# 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.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/xenophobentx/takedawn>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/xenophobentx/takedawn/blob/9f7c371758bdbb9cb7d77c0a46deca3cfc24cf4f/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/takedawn/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/takedawn/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/takedawn/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/xenophobentx/takedawn/blob/9f7c371758bdbb9cb7d77c0a46deca3cfc24cf4f/README.md>

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