Case study

reB3: reconstructing Burnout 3 from Xbox code and disc data

reB3 reconstructs Xbox Burnout 3: Takedown as a C runtime using equations and behavior recovered from default.xbe and formats read from the user's disc. Its notes cite executable addresses for physics, collision, scoring and AI, while extraction code loads track and vehicle material at runtime. The author reports a playable racing harness with career mode absent.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
Evidence class: C2 code & docs, no demo or download

Stars: 37
Last commit: 2026-08-29
Language: C

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Observed: Code and documentation observed; no download method or demo found.
Checked: 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: A personal Burnout 3: Takedown Xbox disc dump as an XISO image or expanded directory; development targeted the NTSC-U release.
Prerequisites: A C toolchain, SDL2, SDL2_image, OpenGL and zlib; approximately 2 GB of cache space.
Limits: Career mode is absent; the project is a racing harness.
License: MIT license.

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BibTeX

@misc{reb3-case,
  title = {{reB3: reconstructing Burnout 3 from Xbox code and disc data}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/lolz0r/reb3}},
  url = {https://github.com/lolz0r/reb3},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/reb3-case/}}
}

Plain text

reB3: reconstructing Burnout 3 from Xbox code and disc data. https://github.com/lolz0r/reb3 (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/reb3-case/

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README.md GitHub · lolz0r/reb3 · Revision ce57602
docs/RE_NOTES.md GitHub · lolz0r/reb3 · Revision ce57602
LICENSE GitHub · lolz0r/reb3 · Revision ce57602