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.

Due to the fact that this build is still rather dysfunctional even after the amount of time for which it was tended to, a project to restore it to a completely working state is currently underway. See below for all known issues the build has, as well as the major files in need of repair or restoration.

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