An early prototype of Burnout Paradise (then known as Burnout 5), compiled on February 22nd, 2007. It was found in a significantly damaged and initially unbootable state, due to the Xbox 360 devkit it was stored on having been used multiple times over. The build's restoration to a bootable state took nine months in total and was completed circa late 2019; however, it still has numerous unfixed issues.

Major Issues

Inaccurate Collision

Caused by: Using the WORLDCOL.BIN (world collision database) of a Burnout 5 build from 2007-01-24; this WORLDCOL uses an older format to the one required by the 2007-02 build
Affects: Breaks world collision, Road Rules, AI behavior, player/AI respawning, roads and road types

Broken Deformation

Caused by: Missing/incorrectly formatted VERLET.RIG
Affects: Breaks vehicle body deformation, crash physics, collision during crashes

Delayed World Streaming

Caused by: Inefficient world streamer code; likely unfixable without heavy reverse engineering
Affects: Significantly delays world load-in times, causing extreme pop-up. World assets take 4-6 seconds to load when respawning or teleporting into an unloaded chunk

Broken/Disabled Progression Elements

Caused by: Unknown; these elements are possibly disabled by default
Affects: Renders it mostly impossible to progress through the game and unlock events/vehicles

Deactivated/Inaccessible Menus

Caused by: These menus are likely disabled via the executable
Affects: The Crash Nav, Junkyard wheel/livery selector, and likely more menus are inaccessible under normal circumstances

Other Missing Files

The files in question (wheels, textures etc.) were overwritten and made unrecoverable; see below for more information on those.

Overwritten/Modified Files

`AI.DAT`

Accuracy: Accurate
Recovery: Partial; 16384 bytes overwritten; file truncated
Info: Repaired based on 2006-11-13 AI file
Comments: Expected exact or near-exact accuracy to lost data

`B5TRAFFIC.BNDL`

Accuracy: Inaccurate
Recovery: Full
Info: Modified to remove dependency on lost vehicles by replacing them with closest counterparts
Comments: A better way would be to port the necessary files from another build

`PVS.BNDL`

Accuracy: Highly accurate
Recovery: Full
Info: Modified to fix out of memory error while in zone 234 by decreasing number of unsafe neighbors
Comments: Xbox 360 devkits with 1GB RAM may be able to use the vanilla file.

`VERLET.RIG`

Accuracy: Highly inaccurate
Recovery: Lost
Info: Made from scratch based on information in the executable
Comments: No counterpart in any known build; causes issues with deformation and game crashes

`WORLDCOL.BIN`

Accuracy: Highly inaccurate
Recovery: Lost
Info: 2007-01-24 file
Comments: Causes issues with roads, road rules, and likely more that's gone unnoticed

`WORLDTEX.BIN`

Accuracy: Inaccurate
Recovery: Lost
Info: Made from scratch based on 2007-02-22 TRK_UNITs, 2007-01-24 TRK_UNITs, final WORLDTEX, and a blank texture
Comments: Causes issues with textures

`WORLDVAULT.BIN`

Accuracy: Highly accurate
Recovery: Full
Info: 2007-01-24 file
Comments: File exists in image without FATX entries and is identical

`SOUND/STREAMS/STREAMHEADERS.BUNDLE`

Accuracy: Accurate
Recovery: Full
Info: Modified to accommodate final WATERFRONT.SNS
Comments: Uses XMA instead of XAS

`SOUND/STREAMS/WATERFRONT.SNS`

Accuracy: Inaccurate
Recovery: Partial
Info: Final file
Comments: XMA instead of XAS

`VEHICLES/VEHICLELIST.BUNDLE`

Accuracy: Inaccurate
Recovery: Full
Info: Modified to remove dependency on lost vehicles by removing them from the file
Comments: A better way would be to port the necessary files from another build

`WHEELS/WHE_*_GR.BNDL`

Accuracy: Accurate
Recovery: Lost
Info: Ripped from traffic vehicles
Comments: Identical to lost wheels in-game, with minor discrepancies in the files

`WHEELS/WHEELLIST.BUNDLE`

Accuracy: Inaccurate
Recovery: Lost
Info: Made from scratch based on 2006-11-13, uses ripped wheels
Comments: A better way would be to port the necessary files from another build

Burnout 5 (2007-02-22 build)

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