Case study

Takedawn: statically recompiling Burnout 3: Takedown

Takedawn translates the original Xbox game Burnout 3: Takedown ahead of time into native x86-64 and arm64 code. One download covers the North American disc, the European disc for France, Germany, and Italy, and the Europe and Australia disc. The release is 0.3.1, with a macOS 13 arm64 dmg, a Windows x64 setup, a Linux x86-64 AppImage, and an experimental Android arm64 apk. The first start checks the disc files and copies the data. Releases include SHA256SUMS.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
Evidence class: C1 partial scope or analysis entry

Stars: 584
Last commit: 2026-11-06
Language: C
License (GitHub): MIT

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Demo screenshot from the project's public documentation

Observed: Download and demo observed; the case covers part of the target software.
Scope: Partial
Checked: 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

One of the three retail discs. macOS 13 or newer on Apple silicon, 64-bit Windows, Linux x86-64, or the experimental Android arm64 build.
License: MIT for Takedawn's own code. The MCPX APU emulation based on xemu is LGPL-2.1-or-later. The ADPCM-XQ decoder is BSD-3-Clause.

Cite

BibTeX

@misc{takedawn,
  title = {{Takedawn: statically recompiling Burnout 3: Takedown}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/xenophobentx/takedawn}},
  url = {https://github.com/xenophobentx/takedawn},
  urldate = {2026-11-07},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/takedawn/}}
}

Plain text

Takedawn: statically recompiling Burnout 3: Takedown. https://github.com/xenophobentx/takedawn (accessed 2026-11-07). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/takedawn/

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README.md GitHub · xenophobentx/takedawn · Revision 9f7c371