light sharpening, half the original motion blur, 60 fps crash cameras and split screen, texture sharpness following the render scale, vehicles at their farthest detail distance, scenery far, and the Maximum power mode (steadiest frame times). Change any of them in the settings menu. A few, render scale among them, take effect the next time the game starts: close it from the home screen and start it again.
The Xbox Live entry is gone from the main menu: the service closed long ago.
Where your files are
All in the title folder, /data/homebrew/PPSA99316/:
Burnout 3 Takedown/: the game data from your disc.userdata/takedawn/: saves, settings (settings.toml) and bug reports.
Back up userdata/ to keep your saves.
Updating
Copy the new PPSA99316 folder over the old one. Your game data, saves and
settings stay.
Known issues
- Some frame-rate dips below 60 can happen in busy races.
- The game makes Xbox hard-disk image files (
userdata/takedawn/Partition*.img) as the PC versions do.
Build from source
This repository holds no game code and no game data. A build translates your
own default.xbe, so you need your own disc for that too.
git clone --recursive https://github.com/griches/PS5_Burnout3- Put your extracted disc folder at
gamedata/Burnout 3 Takedown/and link it intovendor/takedawn/(ln -s "../../gamedata/Burnout 3 Takedown" "vendor/takedawn/Burnout 3 Takedown"). - Translate the game on the Mac:
ps5/tools/setup-source.sh, then invendor/takedawn,python3 -m venv .venv && .venv/bin/pip install capstone resvg-pyandXBOXRECOMP_DIR=../xboxrecomp ./regen.sh --disasm. - Render the button prompts:
ps5/tools/glyphs.sh. - Build in the PS5 Linux VM:
ps5/tools/vm.sh build(PS5_Vulkan's RADV archive, the PS5 payload SDK and LLVM 22, as the other ports in this family). The title folder isdist/PPSA99316/.
The PS5 changes to Takedawn and its toolkit are ps5/patches/takedawn.patch
and ps5/patches/xboxrecomp.patch; the console layer is in ps5/.
How it works on the PS5
Takedawn turns the game's x86 code into C, and its runtime answers the Xbox's kernel, graphics chip, sound chip and USB pads. On the PS5:
- The graphics go through Vulkan on RADV, linked into the title.
- The Xbox's RAM and its mirrors live in the console's direct memory.
- The sound chip's registers are trapped by page faults and decoded from a copy of the title's code, because PS5 code is execute-only.
- The guest's registers sit in one thread-local block, so the translated code doesn't pay the console's emulated thread-local cost on every access.
Credits
- xenophobentx for Takedawn and the xboxrecomp toolkit, which do the real work.
- PS5_Vulkan (RADV for the PS5) and the PS5 payload SDK.
- The settings menu icon is Takedawn's own artwork; the home-screen background was made for this port.
Licence
See LICENSING.md. The PS5 layer is MIT; the patches follow their upstreams; a built title is GPL-3.0 as a whole.
Legal notice
This is an unofficial, non-commercial fan project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Electronic Arts, Criterion Games, Microsoft or Sony. Burnout 3: Takedown and all related trademarks belong to their owners.
No game data is included: the download holds the program, which contains code translated from the game's executable, and no textures, models, sound, music, films or disc files. The game's data comes from your own disc. Please do not ask for game files or disc images, and do not share them.