Tools

Various tools and scripts capable of interacting with and/or modifying the Burnout games' file formats.

Essentials

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.
Xbox 360 XISO Extractor	Unknown	Used for extracting Xbox 360 ISO images (particularly useful for Burnout Revenge and Paradise).
Blender Import Addons	DGIorio	Importer addons made for Blender 2.79. Can be used to view and export models and collisions from various Burnout games, as well as the Need for Speed games Hot Pursuit (2010) and Most Wanted (2012).
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.

Acclaim Era-specific

Tool name	Developed by	Description
Burnout Noesis exporter	Edness	Python plugin for Noesis that can preview and export PS2 and Xbox textures from Burnout.
Burnout 2 Noesis exporter	Edness	Python plugin for Noesis that can preview and export GC, PS2 and Xbox textures from Burnout 2: Point of Impact. GameCube textures require the lib_zq_nintendo_tex Noesis library in the plugins directory to function.

Takedown Era-specific

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 and textures from Burnout 3: Takedown, Legends, Revenge and Dominator. Due to format similarities, Black and Need for Speed: Shift (PSP) are also supported.
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.
Console Texture Explorer	Dageron	Can be used to locate, view and export textures on Burnout's PS2 and PSP versions.

Paradise-specific

Tool name	Developed by	Description
Bundle Manager	HumanGamer, burninrubber0	A tool for previewing and unpacking Burnout Paradise's Bundle archives.
EALayer3 Encoder (patched by Bo98)	Ben Moench, Bo98	Tool for encoding WAV files to the EALayer3 (.SNS) format used by Burnout Paradise's sound streams. This patched version fixes bugs from the original version of the program.
Noesis Plugins	DGIorio	Python plugins for the Noesis tool capable of importing and exporting several of Paradise's resource types.

Crash-specific

Tool name	Developed by	Description
Noesis exporter	Edness	Python plugin for Noesis that can preview and export Xbox 360, PS3, and iOS textures (.DDX, .GTF, .PVR, .PVRU) and models (.CXM).
QuickBMS script	Edness	QuickBMS script that can export the .BIG archives. It's recommended to set the output folder the same as the input folder for use with the Noesis script.
Python CSV parser	Edness	Python script that parses and splits the Texture Sheet using its .CSV data. The texture sheets are expected to be found exported as .PNG in the same directory. Also requires FFmpeg.