the cutting room mirror

Burnout Legends (PlayStation Portable)

This article has a talk page!
view on tcrf.net

Burnout Legends is the first spin-off title in the arcade-racing series and was released in conjunction with Burnout Revenge, from which it borrows its soundtrack. It features numerous vehicles, tracks and other elements from past Burnout games, though only one car and one track from the original game return here. It is also the first game in the series to be released on handheld devices.

Sub-Pages#

Unused FMVs#

Titles30#

Titles30.pmf is a strange little video. It shows an unknown car racing through what seems to be an early version of Motor City from Burnout Revenge. The audio track (stored as Titles30.at3) is Maxeen - Please from the Burnout 3: Takedown soundtrack. The video in general is an early CGI footage of Burnout Revenge when the game was called Rush Hour, as a similar video featuring the same vehicle can be found in the files of that game's demo. The video itself also seems to have been stretched from 640×480 to the 480×272 resolution of the PSP's display.

BLegendsPSP-FIN_Titles30.webm

FEMain#

FEMain.m2v is an equally strange video that would have played in the background of the main menu at some point in development.

It appears to be Burnout 2: Point of Impact gameplay, featuring three vehicles racing through what looks like a stripped-down version of Palm Bay Marina (R). All vehicles shown use their original models, including the Sport, which does not appear in Burnout Legends.

BLegendsPSP-FIN_FEMain.webm

EA Games#

It's the old EA Games logo. It challenges everything. It also has no sound.

BLegendsPSP-FIN_EA_Games.webm

Criterion Games#

It's the old Criterion Games logo, although it's the Burnout 2 one and not the one used in Burnout 3. It has a scary dog in it.

BLegendsPSP-FIN_CrtGames.webm

Unused Models#

Garage#

Normally there is no model that's rendered in the garage, but there is a mesh of a small rectangle at a 10 degree angle that still remains in what once held the garage at US\C5_V1\static.dat

Unused Textures#

This game has the title screen logo baked into the background video, and is also much more detailed than this flat logo found that's present amongst the files.

Demo Leftovers#

Several textures meant to be displayed for the demo build of Burnout Legends.

A placeholder legal screen. Not really a placeholder, given that the final game doesn't actually have one.

Buttons#

Blegends_A_Button.pngBlegends_B_Button.png

While both of these are technically used, the game really uses a different, single texture containing the icons for all four face buttons, including these two, making both of these texture files redundant. In addition, the file names for these textures are A_Button and B_Button, which are leftovers from the Xbox version of Burnout 3.

Burnout 3: Takedown Leftovers#

Textures#

These were unused in Burnout 3, and are unused here once again. They're sixteen times smaller than their original counterparts.

Soundtrack Entries#

About half of the soundtrack entries from Burnout 3, in addition to three placeholder ones, can be found along with the entries for the game's actual soundtrack.

MUSICARTIST10
MUSICTRACK10
MUSICALBUM10

MUSICARTIST11
MUSICTRACK11
MUSICALBUM11

NEW FOUND GLORY
AT LEAST I'M KNOWN FOR SOMETHING
CATALYST

MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE
I'M NOT OKAY (I PROMISE)
THREE CHEERS FOR SWEET REVENGE

GO BETTY GO
C'MON
WORST ENEMY

MOMENTS IN GRACE
BROKEN PROMISES
MOONLIGHT SURVIVED

MIDTOWN
GIVE IT UP
FORGET WHAT YOU KNOW

1208
FALL APART
TURN OF THE SCREW

MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK
MY FAVORITE ACCIDENT
I AM THE MOVIE

RISE AGAINST
PAPER WINGS
SIREN SONG OF THE COUNTER CULTURE

THE BOUNCING SOULS
SING ALONG FOREVER
ANCHORS AWEIGH

THE MATCHES
AUDIO BLOOD
E. VON DAHL KILLED THE LOCALS

SILENT DRIVE
4/16
LOVE IS WORTH IT

THE EXPLOSION
HERE I AM
BLACK TAPE

THE D4
COME ON!
6TWENTY

THE MOONEY SUZUKI
SHAKE THAT BUSH AGAIN
ALIVE & AMPLIFIED

MUDMEN
ANIMAL
OVERRATED

THE FUTUREHEADS
DECENT DAYS AND NIGHTS
THE FUTUREHEADS

BURNING BRIDES
HEART FULL OF BLACK
LEAVE NO ASHES

ATREYU
RIGHT SIDE OF THE BED
THE CURSE

LETTER KILLS
RADIO UP
THE BRIDGE

JIMMY EAT WORLD
JUST TONIGHT...
FUTURES

MUSICALBUM07
MUSICARTIST07
MUSICTRACK07

Revisional Differences#

To do:
Check European, US and Japanese versions for more differences.

The Greatest Hits and Platinum versions, which were released in USA and Europe respectively have some differences from their original releases.

The initial revision of game has version 1.00 in USA and 1.01 in Europe, when Greatest Hits and Platinum revisions version are 2.00. Later rereleases contains more files.

  • The V2 (Reverse) variants of each track have SOUND.SDT and SOUND.SWD files in the re-release. Those sound files are identical to their V1 (Forwards) counterparts.
  • The US_C3_V1 track has an additional file Gamedata.bgd.des, which seems to be an earlier version of Gamedata.bgd.
  • The SUPR vehicle class has an additional folder named OLD. It contains older files for the Legend Hot Rod, which were made about a month earlier than they final versions (stored in CAR13 folder).

Early

Final

The body paint on the earlier version is different - it's more bright and uses red background instead of black. The final version of texture contains the same paint used in Burnout 2: Point of Impact.

These additional files are also present in the Japanese and Korean releases.