The Burnout Game Data format contains configuration data and settings for a given track, such as traffic density levels, whether the track is forward or reverse, spawn coordinates for player and traffic vehicles, the start/end location of a lap, signature takedown data, and much more. It uses the extension .BGD.

This page documents the BGD version used by the Takedown-era Burnout games; see the Burnout 2 Game Data page for documentation of the rather different and much older version of the format used by Burnout 2: Point of Impact.

Versions

BGD uses a single number at the very start of the file to indicate its version.

	Version
	0x07	0x08	0x09	0x10	0x11	0x13	0x0B
Date	Apr 2004	Jun 2004	Jul 2004	May 2005	Jul 2005	Jan 2007	Feb 2007
Games	Takedown (Early Demo)	Takedown (Preview Build)	Takedown Legends	Revenge (2005, Early Demo)	Revenge (2005)	Dominator^(PS2)	Dominator^(PSP)

Layout

Version 0x11

Offset	Name	Type	Value
0x00	Version number	UInt8	0x11
0x08	Stage data IDs	GtID[15]
0x648	Stage data offsets	Stage Data*[]
0x968	Stage count	UInt8
0x96C	Single race data offset	Single Race Data*
0x970	Track data offset	Track Data*
0x974	Traffic data offset	Traffic Data*
0x978	Traffic lanes data offset	Traffic Lanes Data*
0x97C	AI lanes data offset	AI Lanes Data*
0x980	Camera data offset	Camera Data*
0x984	Detour data offset	Detour Data*

Subtypes

Stage Data

Offset	Name	Type	Value	Notes
0x00	Track ID	GtID
0x08	Stage ID	GtID