Modding
A list of tools, tutorials, and other resources helpful for modders.
Tools
 | To do: Mirror tools hosted on Discord as it is against their TOS to use their CDN in this way. |
General
| Tool name | Developed by | Description |
|---|---|---|
| HxD | Maël Hörz | Hex editor capable of viewing the raw data of any file. Supports RAM editing and file comparison. |
| Ghidra SRE | National Security Agency | Reverse-engineering suite that can be used to disassemble and decompile the machine code of game executables. |
| Noesis | Rich Whitehouse | General tool for viewing, converting, and extracting models and textures. |
| Xbox 360 XISO Extractor | somski | Used for extracting Xbox 360 ISO images (particularly useful for Burnout Revenge and Paradise). |
| GtIDGen | escape209 | GUI program for converting text strings to encoded GtIDs, which are used in various places throughout the Takedown-era games and Paradise, and vice-versa. |
| vgmstream | Game sound file player, which supports many of the sound bank formats used across all the Burnout games. |
Takedown era
Tools compatible with Burnout 3, Legends, Revenge, and Dominator.
| Tool name | Developed by | Description |
|---|---|---|
| AWDio | escape209 | A command-line tool for extracting Wave Dictionary files from the Takedown-era games. |
| BGV Palette Splitter | Edness | Supports extracting and reimporting the bitmaps and split 4, 6 and 8 two-grouped interleaved palettes used by PS2 Burnout Vehicle files. Also supports PSP and, partially, Xbox 360 files. |
| Noesis Exporter | Edness | A Noesis plugin to export PS2, PSP, Xbox and Xbox 360 archives, textures and models* from Burnout 3: Takedown, Legends, Revenge and Dominator. Due to format similarities, Black and Need for Speed: Shift (PSP) are also supported. * Model support is WIP and incomplete. |
| TXD scanner | Edness | Extracts TXDs stored in a container. Only really needed for fonts that are stored in the executable. Can be viewed with the Noesis plugin afterward. |
| IMG2CLUT | KabutoKun | Converts PNG, BMP, GIF, TIFF and JPG images to the PSP's CLUT4/8 texture format for use with Burnout Legends and Dominator. |
| Track Texture Converter | KabutoKun | Converts textures in the STATIC.DAT file of each track to PNG, currently only supports the PS2 games.
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| Console Texture Explorer | Dageron | Can be used to locate, view and export textures on Burnout's PS2 and PSP versions. |
| BGV Blender import addon | DGIorio | BGV importer addon for Blender 2.79/2.80. All Takedown-era games on all platforms are supported, as well as NFS Shift PSP. |
Other resources
- General overview of Takedown-era formats.
Game-specific
 | Burnout Modding resources for the first Burnout. |
| Burnout 2 Modding resources for Burnout 2: Point of Impact. |
| Burnout 3 Modding resources for Burnout 3. |
| Burnout Legends Modding resources for Burnout Legends. |
| Burnout Revenge Modding resources for Burnout Revenge. |
| Burnout Dominator Modding resources for Burnout Dominator. |
| Burnout Paradise Modding resources for Burnout Paradise. |
| Burnout Crash Modding resources for Burnout Crash. |
| Need for Speed Hot Pursuit Modding resources for NFS Hot Pursuit (2010). |
| Need for Speed Most Wanted Modding resources for NFS Most Wanted (2012). |