Burnout Dominator (PlayStation Portable)

Burnout Dominator
Developer: EA UK Publisher: Electronic Arts Platform: PlayStation Portable Released in JP: September 20, 2007 Released in US: March 6, 2007 Released in EU: April 27, 2007 Released in AU: April 26, 2007 Released in KR: April 19, 2007 This game has unused areas. This game has unused modes / minigames. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused models.

To do: Most of the strings on the PS2 page also apply to this version. Maybe some better way of merging the pages is needed, although the unused graphics are entirely different between each platform.

Burnout Dominator is the last game in the series to be released on the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable. It is, in some ways, a "best of" of the series, bringing back a few elements of the series that hadn't been seen for a while, like a scaled-down version of Burnout Legends. One of these elements is Boost Chaining from the first two games. Crash mode, however, was removed, which didn't exactly please long-time fans of the series. However, unlike the PS2 version, the PSP version features Ad Hoc multiplayer, which is essentially the only way to play this game online.

Debug Cheat Screen

To do: Replace with screenshots and proper documentation.

In the code, the menu (or as the game calls it, Arena) C_Dummy.Arena exists. When replacing a menu string with C_Dummy, you will get a Cheat Menu screen. It is buggy, however, and doesn't do much. It is unknown what the testing purpose of this was, might have been used to test the end race menus.

Unused Tracks

Steeltown

There are two unused variants of the track named Steeltown, an earlier and much longer variant of the used Steeltown Works track. In some ways less polished compared to what's left of this track in the PS2 version.

• Internally named RK_21_V1 (Philadelphia – Long Forwards)

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• Internally named RK_21_V2 (Philadelphia – Long Reverse)

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Unused Gamemodes

Oncoming Challenge

On top of Burnout Challenge, Drift Challenge, Near Miss Challenge, or Dominator Challenge (Maniac) events you can get throughout the World Tour, there is also an unused Oncoming Challenge event as well.

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This gamemode can be loaded by using this code, which should work on all known retail releases. It replaces the 2nd event (Drift Challenge) in the Classic Series that takes place in Bushido Peak with Oncoming Challenge.

_C0 Oncoming Challenge (2nd event)
_L 0x0086DC54 0x0000000B

Unused Vehicle Colors

Most vehicles have 8 palettes, despite only the first 6 being available to cycle through, and only 3 of them being unique. For additional information and screenshots, see the PlayStation 2 page. This section provides patches to allow cycling through all 8 slots.

_C0 Remove Color Cycling Restrictions
ULAS-42095, ULKS-46136	ULES-00703, ULES-00750
_L 0x2026B05C 0x00000000 _L 0x0027FC3C 0x00000008 _L 0x0027FC40 0x00000009	_L 0x2026AE2C 0x00000000 _L 0x0027F954 0x00000008 _L 0x0027F958 0x00000009
ULJM-05242	ULUS-10236
_L 0x2026B0B8 0x00000000 _L 0x0027FC94 0x00000008 _L 0x0027FC98 0x00000009	_L 0x2026AE24 0x00000000 _L 0x0027F94C 0x00000008 _L 0x0027F950 0x00000009

(Codes: Edness)

Unused Graphics

Burnout Legends Leftovers

Some containers such as Frontend.txd, DemoScrn.txd and LoadScrn.bin in Dominator files are fully identical to the ones found in Legends. Some of them are shown below as an example.

Demo Leftovers

There are several leftovers of a planned demo build for Dominator which never came to be.

Early Logo

XMB icon with this logo.

The only remnants of the early logo is present in the XMB icon, which is most likely a leftover oversight, as the save icons use the same logo as in-game.

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  Demo_PressStart.arena\Burnout_Logo_Large_01; 02; 03.png

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  DEMO_MainMenu.arena\8.msh

Loading Screen

Loading_Image01; 02.png, present in DEMO_Loading_Maniac.arena, DEMO_Loading_Race.arena, DEMO_Sell_End.arena, DEMO_Sell_Info.arena, and WT_Rival_Loading.arena.

Early Track Icons

DD_Rewards_Shortcuts.arena has early variants of all the track icons, which are real life photos taken of their respective locations. Their used counterparts are stored in WT_EventSelect.arena.

Early	Final	Early	Final
Tuscany (RK_01)		Autobahn (RK_03)
Bushido Mountain (RK_07)		Red Gate (RK_09)
Spiritual City (RK_11)		Carnival Point (RK_13)
Ocean Drive (RK_15)		Steel Town (RK_21)
Glacier Falls (RK_25)		Black Gold (RK_27)

BHQ_Content.arena has proper icons for Red Gate and Carnival Point, yet these also go unused. It should be noted that Carnival Point is named Carnival City here, and its icon matches the loading screen texture.

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  Carnival_City.png

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  Carnival_City_BW.png

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  Red_Gate.png

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  Red_Gate_BW.png