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IfThis you'rearticle wonderingand what the hell an '''"Alpha 7"''' or '''"Game Sharing"'''its build is supposed to be, look no further! This pagesubpages is intended to provide documentation for Burnout's various prerelease or otherwise non-retail prototype builds, as well the terms surrounding them. Download links for most of the builds can also be found here.

Two publically available builds of ''Burnout 3: Takedown'''s PS2 version exist. They are the [[Burnout_3_Takedown_(2004-07-20_build)|'''"Review Build"''']], built July 20th, 2004, and a '''promotional demo''' built on April 28th, 2004. Recently, the latter was [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmK34p-c_I4 patched to sport functioning menus], revealing otherwise hidden content, so it is considered a prototype of its own as well.

[[Burnout_Legends_(2005-06-06_build)|The second is fully debug-enabled and was presumably compiled on June 6th of the same year]]; it's usually referred to as the '''"Game Sharing Build"''', due to its executable being discovered hidden in plain sight among the files of the July 8th demo in the place of where a Game Sharing executable would normally be (<code>UPLOAD.DAT</code> in the game's <code>DATA\</code> folder).

[[Burnout_Revenge_(Alpha_7_build)|The '''Alpha 7''' PlayStation 2 build of ''Burnout Revenge'' (also commonly known as the '''07/14''' beta, which refers to its build date)]] was leaked circa January 2019. It has a build date of July 14th, 2005 and contains a relatively large amount of differences to the final version despite being relatively close to retail, most notably the presence of debug symbols in the build's executable. Indepth documentation of this build [https://tcrf.net/Proto:Burnout_Revenge_(PlayStation_2,_Xbox)/Alpha_7_(PlayStation_2) can be found on TCRF.]

[[Burnout_5_(2007-02-22_build)|The second is dated February 22nd, 2007]]. It was in a significantly more damaged (and initially unbootable) state than the November build, due to the Xbox 360 devkit it was discovered 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; this was done by using files from the November build and remnants of an unrecovered build dated January 24th, 2007, as well as recreating missing files from scratch where necessary. It was [https://www.obscuregamers.com/threads/burnout-5-feb-22-2007.1416/ publically released] on December 2nd of that same year.